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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland’s march, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/13/thousands-in-oakland-berkeley-and-san-francisco-join-millions-march\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 3,000 people walked from Frank Ogawa Plaza\u003c/a> to the Alameda County Courthouse waving “Black Lives Matter” signs and chanting, “I can’t breathe!” Later in the evening after speeches at the courthouse, a smaller group of several hundred people broke away and vandalized property downtown. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13710_IMG_20141215_084413742_HDR-scr-e1418664690605.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10379594\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13710_IMG_20141215_084413742_HDR-scr-e1418664690605.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Police-Protest\" width=\"1126\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13710_IMG_20141215_084413742_HDR-scr-e1418664690605.jpg 1126w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13710_IMG_20141215_084413742_HDR-scr-e1418664690605-400x223.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13710_IMG_20141215_084413742_HDR-scr-e1418664690605-800x446.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1126px) 100vw, 1126px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another protest against police violence, as many as 200 protesters \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/15/protesters-target-oakland-police-in-early-morning-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blocked entrances to Oakland Police Department\u003c/a> headquarters early Monday morning. Streets around the headquarters were blocked most of the morning, and police arrested 25 people. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Adachi-sized.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10383218\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Adachi-sized.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi speaks in front of the city's Hall of Justice during a demonstration on Dec. 18. Public defenders in Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara and Solano counties staged similar actions today at their county courthouses.\" width=\"1440\" height=\"984\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Adachi-sized.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Adachi-sized-400x273.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Adachi-sized-800x546.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area public defenders \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/18/public-defenders-hold-black-lives-matter-rallies-for-police-accountability/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">held demonstrations outside county courthouses\u003c/a> on Thursday decrying lack of prosecutions for racially charged police killings around the country. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13753_McDonald-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10382046\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13753_McDonald-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Ray McDonald at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on on Sept. 7.\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13753_McDonald-2-qut.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13753_McDonald-2-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13753_McDonald-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco 49ers announced Wednesday \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/17/49ers-release-mcdonald-following-latest-sexual-assault-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the team head terminated defensive tackle Ray McDonald\u003c/a> after new allegations against the veteran player. San Jose police said they are investigating a report from a woman who reportedly said McDonald had sexually assaulted her. The 49ers had allowed McDonald to continue playing during an earlier domestic violence investigation. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>City crews began dismantling San Jose’s massive homeless encampment known as “The Jungle” Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thought to be the largest homeless encampment in the United States, the 75-acre camp was home to about 300 people. Most lived in tents, shacks and tree houses amid piles of trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city says the camp must be cleared because of increased violence, wet weather and unsanitary conditions that are polluting nearby Coyote Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Living conditions that constantly jeopardize [lives of the homeless], put the environment at risk and put the surrounding safety of the neighborhoods in jeopardy is not a situation we can tolerate as a city,” said Ray Bramson, San Jose’s homeless encampment project manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents were given notice Monday that they had to leave or face arrest for trespassing. This morning, about 60 residents remained at the camp, dragging their belongings through ankle-deep mud as they made their exit. Some had friends pick them up in cars or vans, while others left on foot with shopping carts filled to the brim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367312\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10367312\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13347_20141203_jungle_jt_009-scr-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Doug Wynne pokes his head out of his tent where he's been living for the past four years. Wynne came to San Jose from Florida hoping for a job in the tech industry, but feels he was too old to be viewed as a desirable employee. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13347_20141203_jungle_jt_009-scr-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13347_20141203_jungle_jt_009-scr-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13347_20141203_jungle_jt_009-scr.jpg 1248w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Wynne pokes his head out of his tent where he’s been living for the past four years. Wynne came to San Jose from Florida hoping for a job in the tech industry, but feels he was too old to be viewed as a desirable employee. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Resident Robert Aguirre says the closure is baffling, because for years police and social workers sent people to The Jungle after closing other encampments across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By shutting this down you’re actually making these people homeless,” he said on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201412030900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>KQED Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “A lot of these people have been here for as much as 20 years. They built homes for themselves. They’re waterproof, they’re weatherproof, they’re just nontraditional homes. Now they’re going to be forced out into the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose has cleared out The Jungle in the past, most recently in May 2012, when 150 people were evicted. Aguirre said that it was only a matter of weeks before residents returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, the city says, the eviction is final. They’ve dedicated $4 million to cleaning up the site and providing housing subsidies for residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social workers have spent the past few months finding housing and jobs for residents. Instead of clearing camps as they have in the past, the city is taking a “housing first” approach, Bramson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve placed 144 people in permanent homes and another 55 will be housed soon, Bramson said. Nearby shelters have also set aside designated beds for camp residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/179846221″ params=”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some housing advocates say the closure should have been postponed until more alternative housing could have been found, and that the housing subsidies aren’t enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367381\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10367381\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13378_20141204_jungle_jt_013-scr-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Crews work to clean out debris left behind. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13378_20141204_jungle_jt_013-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13378_20141204_jungle_jt_013-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13378_20141204_jungle_jt_013-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crews work to clean out debris left behind. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What [the city] does, is they fail to provide housing for people, and then they blame the homeless and think they can solve the problem just by moving them around,” said housing advocate Sandy Perry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby companies like Google, Apple, Yahoo, eBay and Facebook have amassed incredible wealth as the tech sector roars back to life following the recession. The growth has driven up home prices in the Bay Area, and many available units are unaffordable for low and middle-class residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To not be able to house our people in the richest place in the world at the richest time in its history shows us that something’s completely broken about our city,” Perry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10367382\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13367_20141204_jungle_jt_002-scr.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Alcala, right, removes his belongings after living at The Jungle for two years. Rain and mud has complicated the move for many residents. (James Tensuan/KQED) \" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13367_20141204_jungle_jt_002-scr.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13367_20141204_jungle_jt_002-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13367_20141204_jungle_jt_002-scr-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Alcala, right, removes his belongings after living at The Jungle for two years. Rain and mud have complicated the move for many residents. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367430\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A work tears down a wall at The Jungle. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker tears down a wall at The Jungle. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367492\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367492\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13368_20141204_jungle_jt_003-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Residents dragged their belongings to the side of the road. Some had friends to pick them up. Others left on foot. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13368_20141204_jungle_jt_003-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13368_20141204_jungle_jt_003-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13368_20141204_jungle_jt_003-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents dragged their belongings to the side of the road. Some had friends to pick them up. Others left on foot. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367493\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13369_20141204_jungle_jt_004-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Alcala takes a break from packing to get a drink of water. Alcala lived in The Jungle for 2 years, and is now headed to a group home down the street. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13369_20141204_jungle_jt_004-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13369_20141204_jungle_jt_004-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13369_20141204_jungle_jt_004-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Alcala takes a break from packing to get a drink of water. Alcala lived in The Jungle two years, and is now headed to a group home down the street. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367494\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13375_20141204_jungle_jt_010-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The rain and mud made the move messy. At one point a dump truck brought in to cart debris away got stuck in the muck. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13375_20141204_jungle_jt_010-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13375_20141204_jungle_jt_010-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13375_20141204_jungle_jt_010-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rain and mud made the move messy. At one point a dump truck brought in to cart debris away got stuck in the muck. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367495\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367495\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13380_20141204_jungle_jt_015-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Many residents left any valuables they could not carry in one or two loads behind. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13380_20141204_jungle_jt_015-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13380_20141204_jungle_jt_015-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13380_20141204_jungle_jt_015-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many residents left behind any valuables they could not carry in one or two loads. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10367428 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13376_20141204_jungle_jt_011-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Costa peels of a warning sign off a makeshift wall. The area was called 'The Jungle' because it reminded him of him of his four tours in Vietnam. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13376_20141204_jungle_jt_011-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13376_20141204_jungle_jt_011-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13376_20141204_jungle_jt_011-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13376_20141204_jungle_jt_011.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Costa peels a warning sign off a makeshift wall. The area was called ‘The Jungle’ because it reminded him of his four tours in Vietnam. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367429\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13372_20141204_jungle_jt_007-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Residents were given noticed that they needed to clear out on Monday. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13372_20141204_jungle_jt_007-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13372_20141204_jungle_jt_007-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13372_20141204_jungle_jt_007-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents were given notice that they needed to clear out on Monday. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367315\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13343_20141203_jungle_jt_005-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Cooper takes a break from pushing his shopping cart of belongings out of The Jungle. He's been living in the Jungle for about six months after falling on bad luck when he moved to San Jose from St. Louis. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13343_20141203_jungle_jt_005-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13343_20141203_jungle_jt_005-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13343_20141203_jungle_jt_005-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Cooper takes a break from pushing his shopping cart of belongings out of The Jungle. He’s been living in the Jungle for about six months after falling on bad luck when he moved to San Jose from St. Louis. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367375\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13352_20141203_jungle_jt_014-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An item left behind by a Jungle resident. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13352_20141203_jungle_jt_014-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13352_20141203_jungle_jt_014-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13352_20141203_jungle_jt_014-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An item left behind by a Jungle resident. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367376\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13350_20141203_jungle_jt_012-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Holiday decorations adorn a tree at the Jungle. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13350_20141203_jungle_jt_012-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13350_20141203_jungle_jt_012-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13350_20141203_jungle_jt_012-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holiday decorations adorn a tree at the Jungle. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367377\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13346_20141203_jungle_jt_008-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"One of Doug Wynne's six cats sits near his tent at the Jungle. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13346_20141203_jungle_jt_008-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13346_20141203_jungle_jt_008-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13346_20141203_jungle_jt_008-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Doug Wynne’s six cats sits near his tent at the Jungle. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>City crews began dismantling San Jose’s massive homeless encampment known as “The Jungle” Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thought to be the largest homeless encampment in the United States, the 75-acre camp was home to about 300 people. Most lived in tents, shacks and tree houses amid piles of trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city says the camp must be cleared because of increased violence, wet weather and unsanitary conditions that are polluting nearby Coyote Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Living conditions that constantly jeopardize [lives of the homeless], put the environment at risk and put the surrounding safety of the neighborhoods in jeopardy is not a situation we can tolerate as a city,” said Ray Bramson, San Jose’s homeless encampment project manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents were given notice Monday that they had to leave or face arrest for trespassing. This morning, about 60 residents remained at the camp, dragging their belongings through ankle-deep mud as they made their exit. Some had friends pick them up in cars or vans, while others left on foot with shopping carts filled to the brim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367312\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10367312\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13347_20141203_jungle_jt_009-scr-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Doug Wynne pokes his head out of his tent where he's been living for the past four years. Wynne came to San Jose from Florida hoping for a job in the tech industry, but feels he was too old to be viewed as a desirable employee. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13347_20141203_jungle_jt_009-scr-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13347_20141203_jungle_jt_009-scr-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13347_20141203_jungle_jt_009-scr.jpg 1248w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Wynne pokes his head out of his tent where he’s been living for the past four years. Wynne came to San Jose from Florida hoping for a job in the tech industry, but feels he was too old to be viewed as a desirable employee. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Resident Robert Aguirre says the closure is baffling, because for years police and social workers sent people to The Jungle after closing other encampments across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By shutting this down you’re actually making these people homeless,” he said on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201412030900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>KQED Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “A lot of these people have been here for as much as 20 years. They built homes for themselves. They’re waterproof, they’re weatherproof, they’re just nontraditional homes. Now they’re going to be forced out into the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose has cleared out The Jungle in the past, most recently in May 2012, when 150 people were evicted. Aguirre said that it was only a matter of weeks before residents returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, the city says, the eviction is final. They’ve dedicated $4 million to cleaning up the site and providing housing subsidies for residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social workers have spent the past few months finding housing and jobs for residents. Instead of clearing camps as they have in the past, the city is taking a “housing first” approach, Bramson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve placed 144 people in permanent homes and another 55 will be housed soon, Bramson said. Nearby shelters have also set aside designated beds for camp residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”20″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/179846221″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/179846221″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some housing advocates say the closure should have been postponed until more alternative housing could have been found, and that the housing subsidies aren’t enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367381\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10367381\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13378_20141204_jungle_jt_013-scr-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Crews work to clean out debris left behind. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13378_20141204_jungle_jt_013-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13378_20141204_jungle_jt_013-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13378_20141204_jungle_jt_013-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crews work to clean out debris left behind. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What [the city] does, is they fail to provide housing for people, and then they blame the homeless and think they can solve the problem just by moving them around,” said housing advocate Sandy Perry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby companies like Google, Apple, Yahoo, eBay and Facebook have amassed incredible wealth as the tech sector roars back to life following the recession. The growth has driven up home prices in the Bay Area, and many available units are unaffordable for low and middle-class residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To not be able to house our people in the richest place in the world at the richest time in its history shows us that something’s completely broken about our city,” Perry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10367382\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13367_20141204_jungle_jt_002-scr.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Alcala, right, removes his belongings after living at The Jungle for two years. Rain and mud has complicated the move for many residents. (James Tensuan/KQED) \" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13367_20141204_jungle_jt_002-scr.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13367_20141204_jungle_jt_002-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13367_20141204_jungle_jt_002-scr-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Alcala, right, removes his belongings after living at The Jungle for two years. Rain and mud have complicated the move for many residents. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367430\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A work tears down a wall at The Jungle. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker tears down a wall at The Jungle. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367492\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367492\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13368_20141204_jungle_jt_003-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Residents dragged their belongings to the side of the road. Some had friends to pick them up. Others left on foot. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13368_20141204_jungle_jt_003-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13368_20141204_jungle_jt_003-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13368_20141204_jungle_jt_003-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents dragged their belongings to the side of the road. Some had friends to pick them up. Others left on foot. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367493\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13369_20141204_jungle_jt_004-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Alcala takes a break from packing to get a drink of water. Alcala lived in The Jungle for 2 years, and is now headed to a group home down the street. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13369_20141204_jungle_jt_004-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13369_20141204_jungle_jt_004-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13369_20141204_jungle_jt_004-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Alcala takes a break from packing to get a drink of water. Alcala lived in The Jungle two years, and is now headed to a group home down the street. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367494\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13375_20141204_jungle_jt_010-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The rain and mud made the move messy. At one point a dump truck brought in to cart debris away got stuck in the muck. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13375_20141204_jungle_jt_010-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13375_20141204_jungle_jt_010-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13375_20141204_jungle_jt_010-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rain and mud made the move messy. At one point a dump truck brought in to cart debris away got stuck in the muck. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367495\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367495\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13380_20141204_jungle_jt_015-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Many residents left any valuables they could not carry in one or two loads behind. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13380_20141204_jungle_jt_015-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13380_20141204_jungle_jt_015-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13380_20141204_jungle_jt_015-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many residents left behind any valuables they could not carry in one or two loads. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10367428 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13376_20141204_jungle_jt_011-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Costa peels of a warning sign off a makeshift wall. The area was called 'The Jungle' because it reminded him of him of his four tours in Vietnam. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13376_20141204_jungle_jt_011-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13376_20141204_jungle_jt_011-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13376_20141204_jungle_jt_011-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13376_20141204_jungle_jt_011.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Costa peels a warning sign off a makeshift wall. The area was called ‘The Jungle’ because it reminded him of his four tours in Vietnam. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367429\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13372_20141204_jungle_jt_007-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Residents were given noticed that they needed to clear out on Monday. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13372_20141204_jungle_jt_007-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13372_20141204_jungle_jt_007-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13372_20141204_jungle_jt_007-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents were given notice that they needed to clear out on Monday. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367315\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13343_20141203_jungle_jt_005-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Cooper takes a break from pushing his shopping cart of belongings out of The Jungle. He's been living in the Jungle for about six months after falling on bad luck when he moved to San Jose from St. Louis. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13343_20141203_jungle_jt_005-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13343_20141203_jungle_jt_005-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13343_20141203_jungle_jt_005-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Cooper takes a break from pushing his shopping cart of belongings out of The Jungle. He’s been living in the Jungle for about six months after falling on bad luck when he moved to San Jose from St. Louis. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367375\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13352_20141203_jungle_jt_014-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An item left behind by a Jungle resident. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13352_20141203_jungle_jt_014-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13352_20141203_jungle_jt_014-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13352_20141203_jungle_jt_014-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An item left behind by a Jungle resident. 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"content": "\u003cp>Homelessness is still a big problem in San Francisco. At \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgov3.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=4819\" target=\"_blank\">last count in January 2013\u003c/a>, there were 7,350 sheltered and unsheltered homeless people in San Francisco, including about 914 youths. Anyone who lives in or visits the city sees panhandlers downtown, destitute people in doorways and young people hanging out on Haight Street or in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/179839021\" 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>There are many organizations working hard to provide services to the homeless, but finding places for shelters or halfway homes is a constant struggle in a city as dense and expensive as San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.larkinstreetyouth.org/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\">Larkin Street Youth Services\u003c/a> is one of the many nonprofit service providers working on homelessness in San Francisco. The organization operates an array of shelters, group homes, drop-in centers and other services for homeless youth, often in residential neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We said we're going to do this and do it right and take care of everything we haven't taken care of in the past. And I want to be a good neighbor.'\u003ccite>Denise Jimenez,\u003cbr>\nDiamond Youth Shelter assistant manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One of Larkin's emergency shelters, known as Diamond Youth Shelter, is located in the upper-middle class neighborhood known as NoPa (North of the Panhandle). It’s been there for over 30 years, serving homeless and runaway kids under the age of 18. Many of its clients left home because of abuse, neglect, even a bad foster placement. The shelter was first run by Catholic Charities and now is part of Larkin Street Youth Services. Recently, it won approval from the city’s Planning Commission to expand its operations to 24 hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change is a response to \u003ca href=\"http://commissions.sfplanning.org/cpcpackets/2014.0362C.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">new state licensing rules\u003c/a> that require shelters like Diamond to offer continuous 24-hour service in the same building. For the past 20 years, Diamond has been operating at two locations. Kids spent the night at the shelter in NoPa, which opened at 8 p.m., but they had to leave by 8 a.m. So, if they wanted a place to be during the day, they had to make their way to a drop-in center in the Tenderloin that serves homeless youths through age 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's hard to have a feeling of stability when you have to move around to so many places,” said Denise Jimenez, assistant manager of the Diamond Youth Shelter. “They need a safe space. Some of the youth that aren't from San Francisco don't know San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"8SbSAtynfbzLLFMeyCKNzHCOmw3ixYQN\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimenez wants Diamond to feel like a real home, even if it's temporary. Youth can stay here for only 21 days. But as the shelter transitions to a 24-hour operation, Jimenez says her staff will be able to keep a closer eye on the kids. That means keeping them out of trouble and getting them more services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're doing everything in our power to make sure nothing changes in the neighborhood other than our hours,” Jimenez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's taken awhile to convince neighbors on this quiet block of Central Avenue, between Hayes and Grove streets, that the change in hours won’t disturb their quality of life. Over the past decade, NoPa has become a family-oriented neighborhood with million-dollar homes. Neighbors are already fed up with parties spilling over from the Panhandle and onto their block. And even though the shelter has been around longer than many residents, some are wary that the longer hours will bring unwanted problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each one of the neighbors on either side found syringes just on the other side of the fence,” said neighbor Dan Reynolds. He worries that Diamond staff are too lenient with the kids that seek shelter there, and that troubled youth could jeopardize the safety of his own children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynolds said there have been issues with loitering, smoking, noise, even aggressive or defensive behavior from Diamond staff. But what bothers him most is how the shelter has incrementally grown while its managers claimed it wouldn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's just tough to take because you feel like you're being piecemealed,” Reynolds said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10364899\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drop-in-center.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10364899\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drop-in-center-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Motivational posters on the walls of Larkin's drop-in center on Sutter Street. 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Now it's doing just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's just one thing after another,” Reynolds said. “You realize how valuable it is to have approval for some sort of services that aren't necessarily welcome to communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimenez knows some neighbors have concerns, so she’s been reaching out to people like Reynolds, trying to create a personal connection and single point of contact for neighbors to bring complaints. She's been holding monthly community meetings so she can respond to concerns like his.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We said we're going to do this and do it right and take care of everything we haven't taken care of in the past,” Jimenez said. “And I want to be a good neighbor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynolds said he’s glad there's finally one person in charge at Diamond. 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Yet it receives just 2 percent of overall funding for homeless services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the fourth-highest homeless count in all of L.A. County and we get the least amount of resources,” says Judy Cooperberg, regional director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.mhala.org/\">Mental Health America.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And downtown L.A., skid row, has 19 percent of the homeless in the whole county but get 49 percent of the money,” says Steve Baker of \u003ca href=\"http://www.graceresources.org/\">Grace Resource Center \u003c/a>in Lancaster, the valley’s biggest homeless services agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look at the numbers and it would seem Baker and Cooperberg have their work cut out for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. County’s most recent homeless count tallied over 6,000 homeless people in the Antelope Valley. That’s about four times the amount counted in 2011. Local service providers say the spike is mainly due to a more efficient counting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But officials in Lancaster say it’s evidence that the L.A. County’s homeless services department is actually directing homeless people to their city some 80 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as I’m concerned, what the county does to underprivileged people by getting them to come up here is a homicide,” says Lancaster Mayor Rex Parris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says not only is L.A. County steering the homeless to his city, it is also withholding critical funds for the city’s small network of public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“L.A. (County) could fix it that fast,” says Parris, snapping his fingers. “But they won’t. So hopefully we can embarrass them enough to say, ‘Hey, this is not a solution.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there’s no concrete evidence to back up claims of homeless dumping in Lancaster, the city hinted earlier this year that it might sue the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lahsa.org/\">Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority \u003c/a>(LAHSA) over the alleged withholding of funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAHSA spokesman George McQuade says the agency isn’t withholding anything. “Since 2009 Lancaster has applied for zero, I repeat zero, federal funds for homeless services under the McKinney-Vento Act,” says McQuade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McQuade is referring to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development money earmarked for specific uses. LAHSA is responsible for delivering those federal dollars based on a demonstrated need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker of Grace Resource Center, which operates the Antelope Valley’s only shelter, says the region doesn’t qualify for a sizable chunk of that HUD money because much of it is directed to permanent supportive housing — a priority for the federal government but something not widely available in the Antelope Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t ask for some of the funds because some of it was specific to things we can’t provide here,” says Baker. “We don’t have enough housing to do permanent supportive housing because a lot of the older housing was so old it got torn down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Lancaster really needs from the county, says Cooperberg of Mental Health America, is more money for supportive services like shelter beds, substance abuse programs and psychiatric counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says valley agencies feel at a disadvantage because of their remote location and what’s perceived as an overemphasis on L.A.’s skid row. “And that’s a fight we’ve been having for many years,” says Cooperberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to figures provided by the L.A. Homeless Services Authority, requests for funding, including from the city of Lancaster, are being met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAHSA’s McQuade says it’s a competitive process. Sometimes cities and agencies get the full amount requested, sometimes they don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also adds that LAHSA officials earlier this year traveled to Lancaster and met with city leaders to explain the full range of funding options and how to obtain them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They seemed very receptive, but I think they were not really informed,” says McQuade. “They didn’t know what resources were available, so we explained all that to them and we offered an open-door policy, call us anytime, come on down and meet with us and we’ll be willing to help you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As well intentioned as Lancaster’s renewed involvement in the region’s homeless problem may be, Cooperberg says it’s late in coming: “My question is, why is it that the city of Lancaster, all of the sudden it’s an issue?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also worries it could actually jeopardize inroads made with county officials that hold the purse strings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we’ve been begging them to advocate with us (for years) and all the sudden they are, and they are not going about it in a very collaborative way,” says Cooperberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coopersburg points to the city’s threat of lawsuits, and its recent crusade to shutter its only Metrolink station over unsubstantiated claims that it’s a magnet for the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time Lancaster has been accused of mishandling the issue of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More: \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201409110850/b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Citing Homeless Infusion, Lancaster Officials Move to Shutter Metrolink Station\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Local service providers say the spike is mainly due to a more efficient counting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But officials in Lancaster say it’s evidence that the L.A. County’s homeless services department is actually directing homeless people to their city some 80 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as I’m concerned, what the county does to underprivileged people by getting them to come up here is a homicide,” says Lancaster Mayor Rex Parris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says not only is L.A. County steering the homeless to his city, it is also withholding critical funds for the city’s small network of public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“L.A. (County) could fix it that fast,” says Parris, snapping his fingers. “But they won’t. So hopefully we can embarrass them enough to say, ‘Hey, this is not a solution.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there’s no concrete evidence to back up claims of homeless dumping in Lancaster, the city hinted earlier this year that it might sue the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lahsa.org/\">Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority \u003c/a>(LAHSA) over the alleged withholding of funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAHSA spokesman George McQuade says the agency isn’t withholding anything. “Since 2009 Lancaster has applied for zero, I repeat zero, federal funds for homeless services under the McKinney-Vento Act,” says McQuade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McQuade is referring to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development money earmarked for specific uses. 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Officials from the city of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityoflancasterca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lancaster\u003c/a> claim that number grows by the day because of an alleged migration of train-hopping homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To curb this apparent surge of homelessness, the city aims to shutter the sole commuter train station linking Lancaster to L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekday morning in Lancaster, about two dozen young people, senior citizens and neatly dressed professionals disembark from one of just two trains that arrive from Los Angeles each morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Lancaster’s chief of public safety, Lee D’Errico, \u003ca href=\"http://www.metrolinktrains.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metrolink\u003c/a> commuter trains also ferry dozens of homeless people a week to the city. His office recently conducted a three-day homeless survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And on one particular day we counted and contacted over 67 individuals that were coming here for transitory services being provided,” said D’Errico during a presentation to the City Council last month. “And they indicated to us that the train was their main mechanism for moving throughout communities to obtain those services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Details of how the study was conducted are unclear, other than it was apparently carried out with the assistance of the \u003ca href=\"http://sheriff.lacounty.gov/wps/portal/lasd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.A. County Sheriff’s Department\u003c/a> and a local merchants association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous city officials reached for this story would not disclose, among other things, how many homeless individuals were contacted in total over the three-day study, what kind of questions were asked or even what specific dates the survey was done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D’Errico declined several requests for an interview and for data collected in the survey. He referred all inquiries to City Manager Mark Bozigian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The purpose (of the survey) was to ascertain general information regarding point of origin and need for services for Metrolink riders arriving at the Lancaster Metrolink station,” said Bozigian in a written response to a series of emailed questions from The California Report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bozigian suggested that in fact some individuals counted in the survey might not have actually been homeless or seeking services in Lancaster, only “likely” doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During one survey day, it was observed that 67 individuals who arrived via Metrolink were likely homeless and/or arriving for the purpose of receiving social services,” said Bozigian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No written report on the results of the survey was ever submitted to, or apparently requested by, the City Council. Yet it is being cited by Mayor Rex Parris and other officials as justification to either shut down or move the Lancaster Metrolink station about 10 miles to the south. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out 67 homeless people a day being shipped from downtown to us is, uh. I, I mean, isn’t it about time we quit being victims of downtown Los Angeles?” said Parris during an August council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lancaster Metrolink station is used by some 400 L.A.-bound commuters a day, including Dominic Bongiovanni, a Vietnam War veteran with a bushy beard and long silver hair who gets around with the help of a motorized wheelchair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bongiovanni uses Metrolink several times a week to get to and from doctor appointments in West L.A. He usually catches the first train out of Lancaster at 3:58 AM to get to those appointments on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now you wanna move the station somewhere else? I have to hope the buses are running on time and I get that train,” says Bongiovanni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask if he sees many homeless people on his rides back from L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> “I look like I’m homeless!” he laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen maybe three times homeless people and I’ve been riding Metrolink for the six years I’ve lived up here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lancaster Metrolink station has long been an irritant to police and city officials. It became a haven for prostitution, drug dealing and other petty crime. A Metrolink spokesman says the agency is taking steps to increase security. That includes more security personal and fencing off the station platform so it cannot be accessed by people without tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s common to find a few homeless people loitering in or around the property. The station is a short walk from numerous homeless service providers, including Grace Resource Center, the biggest in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It operates a cavernous thrift store, a food bank and the area’s only shelter for homeless families and individuals. The center’s director, Steve Baker, says people occasionally do drop in from outside the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> “The ones that I see that are not local. A lot of them they just hop on the train to get away from somebody down in L.A.,” says Baker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I go, you came here because you think there’s a lot of help? Well, there isn’t. How about we send you back? And then I’ll work it out, and try to get them back on the train.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Antelope Valley, which includes the cities of Lancaster and Palmdale, is home to approximately 6,000 homeless people. Service providers in the region try to funnel those seeking assistance through a coordinated intake center in Lancaster. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the local branch of the organization Mental Health America, the number of people coming through the center is fairly stable — roughly 300 to 400 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small fraction are from outside the region, says MHA’s director, Judy Cooperberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A very, very small percentage,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of people we serve are indigenous to the Antelope Valley. I do not believe that we have 67 people a day coming from L.A.,” says Cooperberg, contradicting the findings of Lancaster’s recent street survey. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lancaster’s vice mayor, Marvin Crist, says it doesn’t matter if it’s 67 people a day or just one a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Say it’s one a day. That still overwhelms our system,” says Crist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you gave us the resources to take care of the homeless population, absolutely. But we’re having to react because we don’t have the resources to take care of them,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials have long complained that Los Angeles receives a disproportionate amount of county funding for homeless services compared with the Antelope Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George McQuade, a spokesman for L.A. County homeless services, says that if Lancaster wants more money, it needs to apply for it. McQuade says there have been few specific funding increase requests over the last several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the apparent funding gap isn’t all that’s driving the move to shutter Lancaster’s Metrolink stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also a thorn in the side of the city’s ongoing campaign to revitalize its downtown shopping district. Parris says shuttering the station, or moving it south nearly 10 miles to the border of Palmdale, would help shield downtown from the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have to get 10 miles without transportation to whatever services are there, you are less likely to make the trip in the first place,” says Perris, speaking after this week’s Lancaster City Council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Better, he says, the problem move somewhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Better it goes any place but Lancaster. I have 146,000 people and I will protect them, no matter what the consequences elsewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A vote to close the transit station would also require an environmental review, public hearings and the approval of Metrolink’s board of directors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Parris says he won’t wait for approval. If the City Council votes to close the station, he’ll have it fenced off immediately.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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County Sheriff’s Department\u003c/a> and a local merchants association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous city officials reached for this story would not disclose, among other things, how many homeless individuals were contacted in total over the three-day study, what kind of questions were asked or even what specific dates the survey was done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D’Errico declined several requests for an interview and for data collected in the survey. He referred all inquiries to City Manager Mark Bozigian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The purpose (of the survey) was to ascertain general information regarding point of origin and need for services for Metrolink riders arriving at the Lancaster Metrolink station,” said Bozigian in a written response to a series of emailed questions from The California Report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bozigian suggested that in fact some individuals counted in the survey might not have actually been homeless or seeking services in Lancaster, only “likely” doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During one survey day, it was observed that 67 individuals who arrived via Metrolink were likely homeless and/or arriving for the purpose of receiving social services,” said Bozigian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No written report on the results of the survey was ever submitted to, or apparently requested by, the City Council. Yet it is being cited by Mayor Rex Parris and other officials as justification to either shut down or move the Lancaster Metrolink station about 10 miles to the south. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out 67 homeless people a day being shipped from downtown to us is, uh. I, I mean, isn’t it about time we quit being victims of downtown Los Angeles?” said Parris during an August council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lancaster Metrolink station is used by some 400 L.A.-bound commuters a day, including Dominic Bongiovanni, a Vietnam War veteran with a bushy beard and long silver hair who gets around with the help of a motorized wheelchair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bongiovanni uses Metrolink several times a week to get to and from doctor appointments in West L.A. He usually catches the first train out of Lancaster at 3:58 AM to get to those appointments on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now you wanna move the station somewhere else? I have to hope the buses are running on time and I get that train,” says Bongiovanni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask if he sees many homeless people on his rides back from L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> “I look like I’m homeless!” he laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen maybe three times homeless people and I’ve been riding Metrolink for the six years I’ve lived up here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lancaster Metrolink station has long been an irritant to police and city officials. It became a haven for prostitution, drug dealing and other petty crime. A Metrolink spokesman says the agency is taking steps to increase security. That includes more security personal and fencing off the station platform so it cannot be accessed by people without tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s common to find a few homeless people loitering in or around the property. The station is a short walk from numerous homeless service providers, including Grace Resource Center, the biggest in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It operates a cavernous thrift store, a food bank and the area’s only shelter for homeless families and individuals. The center’s director, Steve Baker, says people occasionally do drop in from outside the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> “The ones that I see that are not local. A lot of them they just hop on the train to get away from somebody down in L.A.,” says Baker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I go, you came here because you think there’s a lot of help? Well, there isn’t. How about we send you back? And then I’ll work it out, and try to get them back on the train.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Antelope Valley, which includes the cities of Lancaster and Palmdale, is home to approximately 6,000 homeless people. Service providers in the region try to funnel those seeking assistance through a coordinated intake center in Lancaster. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the local branch of the organization Mental Health America, the number of people coming through the center is fairly stable — roughly 300 to 400 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small fraction are from outside the region, says MHA’s director, Judy Cooperberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A very, very small percentage,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of people we serve are indigenous to the Antelope Valley. I do not believe that we have 67 people a day coming from L.A.,” says Cooperberg, contradicting the findings of Lancaster’s recent street survey. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lancaster’s vice mayor, Marvin Crist, says it doesn’t matter if it’s 67 people a day or just one a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Say it’s one a day. That still overwhelms our system,” says Crist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you gave us the resources to take care of the homeless population, absolutely. But we’re having to react because we don’t have the resources to take care of them,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials have long complained that Los Angeles receives a disproportionate amount of county funding for homeless services compared with the Antelope Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George McQuade, a spokesman for L.A. County homeless services, says that if Lancaster wants more money, it needs to apply for it. McQuade says there have been few specific funding increase requests over the last several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the apparent funding gap isn’t all that’s driving the move to shutter Lancaster’s Metrolink stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also a thorn in the side of the city’s ongoing campaign to revitalize its downtown shopping district. 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"content": "\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">[vimeo 104034738 w=640 h=360]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nancy Holmes grabs an olive from a bowl on the kitchen counter. “I think these oughta be test-driven before they go in the pasta,” she says with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s dinnertime at Dakota EcoGarden in Fresno. The folks gathered here to cook and share a meal aren’t related — but they’re all connected by homelessness. Some are advocates like Dixie Salazar, a local poet and painter. Others, like Brittani Fanciullo and Holmes, are survivors of life on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I was gonna be basically living out of my truck and you know, fortunately, this situation came up.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"All right, pass me everything!” Fanciullo says enthusiastically, looking at a table full of summery dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything all at once?” someone asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Fanciullo, 30, spends plenty of time in this kitchen. She does a lot of cooking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They [my housemates] always drag me into cooking, and tons of cleaning, and I always do what I can out in the yard,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fanciullo says she does her part because she gets to live at Dakota EcoGarden for free. She moved in nine months ago, sober after years of drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dakota EcoGarden is a communal project for the homeless spearheaded by retired schoolteacher Nancy Waidtlow. She wanted to create a safe space for people to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I’m sure being over 70 years old and not having that much to lose is part of it,” says Waidtlow with her characteristic dry humor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, she took her savings and some inheritance money and bought and refurbished a $64,000 house with a yard roomy enough for nine tents on pallets and an organic garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/tents.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-145381\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/tents.jpg\" alt=\"There are around ten residents living at Fresno's Dakota Eco Garden. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are about 10 residents living at Fresno's Dakota EcoGarden. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Plenty of people questioned Nancy Waidtlow’s sanity, some of them asking her, “What the hell was I thinking?” Her response? “I mean fools rush in where angels fear to tread!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Waidtlow says she believes in the golden rule and couldn’t stand watching the homeless encampments in downtown Fresno get bulldozed. She also likes to get things done, so she corralled a few fellow activists and they emboldened themselves with little outside guidance but plenty of chutzpah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno has been in the national spotlight for its controversial policies regarding the homeless. In 2008, the city lost a $2.35 million class-action lawsuit for destroying personal property when it bulldozed several encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, 62-year-old Nancy Holmes lived in an encampment for eight months after losing her job as a security guard. A nearby canal provided a decent bathing spot. “I’d take a jug of water and set it in the sun and wash my hair,’ she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then the city bulldozed the camp , along with other encampments downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the worst thing I think I’d ever experienced out there,” she says. “Because that was my home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145388\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 378px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/couch-group_small.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-145388\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/couch-group_small.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Holmes (left) and other residents spend time in the living room of the Dakota Eco Garden. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"378\" height=\"213\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Holmes (left) and other residents spend time in the living room at Dakota EcoGarden. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Holmes moved to Dakota EcoGarden nine months ago and is the official go-to person. “It’s given me a new life, coming here,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waidtlow says some lessons were learned the hard way — like the time a homeless woman wrecked the car she was living in and desperately needed a place to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a real emergency,” says Waidtlow, who allowed the person to stay. “But, you know, she did abandon us and her cat and all her drug paraphernalia.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waidtlow learned her lesson. “So we have an intake procedure now, and that includes drug testing,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Applicants have to test clean for 90 days. And there are other criteria: no severe mental illness and no violence. There’s no limit to how long residents can stay, but they’re expected to do their share of household chores. Although there is the occasional conflict, so far things seem to be running pretty smoothly, with everyone lending some expertise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One resident installed solar panels so the tents could have electricity. Others tend the garden, like 58-year-old Frank, who asked not to use his real name. Frank ran his own business until he had some debilitating health problems. While he looks for a new job, he’s also putting his agriculture degree to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I’ve seen some little infestation here and there, of course. Aphids got to the squash, too,” he says pointing to a row of vegetables in the organic garden. “So that’s what’s going on, but see, you can see the tomatoes are really doing well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he’s thankful for the opportunity to live here. “I was gonna be basically living out of my truck and you know, fortunately, this situation came up and it’s worked out great. I mean you could say it’s a symbiotic relationship -- no pun intended!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not far from the garden is another green project, the EcoShelter. It’s essentially an off-the-grid tiny house designed by renowned local architect Art Dyson and built by retired professor Jerry Bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/tent-panel.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-145375 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/tent-panel.jpg\" alt=\"The Dakota Eco Garden in Fresno features solar panels that power fans and LED lights. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dakota EcoGarden in Fresno features solar panels that power fans and LED lights. 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She wanted to create a safe space for people to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I’m sure being over 70 years old and not having that much to lose is part of it,” says Waidtlow with her characteristic dry humor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, she took her savings and some inheritance money and bought and refurbished a $64,000 house with a yard roomy enough for nine tents on pallets and an organic garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/tents.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-145381\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/tents.jpg\" alt=\"There are around ten residents living at Fresno's Dakota Eco Garden. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are about 10 residents living at Fresno's Dakota EcoGarden. 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A nearby canal provided a decent bathing spot. “I’d take a jug of water and set it in the sun and wash my hair,’ she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then the city bulldozed the camp , along with other encampments downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the worst thing I think I’d ever experienced out there,” she says. “Because that was my home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145388\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 378px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/couch-group_small.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-145388\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/couch-group_small.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Holmes (left) and other residents spend time in the living room of the Dakota Eco Garden. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"378\" height=\"213\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Holmes (left) and other residents spend time in the living room at Dakota EcoGarden. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Holmes moved to Dakota EcoGarden nine months ago and is the official go-to person. “It’s given me a new life, coming here,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waidtlow says some lessons were learned the hard way — like the time a homeless woman wrecked the car she was living in and desperately needed a place to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a real emergency,” says Waidtlow, who allowed the person to stay. “But, you know, she did abandon us and her cat and all her drug paraphernalia.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waidtlow learned her lesson. “So we have an intake procedure now, and that includes drug testing,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Applicants have to test clean for 90 days. And there are other criteria: no severe mental illness and no violence. There’s no limit to how long residents can stay, but they’re expected to do their share of household chores. Although there is the occasional conflict, so far things seem to be running pretty smoothly, with everyone lending some expertise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One resident installed solar panels so the tents could have electricity. Others tend the garden, like 58-year-old Frank, who asked not to use his real name. Frank ran his own business until he had some debilitating health problems. While he looks for a new job, he’s also putting his agriculture degree to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I’ve seen some little infestation here and there, of course. Aphids got to the squash, too,” he says pointing to a row of vegetables in the organic garden. “So that’s what’s going on, but see, you can see the tomatoes are really doing well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he’s thankful for the opportunity to live here. “I was gonna be basically living out of my truck and you know, fortunately, this situation came up and it’s worked out great. 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But for people living on the streets or in shelters in San Francisco, finding a shower can be one of the biggest daily challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘Then no one has to know you’re homeless unless you tell them.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For the more than 3,000 unsheltered homeless people in San Francisco, there are only roughly 20 showers available — fewer if any are out of service. Then there are the logistics of sign-up lists, limited hours, waiting lines and figuring out how to get there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doniece Sandoval, a marketing and communications professional and South Texas native, had seen plenty of shower-less homeless in her two decades in San Francisco. But when she passed a young homeless woman on the street who was crying that she’d never be clean, Sandoval decided to do something about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she hatched the idea for \u003ca href=\"http://www.lavamae.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lava Mae\u003c/a>, a new service that provides showers in a retrofitted, retired Muni bus. Lava Mae, a play on the Spanish word for “wash me,” is in the pilot phase of its service.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lava Mae’s first day in the Bayview District was last week, and 52-year-old Demetri, who declined to give his last name, was among the first to shower. Demetri said he has been homeless on and off for a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of times, homeless people get depressed because those things that people take for granted — having a place to lay down, having a place to wash your clothes, having a place to shower — if they’re not available, it can really bring your spirits down,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 20 minutes inside the retrofitted 1993 N-Judah bus — which now has two separate shower-and-bathroom stations — Demetri stepped out refreshed. “It was like showering in a nice hotel,” he said. “On a scale of 1 to 10, it’s 11.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20818\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/08/IMG_2032.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20818\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/08/IMG_2032-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"San Francisco donated four retired Muni buses to Lava Mae. (Lynne Shallcross/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco donated four retired Muni buses to Lava Mae. (Lynne Shallcross/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While showers are “extremely important,” Demetri said, they can be a logistical challenge. And when you go days without showering or washing your clothes, it wears on you mentally, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You start to avoid people subconsciously. You don’t go to the library or you don’t go for the job interviews or you don’t go for the resources. So what happens is that you just start to pull away. But you know, if you can wash your clothes and take a shower and brush your teeth, then no one has to know you’re homeless unless you tell them. So it’s a huge thing. Huge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demetri’s comment points straight to Lava Mae’s mission, which is to bring dignity through hygiene — and opportunity through dignity. “We’re doing this because we think people have the right to be clean,” Sandoval said. “But at the end of the day, if what that does is remove barriers for people to interview for jobs, to apply for housing, then that is amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, soon after she launched a fundraising campaign to raise the $75,000 needed to retrofit the first Muni bus, Sandoval challenged herself \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/10/10/empathizing-with-the-homeless-san-francisco-woman-goes-a-week-without-a-shower/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to go a week without a shower\u003c/a>. “You’re supposed to think about these publicity stunts to raise visibility, but it was also a chance for me to kind of step in, in a very small way, to the shoes of the people that we would be serving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A self-described “clean freak,” Sandoval said she was already feeling “unsettled” by Day Two. When Day Seven arrived and she was able to take a shower, she cried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/162166256″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a small way, I really understood what it was like. I kept thinking, what if I was sleeping on the sidewalks, what if I had to put on the same clothes? All of these things occurred to me, and it was just so powerful. And so, when we’re out here with our guests and making it possible for them to have a shower, it drives it home for me every single time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea for Lava Mae came together as Sandoval thought about the popularity of food trucks, wondering why gourmet food could travel on wheels but not showers. As she researched the idea, she found other communities in the country that had transformed horse trailers and mobile homes into mobile showers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Sandoval read in the news that San Francisco was planning to replace its old Muni diesel buses. “That’s when everything went, ‘Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!’ We’ve got to get a Muni bus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city donated four retired buses to Lava Mae, and Sandoval is hoping to do more fundraising this fall, with the goal of retrofitting at least one more bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20813\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/08/shower.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20813 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/08/shower-640x426.jpeg\" alt=\"The bus is equipped with two shower suites. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Natalie Orenstein\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/30/homeless-relocate-to-railroad-tracks-after-gilman-clean-up/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_143302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/rail-homeless.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-143302\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/rail-homeless-640x462.jpg\" alt=\"The eviction of the Albany Bulb and the clean-up of the Gilman underpass have prompted homeless to sleep along the West Berkeley train tracks. (Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"462\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The eviction at the Albany Bulb and the cleanup of the Gilman underpass have prompted homeless to sleep along the West Berkeley train tracks. (Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Homeless individuals — many relocating from Albany or other parts of West Berkeley — have set up camp along the train tracks south of Gilman Street in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although a few people have lived near the tracks for years, the population expanded after the residents at the Albany Bulb were evicted in May, neighbors say. 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The stretch of railroad has been the site of multiple fatal accidents. Most recently, a Union Pacific freight train \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/03/17/breaking-person-hit-killed-by-freight-train-in-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\">struck and killed a 28-year-old man\u003c/a> in March. Hunt said Union Pacific is constantly working to prevent trespassing on the tracks, where fast passenger trains like those on the Capitol Corridor route pose a particular threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rena Slaughter, owner of RAS Metals on Cedar Street by the tracks, said she worries about the people in the encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being on the side of the tracks there is not the safest place,” she said. Slaughter called Union Pacific a few weeks ago about the initial influx of homeless people, and the company made the individuals who were there at the time leave, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be nice if they have somewhere to go,” she said. “I have customers who are homeless. It's kind of sad that when they had them moved out, they didn’t think of where to tell them to go or what to do with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the Albany Bulb eviction, large piles of trash — torn mattresses, empty bottles, miscellaneous broken electronics, plastic bags and wrappers — appeared throughout the railroad area as well. A Berkeleyside reader who asked not to be named took these photos of the encampments and trash between June 16 and July 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_143303\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/rail-trash2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-143303\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/rail-trash2-640x462.jpg\" alt=\"What looks like trash has accumulated in large piles along the railway in West Berkeley. (Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"462\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What looks like trash has accumulated in large piles along the railroad tracks in West Berkeley. (Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_143304\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/rail-trash.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-143304\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/rail-trash-640x462.jpg\" alt=\"Some homeless have found places behind fences, but many are staying just feet from the rails. (Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"462\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some homeless have found places to stay behind fences, but many are sleeping just feet from the rails. 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And it’s also sometimes hard to tell when to call for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Friday, Mission Local’s Jennifer Quinn \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2014/07/death-of-a-homeless-man-on-16th-and-valencia/comment-page-1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote about her experience\u003c/a> watching Frankie Bizo, 67, die at the corner of 16th and Valencia streets in the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Today, I watched a homeless man die on 16th and Valencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was eating a salad, 15 feet away. He was lying on a cardboard mat, with his head sliding off a makeshift pillow made of some clothes in a plastic produce bag. I sat and watched him for a minute, wondering if I should call the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was hot, and he was shirtless. At the least, he’d wake up with a nasty sunburn, I and another onlooker thought. I decided he was probably really tired, and as he wasn’t in anyone’s way, I figured I should just let him sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I didn’t even consider was that he was most likely dehydrated. Severely. And, as it turns out, fatally so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His arm was bouncing around spasmodically. I thought he might be doing it on purpose, maybe he was listening to some imaginary drum beat in his head. Turns out, I was watching him convulse. Probably at the very moment that his life was leaving his body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone did finally call the police. Not sure who. Several people walked by, seeing him, and shrugging their shoulders. I did the very same thing, even though I did not think of him as a scourge the Mission would be better off without.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I truly believe that most people walking by would have stopped to help if any of us had thought he was in real, immediate trouble. The truth is, I didn’t know what to do, and I doubt most people do. Calling the cops or 911 seems extreme.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Daily Dilemma\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinn’s account raises the dilemma that many of us face on a nearly daily basis in our communities — not just San Francisco, but in San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley and elsewhere. Those folks we see huddled on the streets, oblivious to what’s going on around them — are they really OK? And how can you tell? How far should you go to intervene?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If someone is unresponsive and not breathing it’s important to call 911 right away, says Jason Albertson, a clinical social worker and part of San Francisco’s Homeless Outreach Team. “If there’s any question, please call 911,” he says. “They will walk you through attempts to rouse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To check on whether someone is responsive, you can kneel down near the person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t stand over someone who is sleeping or supine. We kneel down next to them and say, ‘Hey, are you alright.’ We don’t put hands on people,” Albertson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘One [call] in 20 saves someone’s life.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If the threat seems less urgent, you can call 311 in most cities. Your call will be referred to emergency respondents or, in some cities, to local groups including the Outreach Team. However, 311 operators are not always in the best position to take detailed descriptions or answer questions, Albertson says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can call San Francisco’s Homeless Team at any time at (415) 734-4233 to report on someone who may be in distress, homeless or intoxicated. Please include a physical description of the person, so that the mobile team can look for the person if he or she moves. You can also call the San Francisco Mobile Crisis Treatment Team at (415) 970-4000 for people who appear to need mental help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Citizens are in a great position to be the eyes and ears,” Albertson says. “Maybe only one in ten times will someone accept help. But one time in 20 saves someone’s life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Homeless Outreach Team eulogized 118 people who passed away in 2013. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Emilie Raguso\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/18/rodents-trash-prompt-city-of-berkeley-clean-up-of-homeless-camp-on-gilman-residents-scattered/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_142343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/gilman2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-142343\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/gilman2-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeley police have been visiting the homeless camp on Gilman Street — pictured here in early July — to provide outreach. (Drew Jaffe/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley police have been visiting the homeless camp on Gilman Street — pictured here in early July — to provide outreach. (Drew Jaffe/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Citing concerns about garbage and rodents, both dead and alive, the city of Berkeley sent in a team to clean up Gilman Street beneath Interstate 80, where homeless people have been living in recent months, city staff said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one advocate for the homeless criticized the effort, saying no one was told in advance about the operation, which dispersed residents and will make it harder to provide important services to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City spokesman Matthai Chakko said Friday shortly before noon that the operation to address ongoing sanitation problems on Gilman under the freeway had gone smoothly. He estimated that perhaps a dozen people were on the site when the city arrived Friday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We removed debris, garbage and other things that had made it a place that was harboring a lot of rodents,” said Chakko. “There were rodents running around … and evidence of dead ones. There are concerns that arise from that kind of environment, so it was important to clean it up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There was no warning at all, despite the fact we'd been working with the city.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He said the city had been hearing from local residents who expressed worry about unsafe and unclean conditions and had asked the city to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakko was unable to provide the time the city arrived on-site, but Berkeleyside readers saw the cleanup effort underway at 6:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who had been camping on Gilman “packed up their stuff and left,” Chakko said. “It was a very calm situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said no one was arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Public Works staff handled the cleanup, and Berkeley police officers were on-site for traffic control purposes, Chakko said. He noted that the effort took place early in the morning to try to limit the traffic impacts in an area that has \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/02/22/whats-happening-with-the-gilman-street-interchange/\" target=\"_blank\">complex circulation patterns\u003c/a>. “It’s a complicated intersection without people getting in the way, so it was important to have police directing traffic there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other city staff, including people from the Health, Housing & Community Services Department, were also in attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakko said the city has been working since the beginning of May to try to secure housing for people camping beneath the freeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Offers have been made to move them into housing, with subsidies to pay for it,” he said. “Case managers, housing folks, mental health folks, all sorts of people have been involved to try to find a way to help them transition out of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said people were not told to stay away, and that no barriers had been installed to keep them from returning. No new notices were posted either. But Chakko said notices that had been hung previously — after a recent decision by the city \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/10/berkeley-gives-gilman-street-homeless-a-reprieve/\" target=\"_blank\">not to pursue nuisance abatement actions\u003c/a> beneath the freeway — remained in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to that notice, “The camp activity and accumulations \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/GilmanOfficialNotice7-10-14-4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">continue to contribute to rodent harborage and create a public nuisance\u003c/a>. The City will monitor the situation and may without further notice take appropriate action to abate public nuisance conditions, up to and including the removal of personal property pursuant to Chapter 11.40 BMC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakko said the city hauled away “a lot of garbage” but noted that “anything that appeared to have value was bagged and stored, which is following our standard protocols.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone looking for property that was removed can call 510-981-4665 for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Homeless advocate: So-called cleanup “just a sad subterfuge”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Osha Neumann, a local attorney and advocate for the homeless for the East Bay Community Law Center, denounced Friday’s operation. He said that contrary to statements from the city, what occurred was much more than a cleanup. “It meant everybody is kicked out of there, everybody,\" he said. \"People are really upset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann said when he arrived at Gilman Street on Friday around 9:30 a.m., he found one man he’d been working with sitting dejectedly on the curb, unsure of where to go next. The Law Center was able to arrange a ride for him to a place he could stay for several days, but the man was still depressed and rattled, Neumann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann said the city should have at least let people know in advance about the plan. “They came in at 5:30 without notice,” he said. “They just came in with a ton of cops and trucks and hauled people’s stuff away. People are scattered around now. And there was no warning at all, despite the fact we’d been \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/10/berkeley-gives-gilman-street-homeless-a-reprieve/\" target=\"_blank\">working with the city\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann said the Law Center has also been working with residents beneath the freeway to find them housing, and has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/10/berkeley-gives-gilman-street-homeless-a-reprieve/\" target=\"_blank\">successful in those efforts\u003c/a>. The seven-10 people who were still living in the area included those with significant mental and physical disabilities, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann said he had appreciated it when the city terminated its \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/10/berkeley-gives-gilman-street-homeless-a-reprieve/\" target=\"_blank\">nuisance abatement plans \u003c/a>for Gilman Street earlier this month. He acknowledged that the city had clearly reserved the right to return to the area for safety or public health reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do that. But you have to give them notice,” said Neumann. “That’s basic constitutional stuff. They just rousted people while they were sleeping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann said he asked a police lieutenant and city staff on-site why no one had been warned that the so-called cleanup would take place; the city employees he asked told him they hadn’t known in advance about the plans either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody there said: ‘No, we didn’t know, we didn’t know. This was not our idea,’ ” said Neumann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City spokesman Chakko declined to respond to this assertion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding the rodents, Neumann said they are prevalent in the area due primarily to the straw and manure from the nearby Golden Gate Fields racetrack, and said it would have been easy enough to bring in garbage receptacles to collect trash if that had been the city’s main goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called the city’s rationale about what took place Friday “ridiculous,” adding, “That was just a sad subterfuge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann said the operation makes it much harder to provide vital services to the people who need them most and runs counter to providing the stability or building the relationships that help get people off the streets. He called it “the leaf-blower approach” to homelessness. “You bring in the cops and blow them into some other place. It ain’t right,” he said. “We’re left trying to pick up the pieces, find people, reconnect with them and find out what their condition is, what their health is. It’s really difficult now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The removal of people’s property from beneath the freeway will also likely prompt more work, Neumann said. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/01/07/berkeley-dumps-possessions-of-8-homeless-people/\" target=\"_blank\">city ultimately decides what constitutes trash\u003c/a>, and what seems to be belongings, and there can be a lot of ambiguity in those decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People look at what homeless people have, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/01/07/berkeley-dumps-possessions-of-8-homeless-people/\" target=\"_blank\">they often consider it trash\u003c/a>,” he said. “We don’t know how much people were able to take, how much got taken by the city and how much gets thrown away. We have no idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the Law Center will continue to do outreach to those who had been living under the freeway and connect them with services and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City spokesman Chakko said the city will continue to do the same. Friday morning, staff handed out contact information to the people who had been camping when authorities arrived, to make sure they know who to call if they want help. “A lot of cards were given out today to people,” he said. “It’s not a safe place to live. And the conditions that were developing were certainly not safe. … The goal today was to clean up all of the very serious conditions there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate Berkeleyside is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleyside.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=4851428a10883a05193b1dd6c&id=aad4b5ee64\" target=\"_blank\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside’s Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakko was unable to provide the time the city arrived on-site, but Berkeleyside readers saw the cleanup effort underway at 6:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who had been camping on Gilman “packed up their stuff and left,” Chakko said. “It was a very calm situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said no one was arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Public Works staff handled the cleanup, and Berkeley police officers were on-site for traffic control purposes, Chakko said. He noted that the effort took place early in the morning to try to limit the traffic impacts in an area that has \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/02/22/whats-happening-with-the-gilman-street-interchange/\" target=\"_blank\">complex circulation patterns\u003c/a>. “It’s a complicated intersection without people getting in the way, so it was important to have police directing traffic there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other city staff, including people from the Health, Housing & Community Services Department, were also in attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakko said the city has been working since the beginning of May to try to secure housing for people camping beneath the freeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Offers have been made to move them into housing, with subsidies to pay for it,” he said. “Case managers, housing folks, mental health folks, all sorts of people have been involved to try to find a way to help them transition out of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said people were not told to stay away, and that no barriers had been installed to keep them from returning. No new notices were posted either. But Chakko said notices that had been hung previously — after a recent decision by the city \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/10/berkeley-gives-gilman-street-homeless-a-reprieve/\" target=\"_blank\">not to pursue nuisance abatement actions\u003c/a> beneath the freeway — remained in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to that notice, “The camp activity and accumulations \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/GilmanOfficialNotice7-10-14-4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">continue to contribute to rodent harborage and create a public nuisance\u003c/a>. The City will monitor the situation and may without further notice take appropriate action to abate public nuisance conditions, up to and including the removal of personal property pursuant to Chapter 11.40 BMC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakko said the city hauled away “a lot of garbage” but noted that “anything that appeared to have value was bagged and stored, which is following our standard protocols.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone looking for property that was removed can call 510-981-4665 for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Homeless advocate: So-called cleanup “just a sad subterfuge”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Osha Neumann, a local attorney and advocate for the homeless for the East Bay Community Law Center, denounced Friday’s operation. He said that contrary to statements from the city, what occurred was much more than a cleanup. “It meant everybody is kicked out of there, everybody,\" he said. \"People are really upset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann said when he arrived at Gilman Street on Friday around 9:30 a.m., he found one man he’d been working with sitting dejectedly on the curb, unsure of where to go next. The Law Center was able to arrange a ride for him to a place he could stay for several days, but the man was still depressed and rattled, Neumann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann said the city should have at least let people know in advance about the plan. “They came in at 5:30 without notice,” he said. “They just came in with a ton of cops and trucks and hauled people’s stuff away. People are scattered around now. And there was no warning at all, despite the fact we’d been \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/10/berkeley-gives-gilman-street-homeless-a-reprieve/\" target=\"_blank\">working with the city\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann said the Law Center has also been working with residents beneath the freeway to find them housing, and has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/10/berkeley-gives-gilman-street-homeless-a-reprieve/\" target=\"_blank\">successful in those efforts\u003c/a>. The seven-10 people who were still living in the area included those with significant mental and physical disabilities, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann said he had appreciated it when the city terminated its \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/10/berkeley-gives-gilman-street-homeless-a-reprieve/\" target=\"_blank\">nuisance abatement plans \u003c/a>for Gilman Street earlier this month. He acknowledged that the city had clearly reserved the right to return to the area for safety or public health reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do that. But you have to give them notice,” said Neumann. “That’s basic constitutional stuff. They just rousted people while they were sleeping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann said he asked a police lieutenant and city staff on-site why no one had been warned that the so-called cleanup would take place; the city employees he asked told him they hadn’t known in advance about the plans either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody there said: ‘No, we didn’t know, we didn’t know. 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(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some people living in campsites on the Albany Bulb will get $3,000 each to leave as part of a settlement between the East Bay City of Albany and 28 residents of the persistent encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who signed the settlement must leave the Bulb by Friday, April 25, and they have agreed to stay away from public open spaces in Albany, including the Bulb and Albany Hill, for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the plaintiffs announced the settlement of the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/02/122424/albany-homnelessness-lawsuits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal lawsuit\u003c/a> today. East Bay Community Law Center attorney Osha Neumann told KQED’s Sara Hossaini that he has mixed feelings about the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those that are getting the money, that’s going to help, and they are so unused to getting anything when they’re kicked from one place to another,” Neumann said. “I am sad that what we were not able to get is, for all the people who are out here, an alternative place where they could stay. 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(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s happened, and for many of them, that’s very, very sad,” Neumann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albany spokeswoman Nicole Almaguer said the settlement is a positive step and shows the city and the people living on the Bulb are working collaboratively. In addition to the $84,000 settlement announced today, Albany contracted the nonprofit Berkeley Food and Housing Project for more than $60,000 to help the city’s homeless population find permanent housing — not an easy task in the Bay Area. The city then expanded its park transition plan to $500,000, which included funding for temporary shelter buildings near the Bulb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That transition plan spurred the lawsuit. More than half the people living on the Bulb said the city had failed to accommodate their disabilities and was violating the Americans with Disabilities Act and threatening a violation of Fourth and 14th Amendment protections. But as the court battles dragged on, police issued more and more tickets for violating the waterfront park’s curfew, and the Bulb’s population dwindled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about a year of outreach, Almaguer said 14 people from the Bulb, including one infant, had moved into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the housing outreach effectiveness is disputed by some of the Bulb residents, especially those with little or no documented income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almaguer said no one had relocated within Albany, which has no transitional housing or permanent emergency homeless shelter. Many people living on the Bulb consider themselves residents of the city, and some are even registered to vote there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133686\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 301px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS6704_AlbanyBulb_15sept2013_0379_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-133686 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS6704_AlbanyBulb_15sept2013_0379_web-426x640.jpg\" alt='Bob Anderson, or “Boxing Bobby,\" has lived at the Albany Bulb for about two years, and he signed the settlement agreement. His home on the Bulb, pictured here, was demolished in March.' width=\"301\" height=\"452\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Anderson, or “Boxing Bobby,” has lived at the Albany Bulb for about two years, and he signed the settlement agreement. His home on the Bulb, pictured here, was demolished in March. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kristopher Sullivan signed the settlement and is currently carting his belongings to a friend’s house in Berkeley. He said he hopes to fix his bike with the money, and then head north to Portland or Seattle. He said he’s been living at the Bulb for about three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The judge said we have a 99 percent chance of losing, and the cops are going to come and force people out, and they’re going to start ticketing and start arresting,” Sullivan said. “Once you’re in jail they take all your stuff anyway. So it was either going to be that or nothing at all, and possibly some days in jail, and court costs, and community service, and it would end up costing me money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he doesn’t sound like someone who had just won a fist-full of money. His voice had a defeated sadness, like he’d lost something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before, I always had the security of being able to keep my stuff somewhere, being able to go somewhere at night, somewhere I could cook dinner, a feeling of security,” Sullivan said. “Now that’s stripped away. It’s gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone signed the settlement agreement. 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