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"content": "\u003cp>The last time it rained, Jarrett Keesling watched from under a bridge as the canal in front of his tent encampment rose past the pillars that held up a small overpass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I tend to hunker us down,\" said Keesling, who's 30 and lives in a tent with his dog, Douja, and his friend, Kelly Lengele. \"I'm pretty good at MacGyvering us a shelter. When this thing floods, I sit right here and watch it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they often have to move. And the last time they did, they lost a bunch of clothes. Keesling says the clothes were picked up by the county and that these were items they could have used to keep warm.\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10854761 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0170\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170.jpg 5472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5472px) 100vw, 5472px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I used to stay at a shelter but, yeah, my dog. That's my kid,\" said Keesling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frequently, those seeking shelter are not allowed to take their pets with them. So Keesling chooses to stay outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I used to keep her in the van while I stayed in the shelter and I was up all night, periodically checking on her. I felt bad. Guilty. My dog should be sleeping in my bed with me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Federally Mandated Count\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keesling is one of many faces behind Contra Costa's annual Point in Time \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_29446196/contra-contra-county-conducts-annual-homeless-census\" target=\"_blank\">homelessness count\u003c/a>. Every year for the past 11 years, the county has sent volunteers to canvass encampments as part of a national federally mandated count conducted by all counties that receive federal funding for homeless services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have an extremely tight housing market. And it will be interesting to see how our housing market has impacted our numbers over the last year,\" said Lavonna Martin, chief of homeless services for Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But behind the numbers are people with stories. Here are a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10854689 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0183\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183.jpg 5472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5472px) 100vw, 5472px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keesling has been homeless on and off since he was 14. He met Lengele when he was a teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was a typical teen, picking fights with the older guys,\" said Keesling. \"Kelly was the one who'd stop it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keesling considers her to be his best friend, \"and then some.\" But when they first got together, they were in disagreement about the other female in his life: his dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was like, 'Dude, the dog sleeps in the bed, I'm sorry. She is my foot warmer,' \" he said. \"Now she gets it and is like, 'OK, warm feet.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keesling said that it was Lengele who saved him from a rough and abusive relationship. When he said that, Lengele chimed in from the back. \"You saved yourself,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10854743 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0251\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251.jpg 5472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5472px) 100vw, 5472px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Things Fell Apart in 2012\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>T'enha Brown has been homeless since March 15, 2012. That was the year she lost her father, godfather and boyfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And then life changed,\" she said. \"I had to figure it out because I don't know how to do homelessness. I've always been sheltered and comfortable and housed. I've never been \u003cem>this\u003c/em> kind of homeless.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, she lived under bridges with friends. She called it \"hell's kitchen,\" and a place that became \"dangerously comfortable\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Each day is a different test,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown said she's grateful for the challenges. They shaped her, she said. Her most recent challenge involved the house she was supposed to move into a few weeks ago. There have been a lot of delays, but she shrugs them off. As far as she's concerned, she said, she's already been through hellfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a glitch in the matrix. It's minor. Minuscule. God got it. I ain't worried about it,\" said Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10854686 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0239\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239.jpg 5472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5472px) 100vw, 5472px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moving to a Boat\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Mannering was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. He's been at the Adult Homeless Shelter in Concord for about four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't require a whole lot. I just want a place where I can be secure, safe and happy,\" said Mannering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He became homeless after he couldn't find an affordable place that would take him and his dogs. But being at the shelter gave him some time to save up enough money to buy a boat. It's not ready, he said, and it needs a lot of work. But he said he'll sleep on the floor if he has to. It's the first time in a long time that he's had a place to call his own. He'll be moving in this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd rather sit in a room with my dogs on my lap and a cup of coffee watching the water go by. 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And it will be interesting to see how our housing market has impacted our numbers over the last year,\" said Lavonna Martin, chief of homeless services for Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But behind the numbers are people with stories. Here are a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10854689 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0183\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183.jpg 5472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5472px) 100vw, 5472px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keesling has been homeless on and off since he was 14. He met Lengele when he was a teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was a typical teen, picking fights with the older guys,\" said Keesling. \"Kelly was the one who'd stop it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keesling considers her to be his best friend, \"and then some.\" But when they first got together, they were in disagreement about the other female in his life: his dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was like, 'Dude, the dog sleeps in the bed, I'm sorry. She is my foot warmer,' \" he said. \"Now she gets it and is like, 'OK, warm feet.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keesling said that it was Lengele who saved him from a rough and abusive relationship. When he said that, Lengele chimed in from the back. \"You saved yourself,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10854743 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0251\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251.jpg 5472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5472px) 100vw, 5472px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Things Fell Apart in 2012\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>T'enha Brown has been homeless since March 15, 2012. That was the year she lost her father, godfather and boyfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And then life changed,\" she said. \"I had to figure it out because I don't know how to do homelessness. I've always been sheltered and comfortable and housed. I've never been \u003cem>this\u003c/em> kind of homeless.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, she lived under bridges with friends. She called it \"hell's kitchen,\" and a place that became \"dangerously comfortable\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Each day is a different test,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown said she's grateful for the challenges. They shaped her, she said. Her most recent challenge involved the house she was supposed to move into a few weeks ago. There have been a lot of delays, but she shrugs them off. As far as she's concerned, she said, she's already been through hellfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a glitch in the matrix. It's minor. Minuscule. God got it. I ain't worried about it,\" said Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10854686 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0239\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239.jpg 5472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5472px) 100vw, 5472px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moving to a Boat\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Mannering was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. He's been at the Adult Homeless Shelter in Concord for about four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't require a whole lot. I just want a place where I can be secure, safe and happy,\" said Mannering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He became homeless after he couldn't find an affordable place that would take him and his dogs. But being at the shelter gave him some time to save up enough money to buy a boat. It's not ready, he said, and it needs a lot of work. But he said he'll sleep on the floor if he has to. It's the first time in a long time that he's had a place to call his own. He'll be moving in this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd rather sit in a room with my dogs on my lap and a cup of coffee watching the water go by. To me, that's good living,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10854756 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0284\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284.jpg 5472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5472px) 100vw, 5472px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clean for nine months\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Williams, 43, has been homeless for more than five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was in an abusive relationship and was addicted to drugs. But once she was diagnosed with cancer, she knew she had to turn her life around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew I needed help,\" said Williams, who was living on the streets at the time. And if she wasn't on the streets, she said, she was in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams, who has eight children and seven grandchildren, met her husband at the Adult Homeless Shelter in Concord. She receives treatment for her cancer regularly, and has been clean for nine months now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've got everything from here,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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A San Francisco police officer warned protesters shortly after they gathered that a few tents erected on the Embarcadero's sidewalk would have to come down within a minute, or arrests would be made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10853897\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS18300_IMG_4292-qut.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10853897\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10853897 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS18300_IMG_4292-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Police officers keep a crowd protesting how San Francisco handles its homeless population corralled on a sidewalk across the street from NFL 'fan village' Super Bowl City.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS18300_IMG_4292-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS18300_IMG_4292-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS18300_IMG_4292-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS18300_IMG_4292-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS18300_IMG_4292-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS18300_IMG_4292-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS18300_IMG_4292-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco police officers keep a crowd protesting how San Francisco handles its homeless population corralled on a sidewalk across the street from NFL 'fan village' Super Bowl City. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's completely unnecessary,\" San Francisco resident Sylvia Smith said of the police presence that at times appeared to rival the crowd's numbers. \"It's a show of force to protect the property of the elite.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Greg Suhr said at a Super Bowl security briefing earlier Wednesday that police would facilitate peaceful demonstrations \"right up until the point where they knock up against somebody else’s constitutional right, and then we’ll just have to make a call on a case-by-case basis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters lifted their tents -- bearing scrawled messages like \"Tackle Homelessness, Evict Ed Lee and SFPD\" -- and carried them on a march around Super Bowl City. Hundreds of SFPD officers in riot gear kept the crowd on sidewalks and directed them away from any entrances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest organizers say there's been a rise in \"quality-of-life\" citations, like for sitting or sleeping on a public sidewalk, around Super Bowl events in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Dodge, the mayor's director of Housing, Opportunity, Partnerships & Engagement, said two dozen people living on the streets were relocated from the area that became Super Bowl City, and they were offered shelter beds. He said there was no systematic effort to move people from other parts of the city ahead of Super Bowl Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates said they're receiving reports from all over town that homeless people are being rousted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re seeing it,\" Friedenbach said. “I’m not sure what the disconnect is between what the mayor’s saying and what’s happening to homeless people, but the end result for homeless people is the same.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another protest organizer, Stuart Schuffman aka \"Broke-Ass Stuart,\" said the demonstration captured the attention of worldwide news media and was a success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's important to show that the people in power in San Francisco would rather hide our problems than actually fix them,\" he said. \"And they are fixable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor David Campos, who was at the protest, is among a bloc of city legislators critical of San Francisco's deal with the NFL to host celebrations with no reimbursement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Francisco is not hosting the Super Bowl,\" Campos said. \"Santa Clara is hosting the Super Bowl. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It's a tale of two cities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Super Bowl City, recently erected on San Francisco's waterfront, was built to entertain visitors from around the world as they flock to the Bay Area for football's biggest event.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another, much less glamorous community, is made of tents, tarps and even welcome mats and an American flag: the tent cities and homeless encampments lining many San Francisco thoroughfares. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the runup to the Super Bowl, there's been speculation that these homeless encampments would be forcibly cleared out. The question no one seems able to answer, however, is where would all the homeless people go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We followed along on a recent morning as a cleanup crew from San Francisco Public Works went to various homeless encampments to sweep up garbage and scrub sidewalks.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Darryl McMath is an environmental service worker with Public Works. Dressed in a light-blue Tyvek suit and wearing heavy protective gloves, he approached a homeless man camped on Shotwell Street.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My friend, are there any other things you would like to get rid of?” McMath asked gently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">McMath threw out a few cardboard boxes, but didn’t disturb the man’s tent or the belongings piled around it — including about two dozen bicycle wheels, a wooden pallet and clothing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every day, an average of a ton of trash, human waste and hypodermic needles is hauled off by McMath and other crews across the city. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Public Works spokeswoman Rachel Gordon said the crews don’t take personal property or force anyone to move. Instead, they clean around the tents, she said, and try to keep the sidewalks as clean and sanitary as possible.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But at a different encampment, under Highway 101 at San Bruno Avenue, David Tompkins said things are different when the media aren’t around. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They don’t ask you to move, they tell you to move,” Tompkins said, indicating the Public Works crew. “I woke up to these guys throwing my things in the garbage.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every homeless person seems to have a different story. Rebecca Padilla lives in a tent under the freeway on Division Street, where tents often line both sides of the street and fill the median strip. She said she’s been homeless for about a year, and is now worried that the Super Bowl means more trouble from the police. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We were told that we had to move from the area because of the Super Bowl,” Padilla said. “The mayor doesn’t want all this to be seen by the public eye.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mayor Ed Lee made headlines last August when he was widely quoted as saying that the city’s homeless “must leave the streets” before the Super Bowl. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Sam Dodge, the mayor’s point man on homelessness, said the mayor’s remarks were blown out of proportion. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There's no formal city policy and no instructions given to cops to move people for the Super Bowl,” Dodge said. “The real things that we're concerned with right now are El Niño and people's health.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dodge said outreach workers have been trying to connect homeless people with alternatives, including services and shelter beds. The city operates about 1,200 shelter beds year-round and has been constructing temporary rain shelters for the winter months. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But many of the homeless people we spoke to complained that shelters are dirty, dangerous and, ultimately, only a short-term solution.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They just let you stay in their shelter for a week or two, and then they throw you back out on the street,” said Marin Santi. At 38, Santi says she’s been homeless since she was 11.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it’s like, why put yourself through that, get comfortable in a bed, just to go back out on the streets?\" she said. \"That’s just a torture of another torture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shortly before Christmas, Santi moved into the city’s new pilot project, the Navigation Center. Unlike other shelters, the Navigation Center is designed for long-term stays. Homeless people can move in as a group and bring their pets -- and they can stay as long as it takes to find permanent housing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dodge, whose title is director of the Mayor's Office of Housing Opportunity, Partnership & Engagement (HOPE), knows many of the clients at the Navigation Center. On a recent visit, he congratulated one man on finding housing and gave Santi a hug to welcome her. “Get warm and rest up,” he told Santi. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’ve been in and out of group homes,” Santi said. “I never stayed long because I was always paranoid. I have bad paranoia schizophrenia.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Santi hopes the Navigation Center, which has 75 beds, will give her the safe haven she needs to get her life in order. Dodge says it takes an average of 70 days to place people with long-term housing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">About half of San Francisco's estimated 6,700 homeless people live on the streets -- an existence that makes it hard to avoid breaking the law. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year, San Francisco police handed out about 2,300 citations a month — or 77 a day — for offenses such as sleeping in the park, blocking a sidewalk or drinking in public, according to city statistics. When the citations pile up, offenders can be taken to jail.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santi said she’d been jailed three times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They take my tent, they’ve put my dog in jail,” she said. “I have no clothes, no tent, they’ve taken everything I own.” Including, Santi said, her medications for HIV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodge and others recognize the futility of arresting homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My police colleagues tell me all the time that they want more real solutions, that people need housing, they need a place to go,” Dodge said. But housing in the Bay Area is already in short supply and building affordable housing can take years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Ending homelessness is a matter of both resources and political will and public support,” said Dodge.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The annual homeless count has stayed relatively stable in recent years and suggests only a small growth in actual numbers. Gordon, with the DPW, thinks that widespread development is pushing homeless people into more central areas. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Our crews certainly have seen that they’re more visible,” Gordon said. And that means more friction and more calls to the city’s 311 information and service request phone line.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s often a 311 call that Public Works crews are responding to on their morning routes. Until a long-term solution to homelessness is found, they’ll continue their daily visits to homeless encampments, morning after morning, from 4 a.m. until midday, sweeping, scrubbing and hauling away trash.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you could offer a way out, most people here would grab it with both hands,” said David Tompkins, who shelters in a tiny wooden box on wheels that he constructed himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Still, Tompkins takes a pretty cynical view of city leadership.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Who wants to tackle a problem in public office when there is no fix?” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Dressed in a light-blue Tyvek suit and wearing heavy protective gloves, he approached a homeless man camped on Shotwell Street.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My friend, are there any other things you would like to get rid of?” McMath asked gently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">McMath threw out a few cardboard boxes, but didn’t disturb the man’s tent or the belongings piled around it — including about two dozen bicycle wheels, a wooden pallet and clothing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every day, an average of a ton of trash, human waste and hypodermic needles is hauled off by McMath and other crews across the city. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Public Works spokeswoman Rachel Gordon said the crews don’t take personal property or force anyone to move. Instead, they clean around the tents, she said, and try to keep the sidewalks as clean and sanitary as possible.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But at a different encampment, under Highway 101 at San Bruno Avenue, David Tompkins said things are different when the media aren’t around. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They don’t ask you to move, they tell you to move,” Tompkins said, indicating the Public Works crew. “I woke up to these guys throwing my things in the garbage.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every homeless person seems to have a different story. Rebecca Padilla lives in a tent under the freeway on Division Street, where tents often line both sides of the street and fill the median strip. She said she’s been homeless for about a year, and is now worried that the Super Bowl means more trouble from the police. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We were told that we had to move from the area because of the Super Bowl,” Padilla said. “The mayor doesn’t want all this to be seen by the public eye.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mayor Ed Lee made headlines last August when he was widely quoted as saying that the city’s homeless “must leave the streets” before the Super Bowl. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Sam Dodge, the mayor’s point man on homelessness, said the mayor’s remarks were blown out of proportion. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There's no formal city policy and no instructions given to cops to move people for the Super Bowl,” Dodge said. “The real things that we're concerned with right now are El Niño and people's health.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dodge said outreach workers have been trying to connect homeless people with alternatives, including services and shelter beds. The city operates about 1,200 shelter beds year-round and has been constructing temporary rain shelters for the winter months. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But many of the homeless people we spoke to complained that shelters are dirty, dangerous and, ultimately, only a short-term solution.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They just let you stay in their shelter for a week or two, and then they throw you back out on the street,” said Marin Santi. At 38, Santi says she’s been homeless since she was 11.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it’s like, why put yourself through that, get comfortable in a bed, just to go back out on the streets?\" she said. \"That’s just a torture of another torture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shortly before Christmas, Santi moved into the city’s new pilot project, the Navigation Center. Unlike other shelters, the Navigation Center is designed for long-term stays. Homeless people can move in as a group and bring their pets -- and they can stay as long as it takes to find permanent housing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dodge, whose title is director of the Mayor's Office of Housing Opportunity, Partnership & Engagement (HOPE), knows many of the clients at the Navigation Center. On a recent visit, he congratulated one man on finding housing and gave Santi a hug to welcome her. “Get warm and rest up,” he told Santi. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’ve been in and out of group homes,” Santi said. “I never stayed long because I was always paranoid. I have bad paranoia schizophrenia.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Santi hopes the Navigation Center, which has 75 beds, will give her the safe haven she needs to get her life in order. Dodge says it takes an average of 70 days to place people with long-term housing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">About half of San Francisco's estimated 6,700 homeless people live on the streets -- an existence that makes it hard to avoid breaking the law. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year, San Francisco police handed out about 2,300 citations a month — or 77 a day — for offenses such as sleeping in the park, blocking a sidewalk or drinking in public, according to city statistics. 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"disqusTitle": "Can Oakland Better Support Residents Living in Homeless Encampments?",
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"content": "\u003cp>Milton Murphy crowds in with a small group under the freeway at 35th and Peralta streets in West Oakland on a recent Wednesday morning. Several people who have been living in this camp over the past few months are standing around, some sweeping their spaces, while the sidewalks fill with stacks of their belongings ready to be picked up and either stored or thrown away by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the scene of a homeless encampment about to be cleared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have scouts going out to figure out the best place that would be comfortable and suitable for us as homeless people,” said Murphy, who says he's been living on the streets for about 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244505475\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It only took about a month for everybody to get here.'\u003ccite>Milton Murphy,\u003cbr>\ncamp resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A paper sign on a nearby concrete pillar says, “Notice to Vacate: Illegal Encampment,” in stark all-caps lettering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last eight months of 2015, Oakland cleared homeless encampments 162 times, according to the city. The residents, who often seek shelter under overpasses or in areas tucked away from view, pick up their things and move what they can. Many of them won’t use services offered by the city and nonprofits to find housing, and housing in the East Bay is increasingly hard to come by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and other major cities are \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/25/s-f-supervisor-scott-wiener-city-needs-fast-response-to-homeless-tent-camps\" target=\"_blank\">seeing more homeless encampments\u003c/a>. There are an estimated 2,100 homeless people in Oakland, according to a recent count conducted throughout Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the Bay Area's housing crisis creates more scarcity in Oakland, the city is considering what other options it has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244478583\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height='166' iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Camps Often Come Back\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless encampments in Oakland often begin with just one tent, Murphy tells me. Then they grow and grow. On the morning last week when Murphy and others were cleared from 35th and Peralta, around a dozen tents were still standing, while others had been taken down, their owners in the process of leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It only took about a month for everybody to get here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There is a certain level of housekeeping that we have to do, or it’s just going to get out of control.'\u003ccite>Joe DeVries,\u003cbr>\nAssistant to the Oakland city manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Camp clearing is driven by complaints that get funneled through the city’s Public Works Department. The city will alert an encampment 72 hours before crews clean the site, sometimes with the help of police, said Joe DeVries, the Oakland staffer who receives the complaints. DeVries takes offense when people say the city “closes” homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really providing a cleaning,” he said. “We have rat infestations, human waste, feces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on where the encampment is located, the previous inhabitants will often resettle in the same spot a day later, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So clearing a camp isn't a permanent answer to the city’s homelessness problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do want to provide something different and better than what we’re doing now,” DeVries said. “But there is a certain level of housekeeping that we have to do, or it’s just going to get out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Berkeley Students Challenge 'Status Quo'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10585950\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10585950 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland staffer Joe Devries has visited many homeless encampments. He says clearing camps helps maintain the health and safety of residents, and after an area is cleaned it's often quickly repopulated.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland staffer Joe DeVries has visited many homeless encampments. 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And even if there were shelter beds, a lot of folks are unable or unwilling to use those shelter beds because of a lot of personal issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legalizing homeless encampments wasn’t among the \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=2545922&GUID=434AAC04-C98E-4D9C-A2A9-AB95B964308E&Options=&Search=\" target=\"_blank\">six possible investments\u003c/a> to respond to homelessness proposed to the City Council last week. There were, however, other ideas with “low barriers to entry,\" including creating tiny homes, converting shipping containers into interim housing or modifying a large warehouse for shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The spirit of our recommendation is definitely being met and we’re very excited,” Radu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council plans to vote this week on spending $180,000 more on emergency winter shelters, which could double the number of beds currently available in the city. But funding a larger system, which could provide better accommodations for unsheltered people and also lead to permanent housing, is a more complicated feat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Respect on the Streets\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244479286\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height='166' iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within two days, a dozen tents have already reappeared under the overpass at 35th and Peralta streets. The sidewalks have been swept and the belongings that lay around just a couple of days ago are gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I approach Terrance Dixon, he is lying in his tent, speaking to a friend who sits on a chair right outside the flap. Dixon tells me he is an ex-felon who is addicted to drugs. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Milton Murphy crowds in with a small group under the freeway at 35th and Peralta streets in West Oakland on a recent Wednesday morning. Several people who have been living in this camp over the past few months are standing around, some sweeping their spaces, while the sidewalks fill with stacks of their belongings ready to be picked up and either stored or thrown away by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the scene of a homeless encampment about to be cleared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have scouts going out to figure out the best place that would be comfortable and suitable for us as homeless people,” said Murphy, who says he's been living on the streets for about 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244505475&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244505475'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It only took about a month for everybody to get here.'\u003ccite>Milton Murphy,\u003cbr>\ncamp resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A paper sign on a nearby concrete pillar says, “Notice to Vacate: Illegal Encampment,” in stark all-caps lettering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last eight months of 2015, Oakland cleared homeless encampments 162 times, according to the city. The residents, who often seek shelter under overpasses or in areas tucked away from view, pick up their things and move what they can. Many of them won’t use services offered by the city and nonprofits to find housing, and housing in the East Bay is increasingly hard to come by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and other major cities are \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/25/s-f-supervisor-scott-wiener-city-needs-fast-response-to-homeless-tent-camps\" target=\"_blank\">seeing more homeless encampments\u003c/a>. There are an estimated 2,100 homeless people in Oakland, according to a recent count conducted throughout Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the Bay Area's housing crisis creates more scarcity in Oakland, the city is considering what other options it has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244478583&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244478583'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Camps Often Come Back\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless encampments in Oakland often begin with just one tent, Murphy tells me. Then they grow and grow. On the morning last week when Murphy and others were cleared from 35th and Peralta, around a dozen tents were still standing, while others had been taken down, their owners in the process of leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It only took about a month for everybody to get here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There is a certain level of housekeeping that we have to do, or it’s just going to get out of control.'\u003ccite>Joe DeVries,\u003cbr>\nAssistant to the Oakland city manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Camp clearing is driven by complaints that get funneled through the city’s Public Works Department. The city will alert an encampment 72 hours before crews clean the site, sometimes with the help of police, said Joe DeVries, the Oakland staffer who receives the complaints. DeVries takes offense when people say the city “closes” homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really providing a cleaning,” he said. “We have rat infestations, human waste, feces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on where the encampment is located, the previous inhabitants will often resettle in the same spot a day later, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So clearing a camp isn't a permanent answer to the city’s homelessness problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do want to provide something different and better than what we’re doing now,” DeVries said. “But there is a certain level of housekeeping that we have to do, or it’s just going to get out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Berkeley Students Challenge 'Status Quo'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10585950\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10585950 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland staffer Joe Devries has visited many homeless encampments. He says clearing camps helps maintain the health and safety of residents, and after an area is cleaned it's often quickly repopulated.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland staffer Joe DeVries has visited many homeless encampments. He says clearing camps helps maintain the health and safety of residents, and after an area is cleaned it's often quickly repopulated.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland is currently considering alternative solutions that would better serve the growing number of people living on the streets. The city spends around $240,000 annually on its homeless outreach to try and connect homeless people with services, according to DeVries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But sometimes that outreach doesn't work, or people don't want to use the services. 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"content": "\u003cp>For three days and nights, several thousand volunteers have fanned out across Los Angeles County trying to get an accurate tally of the county's immense homeless population. The Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is considered the largest such effort in the nation. The count is now done annually, one of several changes intended to make it more efficient and effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conducting a \u003ca href=\"http://www.theycountwillyou.org/\">homeless count \u003c/a>is not easy. Volunteers traipse into dry river bottoms, push through thick brush at public parks and cruise along dimly lit city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244233532\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteer counters are discouraged from having too much interaction with people -- there’s a more comprehensive census-style survey that is done separately from the actual counting -- or from disturbing people holed up in makeshift outdoor shelters or vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10847788\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?attachment_id=10847788\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10847788 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/homless-count-the-2015-homeless-count-demographic-survey-p1-normal.gif\" alt=\"The L.A. County annual homeless count includes a more comprehensive census-style survey portion that's done separately from the actual counting.\" width=\"700\" height=\"906\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The L.A. County annual homeless count includes a more comprehensive census-style survey portion that's done separately from the actual counting. \u003ccite>(Los Angeles County Homeless Authority)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So volunteers, typically led by members of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lahsa.org/\">Los Angeles County Homeless Authority’s \u003c/a>street outreach team, typically rely on their own intuition, instinct and internal extrapolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an imperfect science, to be sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The way the count is conducted, it is often done drive-by, right. You're in a car looking for people, but really the people are not to be found,” says Wade Trimmer, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://sfvrescuemission.org/\">San Fernando Rescue Mission\u003c/a>, about 30 miles northeast of downtown L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trimmer says there’s been a significant spike in the San Fernando Valley’s homeless population. But he doesn’t think it’s accurately reflected in recent L.A. 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County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"People wait for a meal outside the Midnight Mission on Skid Row. Roughly half of L.A. County’s homeless live in the city of Los Angeles, several thousand in shelters and on the streets of downtown’s Skid Row. \" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10848007\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-768x498.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-1440x933.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-1180x765.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-960x622.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait for a meal outside the Midnight Mission on Skid Row. Roughly half of L.A. 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County homeless count recorded a 12 percent increase from 2013, or around 41,000 people living on the streets and in shelters across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of them were living in the city of Los Angeles alone, with the greatest number concentrated in and around downtown’s Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"W4TkWX7xJXRwXIBiOWoCKIpIUoxFVAGJ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the raw numbers are just part of the picture. Just as important, says Todd Palmquist, is a survey portion that works a little like a census survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Certain numbers of the homeless are actually interviewed,\" says Palmquist, former director of the San Gabriel Valley Consortium on Homelessness and a volunteer homeless count coordinator and trainer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey helps identify trends, such as more people living in cars, for example, or spikes in the number of kids or military veterans living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It can really give a good idea of populations that are in need of help, and hopefully eventually be able to be used to identify and set up programs to prevent homelessness rather than just help people get out of homelessness,” says Palmquist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year L.A. County shifts to an annual count, a move it hopes results in more consistent data. The count used to be done every other year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848013\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"Many homeless people come to Skid Row because they could not find services in their own communities. Still, recent counts have shown spikes in homelessness in L.A. neighborhoods farther and farther from downtown. Part of the 2016 count included an effort to link people to services.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10848013\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys-400x261.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys-768x500.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many homeless people come to Skid Row because they could not find services in their own communities. Still, recent counts have shown spikes in homelessness in L.A. neighborhoods farther and farther from downtown. Part of the 2016 count included an effort to link people to services. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's also deploying more teams to far-flung areas of the county where homeless people are harder to find, and expanding efforts to link people to services on the spot. But counts are still done mostly the old-fashioned way, says Wade Trimmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why can't we do the count on the smartphone or do it on a tablet?” wonders Trimmer. “It’s (still) pencil and paper and I have volunteers who are always surprised, who come back and say: 'This is how we do the count?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAHSA’s Naomi Goldman says the count is starting to go high tech, though slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're always looking to refine and see what can we improve,\" says Goldman. \"We do have parts of the count that are using iPads and Survey Monkey, which will make some of the counting and some of the process a little more streamlined, a little bit faster.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Results of the 2016 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count should be available by spring.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For three days and nights, several thousand volunteers have fanned out across Los Angeles County trying to get an accurate tally of the county's immense homeless population. The Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is considered the largest such effort in the nation. The count is now done annually, one of several changes intended to make it more efficient and effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conducting a \u003ca href=\"http://www.theycountwillyou.org/\">homeless count \u003c/a>is not easy. Volunteers traipse into dry river bottoms, push through thick brush at public parks and cruise along dimly lit city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244233532&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244233532'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteer counters are discouraged from having too much interaction with people -- there’s a more comprehensive census-style survey that is done separately from the actual counting -- or from disturbing people holed up in makeshift outdoor shelters or vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10847788\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?attachment_id=10847788\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10847788 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/homless-count-the-2015-homeless-count-demographic-survey-p1-normal.gif\" alt=\"The L.A. County annual homeless count includes a more comprehensive census-style survey portion that's done separately from the actual counting.\" width=\"700\" height=\"906\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The L.A. County annual homeless count includes a more comprehensive census-style survey portion that's done separately from the actual counting. \u003ccite>(Los Angeles County Homeless Authority)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So volunteers, typically led by members of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lahsa.org/\">Los Angeles County Homeless Authority’s \u003c/a>street outreach team, typically rely on their own intuition, instinct and internal extrapolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"People wait for a meal outside the Midnight Mission on Skid Row. Roughly half of L.A. County’s homeless live in the city of Los Angeles, several thousand in shelters and on the streets of downtown’s Skid Row. \" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10848007\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-768x498.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-1440x933.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-1180x765.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-960x622.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait for a meal outside the Midnight Mission on Skid Row. Roughly half of L.A. County’s homeless live in the city of Los Angeles, several thousand in shelters and on the streets of downtown’s Skid Row. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It helps us advocate for our fair share of funding,” explains L.A. County Homeless Authority spokeswoman Naomi Goldman. \"It's also data that helps us work with the community-based organizations and the homeless service providers to figure out where best to allocate the dollars so that'll do the most impact.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year's L.A. County homeless count recorded a 12 percent increase from 2013, or around 41,000 people living on the streets and in shelters across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of them were living in the city of Los Angeles alone, with the greatest number concentrated in and around downtown’s Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the raw numbers are just part of the picture. Just as important, says Todd Palmquist, is a survey portion that works a little like a census survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Certain numbers of the homeless are actually interviewed,\" says Palmquist, former director of the San Gabriel Valley Consortium on Homelessness and a volunteer homeless count coordinator and trainer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey helps identify trends, such as more people living in cars, for example, or spikes in the number of kids or military veterans living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It can really give a good idea of populations that are in need of help, and hopefully eventually be able to be used to identify and set up programs to prevent homelessness rather than just help people get out of homelessness,” says Palmquist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year L.A. County shifts to an annual count, a move it hopes results in more consistent data. The count used to be done every other year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848013\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"Many homeless people come to Skid Row because they could not find services in their own communities. Still, recent counts have shown spikes in homelessness in L.A. neighborhoods farther and farther from downtown. Part of the 2016 count included an effort to link people to services.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10848013\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys-400x261.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys-768x500.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many homeless people come to Skid Row because they could not find services in their own communities. Still, recent counts have shown spikes in homelessness in L.A. neighborhoods farther and farther from downtown. 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"content": "\u003cp>I see the tents and tarps every day on my drive to work, dozens of them under the freeway overpass on 13th Street in San Francisco. It’s usually the more colorful details that catch my eye — a red U.S. Marine Corps flag stretching over one campsite, a rainbow-colored parachute billowing from another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s probably why I never noticed a rectangular box sitting on the sidewalk. It’s drab, ordinary plywood — something you might use to transport a large musical instrument or a piece of furniture. Turns out there’s a man bundled up inside. His name is Hoyt Walker. He’s 49 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I call it a living coffin.’\u003ccite>Hoyt Walker\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“In here it’s just my bed,” says Walker, as I peer inside. “I have a milk crate back there that has candles sitting on it. My shoes are right here, my backpack, one of my coats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244089426″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker says a series of “bad choices” landed him here: Selling drugs. Going to prison. Getting slapped with two more probations. Losing his housing. Walker has bad hips and an aching knee, so he spends a lot of time just lying in the box, thinking about how to break this grim cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I call it a living coffin,” he says. “That’s my nickname for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10844688\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10844688\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessCamp-800x465.jpg\" alt=\"Hoyt Walker's box is part of a larger homeless camp on 13th Street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessCamp-800x465.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessCamp-400x232.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessCamp-768x446.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessCamp-1440x836.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessCamp.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessCamp-1180x685.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessCamp-960x558.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hoyt Walker’s box is part of a larger homeless camp on 13th Street. \u003ccite>(Aaron Drury/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Walker says, he’s got to get through the tough day-to-day of living outside. El Niño isn’t helping. When the first big storm hit in January, Walker says he “freaked out.” It was raining inside the box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ended up opening an umbrella in here,” Walker laughs. “Sleeping under an umbrella and a bunch of blankets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker he’s staying drier now, thanks to a cover he constructed out of plastic shower curtain linings. He sewed them together with zip ties and cooking twine. I compliment Walker on his creativity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to work for Boeing Aircraft,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”DMebGNYrnvdVkX4JtCSSkGnUtKdyXMzQ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker says this homeless encampment is full of people who are smart and talented. Walker is into music — jazz, especially. And he loves to sing, even here in the box. But not today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, I got a cold right now,” he explains, punctuating the sentence with a wet, chesty cough. “But I do sing. I love to sing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other people I talk to on this sidewalk also tell me they’re sick — both physically and mentally. Walker says he struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. I ask him if it would help to go to a shelter, where he could at least stay warm — maybe talk to a counselor. He says he can’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shelters want you to get up at a certain time, come in at a certain time. My body won’t allow it,” he says. “They want me to get up at 6 o’clock? My hips might not allow it ’till 9. It’s just — that’s it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker still hopes he can turn his life around. Step one is “to get the hell out of this box by the weekend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wants to get a “real place,” get off probation and, one day, reunite with his children, who live in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not cool out here,” Walker says. “This is for the birds.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener says the city needs to find a prompt and \"humane\" way to eliminate tent encampments that house a growing number of homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growing presence of tent camps in San Francisco \"represents our city's failure to provide adequate housing/shelter and assistance for those who want help, as well as a failure to make clear to those who refuse help that tents on our sidewalks and in our public spaces are unacceptable\" Wiener wrote in a letter last week (\u003ca href=\"#wienerletter\">embedded below\u003c/a>) to the heads of six city agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These tents are a public safety and a public health problem for the people living in them and for our neighborhoods,\" Wiener added in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His remarks provoked outrage from one of the city's leading homeless advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My chin dropped,\" said Jennifer Friedenbach, the executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"xV8J32tslxHUmn5TxTbqPm5e9UppY3gz\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it was in particular bad taste given how much people are suffering,\" Friedenbach said. \"He's talking about ripping those tents from people who have no other choice but to sleep on the street.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tents give the homeless cover from the rain, Friedenbach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Taking away people's tents right now in the middle of these storms, that's about as mean-spirited as you can get,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other requests, Wiener is asking city agencies for an estimate of how many tents are on the streets and the number of people living in them. While tents have appeared on city streets for decades, city officials say the number has grown in recent years and the onset of this winter's rains has expanded their presence even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Mission alone, tent encampments have grown along parts of Division, Cesar Chavez, Vermont, 13th and 16th streets, as well as San Bruno Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has increased the visibility of San Francisco's homeless but does not necessarily mean a large increase in the population of people living on the streets. There were 6,686 homeless people in San Francisco at the beginning of 2015, according to \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/sfgov.org.lhcb/files/2015%20San%20Francisco%20Homeless%20Count%20%20Report_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">last year's count\u003c/a>. That's up 250 from two years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Dodge, who as director of Mayor Ed Lee's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=907\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement\u003c/a> is the city's point man on homeless issues, says his counterparts in Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle have noticed similar growth in tent encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener says he's not talking about bulldozing the tents. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it was in particular bad taste given how much people are suffering,\" Friedenbach said. \"He's talking about ripping those tents from people who have no other choice but to sleep on the street.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tents give the homeless cover from the rain, Friedenbach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Taking away people's tents right now in the middle of these storms, that's about as mean-spirited as you can get,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other requests, Wiener is asking city agencies for an estimate of how many tents are on the streets and the number of people living in them. While tents have appeared on city streets for decades, city officials say the number has grown in recent years and the onset of this winter's rains has expanded their presence even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Mission alone, tent encampments have grown along parts of Division, Cesar Chavez, Vermont, 13th and 16th streets, as well as San Bruno Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has increased the visibility of San Francisco's homeless but does not necessarily mean a large increase in the population of people living on the streets. There were 6,686 homeless people in San Francisco at the beginning of 2015, according to \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/sfgov.org.lhcb/files/2015%20San%20Francisco%20Homeless%20Count%20%20Report_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">last year's count\u003c/a>. 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County Homeless Services Authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have plenty of capacity,” says Goldman. “We started the pre-storm outreach back in October, and that is continuing on an ongoing basis to make sure we can get people to come in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many homeless people and their advocates say that despite the risks, they often prefer whatever shelter they’ve created for themselves on the street — under a freeway overpass or along a riverbank — instead of a city or county-run facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The volume of people there (at city shelters) is so great that people are literally crawling over each other to get whatever’s donated,” says Reuben Reina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10830193\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10830193\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/Sanctuary-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"About 30 people sought shelter from wet winter storms last week inside the sanctuary at All Souls Episcopal Church in L.A.’s Highland Park neighborhood.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/Sanctuary-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/Sanctuary-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/Sanctuary-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/Sanctuary-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/Sanctuary.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/Sanctuary-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/Sanctuary-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 30 people sought shelter from wet winter storms last week inside the sanctuary at All Souls Episcopal Church in L.A.’s Highland Park neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He’s been homeless for about five years. That includes stints couch surfing at friends’ homes and most recently living along the Arroyo Seco, a mostly dry streambed that snakes through Pasadena and East Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are long lines for everything, you got 600 people you gotta feed every night, tempers are flying,” says Reina. “People are using drugs, and it’s filthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He avoids the crowded shelters in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/29/with-few-places-left-to-turn-southlands-homeless-often-end-up-on-l-a-s-skid-row\" target=\"_blank\">downtown L.A.’s teeming Skid Row\u003c/a>. He’s also leery of the county’s temporary emergency winter shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the rain and cold descended on L.A., he chose to join around 30 other people inside the pyramid-shaped sanctuary of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/allsaintsla.org/timeline\">All Souls Episcopal Church in Highland Park\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reina says unlike many conventional shelters, people at the East L.A. church shelter can usually stay during the day. They can hang on to their pets, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This place is awesome. There are two people to a pew. We have a responsibly to keep our area clean,” explains Reina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we have animals, we can keep them in a little cage over there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reina nods to the church altar where his 9-month old dog, Moses, is wrapped up in a thick blanket, snoozing beneath an enormous crucifix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10830196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10830196 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/BlanketPup-1440x1098.jpg\" alt=\"Rueben Reina’s dog Moses snuggles up on the altar of All Souls Episcopal Church in L.A.’s Highland Park neighborhood. The temporary winter shelter allows people to stay with their animals.\" width=\"640\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/BlanketPup-1440x1098.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/BlanketPup-400x305.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/BlanketPup-800x610.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/BlanketPup-768x586.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/BlanketPup.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/BlanketPup-1180x900.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/BlanketPup-960x732.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rueben Reina’s dog, Moses, snuggles up on the altar of All Souls Episcopal Church in L.A.’s Highland Park neighborhood. The temporary winter shelter allows people to stay with their animals. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Prine, director of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.recycledresources.org/\">Recycled Resources for the Homeless\u003c/a>, opened the makeshift shelter with the church’s blessing about a month ago despite opposition from the city and county, who argued the space wasn’t up to code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The width of the pews wasn’t wide enough,” says Prine. “Because it’s an older church, wheelchairs are not able to fit through the bathroom. We do not have showers on the premises. So those were concerns they presented to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with El Niño anxiety mounting, Prine says officials relented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think El Niño was definitely on our side,” says Prine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s better than them sleeping along the Arroyo Seco or the L.A. 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That includes stints couch surfing at friends’ homes and most recently living along the Arroyo Seco, a mostly dry streambed that snakes through Pasadena and East Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are long lines for everything, you got 600 people you gotta feed every night, tempers are flying,” says Reina. “People are using drugs, and it’s filthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He avoids the crowded shelters in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/29/with-few-places-left-to-turn-southlands-homeless-often-end-up-on-l-a-s-skid-row\" target=\"_blank\">downtown L.A.’s teeming Skid Row\u003c/a>. He’s also leery of the county’s temporary emergency winter shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the rain and cold descended on L.A., he chose to join around 30 other people inside the pyramid-shaped sanctuary of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/allsaintsla.org/timeline\">All Souls Episcopal Church in Highland Park\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reina says unlike many conventional shelters, people at the East L.A. church shelter can usually stay during the day. They can hang on to their pets, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This place is awesome. There are two people to a pew. 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"content": "\u003cp>SACRAMENTO — California would spend more than $2 billion on permanent housing to help the nation's largest homeless population, under a proposal outlined by state senators on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing bond would be enough to help local governments construct more than 10,000 housing units, primarily for those with mental illness, when it's combined with other federal and local money, estimated Senate President pro tem Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is despicable that in the richest state, that is the state of California, that just last night thousands of Californians laid their tired bodies on a sidewalk or on a cardboard,\" Sen. 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More than 90 percent of the Proposition 63 money raised each year would continue to go to existing programs, supporters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Senate leader Darrell Steinberg, who authored the ballot measure, said the money would mostly fund multifamily complexes to house lower-income workers as well as those currently on the streets. 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