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"content": "\u003cp>Skid Row can feel like a chaotic airport terminal -- people carting their possessions down the street and jaywalking in front of speeding cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s always someone yelling or screaming, and there's often the howl of sirens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 60,000 homeless people live in the city of Los Angeles. But you might never know it until you start motoring south, past Disney Concert Hall, past City Hall, Pershing Square and newly renovated million-dollar condos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when you’ll begin the slow descent into Skid Row, arguably the largest concentration of homeless people in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/199499800\" 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>By some estimates, there are several thousand people living on the streets of Skid Row on any given night. Many are camped out in tents and other makeshift shelters on the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sidewalk at the intersection of San Pedro and Sixth, right outside the Midnight Mission, is jammed with tents, blue tarps and shopping carts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at it, that sidewalk is completely impassable to regular foot traffic. Every one of these tents really is a violation of the law,” says Ryan Navales, standing outside the entrance of the mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navales landed on Skid Row several years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was a strung-out, homeless heroin addict with few options left but determined to get clean. He signed up for a rehab program at the Midnight Mission. He got sober. And he got work doing public relations for the 100-year-old shelter, rehab center and soup kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480650\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480650\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-800x466.jpg\" alt=\"A Skid Row sidewalk encampment at the southern edge of Skid Row, home to the city’s warehouse and art district. \" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-800x466.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-400x233.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-1440x839.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-1180x688.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-768x448.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-320x187.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Skid Row sidewalk encampment at the southern edge of Skid Row, home to the city’s warehouse and art district. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We serve sometimes approaching 3,000 meals a day. So everybody comes down here. It used to be just a bunch of old drunken white guys,” Navales says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the 1970s after the Vietnam War, it really changed demographically to different races and lots more drugs. But it’s still all the same services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where it’s all centered,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s no accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. developed a policy decades ago to purposely funnel the homeless away from downtown and other parts of the city and into a roughly 70-square block semi-industrial strip filled with residential hotels, fruit-packing warehouses and garment factories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the homeless population swelled, so did the number of places to help them out. These days Skid Row is a constellation of shelters, food pantries and drug clinics, all in the midst of what can often feel like a combination open-air asylum and drug market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480657\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480657\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"An unidentified passed out on the sidewalk of a Skid Row back street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-1440x928.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-1180x760.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-768x495.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-320x206.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unidentified passed out on the sidewalk of a Skid Row back street. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I mean, it’s hard to come down here and save people and get them into recovery when we can go right across to that tent and somebody is shooting dope because that’s what I would do,” Navales says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a shelter around the corner, Carol Oakman says she was nearly blinded after being assaulted on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was beaten by two women,\" Oakman says. \"The thieving, the racketeering, narcotics distribution, you name it, all of it. All of it happens right down here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been plenty of efforts to “clean up” Skid Row. One of the latest under former Los Angeles Police Chief Bill Bratton gave cops the authority to break up encampments and confiscate belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cluttered sidewalks, they argued, made it tougher to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal court judge blocked the policy. The sidewalk encampments came back and so did the tension between police and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day they hassle someone in their tent, every day,” Kelly Kunta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Skid Row resident is among those still boiling over last month’s police-involved shooting death of an unarmed Cameroonian immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480659\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480659\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A street memorial still stands outside the Union Rescue for the 43-year-old homeless Cameroonian immigrant shot and killed by LAPD officers during a scuffle on March 1, 2015. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street memorial still stands outside the Union Rescue for the 43-year-old homeless Cameroonian immigrant shot and killed by LAPD officers during a scuffle on March 1, 2015. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 43-year-old homeless man was shot after fighting with LAPD cops outside a tent. He allegedly grabbed an officer’s revolver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police got nothing better to do. There all kinds of crimes going on in this country and they hassle a man and many of these nationalities down here (living in) a tent,” said Kunta during a recent protest at the site of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Montez heard the gunshots that morning, too. He stays in a shelter just down the block. Montez sides with the cops on this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hands over a creased, homemade business card; \"Minister Gary Montez, Law Enforcement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montez earns a little cash as an on-call security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Law enforcement is always going to be wrong when people don’t want to respect commands, and when they’re hyped up on drugs,” Montez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outdoor encampments presents one of Skid Row’s biggest conundrums: bring down the tents or, says Navales, essentially endorse the seedy sprawl of sidewalk camping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, there will always be people who live on the fringes of society and need assistance. That’s just the way it is,” Navales says. “But should we help enable that by legislating opportunities for people to live on the sidewalks as if that’s the ultimate goal?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s definitely \u003cem>not\u003c/em> a solution, says Joe Parra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After falling on hard times, he lived out of a tent for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s from the Torrance area just south of L.A. He’d never set foot on Skid Row until a couple years ago after falling on hard times. A friend let him pitch a tent in his backyard at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He saw what I was going through and he goes, 'Hey, let me talk to my wife. That way you’re not exposed to ruffians and such.' And I said, 'Man, that’d be great,' ” Parra says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His voice trails off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sorry, sorry,” he says, choking back emotion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480661\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480661\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"There are thousands of people living in Skid Row shelters and on the street on any given day\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-800x565.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-400x282.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-1440x1016.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-1180x833.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-768x542.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-320x226.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are thousands of people living in Skid Row shelters and on the street on any given day \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parra wants to forget those days. Now he lives in a small but modern studio flat at the Star Apartments, a newly built supportive housing complex on Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we speak, Parra had just gotten back from a yoga session downstairs in the courtyard. He pauses to put an old acoustic guitar and a backpack in his apartment. He walks back out into the sunlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parra was among the first residents at the Star Apartments..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get here took patience and perseverance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only hope is for those who have enough self-confidence and care for themselves enough to lift themselves up,” Parra says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of just setting a tent down on the sidewalk saying, ‘This is my home from now on,' they should only look at it as temporary until you get another rung higher on the ladder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its sunny courtyards, community garden and yoga classes, the Star is pretty high up on that ladder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many homeless advocates say more housing like the Star is the best hope for Skid Row. But the quest to build more is running right up against a new wave of upscale downtown development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have a marketing scheme to have people to buy into this newer and shinier up-and-coming downtown Los Angeles,” says Skid Row activist and resident-general Jeff Page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, we want new and shiny in Skid Row, too!”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sidewalk at the intersection of San Pedro and Sixth, right outside the Midnight Mission, is jammed with tents, blue tarps and shopping carts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at it, that sidewalk is completely impassable to regular foot traffic. Every one of these tents really is a violation of the law,” says Ryan Navales, standing outside the entrance of the mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navales landed on Skid Row several years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was a strung-out, homeless heroin addict with few options left but determined to get clean. He signed up for a rehab program at the Midnight Mission. He got sober. And he got work doing public relations for the 100-year-old shelter, rehab center and soup kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480650\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480650\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-800x466.jpg\" alt=\"A Skid Row sidewalk encampment at the southern edge of Skid Row, home to the city’s warehouse and art district. \" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-800x466.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-400x233.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-1440x839.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-1180x688.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-768x448.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-320x187.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Skid Row sidewalk encampment at the southern edge of Skid Row, home to the city’s warehouse and art district. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We serve sometimes approaching 3,000 meals a day. So everybody comes down here. It used to be just a bunch of old drunken white guys,” Navales says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the 1970s after the Vietnam War, it really changed demographically to different races and lots more drugs. But it’s still all the same services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where it’s all centered,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s no accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. developed a policy decades ago to purposely funnel the homeless away from downtown and other parts of the city and into a roughly 70-square block semi-industrial strip filled with residential hotels, fruit-packing warehouses and garment factories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the homeless population swelled, so did the number of places to help them out. These days Skid Row is a constellation of shelters, food pantries and drug clinics, all in the midst of what can often feel like a combination open-air asylum and drug market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480657\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480657\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"An unidentified passed out on the sidewalk of a Skid Row back street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-1440x928.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-1180x760.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-768x495.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-320x206.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unidentified passed out on the sidewalk of a Skid Row back street. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I mean, it’s hard to come down here and save people and get them into recovery when we can go right across to that tent and somebody is shooting dope because that’s what I would do,” Navales says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a shelter around the corner, Carol Oakman says she was nearly blinded after being assaulted on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was beaten by two women,\" Oakman says. \"The thieving, the racketeering, narcotics distribution, you name it, all of it. All of it happens right down here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been plenty of efforts to “clean up” Skid Row. One of the latest under former Los Angeles Police Chief Bill Bratton gave cops the authority to break up encampments and confiscate belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cluttered sidewalks, they argued, made it tougher to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal court judge blocked the policy. The sidewalk encampments came back and so did the tension between police and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day they hassle someone in their tent, every day,” Kelly Kunta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Skid Row resident is among those still boiling over last month’s police-involved shooting death of an unarmed Cameroonian immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480659\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480659\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A street memorial still stands outside the Union Rescue for the 43-year-old homeless Cameroonian immigrant shot and killed by LAPD officers during a scuffle on March 1, 2015. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street memorial still stands outside the Union Rescue for the 43-year-old homeless Cameroonian immigrant shot and killed by LAPD officers during a scuffle on March 1, 2015. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 43-year-old homeless man was shot after fighting with LAPD cops outside a tent. He allegedly grabbed an officer’s revolver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police got nothing better to do. There all kinds of crimes going on in this country and they hassle a man and many of these nationalities down here (living in) a tent,” said Kunta during a recent protest at the site of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Montez heard the gunshots that morning, too. He stays in a shelter just down the block. Montez sides with the cops on this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hands over a creased, homemade business card; \"Minister Gary Montez, Law Enforcement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montez earns a little cash as an on-call security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Law enforcement is always going to be wrong when people don’t want to respect commands, and when they’re hyped up on drugs,” Montez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outdoor encampments presents one of Skid Row’s biggest conundrums: bring down the tents or, says Navales, essentially endorse the seedy sprawl of sidewalk camping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, there will always be people who live on the fringes of society and need assistance. That’s just the way it is,” Navales says. “But should we help enable that by legislating opportunities for people to live on the sidewalks as if that’s the ultimate goal?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s definitely \u003cem>not\u003c/em> a solution, says Joe Parra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After falling on hard times, he lived out of a tent for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s from the Torrance area just south of L.A. He’d never set foot on Skid Row until a couple years ago after falling on hard times. A friend let him pitch a tent in his backyard at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He saw what I was going through and he goes, 'Hey, let me talk to my wife. That way you’re not exposed to ruffians and such.' And I said, 'Man, that’d be great,' ” Parra says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His voice trails off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sorry, sorry,” he says, choking back emotion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480661\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480661\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"There are thousands of people living in Skid Row shelters and on the street on any given day\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-800x565.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-400x282.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-1440x1016.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-1180x833.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-768x542.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-320x226.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are thousands of people living in Skid Row shelters and on the street on any given day \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parra wants to forget those days. Now he lives in a small but modern studio flat at the Star Apartments, a newly built supportive housing complex on Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we speak, Parra had just gotten back from a yoga session downstairs in the courtyard. He pauses to put an old acoustic guitar and a backpack in his apartment. He walks back out into the sunlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parra was among the first residents at the Star Apartments..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get here took patience and perseverance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only hope is for those who have enough self-confidence and care for themselves enough to lift themselves up,” Parra says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of just setting a tent down on the sidewalk saying, ‘This is my home from now on,' they should only look at it as temporary until you get another rung higher on the ladder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its sunny courtyards, community garden and yoga classes, the Star is pretty high up on that ladder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many homeless advocates say more housing like the Star is the best hope for Skid Row. 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"content": "\u003cp>At 6 a.m. Tuesday, the teams receive their marching orders at \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityteam.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CityTeam\u003c/a> in the Berryessa neighborhood of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Alum Rock!\" calls out a representative with Applied Survey Research, the San Jose nonprofit that's coordinating this \"Point-in-Time\" homeless census for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up step social workers Jen Sandhu and Pauline Bayati of \u003ca href=\"http://www.homefirstscc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">HomeFirst\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helps homeless people in Santa Clara County. 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We see quite a few alongside freeway on- and offramps. As cars roar past, we tiptoe past the carts to the bushes that grow along the concrete walls. Sure enough, there are sofas and sleeping bags, as well as cleared spots that indicate someone was sleeping on the ground recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just gives you a new perspective for who’s around you and who’s part of your community,\" says Sandhu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Away from obvious encampments, it proves remarkably hard to identify people who are homeless, other than those deep into addiction and/or mental illness. A disheveled woman on the street in her housecoat and slippers attracts our attention, until she walks up and into a house. There's no way to know a kid wearing a worn hoodie or carrying a backpack too big for him is homeless just because of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417515\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-800x629.jpg\" alt=\"Nick grew up in the Alum Rock area. Family troubles and alcoholism led him to the streets, but he's housed now, working with a local group called Downtown Streets Team. He's also an excellent guide for a homeless survey. \" width=\"800\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-800x629.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-400x315.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick grew up in the Alum Rock area. Family troubles and alcoholism led him to the streets, but he's housed now, working with a local group called Downtown Streets Team. He's also an excellent guide for a homeless survey. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The counters don't try to engage the people they see on the street. There's concern about safety, and an awareness that concern cuts both ways. A homeless person may not trust a stranger to have his best interests at heart. Many of those living on the streets are easy targets for robbery and rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Aguirre, who used to live in the Jungle -- a massive homeless camp dismantled in December -- has another concern: that San Jose city officials are using intelligence they gather to evict people from encampments, like they did at the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/04/homeless-evicted-from-the-jungle-in-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\">Jungle\u003c/a>, Aguirre says. \"Since they closed the Jungle, all those people scattered, and now every time they settle down somewhere, the city goes and finds where they are. They clear them out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-day survey, which continues Wednesday, doesn't track specific locations. Only the counters would know exactly where they spotted an encampment, and that's not to say they would share that information with police. That said, local agencies and nonprofits are using information they gather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in other counties, Santa Clara County will send out teams after this count is over to meet and talk with people, gather more information about who they are and what they need, and potentially hook them up with services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Supervisor and Board President Dave Cortese called for a new task force to address the problem in his State of the County \u003ca href=\"http://www.sccgov.org/sites/d3/Documents/SOTC%20Speech%202015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">speech\u003c/a> Tuesday night. \"In a valley among the highest in per capita income, productivity and wealth in the world, it is unthinkable that homelessness is one of our largest challenges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the count found more than \u003cspan id=\"mn_Global\">\u003cspan id=\"MNGiSection\">7,631\u003c/span>\u003c/span> homeless people in Santa Clara County, two-thirds of them in San Jose. HUD will release the official results for 2015 in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417475\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"These maps of San Jose give a sense of how detailed and extensive the survey is.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These maps of San Jose give a sense of how detailed and extensive the homeless survey is. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The numbers are shocking, but not the reasons people become homeless. Bayati, who studied psychology at San Jose State, says: \"A lot of it is mental illness or drug abuse.\" There are also unstable families, as well as work that doesn’t pay enough to cover rent. And even though there are programs like \u003ca href=\"http://www.hacsc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Section 8\u003c/a>, Bayati says a one-bedroom apartment in a rough part of San Jose can run $1,700 a month or more. All this explains the count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandhu says the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development requires the survey every two years to figure out where to spend its money. \"Using an actual head count and having statistically figured multipliers to assess the issue is much better than an educated guess.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s census won’t include everybody. Counters invariably miss people on the streets, especially those living in cars and RVs. It’s also impossible to count the people living on the edge in somebody else’s home, staying indoors thanks to the kindness of friends or family.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>At 6 a.m. Tuesday, the teams receive their marching orders at \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityteam.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CityTeam\u003c/a> in the Berryessa neighborhood of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Alum Rock!\" calls out a representative with Applied Survey Research, the San Jose nonprofit that's coordinating this \"Point-in-Time\" homeless census for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up step social workers Jen Sandhu and Pauline Bayati of \u003ca href=\"http://www.homefirstscc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">HomeFirst\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helps homeless people in Santa Clara County. They're teamed up with Nick, a formerly homeless guide, before they set off for Alum Rock and Eastside San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might imagine they'll travel by foot, but the trip is mostly by car, slowly cruising down individual streets, looking for what can be spotted without disturbing people living rough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the back side of \u003ca href=\"http://www.olgparishsj.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Lady of Guadalupe Church\u003c/a>, we spot the first encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right there,\" says Nick, pointing at a clutch of sleeping bags and tents huddled against a fence at the end of a cul-de-sac. A neighborhood cat prowls around as the folks inside sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oh, wow,\" says Sandhu, counting \"one, two, three, four, five, six tents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick says many homeless people choose to stay near places where food is distributed or other services are provided. Shelters report their numbers to HUD independent of this street survey. While it's possible this team will double-count some people, the hope is the early hour means there won't be redundancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417472\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Where you see a shopping cart packed with possessions, there's probably a homeless person nearby, and probably an encampment. Behind this cart, back in the bushes, there are signs somebody is living in the greenery by a freeway off-ramp.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Where you see a shopping cart packed with possessions, there's probably a homeless person nearby, and probably an encampment. Behind this cart, back in the bushes, there are signs somebody is living in the greenery by a freeway offramp. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nick points out the telltale signs: holes cut into fences, makeshift sheds, shopping carts packed with possessions. We see quite a few alongside freeway on- and offramps. As cars roar past, we tiptoe past the carts to the bushes that grow along the concrete walls. Sure enough, there are sofas and sleeping bags, as well as cleared spots that indicate someone was sleeping on the ground recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just gives you a new perspective for who’s around you and who’s part of your community,\" says Sandhu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Away from obvious encampments, it proves remarkably hard to identify people who are homeless, other than those deep into addiction and/or mental illness. A disheveled woman on the street in her housecoat and slippers attracts our attention, until she walks up and into a house. There's no way to know a kid wearing a worn hoodie or carrying a backpack too big for him is homeless just because of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417515\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-800x629.jpg\" alt=\"Nick grew up in the Alum Rock area. Family troubles and alcoholism led him to the streets, but he's housed now, working with a local group called Downtown Streets Team. He's also an excellent guide for a homeless survey. \" width=\"800\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-800x629.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-400x315.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick grew up in the Alum Rock area. Family troubles and alcoholism led him to the streets, but he's housed now, working with a local group called Downtown Streets Team. He's also an excellent guide for a homeless survey. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The counters don't try to engage the people they see on the street. There's concern about safety, and an awareness that concern cuts both ways. A homeless person may not trust a stranger to have his best interests at heart. Many of those living on the streets are easy targets for robbery and rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Aguirre, who used to live in the Jungle -- a massive homeless camp dismantled in December -- has another concern: that San Jose city officials are using intelligence they gather to evict people from encampments, like they did at the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/04/homeless-evicted-from-the-jungle-in-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\">Jungle\u003c/a>, Aguirre says. \"Since they closed the Jungle, all those people scattered, and now every time they settle down somewhere, the city goes and finds where they are. They clear them out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-day survey, which continues Wednesday, doesn't track specific locations. Only the counters would know exactly where they spotted an encampment, and that's not to say they would share that information with police. That said, local agencies and nonprofits are using information they gather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in other counties, Santa Clara County will send out teams after this count is over to meet and talk with people, gather more information about who they are and what they need, and potentially hook them up with services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Supervisor and Board President Dave Cortese called for a new task force to address the problem in his State of the County \u003ca href=\"http://www.sccgov.org/sites/d3/Documents/SOTC%20Speech%202015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">speech\u003c/a> Tuesday night. \"In a valley among the highest in per capita income, productivity and wealth in the world, it is unthinkable that homelessness is one of our largest challenges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the count found more than \u003cspan id=\"mn_Global\">\u003cspan id=\"MNGiSection\">7,631\u003c/span>\u003c/span> homeless people in Santa Clara County, two-thirds of them in San Jose. HUD will release the official results for 2015 in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417475\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"These maps of San Jose give a sense of how detailed and extensive the survey is.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These maps of San Jose give a sense of how detailed and extensive the homeless survey is. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The numbers are shocking, but not the reasons people become homeless. Bayati, who studied psychology at San Jose State, says: \"A lot of it is mental illness or drug abuse.\" There are also unstable families, as well as work that doesn’t pay enough to cover rent. And even though there are programs like \u003ca href=\"http://www.hacsc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Section 8\u003c/a>, Bayati says a one-bedroom apartment in a rough part of San Jose can run $1,700 a month or more. All this explains the count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandhu says the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development requires the survey every two years to figure out where to spend its money. \"Using an actual head count and having statistically figured multipliers to assess the issue is much better than an educated guess.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s census won’t include everybody. Counters invariably miss people on the streets, especially those living in cars and RVs. It’s also impossible to count the people living on the edge in somebody else’s home, staying indoors thanks to the kindness of friends or family.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Unvaccinated kids: Where are the clusters?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Researchers have identified several geographic hot spots in the Bay Area where parents are not vaccinating their children, triggering concern about potential outbreaks of dangerous and preventable infectious diseases. One cluster is in the East Bay communities of El Cerrito, Berkeley, Oakland and Alameda, where parents rejected vaccines for 10.2 percent of children. The second was in the northern part of San Francisco, as well as Marin County and the southwestern part of Sonoma County, with a 6.6 percent rate of vaccine refusal. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/health/ci_27350529/kaiser-study-clusters-unvaccinated-children-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Bay Bridge’s history of trouble: How a landmark became a debacle\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Sometime in the next few weeks, the lead contractor for the Bay Bridge’s new eastern span will finally declare that the most complex public works project in California history is done — and state and local authorities will be solely responsible for a landmark beset by problems that trace back more than 16 years, to the day a handful of experts picked a design that bordered on the experimental. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Bridge-s-troubles-How-a-landmark-became-a-6021955.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Facebook report: Users have $227 billion global economic impact\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Venture Beat)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If you thought Facebook was just one giant time-suck vortex where your life disappears while sharing cat videos and finding quizzes to discover which character on “Friends” you most resemble, then here’s some good news: The company says you are actually doing your part to boost the world’s economy. \u003ca href=\"http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/20/facebook-report-says-its-1-35-billion-users-have-227-billion-global-economic-impact/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County gearing up for annual homeless census\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When Francisca Garcia canvasses Santa Clara County later this month to help gauge the size of the local homeless population, she will know exactly where to look for young people living on the streets. Not long ago, she was one of them. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_27356130/santa-clara-county-gearing-up-count-that-will\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>One face of the Great Recession — and of a recovery that’s leaving many behind\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(NPR)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Ed Neufeldt, 68, was laid off from his job in the RV industry in Elkhart County, Indiana, when the economy crashed. His story was so emblematic of hard times in Middle America that he was chosen to introduce President Obama at a rally. Now, he’s employed again, working three jobs 50 hours a week — and making less than he did when he was on unemployment. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2015/01/20/154343/working_3_jobs_in_a_time_of_recovery?source=npr&category=economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Trying to get a look inside Uber’s ‘black box’\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Valleywag)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We’re fascinated by Uber. It’s a hugely successful service that’s reshaping urban transportation. But it’s also kind of a black box. With your help — a quick survey to gather your Uber rating and some anonymous demographic data — we want to take a look inside. \u003ca href=\"http://valleywag.gawker.com/whats-your-uber-score-find-out-and-help-us-see-how-ub-1679896144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Children of the drought\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(New America Media)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>While Californians have continued to more or less live their lives—washing their cars, taking showers, running through their sprinklers on a hot summer day—it is the land itself that, at least visually, has borne the brunt of the drought. While water continues to flow for most of us, the land, as these photographs testify, is hurting. \u003ca href=\"http://newamericamedia.org/2015/01/children-of-the-drought-new-generation-looks-at-california.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Model killed by train during video shoot on tracks \u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Associated Press)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Friends of a fitness model and actor who was hit by a train and killed while making a video said Monday that he was a bold and fearless person who just made a rare mistake. “It was just a freaky moment where something got out of control,” said Warren Coulter, who had been friends for 15 years with 37-year-old George Gregory Plitt Jr., who went by “Greg.” Plitt, among the more recognizable faces and physiques in the fitness industry, was shooting a video for his website with two crew members when the Metrolink commuter train hit him Saturday afternoon in Burbank, authorities and friends said. \u003ca href=\"http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f1747c8e65c14d0ca2fe0ac8f182dd8e/fitness-model-was-filming-when-killed-train-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>SpaceX releases video of rocket crash-landing on barge\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>(Associated Press)\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>SpaceX has released dramatic footage of its booster rocket trying to land on a floating ocean barge after a launch — an unprecedented attempt that ended in a fiery explosion. The video released Friday shows the 14-story rocket hitting the football field-sized barge at an angle, lighting up the night sky off the Florida coast. \u003ca href=\"http://bigstory.ap.org/article/46e09fea037e49889b74fc3f58f83ba0/spacex-releases-video-rocket-crash-landing-ocean-barge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Museum of Broken Relationships is coming to San Francisco\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(SF Weekly)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Maybe it’s a sweatshirt or a book or coffee mug — no matter what the inanimate object is, you’ve just been unable to get rid of it because it carries the weight of a broken relationship. 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The second was in the northern part of San Francisco, as well as Marin County and the southwestern part of Sonoma County, with a 6.6 percent rate of vaccine refusal. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/health/ci_27350529/kaiser-study-clusters-unvaccinated-children-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Bay Bridge’s history of trouble: How a landmark became a debacle\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Sometime in the next few weeks, the lead contractor for the Bay Bridge’s new eastern span will finally declare that the most complex public works project in California history is done — and state and local authorities will be solely responsible for a landmark beset by problems that trace back more than 16 years, to the day a handful of experts picked a design that bordered on the experimental. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Bridge-s-troubles-How-a-landmark-became-a-6021955.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Facebook report: Users have $227 billion global economic impact\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Venture Beat)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If you thought Facebook was just one giant time-suck vortex where your life disappears while sharing cat videos and finding quizzes to discover which character on “Friends” you most resemble, then here’s some good news: The company says you are actually doing your part to boost the world’s economy. \u003ca href=\"http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/20/facebook-report-says-its-1-35-billion-users-have-227-billion-global-economic-impact/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County gearing up for annual homeless census\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When Francisca Garcia canvasses Santa Clara County later this month to help gauge the size of the local homeless population, she will know exactly where to look for young people living on the streets. Not long ago, she was one of them. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_27356130/santa-clara-county-gearing-up-count-that-will\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>One face of the Great Recession — and of a recovery that’s leaving many behind\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(NPR)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Ed Neufeldt, 68, was laid off from his job in the RV industry in Elkhart County, Indiana, when the economy crashed. His story was so emblematic of hard times in Middle America that he was chosen to introduce President Obama at a rally. Now, he’s employed again, working three jobs 50 hours a week — and making less than he did when he was on unemployment. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2015/01/20/154343/working_3_jobs_in_a_time_of_recovery?source=npr&category=economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Trying to get a look inside Uber’s ‘black box’\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Valleywag)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We’re fascinated by Uber. It’s a hugely successful service that’s reshaping urban transportation. But it’s also kind of a black box. With your help — a quick survey to gather your Uber rating and some anonymous demographic data — we want to take a look inside. \u003ca href=\"http://valleywag.gawker.com/whats-your-uber-score-find-out-and-help-us-see-how-ub-1679896144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Children of the drought\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(New America Media)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>While Californians have continued to more or less live their lives—washing their cars, taking showers, running through their sprinklers on a hot summer day—it is the land itself that, at least visually, has borne the brunt of the drought. While water continues to flow for most of us, the land, as these photographs testify, is hurting. \u003ca href=\"http://newamericamedia.org/2015/01/children-of-the-drought-new-generation-looks-at-california.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Model killed by train during video shoot on tracks \u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Associated Press)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Friends of a fitness model and actor who was hit by a train and killed while making a video said Monday that he was a bold and fearless person who just made a rare mistake. “It was just a freaky moment where something got out of control,” said Warren Coulter, who had been friends for 15 years with 37-year-old George Gregory Plitt Jr., who went by “Greg.” Plitt, among the more recognizable faces and physiques in the fitness industry, was shooting a video for his website with two crew members when the Metrolink commuter train hit him Saturday afternoon in Burbank, authorities and friends said. \u003ca href=\"http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f1747c8e65c14d0ca2fe0ac8f182dd8e/fitness-model-was-filming-when-killed-train-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>SpaceX releases video of rocket crash-landing on barge\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>(Associated Press)\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>SpaceX has released dramatic footage of its booster rocket trying to land on a floating ocean barge after a launch — an unprecedented attempt that ended in a fiery explosion. The video released Friday shows the 14-story rocket hitting the football field-sized barge at an angle, lighting up the night sky off the Florida coast. \u003ca href=\"http://bigstory.ap.org/article/46e09fea037e49889b74fc3f58f83ba0/spacex-releases-video-rocket-crash-landing-ocean-barge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Museum of Broken Relationships is coming to San Francisco\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(SF Weekly)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Maybe it’s a sweatshirt or a book or coffee mug — no matter what the inanimate object is, you’ve just been unable to get rid of it because it carries the weight of a broken relationship. 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"content": "\u003cp>Patrick and Sandra Scott spent their 41st anniversary on Dec. 14 in a place they can finally call home — even temporarily. After being homeless for a year, the couple moved into a motel room paid for by the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After living under the bleachers, in the flowerbeds and beneath different trees in Sunnyvale’s Fair Oaks Park for most of the year, Patrick Scott said he was looking forward to sitting in a bath for a whole day, just letting the water run, fully aware that there’s a drought in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the little things that you miss the most,” Patrick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick and Sandra, both 62 years old, became homeless last December because Patrick retired as a cook one year before he was eligible for Social Security benefits. Sandra was unemployed after being injured at work in 2005, and expensive hospital stays exhausted most of their savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10387476\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2550px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10387476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey.jpg\" alt=\"Facts on the homeless in Santa Clara County. (Yuqing Pan/Peninsula Press)\" width=\"2550\" height=\"3300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey.jpg 2550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey-400x517.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey-1440x1863.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2550px) 100vw, 2550px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facts on the homeless in Santa Clara County. (Yuqing Pan/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they were forced to leave their apartment in Sunnyvale, a relative offered to help, but they said they wanted to work out their money problems on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County, even with its enormous wealth per capita because of Silicon Valley’s boom, had the largest percentage of unsheltered homeless in the country this year, according to the 2014 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress. Of the 7,567 homeless, 75 percent lived on the streets or in their cars. Of New York City’s 67,810 homeless, only 5 percent were unsheltered this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past decade, Santa Clara County has opened three shelters from Dec. 1 to March 31 to provide overnight lodging for homeless during the winter months. But the closing of one of them — the Sunnyvale Armory — this past spring has left homeless in the northern part of the county searching for alternatives as the cold winter temperatures set in. The old Sunnyvale Armory site is being converted to low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a countywide search for a replacement shelter bore no fruit, the county’s Board of Supervisors approved a new comprehensive winter plan to deal with the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make up for the loss of 125 beds in the Sunnyvale Armory, 56 beds are being added to other shelters, including the Boccardo Reception Center, the Commercial Street Inn in San Jose, Hotel de Zink in Palo Alto and Project WeHOPE in East Palo Alto. In addition, the county is offering 90 motel beds — like the ones the Scotts obtained — the largest number the county has ever offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Nsn2V61GQGJ3Rgo0xcCXCwwiyHd0nl0y\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, the county approved $1 million to assist the homeless, an increase of close to $400,000 compared with last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the increase is to pay for the motel beds, which cost an average of $850 per week for one person — nearly twice as much as a shelter bed — according to Bob Dolci, the county’s homeless concerns coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of the 90 motel beds, 54 are dedicated to homeless families. InnVision Shelter Network, a provider of shelter and supportive services for the homeless, referred families on a first-come, first-serve basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining 36 motel beds are reserved for homeless individuals and are overseen by Downtown Streets Team, an organization that helps the homeless find jobs and housing. Members on the Downtown Streets Team “volunteer” up to 20 hours per week on cleaning jobs, and instead of payment, receive grocery gift cards and case management services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only team members, or those on the wait list to get on the team, are eligible for motel beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how the Scotts — both team members — were able to move into a motel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is for “people to see those on the team getting into a motel, getting housing and building better lives, and say, ‘I can do that too,' ” said Chris Richardson, Downtown Streets Team’s program director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, those who wanted to stay in the Sunnyvale Armory had to line up each afternoon and join a lottery for a bed every day. Under the new program, the lucky ones are placed into a motel or a shelter for 90 to 120 days. Demand still far exceeds supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10387477\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2667px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/jungle_new1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10387477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/jungle_new1.jpg\" alt=\"In the vicinity of giant tech companies in Silicon Valley, San Jose’s “Jungle” was one of the country’s largest homeless encampments. This site, where about 300 people lived, was shut down on Dec. 4, 2014. (Graphic by Yuqing Pan/Peninsula Press)\" width=\"2667\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/jungle_new1.jpg 2667w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/jungle_new1-400x299.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/jungle_new1-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/jungle_new1-1440x1079.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2667px) 100vw, 2667px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the vicinity of giant tech companies in Silicon Valley, San Jose’s 'Jungle' was one of the country’s largest homeless encampments. This site, where about 300 people lived, was shut down on Dec. 4, 2014. (Graphic by Yuqing Pan/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I sure can use a motel room where I can come back anytime I want,” said Clint, a 62-year-old homeless veteran who wouldn’t give his last name, while he was eating a free breakfast at a church in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clint was given a bed at a church in San Jose after he underwent heart surgery in September. He unzipped the top of his sweater and revealed a 4-inch-long scar on his chest that was still fresh. But he has to leave by 5:30 in the morning and come back after 8:00 at night, under church rules. He spends most of his days reading in the library or wandering aimlessly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph Rosado, 40, was ecstatic when he was told by the Downtown Streets Team to move into a motel last week. For the past month, he had been sleeping in his brother’s truck after getting off work at a Mountain View Safeway at 11:30 p.m. When it got really cold, he stayed at work for extra hours or took a bus ride to keep warm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosado almost lost his chance at a motel bed after being kicked off the Downtown Streets Team in early November for not showing up for his shifts. Rosado said the schedule conflicted with his two other jobs — one at Safeway and another part-time job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, the team took Rosado back and put him on the wait list for a motel bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being homeless in Silicon Valley means constantly having to figure out where to get a night’s sleep. While some sleep in their cars, some sleep on “Motel 22″ — the only bus that runs 24 hours a day in Silicon Valley. Others scatter to wherever they can get a few hours of undisturbed sleep. One of those places — the San Jose “Jungle” along Coyote Creek — was \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2014/12/09/san-jose-homeless-encampment-shut-down/\" target=\"_blank\">dismantled on Dec. 4\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolci acknowledged that the new homeless program helped fewer people, but said those who received hotel rooms were more likely to get off the streets permanently. They won’t have to constantly look for a place to sleep and will have time, with the help of case managers, to look for employment and permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is geared to hopefully solve some homelessness problems and end it,” Dolci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the new program proves effective, the county will continue it next year while still looking for a replacement for the Sunnyvale Armory, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Collins, shelter director at InnVision Shelter Network, described this year as a “trial period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are all learning this together,” Collins said. “We are all optimistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Scotts, with their retirement benefits kicking in early next year, hope the motel will be the last stop in their homeless journey. They have been accepted to the low-income apartment complex currently being built at the old Sunnyvale Armory site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being homeless, it hurts,” Patrick said. “But in the morning, you get up, tie your shoes and get life going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story originally appeared on KQED News Associate site \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Peninsula Press\u003c/a>. It's part of a special reporting series on \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2014/12/15/special-report-living-in-silicon-valley-profiles-of-communities-in-transition/\" target=\"_blank\">South Bay communities in transition\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Patrick and Sandra Scott spent their 41st anniversary on Dec. 14 in a place they can finally call home — even temporarily. After being homeless for a year, the couple moved into a motel room paid for by the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After living under the bleachers, in the flowerbeds and beneath different trees in Sunnyvale’s Fair Oaks Park for most of the year, Patrick Scott said he was looking forward to sitting in a bath for a whole day, just letting the water run, fully aware that there’s a drought in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the little things that you miss the most,” Patrick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick and Sandra, both 62 years old, became homeless last December because Patrick retired as a cook one year before he was eligible for Social Security benefits. Sandra was unemployed after being injured at work in 2005, and expensive hospital stays exhausted most of their savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10387476\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2550px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10387476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey.jpg\" alt=\"Facts on the homeless in Santa Clara County. (Yuqing Pan/Peninsula Press)\" width=\"2550\" height=\"3300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey.jpg 2550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey-400x517.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey-1440x1863.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2550px) 100vw, 2550px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facts on the homeless in Santa Clara County. (Yuqing Pan/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they were forced to leave their apartment in Sunnyvale, a relative offered to help, but they said they wanted to work out their money problems on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County, even with its enormous wealth per capita because of Silicon Valley’s boom, had the largest percentage of unsheltered homeless in the country this year, according to the 2014 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress. Of the 7,567 homeless, 75 percent lived on the streets or in their cars. Of New York City’s 67,810 homeless, only 5 percent were unsheltered this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past decade, Santa Clara County has opened three shelters from Dec. 1 to March 31 to provide overnight lodging for homeless during the winter months. But the closing of one of them — the Sunnyvale Armory — this past spring has left homeless in the northern part of the county searching for alternatives as the cold winter temperatures set in. The old Sunnyvale Armory site is being converted to low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a countywide search for a replacement shelter bore no fruit, the county’s Board of Supervisors approved a new comprehensive winter plan to deal with the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make up for the loss of 125 beds in the Sunnyvale Armory, 56 beds are being added to other shelters, including the Boccardo Reception Center, the Commercial Street Inn in San Jose, Hotel de Zink in Palo Alto and Project WeHOPE in East Palo Alto. In addition, the county is offering 90 motel beds — like the ones the Scotts obtained — the largest number the county has ever offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, the county approved $1 million to assist the homeless, an increase of close to $400,000 compared with last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the increase is to pay for the motel beds, which cost an average of $850 per week for one person — nearly twice as much as a shelter bed — according to Bob Dolci, the county’s homeless concerns coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of the 90 motel beds, 54 are dedicated to homeless families. InnVision Shelter Network, a provider of shelter and supportive services for the homeless, referred families on a first-come, first-serve basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining 36 motel beds are reserved for homeless individuals and are overseen by Downtown Streets Team, an organization that helps the homeless find jobs and housing. Members on the Downtown Streets Team “volunteer” up to 20 hours per week on cleaning jobs, and instead of payment, receive grocery gift cards and case management services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only team members, or those on the wait list to get on the team, are eligible for motel beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how the Scotts — both team members — were able to move into a motel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is for “people to see those on the team getting into a motel, getting housing and building better lives, and say, ‘I can do that too,' ” said Chris Richardson, Downtown Streets Team’s program director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, those who wanted to stay in the Sunnyvale Armory had to line up each afternoon and join a lottery for a bed every day. Under the new program, the lucky ones are placed into a motel or a shelter for 90 to 120 days. Demand still far exceeds supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10387477\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2667px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/jungle_new1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10387477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/jungle_new1.jpg\" alt=\"In the vicinity of giant tech companies in Silicon Valley, San Jose’s “Jungle” was one of the country’s largest homeless encampments. This site, where about 300 people lived, was shut down on Dec. 4, 2014. 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(Graphic by Yuqing Pan/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I sure can use a motel room where I can come back anytime I want,” said Clint, a 62-year-old homeless veteran who wouldn’t give his last name, while he was eating a free breakfast at a church in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clint was given a bed at a church in San Jose after he underwent heart surgery in September. He unzipped the top of his sweater and revealed a 4-inch-long scar on his chest that was still fresh. But he has to leave by 5:30 in the morning and come back after 8:00 at night, under church rules. He spends most of his days reading in the library or wandering aimlessly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph Rosado, 40, was ecstatic when he was told by the Downtown Streets Team to move into a motel last week. For the past month, he had been sleeping in his brother’s truck after getting off work at a Mountain View Safeway at 11:30 p.m. When it got really cold, he stayed at work for extra hours or took a bus ride to keep warm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosado almost lost his chance at a motel bed after being kicked off the Downtown Streets Team in early November for not showing up for his shifts. Rosado said the schedule conflicted with his two other jobs — one at Safeway and another part-time job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, the team took Rosado back and put him on the wait list for a motel bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being homeless in Silicon Valley means constantly having to figure out where to get a night’s sleep. While some sleep in their cars, some sleep on “Motel 22″ — the only bus that runs 24 hours a day in Silicon Valley. Others scatter to wherever they can get a few hours of undisturbed sleep. One of those places — the San Jose “Jungle” along Coyote Creek — was \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2014/12/09/san-jose-homeless-encampment-shut-down/\" target=\"_blank\">dismantled on Dec. 4\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolci acknowledged that the new homeless program helped fewer people, but said those who received hotel rooms were more likely to get off the streets permanently. They won’t have to constantly look for a place to sleep and will have time, with the help of case managers, to look for employment and permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is geared to hopefully solve some homelessness problems and end it,” Dolci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the new program proves effective, the county will continue it next year while still looking for a replacement for the Sunnyvale Armory, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Collins, shelter director at InnVision Shelter Network, described this year as a “trial period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are all learning this together,” Collins said. “We are all optimistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Scotts, with their retirement benefits kicking in early next year, hope the motel will be the last stop in their homeless journey. They have been accepted to the low-income apartment complex currently being built at the old Sunnyvale Armory site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being homeless, it hurts,” Patrick said. “But in the morning, you get up, tie your shoes and get life going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It started as the summer weather descended on the Mission District: Shabby tents popped up in clusters of three or four along residential streets at dusk. Then came the human waste. Then the drug dealing and the thefts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The marked increase in homeless encampments in the Mission, Potrero Hill and nearby neighborhoods has led residents to complain of their sense of powerlessness and insecurity with the proliferation of extreme poverty, grime and crime on their doorsteps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the spread of the encampments is hard to quantify because of the nomadic culture on the streets, neighbors say they were unprepared for the change. Some say it is due to a mass migration from the Civic Center and Mid-Market areas as police step up enforcement of the \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2011-04/2010-sit-lie-law-could-cost-city-thousands-to-jail-repeat-offenders\" target=\"_blank\">“sit-lie” policy \u003c/a>that restricts loitering and sleeping on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ypUxaSXgMelpNSfZiqwiwQL1nVejLIn0\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police have made efforts using the sit-lie policy to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-starts-enforcing-rules-on-sitting-at-Powell-5636846.php\" target=\"_blank\">aggressively clear out Powell and Civic Center stations\u003c/a> to keep corridors safe for emergency situations, the San Francisco Chronicle reported in July. The paper also reported that Mayor Ed Lee has made it a priority to clean up the Mid-Market area. Police Chief Greg Suhr said he “takes orders straight from the mayor” and has doubled foot patrols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it is no surprise that efforts to clean up one neighborhood are shifting these problems to another, where residents say enforcement seems relatively lax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The complaints have been incoming for probably two to three months now,” said Bevan Dufty, San Francisco’s so-called homelessness czar, at a community gathering in late September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dufty, director of the city’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=903\" target=\"_blank\">Housing Opportunity, Partnerships & Engagement program\u003c/a>, said the streets of the Mission District are more comfortable and convenient for outdoor living than areas closer to downtown. “It is safe enough, and seems to work for them enough that they are willing to move for an hour,” he said. The sense of frustration among residents is palpable. At the community meeting, residents expressed a complex mix of fear and disgust, and asked city officials and police to fix the problem. But not everyone is scared of the rising population of homeless people in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monica Pereira, an urban planner, owns a home in a three-story renovated Victorian building with her husband. While she agrees that the Mission has become a “dirty neighborhood,” she said she wanted to shift the conversation to generosity and community. She attended the meeting to see what options were out there for her new house guest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pereira did something few of her neighbors would contemplate: She befriended a homeless man, and ended up inviting him into a semi-detached room in her home so he could get back on his feet, apply for city and state benefits and interview for jobs. So far, she said, he seems to be making progress despite problems getting help through the slow and dysfunctional welfare system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NEIGHBORS FRUSTRATED\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town hall-style meeting, organized by residents of the Mission and Potrero Hill, filled an auditorium at Bonhams auction house near Highway 101. The gathering served as a platform for numerous complaints. While officials offered no firm ideas about solutions, they said they had stepped up policing, street cleaning and outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10387397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 867px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Kane.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10387397\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Kane.jpg\" alt=\"Kane, camping near Showplace Square at 15th and Utah streets, says police tell him to move from site to site. Sitting or lying on the sidewalk has been illegal in San Francisco since November 2010, when a majority of voters empowered police to fine, and sometimes arrest, people for the offense. (Eric Lawson / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"867\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Kane.jpg 867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Kane-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Kane-800x543.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 867px) 100vw, 867px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kane, camping near Showplace Square at 15th and Utah streets, says police tell him to move from site to site. Sitting or lying on the sidewalk has been illegal in San Francisco since November 2010, when a majority of voters empowered police to fine, and sometimes arrest, people for the offense. (Eric Lawson/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On any given day, about six tents stand beneath the looming, noisy intersection of interstate highways 101 and 80, nestled at the junction of the Mission, SoMa and Potrero Hill. The freeway overpass offers some protection from the elements during the colder seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s quiet at night,” Dufty said. “The people who I talked to who have been camping here say it’s very safe here, and the people watch out for each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billy Bean, a Bonhams employee and co-organizer of the meeting, said that while the homeless find safety there, longtime residents feel the community overall is becoming less safe. He said he perceives the street population becoming younger and more aggressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now there are broken-into cars, stolen bikes, shady drug activity and growing fear,” Bean said. “It’s more a changing of population than an increase of encampments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'But if I give someone who's homeless a citation, they're not gonna stop. And nine out of 10 times they say 'no' to shelters. We just have no answer to this.'\u003ccite>Capt. Daniel Perea, Mission Station\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Gregory Dicum, a resident of the Mission for 15 years, criticized police Capt. Daniel Perea of Mission Station for not providing enough foot patrols. He said Perea was “throwing up his hands” to absolve himself from responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2014/09/homeless-encampments-here-to-stay/\" target=\"_blank\">Perea told Mission Local\u003c/a>, a neighborhood news website, that “enforcement is ineffective, because it only temporarily displaces the encampments. Further enforcement is not going to correct this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could go to all these places every day and give tickets to everybody,” he said. “But if I give someone who’s homeless a citation, they’re not gonna stop. And nine out of 10 times they say ‘no’ to shelters. We just have no answer to this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dicum also conceded that Mission Station was understaffed, and that homelessness was a citywide issue that could not be addressed by police in just one neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, what we believe or suspect is not enough to place somebody under arrest or to take them away,” Capt. Robert O’Sullivan of Bayview Police Station told residents at the community meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one homeless man by the name of Kane said police often “insist” that he move from site to site, using the 2010 sit-lie law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"p0vrutYsjHDjneFkIB6eHJvHSn4u7Kfb\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police are also responding to poor sanitary conditions on the streets, which are distressing to residents. Problems include human feces, used condoms and drug needles, as well as increased vulnerability to sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Stringer, director of operations at the Department of Public Works, said he is organizing “alley crews” to visit 50 sites a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the biggest challenges when alley crews clean,” he said, is that “the homeless return to the 50 sites to make another mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crews work with the police and Dufty’s team at the mayor’s office to ask the homeless to leave so they can clean the sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kane said that despite the increasing complaints from neighbors, not much has changed recently in terms of enforcement and cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been here off and on for years. They’ve been doing it every day,” he said, adding: “I wonder how much it costs for them to stand around while they watch us pack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ANOTHER TYPE OF RESPONSE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the range of discussion about options for dealing with the street population seems limited to Monica Pereira.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'He didn't look homeless, he looked poor, just someone in a bad situation that needs help.'\u003ccite>Monica Pereira\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Early in the fall, she took in a homeless man who moved to San Francisco earlier this year. A Venezuelan native, he moved into a “glorified storage room” attached to the garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She invited him to stay after meeting him two or three times and learning that he had the potential to get back on his feet with a little bit of help. What convinced her was when he asked her to watch his dog while he attended a job interview. She said she hopes her assistance will help expedite his journey out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t look homeless, he looked poor, just someone in a bad situation that needs help,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man had been living in San Francisco for about four months. Trained as a boxer, he came to fight in the United States for a South American boxing club and stayed. Since then, he has worked odd jobs in pest control and casinos in Las Vegas. While he does have a green card, Pereira said, he does not have enough money to apply for citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pereira acknowledged that the man’s situation was unusual, and she had a gut feeling that she could help him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pereira also bought the man a bus pass and a prepaid cellphone. In return, he sweeps the front yard daily and sometimes cooks traditional Venezuelan dishes for Pereira and her husband, Kevin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homeless man’s room had bright blue walls and low ceilings. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It started as the summer weather descended on the Mission District: Shabby tents popped up in clusters of three or four along residential streets at dusk. Then came the human waste. Then the drug dealing and the thefts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The marked increase in homeless encampments in the Mission, Potrero Hill and nearby neighborhoods has led residents to complain of their sense of powerlessness and insecurity with the proliferation of extreme poverty, grime and crime on their doorsteps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the spread of the encampments is hard to quantify because of the nomadic culture on the streets, neighbors say they were unprepared for the change. Some say it is due to a mass migration from the Civic Center and Mid-Market areas as police step up enforcement of the \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2011-04/2010-sit-lie-law-could-cost-city-thousands-to-jail-repeat-offenders\" target=\"_blank\">“sit-lie” policy \u003c/a>that restricts loitering and sleeping on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police have made efforts using the sit-lie policy to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-starts-enforcing-rules-on-sitting-at-Powell-5636846.php\" target=\"_blank\">aggressively clear out Powell and Civic Center stations\u003c/a> to keep corridors safe for emergency situations, the San Francisco Chronicle reported in July. The paper also reported that Mayor Ed Lee has made it a priority to clean up the Mid-Market area. Police Chief Greg Suhr said he “takes orders straight from the mayor” and has doubled foot patrols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it is no surprise that efforts to clean up one neighborhood are shifting these problems to another, where residents say enforcement seems relatively lax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The complaints have been incoming for probably two to three months now,” said Bevan Dufty, San Francisco’s so-called homelessness czar, at a community gathering in late September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dufty, director of the city’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=903\" target=\"_blank\">Housing Opportunity, Partnerships & Engagement program\u003c/a>, said the streets of the Mission District are more comfortable and convenient for outdoor living than areas closer to downtown. “It is safe enough, and seems to work for them enough that they are willing to move for an hour,” he said. The sense of frustration among residents is palpable. At the community meeting, residents expressed a complex mix of fear and disgust, and asked city officials and police to fix the problem. But not everyone is scared of the rising population of homeless people in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monica Pereira, an urban planner, owns a home in a three-story renovated Victorian building with her husband. While she agrees that the Mission has become a “dirty neighborhood,” she said she wanted to shift the conversation to generosity and community. She attended the meeting to see what options were out there for her new house guest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pereira did something few of her neighbors would contemplate: She befriended a homeless man, and ended up inviting him into a semi-detached room in her home so he could get back on his feet, apply for city and state benefits and interview for jobs. So far, she said, he seems to be making progress despite problems getting help through the slow and dysfunctional welfare system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NEIGHBORS FRUSTRATED\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town hall-style meeting, organized by residents of the Mission and Potrero Hill, filled an auditorium at Bonhams auction house near Highway 101. The gathering served as a platform for numerous complaints. While officials offered no firm ideas about solutions, they said they had stepped up policing, street cleaning and outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10387397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 867px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Kane.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10387397\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Kane.jpg\" alt=\"Kane, camping near Showplace Square at 15th and Utah streets, says police tell him to move from site to site. Sitting or lying on the sidewalk has been illegal in San Francisco since November 2010, when a majority of voters empowered police to fine, and sometimes arrest, people for the offense. (Eric Lawson / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"867\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Kane.jpg 867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Kane-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Kane-800x543.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 867px) 100vw, 867px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kane, camping near Showplace Square at 15th and Utah streets, says police tell him to move from site to site. Sitting or lying on the sidewalk has been illegal in San Francisco since November 2010, when a majority of voters empowered police to fine, and sometimes arrest, people for the offense. (Eric Lawson/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On any given day, about six tents stand beneath the looming, noisy intersection of interstate highways 101 and 80, nestled at the junction of the Mission, SoMa and Potrero Hill. The freeway overpass offers some protection from the elements during the colder seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s quiet at night,” Dufty said. “The people who I talked to who have been camping here say it’s very safe here, and the people watch out for each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billy Bean, a Bonhams employee and co-organizer of the meeting, said that while the homeless find safety there, longtime residents feel the community overall is becoming less safe. He said he perceives the street population becoming younger and more aggressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now there are broken-into cars, stolen bikes, shady drug activity and growing fear,” Bean said. “It’s more a changing of population than an increase of encampments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'But if I give someone who's homeless a citation, they're not gonna stop. And nine out of 10 times they say 'no' to shelters. We just have no answer to this.'\u003ccite>Capt. Daniel Perea, Mission Station\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Gregory Dicum, a resident of the Mission for 15 years, criticized police Capt. Daniel Perea of Mission Station for not providing enough foot patrols. He said Perea was “throwing up his hands” to absolve himself from responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2014/09/homeless-encampments-here-to-stay/\" target=\"_blank\">Perea told Mission Local\u003c/a>, a neighborhood news website, that “enforcement is ineffective, because it only temporarily displaces the encampments. Further enforcement is not going to correct this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could go to all these places every day and give tickets to everybody,” he said. “But if I give someone who’s homeless a citation, they’re not gonna stop. And nine out of 10 times they say ‘no’ to shelters. We just have no answer to this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dicum also conceded that Mission Station was understaffed, and that homelessness was a citywide issue that could not be addressed by police in just one neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, what we believe or suspect is not enough to place somebody under arrest or to take them away,” Capt. Robert O’Sullivan of Bayview Police Station told residents at the community meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one homeless man by the name of Kane said police often “insist” that he move from site to site, using the 2010 sit-lie law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police are also responding to poor sanitary conditions on the streets, which are distressing to residents. Problems include human feces, used condoms and drug needles, as well as increased vulnerability to sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Stringer, director of operations at the Department of Public Works, said he is organizing “alley crews” to visit 50 sites a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the biggest challenges when alley crews clean,” he said, is that “the homeless return to the 50 sites to make another mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crews work with the police and Dufty’s team at the mayor’s office to ask the homeless to leave so they can clean the sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kane said that despite the increasing complaints from neighbors, not much has changed recently in terms of enforcement and cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been here off and on for years. They’ve been doing it every day,” he said, adding: “I wonder how much it costs for them to stand around while they watch us pack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ANOTHER TYPE OF RESPONSE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the range of discussion about options for dealing with the street population seems limited to Monica Pereira.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'He didn't look homeless, he looked poor, just someone in a bad situation that needs help.'\u003ccite>Monica Pereira\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Early in the fall, she took in a homeless man who moved to San Francisco earlier this year. A Venezuelan native, he moved into a “glorified storage room” attached to the garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She invited him to stay after meeting him two or three times and learning that he had the potential to get back on his feet with a little bit of help. What convinced her was when he asked her to watch his dog while he attended a job interview. She said she hopes her assistance will help expedite his journey out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t look homeless, he looked poor, just someone in a bad situation that needs help,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man had been living in San Francisco for about four months. Trained as a boxer, he came to fight in the United States for a South American boxing club and stayed. Since then, he has worked odd jobs in pest control and casinos in Las Vegas. While he does have a green card, Pereira said, he does not have enough money to apply for citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pereira acknowledged that the man’s situation was unusual, and she had a gut feeling that she could help him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pereira also bought the man a bus pass and a prepaid cellphone. In return, he sweeps the front yard daily and sometimes cooks traditional Venezuelan dishes for Pereira and her husband, Kevin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homeless man’s room had bright blue walls and low ceilings. 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"content": "\u003cp>The names of the dead homeless people echoed through the Civic Center as the sun set over City Hall last night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of people with differing backgrounds and faiths came to pay their respects. Various religious leaders read more than 160 names as the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/23/glenda-hope-retires-after-four-decades-serving-san-franciscos-blighted-tenderloin-district/\" target=\"_blank\">Rev. Glenda Hope\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfnetworkministries.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Network Ministries\u003c/a> rang a bell after each one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10383408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_006.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10383408 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_006-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"20141218_homeless_jt_006\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_006-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_006-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_006-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_006.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners gather in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza to pay their respects to the homeless people who died this year. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hope started the memorial 27 years ago after hearing of homeless people freezing to death overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, she’s been attending and planning these memorials. She said she feels that everybody deserves a dignified farewell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10383404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_003.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10383404 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_003-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"20141218_homeless_jt_003\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_003-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_003-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_003-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_003.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Lyle Beckman reads the names of the deceased homeless as the Rev. Glenda Hope rings a bell.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"People without homes are also part of the community,\" said Rebecca Swee, an intern with the San Francisco Interfaith Council. 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