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In the other is a residential neighborhood. \u003ca href=\"http://www.uchsmotherbrowns.org/dining.room.html\" target=\"_blank\">The soup kitchen\u003c/a> began as a mobile feeding center 20 years ago, but now has a permanent site at 2111 Jennings Street, where more than 7,000 people get hot breakfasts and dinners each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, San Francisco is proposing building a 100-bed homeless shelter in a warehouse next to Mother Brown’s. The Planning Commission is considering the proposal because it requires a special use permit to convert the industrial warehouse into a shelter. They will vote in the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”c646989731ddb860ef36136282a9520d”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, homeless people in the area would have a bed for 90 days before rotating out. Ultimately the goal is to get homeless people into supportive housing, but sometimes it can take people a little while to adjust to living indoors after a long time on the street. A bed is a good first step. People staying at the proposed shelter would also have access to meals and services like cheap laundry and employment counseling next door at Mother Brown’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to bring the services to where the individuals are, rather than forcing long-term Bayview residents who may be homeless to come to the central city for services,” said Trent Rhorer, executive director of the city’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfhsa.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Human Services Agency\u003c/a>. His staff first applied for grant money to build the shelter in 2011 and has been working ever since to win over community support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a tough sell. A vocal group of residents say that putting a homeless shelter in the Bayview follows a pattern of the city pushing problems from the center of the city out to its farther-flung neighborhoods. They say if Bayview was a wealthier neighborhood the city wouldn’t be trying to get away with something like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘I’m not opposed to these beds because a lot of the people who lived in this neighborhood cannot stay in this neighborhood.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Bayview has too often been a dumping ground for the city,” said Shane Mayer, who co-chairs the neighborhood group \u003ca href=\"http://www.britesf.org/BRITE/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bayview Residents Improving Their Environment (BRITE)\u003c/a>. “Whether to be putting a waste facility out here, an electric plant out here, services for people who’ve been through the criminal justice system and now another homeless shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer’s group is trying hard to change the image of Bayview, which has long been associated with crime and poverty. They hold workdays to clean up public parks and are trying to lure new businesses to the area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we bring in something like a homeless shelter that doesn’t necessarily help us in that cause,” Mayer said. “It hurts it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 10’s Supervisor, Malia Cohen, has thrown her support behind the opposition. She says the city didn’t get enough community input before siting the shelter. That’s a complaint of many residents as well. They say they knew nothing about the proposed shelter until it was up for a vote before the Board of Supervisors. Trent Rhorer admits that the city applied for the initial grant to support the shelter quickly because of a late deadline, but says the city has held several community meetings and public hearings since then. He also says he has personally communicated with many of those expressing concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the byproduct of all this is that we’re seeing really fierce, what I would call, nimbyism [Not In My Back Yard],” Rhorer said. “Folks simply don’t want a homeless shelter near where their places of business are. Well, the reality is there are homeless individuals in the Bayview and they are currently being served, I would argue, inadequately with a resource center and a temporary shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other members of the Bayview community view BRITE’s position on the homeless shelter as aggressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are just very mean people, who don’t really have a plan, but just don’t want to help other people get one up,” said Gwendolyn Westbrook, CEO of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.uchsmotherbrowns.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">United Council for Human Services\u003c/a>, the nonprofit that runs Mother Brown’s Dining Room. “And that’s all it really boils down to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133133\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9594_IMG_2441-copy-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-133133\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9594_IMG_2441-copy-hpf-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers serve breakfast to those in need at Mother Brown's Dining Room. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers serve breakfast to those in need at Mother Brown’s Dining Room. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many, but not all, of the homeless people that Westbrook serves each day grew up in the Bayview. The recent economic downturn hit this part of the city hard, and many people lost their homes. Westbrook and other members of the African-American community in the neighborhood see the homeless shelter as one of the last ways to fight gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re natives of this neighborhood,” said Marvin Robinson, owner of the Dollar and More on 3rd Street. “I’m not opposed to these beds because a lot of the people who lived in this neighborhood cannot stay in this neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Bayview business owner, Robinson wants to see a more vibrant neighborhood, just as much as BRITE. He \u003ca href=\"http://bayviewmagic.org/files/2010/02/History-of-BVHP.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">remembers when 3rd Street was a bustling commercial corridor\u003c/a> with theaters, shops and restaurants. He’d like to see it bustle that way again, but he wants other long-term residents of Bayview who he grew up with to be part of that revitalization. He fears that without serious efforts by the city to provide housing to extremely low-income people, the historic African-American community in Bayview will be completely pushed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s black population was at its peak in the 1970s, but has been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/21/at-usf-panelists-lament-the-state-of-black-san-francisco-full-audio/\" target=\"_blank\">slowly dwindling\u003c/a> since the Hunter’s Point shipyard closed. In 1990, African-Americans made up 10.5 percent of San Francisco’s population. Twenty years later the census puts that number below 6 percent today. The African-American population in the Bayview over the same time frame was cut in half and is now around 32.2 percent. Asians now hold a slight majority in the district with 32.6 percent of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know all these neighbors around here,” said Larry Williams, a client at Mother Brown’s Dining Room who has lived in the Bayview since 1967. “All the newer neighbors around here, they came up in here acting like they’re so community-minded, trying to push us out because they don’t want no shelters. But if you ain’t never been homeless, you ain’t got no business even speakin’ on this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the homeless who visit Mother Brown’s for services sleep sitting upright in chairs in a room above the dining room. They complain of poor sleep and swollen ankles from being unable to recline. Bayview does have another homeless shelter run by \u003ca href=\"http://sfhomeless.wikia.com/wiki/Providence_Church_Shelter\" target=\"_blank\">Providence Baptist Church\u003c/a>, but people can only come in after 10 p.m. and have to leave at 7 a.m. They sleep on mats on the ground and have to take their belongings with them during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgov3.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=4819\" target=\"_blank\">last count\u003c/a>, there were nearly 2,000 homeless people in District 10, where Bayview is the largest neighborhood. They sleep on the street and in cars, in lieu of a permanent home. That’s the second-largest number concentration of homeless in the city, after the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the homeless aren’t respectful of neighbor’s property when they pass by on their way to Mother Brown’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ninety-five percent of the people who come to eat there are fantastic; they’re quiet, they’re respectful, they’re just neighbors, they’re just folks,” said Amy Clark, whose house sits kitty-corner to Mother Brown’s. “And then there’s some people who aren’t as good neighbors. There’s a lot of noise. There’s domestic violence. There’s screaming. There’s being woken up late at night and early in the morning. There’s people urinating and defecating on our property. There’s extra trash. I’ve had to kick drunk people off of my step. I’ve had to clean vomit off of my step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those irritations are starting to add up and Clark wants assurances from the city that it will deal with these issues before she can trust it to manage an even larger facility for the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m concerned that the city is being irresponsible by not communicating with the neighbors and deciding to expand it into a full shelter without really understanding that there are some problems that need to be solved first,” Clark said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city plans to set up a citizen’s advisory committee to facilitate communication about issues like the ones Clark raises. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a tough sell. A vocal group of residents say that putting a homeless shelter in the Bayview follows a pattern of the city pushing problems from the center of the city out to its farther-flung neighborhoods. They say if Bayview was a wealthier neighborhood the city wouldn’t be trying to get away with something like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘I’m not opposed to these beds because a lot of the people who lived in this neighborhood cannot stay in this neighborhood.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Bayview has too often been a dumping ground for the city,” said Shane Mayer, who co-chairs the neighborhood group \u003ca href=\"http://www.britesf.org/BRITE/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bayview Residents Improving Their Environment (BRITE)\u003c/a>. “Whether to be putting a waste facility out here, an electric plant out here, services for people who’ve been through the criminal justice system and now another homeless shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer’s group is trying hard to change the image of Bayview, which has long been associated with crime and poverty. They hold workdays to clean up public parks and are trying to lure new businesses to the area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we bring in something like a homeless shelter that doesn’t necessarily help us in that cause,” Mayer said. “It hurts it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 10’s Supervisor, Malia Cohen, has thrown her support behind the opposition. She says the city didn’t get enough community input before siting the shelter. That’s a complaint of many residents as well. They say they knew nothing about the proposed shelter until it was up for a vote before the Board of Supervisors. Trent Rhorer admits that the city applied for the initial grant to support the shelter quickly because of a late deadline, but says the city has held several community meetings and public hearings since then. He also says he has personally communicated with many of those expressing concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the byproduct of all this is that we’re seeing really fierce, what I would call, nimbyism [Not In My Back Yard],” Rhorer said. “Folks simply don’t want a homeless shelter near where their places of business are. Well, the reality is there are homeless individuals in the Bayview and they are currently being served, I would argue, inadequately with a resource center and a temporary shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other members of the Bayview community view BRITE’s position on the homeless shelter as aggressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are just very mean people, who don’t really have a plan, but just don’t want to help other people get one up,” said Gwendolyn Westbrook, CEO of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.uchsmotherbrowns.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">United Council for Human Services\u003c/a>, the nonprofit that runs Mother Brown’s Dining Room. “And that’s all it really boils down to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133133\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9594_IMG_2441-copy-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-133133\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9594_IMG_2441-copy-hpf-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers serve breakfast to those in need at Mother Brown's Dining Room. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers serve breakfast to those in need at Mother Brown’s Dining Room. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many, but not all, of the homeless people that Westbrook serves each day grew up in the Bayview. The recent economic downturn hit this part of the city hard, and many people lost their homes. Westbrook and other members of the African-American community in the neighborhood see the homeless shelter as one of the last ways to fight gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re natives of this neighborhood,” said Marvin Robinson, owner of the Dollar and More on 3rd Street. “I’m not opposed to these beds because a lot of the people who lived in this neighborhood cannot stay in this neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Bayview business owner, Robinson wants to see a more vibrant neighborhood, just as much as BRITE. He \u003ca href=\"http://bayviewmagic.org/files/2010/02/History-of-BVHP.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">remembers when 3rd Street was a bustling commercial corridor\u003c/a> with theaters, shops and restaurants. He’d like to see it bustle that way again, but he wants other long-term residents of Bayview who he grew up with to be part of that revitalization. He fears that without serious efforts by the city to provide housing to extremely low-income people, the historic African-American community in Bayview will be completely pushed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s black population was at its peak in the 1970s, but has been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/21/at-usf-panelists-lament-the-state-of-black-san-francisco-full-audio/\" target=\"_blank\">slowly dwindling\u003c/a> since the Hunter’s Point shipyard closed. In 1990, African-Americans made up 10.5 percent of San Francisco’s population. Twenty years later the census puts that number below 6 percent today. The African-American population in the Bayview over the same time frame was cut in half and is now around 32.2 percent. Asians now hold a slight majority in the district with 32.6 percent of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know all these neighbors around here,” said Larry Williams, a client at Mother Brown’s Dining Room who has lived in the Bayview since 1967. “All the newer neighbors around here, they came up in here acting like they’re so community-minded, trying to push us out because they don’t want no shelters. But if you ain’t never been homeless, you ain’t got no business even speakin’ on this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the homeless who visit Mother Brown’s for services sleep sitting upright in chairs in a room above the dining room. They complain of poor sleep and swollen ankles from being unable to recline. Bayview does have another homeless shelter run by \u003ca href=\"http://sfhomeless.wikia.com/wiki/Providence_Church_Shelter\" target=\"_blank\">Providence Baptist Church\u003c/a>, but people can only come in after 10 p.m. and have to leave at 7 a.m. They sleep on mats on the ground and have to take their belongings with them during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgov3.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=4819\" target=\"_blank\">last count\u003c/a>, there were nearly 2,000 homeless people in District 10, where Bayview is the largest neighborhood. They sleep on the street and in cars, in lieu of a permanent home. That’s the second-largest number concentration of homeless in the city, after the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the homeless aren’t respectful of neighbor’s property when they pass by on their way to Mother Brown’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ninety-five percent of the people who come to eat there are fantastic; they’re quiet, they’re respectful, they’re just neighbors, they’re just folks,” said Amy Clark, whose house sits kitty-corner to Mother Brown’s. “And then there’s some people who aren’t as good neighbors. There’s a lot of noise. There’s domestic violence. There’s screaming. There’s being woken up late at night and early in the morning. There’s people urinating and defecating on our property. There’s extra trash. I’ve had to kick drunk people off of my step. I’ve had to clean vomit off of my step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those irritations are starting to add up and Clark wants assurances from the city that it will deal with these issues before she can trust it to manage an even larger facility for the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m concerned that the city is being irresponsible by not communicating with the neighbors and deciding to expand it into a full shelter without really understanding that there are some problems that need to be solved first,” Clark said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city plans to set up a citizen’s advisory committee to facilitate communication about issues like the ones Clark raises. Rhorer is hopeful that if the homeless have a shelter to go to during the day, with bathrooms and storage, some of these problems will subside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Williams agrees that a shelter could help some people turn their lives around. “If you had a bed, a place to lay down at night, where you could think at night, a place to map your day out for tomorrow so you can get started. That’s what we need around here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The 39-year-old San Francisco native is standing on a sidewalk heating grate to stay warm, toting everything she owns in a red suitcase and shopping bags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, I’ve had more, but it was all stolen,” says Eat. “They’ll steal everything — your jacket, shoes, anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s public library is a de facto daytime shelter for dozens, if not hundreds, of people in Eat’s situation and others struggling with mental illness or substance abuse. A few years ago, the San Francisco Public Library became the first in the nation to hire a full-time social worker to help them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her name is Leah Esguerra. She spends her days roaming the library’s six floors, keeping an eye out for regulars who look like they could use her help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141090\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 313px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/ClarissaEat.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/ClarissaEat-313x450.jpg\" alt=\"Clarissa Eat waits for the San Francisco Public Library to open. Her suitcase and two bags contain everything she owns. She's been helped by the library's social worker. (Scott Shafer/KQED)\" width=\"313\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10141090\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clarissa Eat waits for the San Francisco Public Library to open. Her suitcase and two bags contain everything she owns. She’s been helped by the library’s social worker. (Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I introduce myself. ‘Hi, I’m Leah. I don’t know if you know that there is a social worker here at the library. I’m a social worker.’ And I just spread the word around,” says Esguerra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her training as a psychiatric social worker helps her ease into conversations with library users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I find a safe topic to talk about. The books that they’re reading, that they borrow here, or the movies they rent from here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esguerra and her team work to develop relationships with patrons. But she says the time it takes to build trust doesn’t always work with such a transient population in search of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes you’re so close, I’m about to tell them, ‘You just got accepted’, and then we cannot find them. So I usually ask them to keep on checking in with me. ‘Keep on coming, let’s talk about what your needs are.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs Esguerra hunts out potential clients. She quietly walks up to a 30-something, somewhat disheveled man. As he huddles over a computer screen, she whispers to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Michael. I know you’re watching something right now. I’ll talk to you later. I’ll check in with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, Esguerra began hiring some of the formerly homeless patrons she helped. Now they do outreach under her supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them is Joe Bank, who hitchhiked a ride to San Francisco a few years ago. He landed in Golden Gate Park, homeless and struggling with substance abuse. He says that experience has helped him in his new job at the library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141091\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 274px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/LibraryJoeBank.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/LibraryJoeBank-274x225.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Bank was homeless until he was helped by the San Francisco Public Library's social worker. Now he works for the library as a homeless outreach worker. (Scott Shafer/KQED)\" width=\"274\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141091\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Bank was homeless until he was helped by the San Francisco Public Library’s social worker. Now he works for the library as a homeless outreach worker. (Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Coming at somebody with compassion for having been through that sort of thing, you know their walls kind of fall down,” says Bank. “Because they realize I’m not trying to make them do anything they don’t want to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After getting his act together with help from Leah Esguerra and her outreach team, Bank is now part of that team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, I’m 32 years old and I really wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with my life until I started doing this work,” says Bank. “Then I realized, this is it. This is what I’m supposed to be doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even a city as liberal as San Francisco has its limits. Some library users complain about the homeless using the library bathroom for things like shaving or bathing. And after one patron was caught urinating on bookshelves not once, but twice, Sen. and former Mayor Dianne Feinstein urged the city to toughen rules and punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next week, says Chief Librarian Luis Herrera, the Library Commission will discuss new regulations aimed at some of the worst, most offensive behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it’s drug use or physical assault, we’re not going to tolerate that,” says Herrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as he tries to strike that balance — creating a safe, secure library where everyone, including the homeless, feels welcome — Herrera says the social worker is here to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Initially there were some questions about whether this was a good idea,” he says. “But it’s taken off. And I think, in fact, we would look at the idea of expanding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s catching on. Other California cities, including San Jose and Sacramento, now have social workers at their libraries.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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She spends her days roaming the library’s six floors, keeping an eye out for regulars who look like they could use her help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141090\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 313px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/ClarissaEat.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/ClarissaEat-313x450.jpg\" alt=\"Clarissa Eat waits for the San Francisco Public Library to open. Her suitcase and two bags contain everything she owns. She's been helped by the library's social worker. (Scott Shafer/KQED)\" width=\"313\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10141090\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clarissa Eat waits for the San Francisco Public Library to open. Her suitcase and two bags contain everything she owns. She’s been helped by the library’s social worker. 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So I usually ask them to keep on checking in with me. ‘Keep on coming, let’s talk about what your needs are.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs Esguerra hunts out potential clients. She quietly walks up to a 30-something, somewhat disheveled man. As he huddles over a computer screen, she whispers to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Michael. I know you’re watching something right now. I’ll talk to you later. I’ll check in with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, Esguerra began hiring some of the formerly homeless patrons she helped. Now they do outreach under her supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them is Joe Bank, who hitchhiked a ride to San Francisco a few years ago. He landed in Golden Gate Park, homeless and struggling with substance abuse. 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(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Coming at somebody with compassion for having been through that sort of thing, you know their walls kind of fall down,” says Bank. “Because they realize I’m not trying to make them do anything they don’t want to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After getting his act together with help from Leah Esguerra and her outreach team, Bank is now part of that team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, I’m 32 years old and I really wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with my life until I started doing this work,” says Bank. “Then I realized, this is it. This is what I’m supposed to be doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even a city as liberal as San Francisco has its limits. Some library users complain about the homeless using the library bathroom for things like shaving or bathing. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131996\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_2667.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-131996\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_2667-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Mother Brown's Dining Room, a soup kitchen in Bayview-Hunters Point, wants to add a 100-bed homeless shelter (Mark Andrew Boyer / KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mother Brown’s Dining Room, a soup kitchen in Bayview-Hunters Point, wants to add a 100-bed homeless shelter (Mark Andrew Boyer / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mother Brown’s Dining Room is a Bayview-Hunters Point institution. For the past decade, the small soup kitchen has served breakfast and dinner to the neighborhood’s hungry. The organization that operates Mother Brown’s also allows homeless people to sit overnight in plastic chairs in a room on the building’s second floor. Now, the city wants to open a 100-bed homeless shelter to an adjacent warehouse. But the plan has drawn opposition from neighbors and local merchants. About 2,000 neighborhood residents have signed a petition, arguing that the shelter would add to the gritty neighborhood’s problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132004\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_2424.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-132004\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_2424-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Calvin Henderson is one of many homeless people who sleep in the chairs at Mother Brown's (Mark Andrew Boyer / KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calvin Henderson is one of many homeless people who sleep in the chairs at Mother Brown’s (Mark Andrew Boyer / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Calvin Henderson was nodding off during breakfast service on a recent weekday morning after another poor night’s sleep in the chairs upstairs. Like other homeless people in the area, he stays at Mother Brown’s because there are few alternatives. “It swells your feet up,” he said of sleeping upright. “I’ve been up all night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132094\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_2821-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-132094\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_2821-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Marvin Robinson, owner of Dollar Store and More on 3rd Street, sees both sides of the issue (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marvin Robinson, owner of Dollar Store and More on Third Street, sees both sides of the issue (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We really don’t have a homeless shelter out here,” said Marvin Robinson, owner of the Dollar Store and More on Third Street. Robinson said that neighbors are concerned that the shelter would attract homeless from outside the neighborhood, and that it would result in more loitering and noise late at night. “I see the issue of being a property owner,” Robinson said. “But some of the homeless are stakeholders — they grew up in this neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131967\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_2490.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-131967\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_2490-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Longtime Bayview resident Larry Williams supports opening a new homeless shelter (Mark Andrew Boyer / KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Bayview resident Larry Williams supports opening a new homeless shelter. (Mark Andrew Boyer / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Larry Williams has lived in the Bayview since in the 1960s and he currently lives in an RV, which is parked just down the block from Mother Brown’s. “I grew up and went to school with all these people. So, I know all these neighbors around here. And all the newer neighbors around here, they came up in here acting like they’re so community-minded, trying to push us out because they don’t want no shelters. But if you ain’t never been homeless, you ain’t got no business even speakin on this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132095\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_2725.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-132095\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_2725-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Shane Mayer, co-chair of Bayview Residents Improving Their Environment, opposes the proposed shelter (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shane Mayer, co-chair of Bayview Residents Improving Their Environment, opposes the proposed shelter (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shane Mayer moved to the Bayview about three years ago, and he lives a couple blocks away from Mother Brown’s. He co-chairs Bayview Residents Improving Their Environment, an organization that promotes neighborhood rejuvenation efforts. Mayer thinks the Bayview is an up-and-coming neighborhood, but he’s worried that adding beds to Mother Brown’s would attract more homeless people. “My position is that we should have supportive housing for them — not an emergency shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132098\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9592_IMG_2570-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-132098\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9592_IMG_2570-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Evaristo Morales Crúz regularly eats at Mother Brown's (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evaristo Morales Crúz regularly eats at Mother Brown’s. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Evaristo Morales Crúz, from Veracruz, Mexico, works for a roofing company in Bayview-Hunters Point and eats at Mother Brown’s Dining Room two or three times per week. “The food makes me strong,” he said. “No food, no power.” Crúz says he has slept in the chairs a few times, when it was too late to go to a shelter. “It’s better than the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132100\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9598_IMG_2631.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-132100\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9598_IMG_2631-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Breakfast service at Mother Brown's Dining Rom (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Breakfast service at Mother Brown’s Dining Room (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Robinson said that neighbors are concerned that the shelter would attract homeless from outside the neighborhood, and that it would result in more loitering and noise late at night. “I see the issue of being a property owner,” Robinson said. “But some of the homeless are stakeholders — they grew up in this neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131967\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_2490.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-131967\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_2490-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Longtime Bayview resident Larry Williams supports opening a new homeless shelter (Mark Andrew Boyer / KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Bayview resident Larry Williams supports opening a new homeless shelter. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127164\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/IMG_5036.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-127164\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/IMG_5036-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Artist and designer Gregory Kloehn sits in the doorway of his latest tiny house, which he calls the Chuckwagon. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist and designer Gregory Kloehn sits in the doorway of his latest tiny house, which he calls the Chuckwagon. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland artist and designer Gregory Kloehn was thrust into the national spotlight in 2011, when he famously transformed a dumpster into a home. Kloehn is again working with tiny structures, but now he’s building them from found materials, and he’s donating the finished structures to homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘I just ripped a page from the homeless person’s book, and then took my basic construction skills and came up with something.’\u003ccite>— Artist Gregory Kloehn\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The homes, all built on wheels, range in size from small boxes that are just big enough to sleep in, to larger structures that you can stand up in. Despite the attention, Kloehn downplays what he’s doing, arguing that his structures are just an upgrade on the many lean-tos and improvised structures homeless people make for themselves. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just ripped a page from the homeless person’s book, and then took my basic construction skills, and came up with something,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127166\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/IMG_5078-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-127166\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/IMG_5078-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"The Chuckwagon is one of the largest structures Kloehn has made for homeless people. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Chuckwagon is one of the largest structures Kloehn has made for homeless people. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It all started about two years ago, when Kloehn was working on a self-published book about homeless shelters. He walked around Oakland, observing the makeshift lean-tos and shelters homeless people had created, and he documented them with iPhone photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I became enamored of them,” he said, while flipping through the photos. So he gathered some materials and got to work building a structure of his own, to see if he could build a home from found materials for no money. (He actually ended up spending about $40 on that home.) Since then, Kloehn has built about 10 tiny homes for homeless people, and he’s ramping up his operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127167\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/IMG_4661-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-127167\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/IMG_4661-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Kloehn fits a wooden gutter on the exterior of a tiny house he refers to as the 'Uni-bomber Shack.' (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kloehn fits a wooden gutter on the exterior of a tiny house he refers to as the ‘Uni-bomber Shack.’ (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kloehn’s studio is located near West Oakland’s Alliance Recycling Center, a popular place for homeless people to return cans for the deposit. Homeless people with shopping carts full of cans — and their possessions — are a common sight in the neighborhood. Several of his structures can be seen throughout the neighborhood. “Sometimes they don’t make it very far,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kloehn, who has worked as a sculptor, says it’s rewarding to make functional objects that are made to be lived in. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every one is unique, and every one is different, and every one offers a different challenge,” he says. And because he’s working with found materials and there is no pressure to recoup his costs, he has the freedom to experiment. “For me, this is exciting,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127168\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/IMG_5111-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-127168\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/IMG_5111-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"A pair of tiny houses are currently occupied down the street from Kloehn's West Oakland studio. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pair of tiny houses are currently occupied down the street from Kloehn’s West Oakland studio. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kloehn spends a lot of time building the structures, but it doesn’t cost him very much. “I’ll buy gas to drive around, and I’ll buy screws,” he says. But most of the materials come from industrial waste and illegal dump sites around Oakland. He also finds a lot of paint that is illegally dumped in Oakland alleys. He applies several coats of that found paint to his structures so they hold up in the elements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Within a week I can find enough materials for a home — or maybe even two homes,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127169\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/IMG_4886-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-127169\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/IMG_4886-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Kloehn works on his newest tiny house, which is made mostly from old beds. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kloehn works on his newest tiny house, which is made mostly from old beds. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kloehn’s latest structure is going to be made almost entirely from beds. Most of the home’s frame is made from backboards, and he plans to use a matching triangular headboard and footboard set as the support for a pitched roof. “I let my materials dictate the size and shape of the homes,” Kloehn says. “The challenge is for you to make it work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127170\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/greg-kloehn-sketches.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-127170\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/greg-kloehn-sketches-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Kloehn shows off sketches of some of his previous tiny homes. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kloehn shows off sketches of some of his previous tiny homes. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since word has gotten out about Kloehn’s tiny homes, he’s been getting more volunteers to help build them. And he’s been invited to hold workshops up the coast in Portland, in Boston, and in South Africa. Soon, he’ll be ramping up his operations and moving to a bigger work space at American Steel Studios in West Oakland. But even as he produces more homes, Kloehn acknowledges that he isn’t making much of a dent in the Bay Area’s homeless problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like I’m trying to end homelessness,” he says. But he’s providing a few people who have no homes a more comfortable place to lay their heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/IMG_5059-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-127171\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/IMG_5059-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Gregory Kloehn's tiny houses for homeless people\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kloehn, who has worked as a sculptor, says it’s rewarding to make functional objects that are made to be lived in. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every one is unique, and every one is different, and every one offers a different challenge,” he says. And because he’s working with found materials and there is no pressure to recoup his costs, he has the freedom to experiment. “For me, this is exciting,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127168\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/IMG_5111-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-127168\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/IMG_5111-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"A pair of tiny houses are currently occupied down the street from Kloehn's West Oakland studio. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pair of tiny houses are currently occupied down the street from Kloehn’s West Oakland studio. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kloehn spends a lot of time building the structures, but it doesn’t cost him very much. “I’ll buy gas to drive around, and I’ll buy screws,” he says. But most of the materials come from industrial waste and illegal dump sites around Oakland. He also finds a lot of paint that is illegally dumped in Oakland alleys. He applies several coats of that found paint to his structures so they hold up in the elements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Within a week I can find enough materials for a home — or maybe even two homes,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127169\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/IMG_4886-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-127169\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/IMG_4886-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Kloehn works on his newest tiny house, which is made mostly from old beds. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kloehn works on his newest tiny house, which is made mostly from old beds. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kloehn’s latest structure is going to be made almost entirely from beds. Most of the home’s frame is made from backboards, and he plans to use a matching triangular headboard and footboard set as the support for a pitched roof. “I let my materials dictate the size and shape of the homes,” Kloehn says. “The challenge is for you to make it work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127170\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/greg-kloehn-sketches.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-127170\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/greg-kloehn-sketches-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Kloehn shows off sketches of some of his previous tiny homes. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kloehn shows off sketches of some of his previous tiny homes. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since word has gotten out about Kloehn’s tiny homes, he’s been getting more volunteers to help build them. And he’s been invited to hold workshops up the coast in Portland, in Boston, and in South Africa. Soon, he’ll be ramping up his operations and moving to a bigger work space at American Steel Studios in West Oakland. But even as he produces more homes, Kloehn acknowledges that he isn’t making much of a dent in the Bay Area’s homeless problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like I’m trying to end homelessness,” he says. But he’s providing a few people who have no homes a more comfortable place to lay their heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/IMG_5059-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-127171\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/IMG_5059-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Gregory Kloehn's tiny houses for homeless people\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "Albany Struggles with Homelessness at the Bulb, Faces Lawsuits",
"title": "Albany Struggles with Homelessness at the Bulb, Faces Lawsuits",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/18/albany-bulb-homeless/albanybulb-11sept2013-640/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-112193\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-112193\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/albanybulb-11sept2013-640.jpg\" alt=\"Recycled metal sculpture by Osha Neumann, an advocate for the residents living on the Albany Bulb, can be found on the north shore of the small peninsula. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"410\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recycled metal sculpture by Osha Neumann, an advocate for the residents living on the Albany Bulb, can be found on the north shore of the small peninsula. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/127574333\" 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>Much of the attention over the housing crisis in the Bay Area falls on the most visual stories in larger cities, like the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/activists/\" target=\"_blank\">tech employee buses \u003c/a>that have become icons for displacement in San Francisco and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But cities on the outskirts of the metropolis are also running into conflicts over affordable housing, homelessness and the responsibilities of governments with smaller budgets. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Much of the attention over the housing crisis in the Bay Area falls on the most visual stories in larger cities. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Housing and homelessness are the subjects of two lawsuits against the City of Albany, a town at the northern tip of Alameda County with a population of less than 20,000. The city has been working for six months to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/18/albany-bulb-homeless/\" target=\"_blank\">evict a longstanding tent village\u003c/a> on a chunk of land sticking into the East Bay called the Albany Bulb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land was formed as a construction materials dump, but since the early 1990s, it’s housed a camp of people who would otherwise be homeless. The Bulb is also the capstone in a three-decade effort to create the McLaughlin East Shore State Park, which would finally transfer control of the land from Albany to the state parks system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City Plan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city contracted with the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://bfhp.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Food and Housing Project\u003c/a> in May to connect Bulb residents with services and help them find a place to live. The city hired Oakland-based \u003ca href=\"http://operationdignity.org/services-2/\" target=\"_blank\">Operation Dignity\u003c/a> to open a temporary 30-bed shelter near the Bulb in late November. That part of the city’s park transition plan is costing more than $300,000 for six months of shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t live in the best of all possible worlds,” City Councilman Michael Barnes said when the council voted to finally approve Albany’s park transition plan in October. “I think the plan we have is a good one. People will move a few hundred yards off the Bulb into trailers. They will be warm. They will be dry. There will be showers. They will have food supplied to them. They will have toiletries supplied to them. Their dogs will be there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the shelters have not caught on with the Bulb residents. Only three to four people have been using them per night, according to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Food and Housing Project’s outreach has had some success, however. The nonprofit has connected four people with permanent housing since summer, although none of their apartments are in Albany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professional cook Bradley Anthony was the first Bulb resident to move into a permanent home though the effort. He had been living at the camp for about six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because I was employed, I knew it would be much easier for me,” he said outside his new home, a room in West Oakland. “It was pretty simple I guess, I mean comparatively speaking to what other people are going to be going through, I’m very lucky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony said he moved to the Bulb last spring after he got laid off. Another job he had lined up took longer to come through than expected, and he couldn’t pay rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he got in touch with his sister, April Anthony, who has lived at the Bulb for almost five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love it here, and I’m grateful for having been able to stay here,” April Anthony said. “As a single female homeless person, it beats the streets, there’s no doubt about it, and we have developed a community here, which is the last thing I thought I’d see. You know, but we’re all like a big family now. It’s kind of messed up that they’re going to break us apart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Anthony siblings are two examples of the Bulb’s heterogeneous population. Bradley Anthony said he had never been homeless except for those recent six months. He said the process of getting into housing was pretty easy once outreach workers realized he had a full-time job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was one of the few people that fit the criteria,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Anthony said he moved to the Bulb last spring after he got laid off. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>April Anthony, however, meets the federal definition of chronic homelessness. She has a physical disability that makes it difficult for her to walk, and bi-polar disorder, and she’s lived outdoors for more than a year. Like many of the people living on the Bulb, she makes a few hundred dollars a month selling art and doing odd jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have guaranteed monthly income, and that’s been a major killer,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Coming to Grips\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albany realtor Francesco Papalia seems a little sheepish when he claims to have started the whole controversy, or at least the most recent round of it. He used his position as chair of Albany’s Waterfront Committee to form a homelessness task force in the city about a year and a half ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone was homeless and fell down on the street or was sleeping in someone’s backyard, there was absolutely no one in the city whose job it was to help them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city council directed the task force to study the issue and present options for addressing homelessness in Albany, which is mostly concentrated at the Bulb. The task force delivered \u003ca href=\"http://albanyca.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?meta_id=65499&view=&showpdf=1\" target=\"_blank\">several options\u003c/a> to the city in May, and the city council voted to pursue eviction under Albany’s “no-camping” ordinance with limited support services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the same meeting, the council recommended task force members form an advocacy group, essentially dissolving it as a part of the city government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were shocked,” Papalia said. “It was like, what just happened?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the task force did reorganize into an advocacy group, the Albany Housing Advocates, which is now suing the city in federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Federal Case\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Albany Housing Advocates, April Anthony and 28 other Bulb residents are suing the city to delay the eviction. The plaintiffs say physical or mental disabilities prevent them from using the city’s temporary shelter that opened in late November, and they should have more time to find permanent housing, preferably in Albany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit argues the city’s plan violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, 4\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure, and the 14\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Amendment right to due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit says Albany plans to remove people from relative safety at the camp even though the city “does not have a single permanent shelter, transitional house, or available unit of subsidized housing.” \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The Albany Housing Advocates and 29 Bulb residents are suing the city to delay the eviction. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Wolch is the dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. She gets a little frustrated when she hears cities are addressing homelessness through temporary means, whether it be short-term housing or portable shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those kinds of solutions simply kick the can down the road,” she said. “That was the dominant solution in 1985 – build shelter beds. They don’t work very well. They keep people on this kind of cycle – street to shelter to jail to hospital that’s terrible for people and very expensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolch has studied homelessness since the 1980s, and she has published research on homeless encampments in southern California. She said cities can best address homelessness through supportive housing, which combines an affordable, permanent place to live with on-site case workers and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Albany doesn’t have any supportive housing units. Alameda County has more than 2,000 units. Berkeley, Albany’s larger neighbor to the south, has more than 100 units of supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Cheasty was mayor of Albany in 1999, when the city last grappled with the camp at the Bulb. Now he advocates for the state park transfer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a small city, you can’t have every possible service,” he said. “It’s just not feasible. So you rely on the county, you contribute to the county, or you partner with another city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, services for the homeless work better when they aren’t giant, centralized projects, according to Wolch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Albany would acknowledge that they had about 50 people at any one time who needed services and needed shelter and needed long-term support, then there’s no reason that they couldn’t address that need,” she said. “And in fact, homelessness and homeless service provision and supportive housing is much better done on a small scale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Housing Element\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affordable housing is the subject of another lawsuit concerning Albany’s obligations to the poor and homeless. This one is in Alameda County Superior Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law requires all California cities and counties to plan for housing at all income levels. It’s called the housing element of the general plan, and their due approximately every seven years. Albany’s last approved plan was filed in 1992. The city turned in an updated draft for the 2007 to 2014 period in October – more than a little late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process has already spurred the city to remove restrictions on building a permanent emergency shelter, and the draft recommends doing something similar for transitional and supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deja Vu\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the first time the city has grappled with its homeless population. In fact, the present saga is a near duplicate of one in 1999, when Albany used the same contractor to build a temporary shelter near the Bulb and evicted the camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Human Welfare Commissioner Dan McMullan lived at the camp in 1999. He lost his right leg in a motorcycle accident and spent about a decade homeless in Berkeley and Albany. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The present saga is a near duplicate of one at the Bulb back in 1999. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The reason I was homeless was because I was disabled,” he said. “People that work with homeless people know, scratch any homeless person and you’ll find a disability. And they do nothing in Albany for people with disabilities who are homeless. And it’s amazing to me that after all these years, they’re going to try to pull the same move again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albany Mayor Peggy Thomsen declined interview requests from KQED. Albany’s mayor is part of the city council, and she is the only current member who was also a councilmember 15 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did, I believe, have a humane relocation of the people at that time,” she said at a public meeting. “I personally went out to the Bulb to where the food was delivered into the portables. I would be happy to have lived in one myself. They were very, very clean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McMullan said his ideal solution would be to improve the lot of people at the Bulb, maybe with a transitional shelter there, including fresh water and working plumbing. That way, people could camp there until they found permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albany’s disbanded homelessness task force had a similar suggestion, which they called the dignity village model, based on a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dignityvillage.org/index.php/14-dignity-news-articles/72-wecome-friends\" target=\"_blank\">self-governing community in Portland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the city isn’t pursuing that plan, and the task force was concerned that building a dignity village at the Bulb might prolong people living in harsh conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s Wolch described a similar, now closed \u003ca href=\"http://domevillage.tedhayes.us/\" target=\"_blank\">Dome Village\u003c/a> in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The challenge with those kinds of experiments is you want to make sure you’re not validating a model that says, ‘well people really don’t need housing' -- that it’s okay for people not to be provided with real housing,” she said. “It’s a slippery slope. As a society, do we want to give up on a goal that says people should have decent, safe, sanitary, conventional housing, whether they can earn enough to pay for it on the market or not?”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City Plan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city contracted with the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://bfhp.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Food and Housing Project\u003c/a> in May to connect Bulb residents with services and help them find a place to live. The city hired Oakland-based \u003ca href=\"http://operationdignity.org/services-2/\" target=\"_blank\">Operation Dignity\u003c/a> to open a temporary 30-bed shelter near the Bulb in late November. That part of the city’s park transition plan is costing more than $300,000 for six months of shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t live in the best of all possible worlds,” City Councilman Michael Barnes said when the council voted to finally approve Albany’s park transition plan in October. “I think the plan we have is a good one. People will move a few hundred yards off the Bulb into trailers. They will be warm. They will be dry. There will be showers. They will have food supplied to them. They will have toiletries supplied to them. Their dogs will be there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the shelters have not caught on with the Bulb residents. Only three to four people have been using them per night, according to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Food and Housing Project’s outreach has had some success, however. The nonprofit has connected four people with permanent housing since summer, although none of their apartments are in Albany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professional cook Bradley Anthony was the first Bulb resident to move into a permanent home though the effort. He had been living at the camp for about six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because I was employed, I knew it would be much easier for me,” he said outside his new home, a room in West Oakland. “It was pretty simple I guess, I mean comparatively speaking to what other people are going to be going through, I’m very lucky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony said he moved to the Bulb last spring after he got laid off. Another job he had lined up took longer to come through than expected, and he couldn’t pay rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he got in touch with his sister, April Anthony, who has lived at the Bulb for almost five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love it here, and I’m grateful for having been able to stay here,” April Anthony said. “As a single female homeless person, it beats the streets, there’s no doubt about it, and we have developed a community here, which is the last thing I thought I’d see. You know, but we’re all like a big family now. It’s kind of messed up that they’re going to break us apart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Anthony siblings are two examples of the Bulb’s heterogeneous population. Bradley Anthony said he had never been homeless except for those recent six months. He said the process of getting into housing was pretty easy once outreach workers realized he had a full-time job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was one of the few people that fit the criteria,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Anthony said he moved to the Bulb last spring after he got laid off. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>April Anthony, however, meets the federal definition of chronic homelessness. She has a physical disability that makes it difficult for her to walk, and bi-polar disorder, and she’s lived outdoors for more than a year. Like many of the people living on the Bulb, she makes a few hundred dollars a month selling art and doing odd jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have guaranteed monthly income, and that’s been a major killer,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Coming to Grips\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albany realtor Francesco Papalia seems a little sheepish when he claims to have started the whole controversy, or at least the most recent round of it. He used his position as chair of Albany’s Waterfront Committee to form a homelessness task force in the city about a year and a half ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone was homeless and fell down on the street or was sleeping in someone’s backyard, there was absolutely no one in the city whose job it was to help them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city council directed the task force to study the issue and present options for addressing homelessness in Albany, which is mostly concentrated at the Bulb. The task force delivered \u003ca href=\"http://albanyca.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?meta_id=65499&view=&showpdf=1\" target=\"_blank\">several options\u003c/a> to the city in May, and the city council voted to pursue eviction under Albany’s “no-camping” ordinance with limited support services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the same meeting, the council recommended task force members form an advocacy group, essentially dissolving it as a part of the city government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were shocked,” Papalia said. “It was like, what just happened?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the task force did reorganize into an advocacy group, the Albany Housing Advocates, which is now suing the city in federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Federal Case\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Albany Housing Advocates, April Anthony and 28 other Bulb residents are suing the city to delay the eviction. The plaintiffs say physical or mental disabilities prevent them from using the city’s temporary shelter that opened in late November, and they should have more time to find permanent housing, preferably in Albany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit argues the city’s plan violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, 4\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure, and the 14\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Amendment right to due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit says Albany plans to remove people from relative safety at the camp even though the city “does not have a single permanent shelter, transitional house, or available unit of subsidized housing.” \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The Albany Housing Advocates and 29 Bulb residents are suing the city to delay the eviction. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Wolch is the dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. She gets a little frustrated when she hears cities are addressing homelessness through temporary means, whether it be short-term housing or portable shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those kinds of solutions simply kick the can down the road,” she said. “That was the dominant solution in 1985 – build shelter beds. They don’t work very well. They keep people on this kind of cycle – street to shelter to jail to hospital that’s terrible for people and very expensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolch has studied homelessness since the 1980s, and she has published research on homeless encampments in southern California. She said cities can best address homelessness through supportive housing, which combines an affordable, permanent place to live with on-site case workers and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Albany doesn’t have any supportive housing units. Alameda County has more than 2,000 units. Berkeley, Albany’s larger neighbor to the south, has more than 100 units of supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Cheasty was mayor of Albany in 1999, when the city last grappled with the camp at the Bulb. Now he advocates for the state park transfer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a small city, you can’t have every possible service,” he said. “It’s just not feasible. So you rely on the county, you contribute to the county, or you partner with another city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, services for the homeless work better when they aren’t giant, centralized projects, according to Wolch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Albany would acknowledge that they had about 50 people at any one time who needed services and needed shelter and needed long-term support, then there’s no reason that they couldn’t address that need,” she said. “And in fact, homelessness and homeless service provision and supportive housing is much better done on a small scale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Housing Element\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affordable housing is the subject of another lawsuit concerning Albany’s obligations to the poor and homeless. This one is in Alameda County Superior Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law requires all California cities and counties to plan for housing at all income levels. It’s called the housing element of the general plan, and their due approximately every seven years. Albany’s last approved plan was filed in 1992. The city turned in an updated draft for the 2007 to 2014 period in October – more than a little late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process has already spurred the city to remove restrictions on building a permanent emergency shelter, and the draft recommends doing something similar for transitional and supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deja Vu\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the first time the city has grappled with its homeless population. In fact, the present saga is a near duplicate of one in 1999, when Albany used the same contractor to build a temporary shelter near the Bulb and evicted the camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Human Welfare Commissioner Dan McMullan lived at the camp in 1999. He lost his right leg in a motorcycle accident and spent about a decade homeless in Berkeley and Albany. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The present saga is a near duplicate of one at the Bulb back in 1999. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The reason I was homeless was because I was disabled,” he said. “People that work with homeless people know, scratch any homeless person and you’ll find a disability. And they do nothing in Albany for people with disabilities who are homeless. And it’s amazing to me that after all these years, they’re going to try to pull the same move again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albany Mayor Peggy Thomsen declined interview requests from KQED. Albany’s mayor is part of the city council, and she is the only current member who was also a councilmember 15 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did, I believe, have a humane relocation of the people at that time,” she said at a public meeting. “I personally went out to the Bulb to where the food was delivered into the portables. I would be happy to have lived in one myself. They were very, very clean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McMullan said his ideal solution would be to improve the lot of people at the Bulb, maybe with a transitional shelter there, including fresh water and working plumbing. That way, people could camp there until they found permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albany’s disbanded homelessness task force had a similar suggestion, which they called the dignity village model, based on a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dignityvillage.org/index.php/14-dignity-news-articles/72-wecome-friends\" target=\"_blank\">self-governing community in Portland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the city isn’t pursuing that plan, and the task force was concerned that building a dignity village at the Bulb might prolong people living in harsh conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s Wolch described a similar, now closed \u003ca href=\"http://domevillage.tedhayes.us/\" target=\"_blank\">Dome Village\u003c/a> in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, they can get a hot meal, a shower, medical treatment and even a clean needle. About 50 to 100 kids pack the center on a typical day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are not really ready to make life changes and move beyond the street if they can’t eat and sleep and get medical care, and have someone to talk to and just have a space to like, be,” said Howe, who was once a homeless youth herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121553\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 346px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7977_homeless_youth_alliance_dec2013_0359_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-121553 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7977_homeless_youth_alliance_dec2013_0359_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Howe talks to Ulysses, a homeless man who has used the services at the Homeless Youth Alliance, near Stanyan and Haight streets. 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(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She pleaded with the property management company for an extension, and even offered to pay more rent, to no avail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The manager, Paul Gaetano, said the Homeless Youth Alliance has been a great tenant, and always paid rent on time, but the building needs to be retrofitted and remodeled and it would be “easier for everyone if they vacate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if the Homeless Youth Alliance could return after the work, Gaetano said the space would be rented to a new commercial tenant, a decision made by the owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those owners, Dr. David Smith, is the founder of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, which has a similar mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has long supported our work, and donates, but he’s not the only owner in that partnership. And I think their original mission got lost along the way,” said Howe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Golden Gate Park, where many kids are forced to sleep, a 27-year-old woman with curly red hair named Shortcake said she has been coming to the alliance since she was a teen, and dreads its pending closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s tragic. I don’t think everyone’s prepared for exactly how bad it’s going to get out here,” she said. “It’s just going to make things 10 times worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Howe said she’s committed to stay in the neighborhood, and has the support of merchants and neighbors. An \u003ca href=\"http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-the-closing-of-homeless\">online petition\u003c/a> to elected officials and the owner of the building urging them to stop the closure has garnered more than 3,000 signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, the Alliance is looking for a van to provide mobile services, and space for a new center in the Upper Haight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re definitely very committed to staying with this population,” Howe said. “The Haight will always have this influx of kids who are escaping something and looking for something better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bevan Dufty, the mayor’s point person on homelessness, described the Homeless Youth Alliance’s work as “magical,” and said he’s trying to help secure a property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121556\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 296px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/7978_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-121556 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/7978_transform-549x640.jpg\" alt=\"Shortcake, 27, has been going to the Homeless Youth Alliance for 10 years. She has two dogs and doesn't know how she'll be able to feed them after the organization loses its space at the end of the month. "It's gonna be really tragic to see them to," she said. (Sara Bloomgberg/KQED)\" width=\"296\" height=\"346\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shortcake, 27, has been going to the Homeless Youth Alliance for 10 years. She has two dogs and doesn’t know how she’ll be able to feed them after the organization loses its space at the end of the month. “It’s gonna be really tragic to see them go,” she said. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking at opportunities where they arise. And so I don’t know. We’re going to do our best,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Howe, it’s hard to leave a place she’s grown so attached to, even though she and her small staff plan to set up a mobile center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s still heartbreaking, and I would rather have it stay the way it is, but I do think that good will come of it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every Christmas Day for the past five years, neighbors of the Homeless Youth Alliance have brought a holiday meal to the kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really amazing, like 20 people cook food, and bring it to the drop-in and serve the kids,” said Howe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after this Christmas Day, the tradition ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the meal is over, Howe and her staff will lock the doors, spend a week packing, and on New Year’s Day, they’ll hit the streets.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The Stick will be demolished next year as the Niners head to a brand-new stadium in Santa Clara. But \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/18/49ers-tailgaters/\">longtime fans say they will remember this old place fondly. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/Santa-Clara-Stadium.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-121305\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/Santa-Clara-Stadium.jpg\" alt=\"Candlestick Park: the site of the Beatles' last concert, a World Series earthquake, a papal Mass — and the longtime home of the San Francisco Giants and 49ers. The Stick will be demolished next year as the Niners head to a brand-new stadium in Santa Clara. But longtime fans say they will remember this old place fondly. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nThe 49ers’ new stadium in Santa Clara is nearly complete. It’s being touted as the greenest stadium in the NFL. Levi’s Stadium will have solar panels, use recycled water for the grass, offer parking for bicycles and have a rooftop garden with native plants. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/Youth-Alliance.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-121306\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/Youth-Alliance.jpg\" alt=\" A crowd of young people at the Homeless Youth Alliance earlier this week. The drop-in homeless services center will have to close its doors on Christmas Day to prepare to move everything into storage. The building owner plans to use the Haight Street space for a restaurant and housing. (Sara Bloomberg / KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nA crowd of young people at the Homeless Youth Alliance earlier this week. The drop-in homeless services center will have to close its doors on Christmas Day to prepare to move everything into storage. The building owner plans to use the Haight Street space for a restaurant and housing. 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(Tawanda Kanhema)' width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nLast Saturday,five pilots from the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen Inc. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/16/bay-area-tuskegee-airmen-honor-nelson-mandela-with/\">took to the skies\u003c/a> to pay tribute to late South African President Nelson Mandela. “We are flying over a highly populated African-American community to let them know that we do honor and respect the people who have put their lives out there for us,” said Ben Henderson, a former U.S. Air Force engineer. 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Over \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/17/berkeleys-redstart-helps-set-count-record/\">230 birders fanned out across Oakland, Berkeley\u003c/a> and other nearby towns in Golden Gate Audubon’s 73rd annual Christmas Bird Count, or CBC as it’s known. A burrowing owl was spotted in Cesar Chavez Park during this year’s bird count, one of five species of owl counted. 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Over \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/17/berkeleys-redstart-helps-set-count-record/\">230 birders fanned out across Oakland, Berkeley\u003c/a> and other nearby towns in Golden Gate Audubon’s 73rd annual Christmas Bird Count, or CBC as it’s known. A burrowing owl was spotted in Cesar Chavez Park during this year’s bird count, one of five species of owl counted. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119447\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7767_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-119447\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7767_transform-640x448.jpg\" alt=\"A donation bin sits near shelves with canned foods at the San Francisco Food Bank in 2008. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"448\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donations are down at area food banks. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The weather may have warmed up and the holidays are in full swing, but for plenty of people in the Bay Area the outlook is grim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food banks around the Bay Area continue to face shortfalls at a time of year when demand is also the highest. At Thanksgiving, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/26/119446/food-bank-donations-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED reported on the drop in donations at regional food banks\u003c/a>. The recent cold snap sent more people looking for help and put a deeper freeze on an already sluggish holiday donation season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The holiday saga continues,” said Kathy Jackson, CEO of \u003ca href=\"http://www.shfb.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Second Harvest Food Bank\u003c/a> of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. Inventory, she said, is at an all-time low. The food bank currently has less than two weeks of inventory on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second Harvest has raised just one-quarter of the $13.2 million it aims to bring in during its holiday campaign. Nearly half of the money raised for the year typically comes in during the holidays, so low holiday donations can mean thin budgets the rest of the year. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sffoodbank.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco and Marin Food Banks\u003c/a> are also still $500,000 short for what they usually expect at this time of year, said Paul Ash, executive director. That’s down from about a $900,000 shortfall at the end of October — good news, he said, but still not good enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is that with the economy rebounding for some, most people think there isn’t as much of a need for food banks or shelter services. But that perception is wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The economy is contributing to people thinking, ‘Well, everyone must have a job now, maybe I don’t need to give to the food bank,’ and that probably applies to other services,” Ash said. “That’s just not what we’re seeing. Our lines at the pantries and the number of people we’re serving are just as high as they were a year ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have more food going out the door than coming in the door,” Jackson said. “It’s the disconnect,” she said: If need and donations both went down or both went up, it’d be easier to deal with. But, with donations down and need remaining high, it’s causing concern among the food banks and service providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, cuts to federally funded food-assistance programs that went into effect on Nov. 1 have also driven more people to food banks just to make ends meet. The cuts, said Ash, averaged about $30-$40 per family. That may not seem like a lot if you have enough money to pay all your bills, but some San Francisco Food Bank clients said it was the difference between buying milk for the month or not. And, the cuts often drive down the quality of food the family can afford with their food stamps, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120647\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7934_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0267_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-120647 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7934_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0267_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Nyla Bonner, 2, enjoys a free meal with her mother Chelan Cassidy at U.N. Plaza in San Francisco. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nyla Bonner, 2, enjoys a free meal with her mother Chelan Cassidy at U.N. Plaza in San Francisco. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cold snap that sent a number of homeless residents to emergency rooms and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/06/santa-clara-county-coroner-four-die-in-san-jose-from-exposure/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed four people in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> will also have consequences for those having trouble putting food on their tables. When budgets are tapped for higher heating bills, people will have less money for food and will need assistance even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson said the freezing weather of the past couple of weeks may cut the volume of surplus crops that Second Harvest and other food banks depend on. Jackson said that food is usually available for “pennies on the pound.” Without it, they’ll have to buy canned produce to replace it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the food banks struggle to deal with the decreasing supply and increasing demand, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/10/as-the-cold-continues-shelters-work-to-bring-warmth/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shelters have rushed to open their doors during the cold\u003c/a>. San Francisco initiated a “cold snap procedure,” which instructs city shelters to let people into any empty beds after 8 p.m. when the temperature is below 40 degrees. The city has 1,150 emergency shelter beds, which includes some winter-only beds, and about 3,500 homeless people on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most counties in the Bay Area have emergency winter shelters, it’s rare for the weather to become dangerously cold. The recent cold temperatures made life tough for people on the streets. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/12/homeless-san-franciscans-cope-with-cold-weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A KQED report on living homeless and cold in San Francisco\u003c/a> started a discussion among our readers about what can be done and how people can help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s never too late to make a donation. They can do it right up until the champagne pops on New Year’s Eve,” Ash said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are a few resources for food donations, shelters and medical and social services. Organizations encourage monetary donations; Jackson argues they can often make the dollar stretch further than you could on your own because of contracts and arrangements, such as the ones they have with growers. The list primarily came from readers and is by no means exhaustive. Please feel free to add additional suggestions in the comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Food Banks:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sffoodbank.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco and Marin Food Banks\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.shfb.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Second Harvest Food Bank\u003c/a> (San Mateo and Santa Clara counties; \u003ca href=\"http://www.thefoodbank.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Cruz\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.foodbankccs.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano Counties\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.accfb.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda County Community Food Bank\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.refb.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Redwood Empire Food Bank\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.canv.org/foodbank.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa Valley Food Bank\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Or, if you need food, you can also call: 1-800-984-FOOD\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shelters and Service Providers:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.glide.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GLIDE\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.stanthonysf.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Anthony’s\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.vinnies.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Vincent de Paul of Marin County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ehclifebuilders.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EHC Lifebuilders\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thegubbioproject.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Gubbio Project\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/26/draft-website-lets-homeless-needy-san-franciscans-solicit-donations-throug/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HandUp\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ecs-sf.org/aboutus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Episcopal Community Services in San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ivsn.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">InnVision Shelter Network\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A good place to start if you need help is at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfdph.org/dph/comupg/oservices/homeless/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Department of Public Health – Homeless Services\u003c/a>. Or, check this \u003ca href=\"http://www.homelessshelterdirectory.org/cgi-bin/id/city.cgi?city=San%20Francisco&state=CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">directory of shelters available\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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That may not seem like a lot if you have enough money to pay all your bills, but some San Francisco Food Bank clients said it was the difference between buying milk for the month or not. And, the cuts often drive down the quality of food the family can afford with their food stamps, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120647\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7934_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0267_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-120647 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7934_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0267_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Nyla Bonner, 2, enjoys a free meal with her mother Chelan Cassidy at U.N. Plaza in San Francisco. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nyla Bonner, 2, enjoys a free meal with her mother Chelan Cassidy at U.N. Plaza in San Francisco. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cold snap that sent a number of homeless residents to emergency rooms and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/06/santa-clara-county-coroner-four-die-in-san-jose-from-exposure/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed four people in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> will also have consequences for those having trouble putting food on their tables. When budgets are tapped for higher heating bills, people will have less money for food and will need assistance even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson said the freezing weather of the past couple of weeks may cut the volume of surplus crops that Second Harvest and other food banks depend on. Jackson said that food is usually available for “pennies on the pound.” Without it, they’ll have to buy canned produce to replace it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the food banks struggle to deal with the decreasing supply and increasing demand, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/10/as-the-cold-continues-shelters-work-to-bring-warmth/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shelters have rushed to open their doors during the cold\u003c/a>. San Francisco initiated a “cold snap procedure,” which instructs city shelters to let people into any empty beds after 8 p.m. when the temperature is below 40 degrees. The city has 1,150 emergency shelter beds, which includes some winter-only beds, and about 3,500 homeless people on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most counties in the Bay Area have emergency winter shelters, it’s rare for the weather to become dangerously cold. The recent cold temperatures made life tough for people on the streets. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/12/homeless-san-franciscans-cope-with-cold-weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A KQED report on living homeless and cold in San Francisco\u003c/a> started a discussion among our readers about what can be done and how people can help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s never too late to make a donation. They can do it right up until the champagne pops on New Year’s Eve,” Ash said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are a few resources for food donations, shelters and medical and social services. Organizations encourage monetary donations; Jackson argues they can often make the dollar stretch further than you could on your own because of contracts and arrangements, such as the ones they have with growers. The list primarily came from readers and is by no means exhaustive. 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"content": "\u003cp>We always qualify our complaints about the cold in the Bay Area: Oh, it’s cold — but this is \u003cem>nothing\u003c/em> compared to (name of hometown here). It’s true that the closer you live to the water here, the less insulation your home will have and the weaker the heating will be, and it’s occasionally uncomfortable on those few nights every year the temperature dips into the 30s. That just comes with the territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for one group of Bay Area residents, the cold weather is brutal and occasionally deadly. Those who live without reliable shelter face a night-to-night struggle to find some way, any way, to stay warm. For many, that means a pile of blankets, lots of layers of clothing and a piece of cardboard between them and the concrete they lie on. Two of our staffers, reporter \u003cstrong>Alex Emslie\u003c/strong> and photographer \u003cstrong>Sara Bloomberg\u003c/strong>, visited with unsheltered San Franciscans earlier this week to hear how they were contending with the elements. Here are the pictures and voices they brought back:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7936_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0329_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120648\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7936_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0329_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Qat Astrophic says she feels safer sleeping in her tent on the sidewalk than staying in a shelter. 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Not to mention if you got a couple sleeping bags, one inside the other, I was homeless in the snow in Portland, and put one sleeping bag inside of the other one, and managed to stay warm sleeping outside in the snow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7931_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0192_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120646\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7931_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0192_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Smith battles the freezing temperatures that have hit San Francisco with layers of sweaters and blankets. 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He’s 61 and has been in San Francisco “for years.” His tactic for staying warm on recent cold nights: “Curl up and try to get as warm as I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7934_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0267_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120647\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7934_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0267_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Nyla Bonner, 2, enjoys a free meal with her mother Chelan Cassidy at U.N. Plaza in San Francisco. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>We always qualify our complaints about the cold in the Bay Area: Oh, it’s cold — but this is \u003cem>nothing\u003c/em> compared to (name of hometown here). It’s true that the closer you live to the water here, the less insulation your home will have and the weaker the heating will be, and it’s occasionally uncomfortable on those few nights every year the temperature dips into the 30s. That just comes with the territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for one group of Bay Area residents, the cold weather is brutal and occasionally deadly. Those who live without reliable shelter face a night-to-night struggle to find some way, any way, to stay warm. For many, that means a pile of blankets, lots of layers of clothing and a piece of cardboard between them and the concrete they lie on. Two of our staffers, reporter \u003cstrong>Alex Emslie\u003c/strong> and photographer \u003cstrong>Sara Bloomberg\u003c/strong>, visited with unsheltered San Franciscans earlier this week to hear how they were contending with the elements. Here are the pictures and voices they brought back:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7936_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0329_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120648\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7936_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0329_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Qat Astrophic says she feels safer sleeping in her tent on the sidewalk than staying in a shelter. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\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/124586713″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/124586713″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Qat Astrophic: \u003c/strong> We met Qat Astrophic, 37, on 17th Street. She says she’s been in San Francisco for five years and homeless off and on for 20 years. She says her tent helps in the cold: “If you light a couple candles, it’s like a heater. Like I can light a candle and it’ll warm up the whole tent. Not to mention if you got a couple sleeping bags, one inside the other, I was homeless in the snow in Portland, and put one sleeping bag inside of the other one, and managed to stay warm sleeping outside in the snow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It was really, it was painful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7925_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0002_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120642\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7925_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0002_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Kelly Law says he tries to “curl up and try to get as warm as I can.” (Sara Bloomberg)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\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/124586715″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/124586715″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fred Kelly Law: \u003c/strong>We caught up with Fred Kelly Law in the Civic Center area. 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