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"content": "\u003cp>Esmeralda Celis didn’t know how her family would survive last winter. Her husband, who worked multiple restaurant jobs, was suddenly forced to leave the country for several months due to his immigration status. She was left to care for their four children for months without income in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, one of the country’s most expensive places to live.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Once we hit January, I was scrambling to figure out how I’m going to pay for these bills, how I’m going to provide for my children, how I’m going to keep the roof over their head,” said Celis, who lives in a two-bedroom apartment near Civic Center. “It was extremely stressful. They saw mom in shambles.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Unsure of where to go, she told a counselor at her child’s school about their situation. They connected her with Compass Family Services, one of several nonprofits that recently received an injection of private philanthropic funding to help families on the brink of homelessness stay put. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The nonprofit stepped in to cover her $2,600 monthly rent from January through May, tiding them over until Celis’ husband came back and could return to work. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The instability of not having a home or roof would have been detrimental for my children,” said Celis, whose daughter has cystic fibrosis and requires breathing treatments and frequent medical visits. “This definitely helped with the stability and, more than anything, keeping my children’s peace.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260729_SFFamiliesPilot_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12093706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260729_SFFamiliesPilot_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260729_SFFamiliesPilot_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260729_SFFamiliesPilot_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Esmeralda Celis and her three children Pedro, 9, Josio, 3, and Aribelle, 11, pose for a photo at the Helen Diller Civic Center Playground in San Francisco on July 29, 2026. (Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Celis’ experience is growing increasingly common as the cost of living in San Francisco has skyrocketed, most recently driven by the artificial intelligence boom. The average cost of a two-bedroom apartment in the city is now $6,382, according to Zillow, up about $1,759 since last year. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12083310/fewer-people-are-sleeping-on-san-francisco-streets-but-family-homelessness-is-up\">Families experiencing homelessness\u003c/a> increased by 15% since 2024, according to the latest point-in-time count of the city’s homelessness population. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/2026-point-in-time-count-preliminary-results\">actual number of people\u003c/a> in families experiencing homelessness increased by 34%, from 1,103 people in 2024 to 1,474 people in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the city has a vast network of support services for people experiencing homelessness, it’s now increasingly looking at how to prevent people from losing housing by offering support before an eviction notice hits or families are forced to leave. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Tipping Point Community, a philanthropic organization started by Mayor Daniel Lurie before he entered office, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029619/luries-nonprofit-giving-san-francisco-11-million-prevent-family-homelessness\">donated $11 million last year\u003c/a> toward a yearlong pilot project targeting family homelessness with a focus on prevention. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nonprofits receiving the funding included Compass Family Services, Mission Economic Development Agency, APA Family Support Services, Mission Neighborhood Centers and Glide. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>These groups have all worked in the community for several years, and are using the pilot program funds to help families cover a financial shock that might cause them to lose their home, whether that’s a pileup of medical bills or car maintenance so they can continue getting to work. The short-term relief has varied in amount and duration depending on a family’s situation, but has ranged from a few hundred dollars to thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nearly 900 families in San Francisco have been supported through the pilot program so far. The pilot has extended another six months to the end of 2026, after which there will be an external analysis on the outcomes of the effort, according to Tipping Point executive director Sam Cobbs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’re serving people who wouldn’t have traditionally touched the family homelessness system until much later on,” Cobbs said. “These organizations that we work with are incredible and, as we anticipated, are the first line of defense for families when they’re facing eviction or run into trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The prevention-focused approach is gaining steam in communities around the country, largely fueled by private dollars and local government spending. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>There are no federal funding streams for this kind of homelessness prevention, and federal funding for affordable housing has declined in recent years as the cost of living has gone up. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supporters say it’s a more cost-effective approach to other downstream homelessness solutions like adding new permanent supportive housing, which can cost upward of $600,000 per unit. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In 2024, Santa Clara County adopted a homelessness prevention system modeled by the San Jose-based nonprofit Destination: Home into its broader public safety net. It now provides around 2,500 households at risk of homelessness per year with prevention assistance. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Studies on the effort have shown that the upstream support can dramatically slow the pace of families entering homelessness. In Santa Clara County, 93% of families who received services early remained housed. Less than 10% became homeless two years later. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1367\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GettyImages-2172244931.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12082708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GettyImages-2172244931.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GettyImages-2172244931-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GettyImages-2172244931-1536x1060.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference on housing and homelessness in San Francisco, California, on Sept. 19, 2024. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Overwhelmingly, people who receive that assistance are not showing up later in homeless shelters or street outreach programs, which suggests that the short-term assistance is really effective at helping folks maintain their housing or housing stability,” said Ryan Finnegan, deputy director of research for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco does have a rental assistance program, called ERAP, and the pilot is seeking to find ways to improve that system to better serve families facing homelessness. In addition to funding the nonprofits’ work, Tipping Point is helping the city build a database of its homelessness response systems to better coordinate resources. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But as the approach gains traction across the increasingly expensive Bay Area, some limitations are emerging. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One issue is simply finding the families who might benefit the most from the assistance. Programs often target families based on information in social services databases, or find families through existing nonprofits and networks on the ground, like Celis’ school counselor. But making actual connections can be difficult. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They do have the challenge of reaching people effectively, because who really answers unknown phone calls from the county government, you know, and especially if it’s people who really are facing a lot of disruptions to their housing stability,” Finnegan said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260729_SFFamiliesPilot_GC-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12093703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260729_SFFamiliesPilot_GC-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260729_SFFamiliesPilot_GC-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260729_SFFamiliesPilot_GC-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Esmeralda Celis hugs her daughter Josio, 3, at the Helen Diller Civic Center Playground in San Francisco on July 29, 2026. (Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Then once short-term assistance dries up, Finnegan said, many families who are living on thin margins may still struggle to get by. In 2025, researchers at the Terner Center \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/navigating-the-post-subsidy-cliff-considerations-for-families-approaching-the-end-of-rapid-rehousing/\">found\u003c/a> that as rental assistance programs ended, some families doubled up with other relatives, moved or faced threats of eviction.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The theory is that their incomes hopefully rise over time to meet the market rents, but in a place like the Bay Area where market rent is so high, that doesn’t really happen very often,” Finnegan said. “Maybe that one-time assistance helps them stay out of shelters for a year. And then in that second year, they’re back where they were.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jennifer Loving, who runs Destination: Home, said that prevention has been a success in many cities looking to slow the rate of homelessness. Part of that has been the local governments’ investment into prevention on a wider scale. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Our partnership is deeply rooted with the city of San José and the county of Santa Clara, and they both contribute dollars to our system-wide prevention model. But it didn’t start out that way,” Loving said. “If we would have tried to sustain this with only private dollars, it wouldn’t be sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In addition to prevention assistance, Santa Clara County has also been exploring guaranteed income pilots to help families longer-term. Loving said many families receiving the assistance ultimately need help digging out of poverty.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The underlying issue, Loving said, is that many working families simply can’t afford today’s housing market. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Frankly the thing that’s the best for everybody is rent they can afford,” Loving said. “Affordable housing is always going to be the number one most important issue. But production, development and funding for deeply affordable housing dried up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In its most recent budget, San Francisco agreed to fund more than 700 additional \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12087973/with-family-homelessness-up-san-francisco-looks-to-extend-short-term-rental-subsidies\">short-term rental subsidies\u003c/a>, which typically cover families for between two and five years, plus 75 long-term subsidies after a push from housing advocates. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“People are realizing that philanthropy can only go so far. And this is the perfect use of philanthropy. You have flexible dollars to try something, understand what works and what doesn’t work. Then work with the government to scale what works,” Cobbs said. “Everything that we’ve done here has been hand in hand with San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For Celis, the short-term rental relief was a lifeline, allowing her to avoid debt and keep the family’s housing situation steady.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But she said the city must do more to bring down the cost of housing for families like hers, who want to stay in a sanctuary city that’s close to their friends and doctors. Supporters of such assistance also point out that the approach helps preserve the diversity and breadth of the community, from gardeners to daycare employees and restaurant workers who don’t make sky-high tech salaries. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Celis is hoping to one day secure a larger unit through the city’s housing lottery system. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Esmeralda Celis didn’t know how her family would survive last winter. Her husband, who worked multiple restaurant jobs, was suddenly forced to leave the country for several months due to his immigration status. She was left to care for their four children for months without income in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, one of the country’s most expensive places to live.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Once we hit January, I was scrambling to figure out how I’m going to pay for these bills, how I’m going to provide for my children, how I’m going to keep the roof over their head,” said Celis, who lives in a two-bedroom apartment near Civic Center. “It was extremely stressful. They saw mom in shambles.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Unsure of where to go, she told a counselor at her child’s school about their situation. They connected her with Compass Family Services, one of several nonprofits that recently received an injection of private philanthropic funding to help families on the brink of homelessness stay put. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The nonprofit stepped in to cover her $2,600 monthly rent from January through May, tiding them over until Celis’ husband came back and could return to work. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The instability of not having a home or roof would have been detrimental for my children,” said Celis, whose daughter has cystic fibrosis and requires breathing treatments and frequent medical visits. “This definitely helped with the stability and, more than anything, keeping my children’s peace.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260729_SFFamiliesPilot_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12093706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260729_SFFamiliesPilot_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260729_SFFamiliesPilot_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260729_SFFamiliesPilot_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Esmeralda Celis and her three children Pedro, 9, Josio, 3, and Aribelle, 11, pose for a photo at the Helen Diller Civic Center Playground in San Francisco on July 29, 2026. (Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Celis’ experience is growing increasingly common as the cost of living in San Francisco has skyrocketed, most recently driven by the artificial intelligence boom. The average cost of a two-bedroom apartment in the city is now $6,382, according to Zillow, up about $1,759 since last year. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12083310/fewer-people-are-sleeping-on-san-francisco-streets-but-family-homelessness-is-up\">Families experiencing homelessness\u003c/a> increased by 15% since 2024, according to the latest point-in-time count of the city’s homelessness population. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/2026-point-in-time-count-preliminary-results\">actual number of people\u003c/a> in families experiencing homelessness increased by 34%, from 1,103 people in 2024 to 1,474 people in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the city has a vast network of support services for people experiencing homelessness, it’s now increasingly looking at how to prevent people from losing housing by offering support before an eviction notice hits or families are forced to leave. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Tipping Point Community, a philanthropic organization started by Mayor Daniel Lurie before he entered office, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029619/luries-nonprofit-giving-san-francisco-11-million-prevent-family-homelessness\">donated $11 million last year\u003c/a> toward a yearlong pilot project targeting family homelessness with a focus on prevention. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nonprofits receiving the funding included Compass Family Services, Mission Economic Development Agency, APA Family Support Services, Mission Neighborhood Centers and Glide. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>These groups have all worked in the community for several years, and are using the pilot program funds to help families cover a financial shock that might cause them to lose their home, whether that’s a pileup of medical bills or car maintenance so they can continue getting to work. The short-term relief has varied in amount and duration depending on a family’s situation, but has ranged from a few hundred dollars to thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nearly 900 families in San Francisco have been supported through the pilot program so far. The pilot has extended another six months to the end of 2026, after which there will be an external analysis on the outcomes of the effort, according to Tipping Point executive director Sam Cobbs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’re serving people who wouldn’t have traditionally touched the family homelessness system until much later on,” Cobbs said. “These organizations that we work with are incredible and, as we anticipated, are the first line of defense for families when they’re facing eviction or run into trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The prevention-focused approach is gaining steam in communities around the country, largely fueled by private dollars and local government spending. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>There are no federal funding streams for this kind of homelessness prevention, and federal funding for affordable housing has declined in recent years as the cost of living has gone up. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supporters say it’s a more cost-effective approach to other downstream homelessness solutions like adding new permanent supportive housing, which can cost upward of $600,000 per unit. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In 2024, Santa Clara County adopted a homelessness prevention system modeled by the San Jose-based nonprofit Destination: Home into its broader public safety net. It now provides around 2,500 households at risk of homelessness per year with prevention assistance. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Studies on the effort have shown that the upstream support can dramatically slow the pace of families entering homelessness. In Santa Clara County, 93% of families who received services early remained housed. Less than 10% became homeless two years later. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1367\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GettyImages-2172244931.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12082708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GettyImages-2172244931.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GettyImages-2172244931-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GettyImages-2172244931-1536x1060.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference on housing and homelessness in San Francisco, California, on Sept. 19, 2024. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Overwhelmingly, people who receive that assistance are not showing up later in homeless shelters or street outreach programs, which suggests that the short-term assistance is really effective at helping folks maintain their housing or housing stability,” said Ryan Finnegan, deputy director of research for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco does have a rental assistance program, called ERAP, and the pilot is seeking to find ways to improve that system to better serve families facing homelessness. In addition to funding the nonprofits’ work, Tipping Point is helping the city build a database of its homelessness response systems to better coordinate resources. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But as the approach gains traction across the increasingly expensive Bay Area, some limitations are emerging. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One issue is simply finding the families who might benefit the most from the assistance. Programs often target families based on information in social services databases, or find families through existing nonprofits and networks on the ground, like Celis’ school counselor. But making actual connections can be difficult. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They do have the challenge of reaching people effectively, because who really answers unknown phone calls from the county government, you know, and especially if it’s people who really are facing a lot of disruptions to their housing stability,” Finnegan said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260729_SFFamiliesPilot_GC-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12093703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260729_SFFamiliesPilot_GC-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260729_SFFamiliesPilot_GC-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260729_SFFamiliesPilot_GC-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Esmeralda Celis hugs her daughter Josio, 3, at the Helen Diller Civic Center Playground in San Francisco on July 29, 2026. (Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Then once short-term assistance dries up, Finnegan said, many families who are living on thin margins may still struggle to get by. In 2025, researchers at the Terner Center \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/navigating-the-post-subsidy-cliff-considerations-for-families-approaching-the-end-of-rapid-rehousing/\">found\u003c/a> that as rental assistance programs ended, some families doubled up with other relatives, moved or faced threats of eviction.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The theory is that their incomes hopefully rise over time to meet the market rents, but in a place like the Bay Area where market rent is so high, that doesn’t really happen very often,” Finnegan said. “Maybe that one-time assistance helps them stay out of shelters for a year. And then in that second year, they’re back where they were.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jennifer Loving, who runs Destination: Home, said that prevention has been a success in many cities looking to slow the rate of homelessness. Part of that has been the local governments’ investment into prevention on a wider scale. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Our partnership is deeply rooted with the city of San José and the county of Santa Clara, and they both contribute dollars to our system-wide prevention model. But it didn’t start out that way,” Loving said. “If we would have tried to sustain this with only private dollars, it wouldn’t be sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In addition to prevention assistance, Santa Clara County has also been exploring guaranteed income pilots to help families longer-term. Loving said many families receiving the assistance ultimately need help digging out of poverty.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The underlying issue, Loving said, is that many working families simply can’t afford today’s housing market. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Frankly the thing that’s the best for everybody is rent they can afford,” Loving said. “Affordable housing is always going to be the number one most important issue. But production, development and funding for deeply affordable housing dried up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In its most recent budget, San Francisco agreed to fund more than 700 additional \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12087973/with-family-homelessness-up-san-francisco-looks-to-extend-short-term-rental-subsidies\">short-term rental subsidies\u003c/a>, which typically cover families for between two and five years, plus 75 long-term subsidies after a push from housing advocates. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“People are realizing that philanthropy can only go so far. And this is the perfect use of philanthropy. You have flexible dollars to try something, understand what works and what doesn’t work. Then work with the government to scale what works,” Cobbs said. “Everything that we’ve done here has been hand in hand with San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For Celis, the short-term rental relief was a lifeline, allowing her to avoid debt and keep the family’s housing situation steady.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But she said the city must do more to bring down the cost of housing for families like hers, who want to stay in a sanctuary city that’s close to their friends and doctors. Supporters of such assistance also point out that the approach helps preserve the diversity and breadth of the community, from gardeners to daycare employees and restaurant workers who don’t make sky-high tech salaries. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Celis is hoping to one day secure a larger unit through the city’s housing lottery system. She’s waited years already.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Alameda County supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday to begin sending \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">cash payments\u003c/a> to the last surviving homeowners forced out of Russell City, the unincorporated community dismantled by the county and the city of Hayward six decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The vote approved a memorandum of understanding with Hayward that sets up shared governance of a $1.3 million \u003ca href=\"https://reparations.alamedacountyca.gov/reparations-for-wrongfully-evicted-russell-city-residents-nbc-bay-area/\">redress fund\u003c/a>, seeded by all five supervisors, the city and the Alameda County Office of Education, to make amends to residents who had property seized during the 1960s. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supervisors also authorized the county to issue a first round of payments of up to $25,000 per household. Russell City \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922175/remembering-russell-city-a-thriving-east-bay-town-razed-by-racist-government\">once stood on the Hayward shoreline\u003c/a>, south of the modern Hayward Regional Shoreline Park. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the 1960s, county authorities declared Russell City blighted and used eminent domain to acquire close to 700 parcels, displacing roughly 1,400 residents and converting the land into an industrial park annexed by Hayward in 1964. Today, nothing of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051329/displaced-russell-city-residents-set-to-receive-cash-reparations\">the historic Black and Latino community\u003c/a> survives, except the name of the Calpine Russell City Energy Center, a natural gas power plant.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_2829-scaled-e1638419681640.jpg\" alt='A board reads, \"Russell City: The city may be gone, but the memories live on.\"' class=\"wp-image-11897865\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A board honoring the families that lived in Russell City is displayed during the annual Russell City reunion picnic at Kennedy Park in Hayward on Sept. 3, 2017. (Courtesy of Aisha Knowles)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Fifth Amendment allows the government to seize private property for public use and requires it to pay “just compensation” in return. Research by the city of Hayward found some Russell City homeowners received around $2,000 for their homes, and some as little as $250.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founded in 1853, Russell City was named for a Gold Rush-era schoolteacher, Joel Russell. The neighborhood filled in as World War II drew workers to nearby factories. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At a time when racial covenants and redlining shut Black and Latino families out elsewhere, unincorporated Russell City became one of the few places in the East Bay where they could buy property and build. Families kept sheep, chickens, pigs and rabbits, and tended gardens big enough to feed neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-megaphone wp-block-embed-megaphone\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC4087576125&light=true\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Decades later, Hayward and Alameda County issued formal \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/news/nov21/hayward-city-council-issues-formal-apology-citys-role-racial-discrimination-0\">apologies\u003c/a> to community members in 2021 and 2023, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Márquez, who represents Hayward, Newark, Union City and parts of Fremont, and who supported the reparations plan, said the vote moves the county toward action.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“No payment can fully repair the harm caused by the destruction of Russell City,” she said. “But these first redress payments represent an important step toward acknowledging that harm, honoring the resilience of former residents and advancing justice for their families.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Márquez’s voice broke as she explained why the first round goes only to the oldest survivors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When families come together, we don’t ask elders to get in line,” she said. “They are served first.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12094035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Márquez speaks during a press conference in Hayward, California, on March 2, 2026. (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://alamedacountyca.gov/board/bos_calendar/documents/RussellCMOU\">The first phase\u003c/a> of reparations is deliberately narrow. To qualify, an applicant must have both lived in and personally owned a home in Russell City between Jan. 1, 1961, and Dec. 31, 1964, and had that property taken by eminent domain during those years. Money is allocated by household rather than by person, and split evenly among qualifying residents of the same home. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Márquez said the county is “not anticipating a large number this first round” because applicants must still be living and must have owned their home. Once those payments go out, she said, the working group will release criteria for a second phase that includes descendants, though that will require another board vote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Several speakers pressed the board on how the money will be divided. Priscilla Figueroa, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/your-government/staff/priscilla-figueroa\">Hayward resident\u003c/a> whose late husband’s family lived in Russell City, noted that $1.3 million divided by $25,000 covers only 52 households, and questioned how the county would determine who receives the full amount. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Deborah Harris, who grew up in Russell City with her parents, asked how the county will handle households where the original landowner has died, adding that “probably all of the original landowners are deceased at this point.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hayward Councilmember \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedacountyca.gov/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_08_04_26/GENERAL%20ADMINISTRATION/Set%20Matter%20Calendar/Supervisor%20M%c3%a1rquez_409832.pdf\">Angela Andrews\u003c/a>, who spoke at the meeting on Hayward’s behalf, said the city’s 2021 apology was not enough on its own. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“An apology is nothing without action,” she said. She urged philanthropic partners, the real estate industry and the business community to contribute to the fund, saying they benefited from the displacement.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supervisor Nate Miley committed another $250,000, and Márquez said she would match it, which would bring the fund to $1.8 million. Both stressed the pledges are not binding yet and will have to return to the board, likely in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Aisha Knowles, a Russell City descendant who chaired Hayward’s steering committee — and who produced a documentary on the community’s displacement, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theapologyfilm.com/\">\u003cem>The Apology\u003c/em>\u003c/a> — asked the county to aim higher, arguing the fund should eventually match what Russell City land sold for. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She told supervisors her grandfather never recovered from the loss.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“My grandfather did not live to be 50,” she said. “I am a year older than he was able to live and enjoy his life after Russell City.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She urged the board not to stop at phase one. “For those who are needing something to interrupt the trauma that they’ve held onto for the past 70 to 80 years, I encourage you to continue this work, and I thank you for staying in the fight.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Families kept sheep, chickens, pigs and rabbits, and tended gardens big enough to feed neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-megaphone wp-block-embed-megaphone\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC4087576125&light=true\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Decades later, Hayward and Alameda County issued formal \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/news/nov21/hayward-city-council-issues-formal-apology-citys-role-racial-discrimination-0\">apologies\u003c/a> to community members in 2021 and 2023, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Márquez, who represents Hayward, Newark, Union City and parts of Fremont, and who supported the reparations plan, said the vote moves the county toward action.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“No payment can fully repair the harm caused by the destruction of Russell City,” she said. “But these first redress payments represent an important step toward acknowledging that harm, honoring the resilience of former residents and advancing justice for their families.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Márquez’s voice broke as she explained why the first round goes only to the oldest survivors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When families come together, we don’t ask elders to get in line,” she said. “They are served first.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12094035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Márquez speaks during a press conference in Hayward, California, on March 2, 2026. (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://alamedacountyca.gov/board/bos_calendar/documents/RussellCMOU\">The first phase\u003c/a> of reparations is deliberately narrow. To qualify, an applicant must have both lived in and personally owned a home in Russell City between Jan. 1, 1961, and Dec. 31, 1964, and had that property taken by eminent domain during those years. Money is allocated by household rather than by person, and split evenly among qualifying residents of the same home. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Márquez said the county is “not anticipating a large number this first round” because applicants must still be living and must have owned their home. Once those payments go out, she said, the working group will release criteria for a second phase that includes descendants, though that will require another board vote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Several speakers pressed the board on how the money will be divided. Priscilla Figueroa, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/your-government/staff/priscilla-figueroa\">Hayward resident\u003c/a> whose late husband’s family lived in Russell City, noted that $1.3 million divided by $25,000 covers only 52 households, and questioned how the county would determine who receives the full amount. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Deborah Harris, who grew up in Russell City with her parents, asked how the county will handle households where the original landowner has died, adding that “probably all of the original landowners are deceased at this point.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hayward Councilmember \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedacountyca.gov/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_08_04_26/GENERAL%20ADMINISTRATION/Set%20Matter%20Calendar/Supervisor%20M%c3%a1rquez_409832.pdf\">Angela Andrews\u003c/a>, who spoke at the meeting on Hayward’s behalf, said the city’s 2021 apology was not enough on its own. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“An apology is nothing without action,” she said. She urged philanthropic partners, the real estate industry and the business community to contribute to the fund, saying they benefited from the displacement.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supervisor Nate Miley committed another $250,000, and Márquez said she would match it, which would bring the fund to $1.8 million. Both stressed the pledges are not binding yet and will have to return to the board, likely in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Aisha Knowles, a Russell City descendant who chaired Hayward’s steering committee — and who produced a documentary on the community’s displacement, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theapologyfilm.com/\">\u003cem>The Apology\u003c/em>\u003c/a> — asked the county to aim higher, arguing the fund should eventually match what Russell City land sold for. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She told supervisors her grandfather never recovered from the loss.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“My grandfather did not live to be 50,” she said. “I am a year older than he was able to live and enjoy his life after Russell City.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She urged the board not to stop at phase one. “For those who are needing something to interrupt the trauma that they’ve held onto for the past 70 to 80 years, I encourage you to continue this work, and I thank you for staying in the fight.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Buying a house amid San Francisco’s spiraling \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/affordability\">affordability crisis\u003c/a> can be daunting in even the most traditional of circumstances. But a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867110/for-some-parolees-facing-homelessness-communal-houses-fill-the-gap\">group of formerly incarcerated residents\u003c/a> living in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood is taking on the challenge by trying to buy their beloved Victorian rental, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/template.house/\">Template House\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their vision is to transition the property to a local land trust, ensuring the unique house can exist in perpetuity and offer a shot at communal living for people with experience in the criminal justice system. But as home prices across the city continue to rise because of the artificial intelligence boom, the deadline for the group to raise the money it needs to complete the deal is looming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing that I really want to do is to take this building off the speculative market. I want this house to be returned to this use case, and a land trust locks it in, in a way that’s really powerful,” said Zarinah Agnew, 44, who runs The Second Life Project, part of the nonprofit District Commons, which is helping steward the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Commons runs several communal homes in San Francisco. Template House was formed in 2019 with the specific goal of offering communal living for people exiting prison. The owners, local couple Jessy Kate and Robbie Schingler, supported the vision behind the abolitionist cooperative and agreed to give residents seven years to buy the four-bedroom house and its shady backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those seven years are now almost up. The five residents are furiously fundraising $1.4 million to purchase the $2 million house. They have secured roughly $63,000 so far through donations, largely from individuals, plus $100,000 in a low-interest loan, with the help of the consulting firm Land and Power, which has helped tenants purchase their buildings in California and New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087367\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zarinah Agnew sits inside Template House in San Francisco on June 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their deadline to close on the house is at the end of this year. While the owners support the vision and have kept the price stable to support the sale even as the housing market explodes, they plan to put it on the market if the current residents can’t meet their goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most, if not all, residents, that would mean moving out of the communal house and likely out of the city to find equivalent rents. Resident Eldridge Cruse, 56, said he pays $1,450 per month for his bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates of the model say the need is more pressing than ever. In addition to the AI boom pushing rents to nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/san-francisco-ca/?bedrooms=1\">$4,000 for a one-bedroom\u003c/a>, a shift toward tougher-on-crime policing and prosecution both locally and nationally is occurring, which can leave people who have been arrested or incarcerated facing more barriers to accessing stable housing.[aside postID=news_12087973 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-13-BL-KQED.jpg']In San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/arrests-drug-seizures-and-federal-drug-trafficking-charges-surge-san-francisco-through\">arrests have surged in recent years\u003c/a> even as crime rates overall have \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/PoliceCommission7826_-__Crime_Trends_Notes.pdf\">decreased\u003c/a>. Public safety dominated political discussions and campaigns coming out of the pandemic, and the city has moved to put programs like a \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2026/06/08/nonprofit-keeps-95-clients-jail-court-sf-courts-want-kill/\">pretrial diversion program\u003c/a> on the chopping block. That has the potential to increase the jail population and create an even larger number of people with barriers to securing leases and closing housing deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Template House is currently a permanent home for five residents. But the house often keeps a bed or two open for people in an emergency who are looking for a place to sleep while figuring out their next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had two young guys come in from ICE detention who just needed a place to be. If they didn’t have an address, they were going to remain incarcerated,” said Agnew, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “It’s a way of being able to offer solidarity and pay it forward, so it’s nice to have a couple of empty beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Cruse, one of the original full-time tenants at Template House, the space has been an unexpectedly critical part of his journey reacclimating back into everyday society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruse arrived at Template House after spending 29 years in prison for being involved in a murder. Released without parole after his case was overturned in 2019, he didn’t qualify for transitional housing or other step-down programs. He connected with Agnew after a series of phone calls with lawyers and friends, and she offered him a place to crash at one of the other communal homes part of District Commons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he arrived, he immediately recognized some of the men he knew in prison sitting around a common area, and said he felt waves of relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eldridge Cruse carries a pot of soup to the backyard for a dinner party at Template House in San Francisco on June 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What we’re trying to keep alive is that spirit of coming home to someplace that brings comfort instead of anxiety. And my success since I’ve been here has been attributed to me having such a soft landing,” said Cruse, who now is an assistant director at a homeless shelter in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Cruse arrived in 2019, District Commons proceeded to add another house to their community of cooperatives at the Haight-Ashbury building that’s now Template House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group landed on a strategy to work with Agnew’s nonprofit to purchase the house. Part of the thinking was that some people exiting incarceration might not have ample savings to put into buying a house and fundraising with the nonprofit could allow them to personally save in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also more straightforward to fundraise for a nonprofit than for individuals. And, residents can learn about the process of homeownership and the financial steps to get there, while avoiding some of the financial pressure to manage the dynamics of San Francisco’s unforgiving housing market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087369\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents and friends gather for a backyard dinner party at Template House in San Francisco on June 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I can deal with the social aspect of this, but the management aspect, I leave it to the professionals,” Cruse said. “Who knows? Maybe one day I will be able to do it. But as of this time, it is very important for those who do know how to do this correctly that they do take the lead in it. And one day, then we’re able to take on those responsibilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone in the house has lived experience in prison, and integrating different life and financial backgrounds is part of the group’s theory of success, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is always some difficulty that can come with living in co-ops. It’s never quite as rosy as some might try to portray,” said Jeremy Mack, who lived at the house for around two years during graduate school and does not have direct personal experience with the justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But ultimately, spaces like Template are filling such an important gap that exists in the city and in the Bay Area at large, and are really a beautiful oasis in a landscape right now that is increasingly carceral, that is increasingly difficult to navigate, and expensive for people who are coming out of incarceration,” Mack said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087368\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087368\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents and friends gather for a backyard dinner party at Template House in San Francisco on June 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Template housemates say their long-term vision is a model of “mutually stewarded autonomy,” where they learn to run and manage the house together and ultimately take it off the market long-term by transferring it to a land trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Community Land Trust is a sort of legal structure that can outlive your lifetime,” Agnew said. “We talked about whether people wanted to do a shared ownership model, but everybody said that that was too stressful and would be a lot of admin… People really wanted to focus on the family and home dynamic more than the operations and logistics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruse said he already knows there’s demand, based on conversations he has with other formerly incarcerated people he knows and meets, whether that’s at backyard barbecues he co-hosts or just through community networks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, residents and their allies are hurrying to recruit potential donors and lenders in the next six months to make the model feasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Template is our step forward to see if we can create this cooperative, self-managing ownership structure as an alternative to halfway houses at scale,” he said. “This is just the beginning of something that is needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Commons runs several communal homes in San Francisco. Template House was formed in 2019 with the specific goal of offering communal living for people exiting prison. The owners, local couple Jessy Kate and Robbie Schingler, supported the vision behind the abolitionist cooperative and agreed to give residents seven years to buy the four-bedroom house and its shady backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those seven years are now almost up. The five residents are furiously fundraising $1.4 million to purchase the $2 million house. They have secured roughly $63,000 so far through donations, largely from individuals, plus $100,000 in a low-interest loan, with the help of the consulting firm Land and Power, which has helped tenants purchase their buildings in California and New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087367\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zarinah Agnew sits inside Template House in San Francisco on June 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their deadline to close on the house is at the end of this year. While the owners support the vision and have kept the price stable to support the sale even as the housing market explodes, they plan to put it on the market if the current residents can’t meet their goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most, if not all, residents, that would mean moving out of the communal house and likely out of the city to find equivalent rents. Resident Eldridge Cruse, 56, said he pays $1,450 per month for his bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates of the model say the need is more pressing than ever. In addition to the AI boom pushing rents to nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/san-francisco-ca/?bedrooms=1\">$4,000 for a one-bedroom\u003c/a>, a shift toward tougher-on-crime policing and prosecution both locally and nationally is occurring, which can leave people who have been arrested or incarcerated facing more barriers to accessing stable housing.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/arrests-drug-seizures-and-federal-drug-trafficking-charges-surge-san-francisco-through\">arrests have surged in recent years\u003c/a> even as crime rates overall have \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/PoliceCommission7826_-__Crime_Trends_Notes.pdf\">decreased\u003c/a>. Public safety dominated political discussions and campaigns coming out of the pandemic, and the city has moved to put programs like a \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2026/06/08/nonprofit-keeps-95-clients-jail-court-sf-courts-want-kill/\">pretrial diversion program\u003c/a> on the chopping block. That has the potential to increase the jail population and create an even larger number of people with barriers to securing leases and closing housing deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Template House is currently a permanent home for five residents. But the house often keeps a bed or two open for people in an emergency who are looking for a place to sleep while figuring out their next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had two young guys come in from ICE detention who just needed a place to be. If they didn’t have an address, they were going to remain incarcerated,” said Agnew, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “It’s a way of being able to offer solidarity and pay it forward, so it’s nice to have a couple of empty beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Cruse, one of the original full-time tenants at Template House, the space has been an unexpectedly critical part of his journey reacclimating back into everyday society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruse arrived at Template House after spending 29 years in prison for being involved in a murder. Released without parole after his case was overturned in 2019, he didn’t qualify for transitional housing or other step-down programs. He connected with Agnew after a series of phone calls with lawyers and friends, and she offered him a place to crash at one of the other communal homes part of District Commons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he arrived, he immediately recognized some of the men he knew in prison sitting around a common area, and said he felt waves of relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eldridge Cruse carries a pot of soup to the backyard for a dinner party at Template House in San Francisco on June 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What we’re trying to keep alive is that spirit of coming home to someplace that brings comfort instead of anxiety. And my success since I’ve been here has been attributed to me having such a soft landing,” said Cruse, who now is an assistant director at a homeless shelter in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Cruse arrived in 2019, District Commons proceeded to add another house to their community of cooperatives at the Haight-Ashbury building that’s now Template House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group landed on a strategy to work with Agnew’s nonprofit to purchase the house. Part of the thinking was that some people exiting incarceration might not have ample savings to put into buying a house and fundraising with the nonprofit could allow them to personally save in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also more straightforward to fundraise for a nonprofit than for individuals. And, residents can learn about the process of homeownership and the financial steps to get there, while avoiding some of the financial pressure to manage the dynamics of San Francisco’s unforgiving housing market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087369\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents and friends gather for a backyard dinner party at Template House in San Francisco on June 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I can deal with the social aspect of this, but the management aspect, I leave it to the professionals,” Cruse said. “Who knows? Maybe one day I will be able to do it. But as of this time, it is very important for those who do know how to do this correctly that they do take the lead in it. And one day, then we’re able to take on those responsibilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone in the house has lived experience in prison, and integrating different life and financial backgrounds is part of the group’s theory of success, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is always some difficulty that can come with living in co-ops. It’s never quite as rosy as some might try to portray,” said Jeremy Mack, who lived at the house for around two years during graduate school and does not have direct personal experience with the justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But ultimately, spaces like Template are filling such an important gap that exists in the city and in the Bay Area at large, and are really a beautiful oasis in a landscape right now that is increasingly carceral, that is increasingly difficult to navigate, and expensive for people who are coming out of incarceration,” Mack said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087368\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087368\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-TEMPLATEHOUSE-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents and friends gather for a backyard dinner party at Template House in San Francisco on June 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Template housemates say their long-term vision is a model of “mutually stewarded autonomy,” where they learn to run and manage the house together and ultimately take it off the market long-term by transferring it to a land trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Community Land Trust is a sort of legal structure that can outlive your lifetime,” Agnew said. “We talked about whether people wanted to do a shared ownership model, but everybody said that that was too stressful and would be a lot of admin… People really wanted to focus on the family and home dynamic more than the operations and logistics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruse said he already knows there’s demand, based on conversations he has with other formerly incarcerated people he knows and meets, whether that’s at backyard barbecues he co-hosts or just through community networks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, residents and their allies are hurrying to recruit potential donors and lenders in the next six months to make the model feasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Template is our step forward to see if we can create this cooperative, self-managing ownership structure as an alternative to halfway houses at scale,” he said. “This is just the beginning of something that is needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of KQED’s series “Flipping the Switch,” examining California’s transition to clean energy and what it means for you. Find the series and more of our climate coverage \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/climate\">\u003cem>here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tucked away in the East Bay foothills, a sleek white room houses the appliances of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2000695/california-is-transitioning-from-fossil-fuels-to-electric-power-its-going-to-get-messy\">future\u003c/a> — an induction stove, a battery-powered HVAC system, a fridge with a thin black box resting on top. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Though these devices may seem average, behind the scenes, the machines are sharing more than wires — including information about how much energy they’re using, whether or not the refrigerator door is open and increasingly, how to help balance the power grid. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Utilities and technology companies say this kind of “smart home” could make the transition to an all-electric future cheaper, more reliable and more resilient during power outages.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As part of the state’s ambitious climate agenda, California wants millions of residents to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2000695/california-is-transitioning-from-fossil-fuels-to-electric-power-its-going-to-get-messy\">electrify\u003c/a> their homes and shift away from gas-powered vehicles. But every new electric appliance increases \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/filebrowser/download/9328?fid=9328\">demand\u003c/a> on a grid already under pressure from increased use, expanding data centers and more frequent extreme weather. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" data-id=\"12093339\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12093339\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-06-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A wall of demonstration EV Chargers and smart electrical panels made by Tesla, GM and Span are on display at PG&E’s PowerHouse in San Ramon on July 30, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" data-id=\"12093337\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12093337\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-04-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The interior of the PG&E PowerHouse in San Ramon on July 30, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Building enough infrastructure to meet that demand is expensive, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081882/san-francisco-has-been-trying-to-leave-pge-for-100-years-will-this-time-be-different\">costs often falling on consumers\u003c/a>. Instead of making costly grid upgrades, utilities are increasingly searching for ways to use the existing grid more efficiently. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the PG&E Applied Technology Services Center, an all-electric home in San Ramon, the utility works with private companies to show how advanced energy management technologies can work together to make electrification easier and more affordable. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“PG&E doesn’t make money off of energy; they make money off of stuff,” said Robert Stafford, a researcher at the World Resources Institute working on transportation electrification and grid resiliency. “Once all of those chargers and transformers and wires are out in the world, it is in everyone’s best interest to use them as efficiently as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Because the grid is built to meet the highest periods of electricity demand, most of the time, we actually only use 40% or 50% of its capacity, said Paul Doherty, a PG&E spokesperson. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The utility already offers \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/rate-plans/time-of-use-rate-plans.html\">“time-of-use”\u003c/a> plans to encourage customers to run appliances overnight or during off-peak hours. Smart devices would automate, or run this process quietly in the background, according to Doherty. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rather than physically turning off lights or turning down thermostats, customers would be able to set their energy preferences and the system would take care of the rest. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If they’re running their air conditioning and their dishwasher, lights are on, TV’s on, dishwasher, the laundry is running — that EV charger may say, ‘Hey, there’s a lot going on within the home, we got to keep that down within capacity,” Doherty said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Another example: the thin black box on top of the fridge in PG&E’s smart home. The device is a Pila battery, which can power most household appliances.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Pila CEO Cole Ashman describes the tool as a way for both renters and homeowners to access “seamless” backup power during outages and to shift their power consumption to cheaper times of day. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12093338\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Paul Doherty, Manager of Clean Energy & Innovation Communications at PG&E, opens the Span smart electrical panel that operates the PowerHouse at PG&E’s Applied Technology Services Center in San Ramon on July 30, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>“All of these batteries kind of have a turbocharged brain inside of them,” Ashman said. “It’s going to work for you in the background, store energy when it’s cheap, charge up at night, and then, when power prices get expensive in the late afternoon, it seamlessly switches to start to run your refrigerator, your window AC, whatever is connected.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some customers may be put off, however, or concerned by the potential privacy or cybersecurity risks posed by these technologies. International researchers, in collaboration with NYU, \u003ca href=\"https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/new-research-reveals-alarming-privacy-and-security-threats-smart-homes\">found\u003c/a> that potential threats include the exposure of unique device names and even household geolocation data, all of which can be harvested by external companies without user awareness. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12093341\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">PG&E’s Applied Technology Services Center in San Ramon on July 30, 2026. 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Smart devices would automate, or run this process quietly in the background, according to Doherty. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rather than physically turning off lights or turning down thermostats, customers would be able to set their energy preferences and the system would take care of the rest. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If they’re running their air conditioning and their dishwasher, lights are on, TV’s on, dishwasher, the laundry is running — that EV charger may say, ‘Hey, there’s a lot going on within the home, we got to keep that down within capacity,” Doherty said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Another example: the thin black box on top of the fridge in PG&E’s smart home. The device is a Pila battery, which can power most household appliances.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Pila CEO Cole Ashman describes the tool as a way for both renters and homeowners to access “seamless” backup power during outages and to shift their power consumption to cheaper times of day. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12093338\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Paul Doherty, Manager of Clean Energy & Innovation Communications at PG&E, opens the Span smart electrical panel that operates the PowerHouse at PG&E’s Applied Technology Services Center in San Ramon on July 30, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>“All of these batteries kind of have a turbocharged brain inside of them,” Ashman said. “It’s going to work for you in the background, store energy when it’s cheap, charge up at night, and then, when power prices get expensive in the late afternoon, it seamlessly switches to start to run your refrigerator, your window AC, whatever is connected.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some customers may be put off, however, or concerned by the potential privacy or cybersecurity risks posed by these technologies. International researchers, in collaboration with NYU, \u003ca href=\"https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/new-research-reveals-alarming-privacy-and-security-threats-smart-homes\">found\u003c/a> that potential threats include the exposure of unique device names and even household geolocation data, all of which can be harvested by external companies without user awareness. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12093341\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-POWER-HOUSE-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">PG&E’s Applied Technology Services Center in San Ramon on July 30, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>With his company’s own technology, Ashman emphasized that consumers own all their own data and that the batteries are “local first,” which means they can opt in to wifi connection or cloud data sharing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Our phones are getting smarter, our computers are getting smarter, and the appliances in our home are also getting smarter,” Ashman said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While that might sound scary to some folks … that can be really exciting if done well,” Ashman continued. “These things are going to be able to take care of you even when the data center goes down, or Google goes down or the power goes out.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For Mona Hamilton, the opening of the affordable housing development at the edge of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood was a full-circle moment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She used to sleep there, back when it was a McDonald’s. Now, it’s her new home.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>‘It took a long time for me to get to a place like this,” she said Tuesday, speaking outside of the building. “Thirty years ago, I was out on the streets using, abusing myself, bouncing in and out of different hotels, trying to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hamilton said she was surprised when she learned she won the lottery to live there.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’ve been struggling all my life to find me a permanent home. I have one now, and I’m truly, truly blessed.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260728-STANYANHOUSING-NG-71-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12093037\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260728-STANYANHOUSING-NG-71-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260728-STANYANHOUSING-NG-71-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260728-STANYANHOUSING-NG-71-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mona Hamilton, a resident at 730 Stanyan, speaks at a press conference announcing the opening of the new affordable housing development in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco on July 28, 2026. (Nina Glick/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This week, 730 Stanyan St. celebrated its official grand opening, nine years — and four mayors — after the project began. All 160 units at the mixed-use complex are affordable — some studios in the building are priced at around $600 a month, and some three bedrooms for around $2,300. Of those units, 5% are reserved for families and transitional-aged youth who have experienced homelessness. The development was an accomplishment in a city where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922784/california-churches-want-to-build-affordable-housing-on-their-land-so-why-is-it-so-hard\">affordable housing is notoriously challenging to build\u003c/a>, officials said, and where families often face \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049612/sf-families-win-shelter-extension-rights-still-face-long-waits-for-housing\">long wait times for access\u003c/a> to stable housing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Outreach, shelter, treatment, and services are essential, but those interventions must ultimately lead somewhere,” said Mike Levine, San Francisco’s executive director of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. “Projects like 730 Stanyon provide that destination, a safe, stable, and affordable home where a young person can build an independent future and where a family can put down roots and where residents can remain connected to their community.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The ribbon-cutting featured refreshments, snacks and speeches from Mayor Daniel Lurie and former Mayor London Breed. The building was a joint effort between two San Francisco-based affordable housing advocacy groups, the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation and the Chinatown Community Development Center.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>According to Breed, she suggested the project to late-Mayor Ed Lee that the city purchase the McDonald’s, which opened in the 1960s, and turn it into affordable housing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lee died the same day that the city officially reached a deal to purchase the building for $15.5 million. In a statement to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/sf-reaches-15-5m-deal-to-buy-mcdonald-s-on-haight-build-affordable-housing/article_728d1a8e-c792-58ed-8b02-93d771727c9d.html\">\u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Breed said it was “the last piece of legislation” the two discussed. The McDonald’s was demolished by 2020, and groundbreaking on the housing development began in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The city’s development team relied on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11612802/legislation-to-fast-track-more-housing-finds-opposition-in-marin\">California laws to fast-track housing\u003c/a> paired with state “density bonus law incentives,” according to a city press release. This allowed the project to exceed the site’s 50‑foot height limit and deliver an eight‑story, 83‑foot building.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Bureaucracy has stood in the way for far too long,” Lurie said, adding that his recently passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065204/everything-you-need-to-know-about-san-franciscos-family-zoning-plan\">Family Zoning Plan\u003c/a> will also add housing in the city. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>According to San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/san-francisco-housing-dashboard\">housing dashboard\u003c/a>, there are currently 18,206 pending affordable housing developments. Over the past decade, 11,897 affordable housing developments have been created. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260728-STANYANHOUSING-NG-99-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12093039\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260728-STANYANHOUSING-NG-99-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260728-STANYANHOUSING-NG-99-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260728-STANYANHOUSING-NG-99-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gulnaz Garapova (left) and her son Alihan Garapova, 8, pose for a photo in their apartment at 730 Stanyan, a new affordable housing development in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, on July 28, 2026. (Nina Glick/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Residents of the complex were selected via a lottery system. The Garapovas, a Kyrgyz family with three generations living under one roof, were one of the lottery’s winners.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gulnaz Garapova said she entered the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://housing.sfgov.org/\">affordable housing lottery\u003c/a> in 2017. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s a very beautiful place. Clean. Nice views. A lot of sunshine,” Garapova said as her mother prepared borsook, a traditional pastry. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The family’s new three-bedroom apartment has large windows showcasing views of Twin Peaks, Golden Gate Park and Zion Skate Plaza. Garapova said it’s the nicest place she’s ever lived in.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260728-STANYANHOUSING-NG-119-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12093042\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260728-STANYANHOUSING-NG-119-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260728-STANYANHOUSING-NG-119-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260728-STANYANHOUSING-NG-119-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The courtyard at 730 Stanyan, a new affordable housing development in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, on July 28, 2026. 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The building was a joint effort between two San Francisco-based affordable housing advocacy groups, the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation and the Chinatown Community Development Center.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>According to Breed, she suggested the project to late-Mayor Ed Lee that the city purchase the McDonald’s, which opened in the 1960s, and turn it into affordable housing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lee died the same day that the city officially reached a deal to purchase the building for $15.5 million. In a statement to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/sf-reaches-15-5m-deal-to-buy-mcdonald-s-on-haight-build-affordable-housing/article_728d1a8e-c792-58ed-8b02-93d771727c9d.html\">\u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Breed said it was “the last piece of legislation” the two discussed. The McDonald’s was demolished by 2020, and groundbreaking on the housing development began in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The city’s development team relied on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11612802/legislation-to-fast-track-more-housing-finds-opposition-in-marin\">California laws to fast-track housing\u003c/a> paired with state “density bonus law incentives,” according to a city press release. This allowed the project to exceed the site’s 50‑foot height limit and deliver an eight‑story, 83‑foot building.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Bureaucracy has stood in the way for far too long,” Lurie said, adding that his recently passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065204/everything-you-need-to-know-about-san-franciscos-family-zoning-plan\">Family Zoning Plan\u003c/a> will also add housing in the city. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>According to San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/san-francisco-housing-dashboard\">housing dashboard\u003c/a>, there are currently 18,206 pending affordable housing developments. Over the past decade, 11,897 affordable housing developments have been created. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260728-STANYANHOUSING-NG-99-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12093039\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260728-STANYANHOUSING-NG-99-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260728-STANYANHOUSING-NG-99-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260728-STANYANHOUSING-NG-99-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gulnaz Garapova (left) and her son Alihan Garapova, 8, pose for a photo in their apartment at 730 Stanyan, a new affordable housing development in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, on July 28, 2026. (Nina Glick/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Residents of the complex were selected via a lottery system. The Garapovas, a Kyrgyz family with three generations living under one roof, were one of the lottery’s winners.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gulnaz Garapova said she entered the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://housing.sfgov.org/\">affordable housing lottery\u003c/a> in 2017. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s a very beautiful place. Clean. Nice views. A lot of sunshine,” Garapova said as her mother prepared borsook, a traditional pastry. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The family’s new three-bedroom apartment has large windows showcasing views of Twin Peaks, Golden Gate Park and Zion Skate Plaza. Garapova said it’s the nicest place she’s ever lived in.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260728-STANYANHOUSING-NG-119-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12093042\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260728-STANYANHOUSING-NG-119-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260728-STANYANHOUSING-NG-119-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260728-STANYANHOUSING-NG-119-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The courtyard at 730 Stanyan, a new affordable housing development in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, on July 28, 2026. (Nina Glick/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On the same day of the apartment building’s opening, ground broke on another affordable housing project on Market Street that will provide 94 homes for artists.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While housing advocates speaking at the event said the project was a win, Lurie said he believes that there is more to be done to bring more housing to San Francisco. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have work to do. I’m not where we want to be. We need to move faster,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Last week, more than 300 people packed into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco’s Fort Mason\u003c/a> to discuss the future of the grocery store across the street. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A developer wants to replace the Marina District Safeway with two residential towers rising more than 250 feet. The project has become a lightning rod in a city struggling to keep up with affordability, demand and the state’s housing mandate and where residents often challenge development in hopes of preserving neighborhood character. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“People come here because it’s beautiful and it’s open and has a feeling of expansiveness,” said Erin Roach, president of the Marina Community Association, who helped organize the meeting. “Having a giant building is going to take that feeling of expansiveness away — let alone shade the two parks that are on two sides of it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The town hall was the neighbors’ latest move in a \u003ca href=\"https://files.constantcontact.com/013299da001/8fb843c5-3358-4c45-8789-b429588b0c57.pdf?rdr=true\">monthslong campaign\u003c/a> to stop, or at least slow, a project they say is too big and which they don’t believe qualifies for development under state laws created to fast-track housing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1186\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-MARINA-SAFEWAY-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092738\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-MARINA-SAFEWAY-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-MARINA-SAFEWAY-05-KQED-160x95.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-MARINA-SAFEWAY-05-KQED-1536x911.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Safeway at 15 Marina Blvd. in San Francisco, where developer Align Real Estate has proposed 848 apartments. \u003cbr> (Photo courtesy of Arquitectonica)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Align Real Estate — the project sponsor filing on behalf of the building’s owner, Albertsons Companies — applied in December to demolish the Safeway at 11 and 15 Marina Blvd. and build two sleek glass towers with a capacity of 848 units above a different grocery store. Align and Albertsons have a development partnership with plans to redevelop multiple stores into massive developments across the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 14, the developer’s attorneys submitted revised plans they described in a letter as “modest adjustments that result in a more efficient Project.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The changes lowered the heights of both towers — while increasing the number of units. The application also includes 86 affordable units. The project has no construction timeline or cost estimate yet, and Align said the Safeway would close during construction with a new store to open in its place. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The project uses the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955088/why-californias-affordable-housing-crisis-threatens-its-powerful-coastal-commission\">state’s “density bonus” law\u003c/a>, which overrides local zoning to allow for taller buildings when developers commit to affordable units. Roach said, even with the latest changes, the building “remains roughly six times taller than anything around it,” leading some residents to oppose the project’s impact on the neighborhood’s scenic views.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now, Roach and a coalition of neighborhood groups are fighting the project’s qualification under AB 2011, a state law that lets housing on commercially zoned land win approval through a ministerial process — meaning no Planning Commission vote, no Board of Supervisors vote and no environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act, as long as the projects meet specified affordability, labor, and environmental criteria. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We are not opposed to housing here. We would really like to see housing here,” Roach said. “But the project that’s being proposed is really difficult for this area of the Marina to handle — on health and safety reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roach said the eastern Marina is built on fill over old wetlands and groundwater, in a liquefaction zone, atop the footprint of a former manufactured gas plant. Drilling to bedrock, she warned, could disturb buried contamination and push polluted groundwater toward neighbors’ homes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Marina Community Association hired an environmental attorney, then an independent soils expert who, according to Roach, found the area polluted. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“With a project this divisive, the City needs to be extraordinarily clear as to how and why approvals are granted,” Marina District Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, who has opposed the project along with some of his constituents, said in a statement. He added that Thursday’s town hall “is another step toward giving the community this transparency.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>However, the city argues the project is a strong contender for development under the law. In a July 20 letter to Sherrill, Planning Director Sarah Dennis Phillips wrote that the property is not “on the Cortese List,” a publicly available and regularly updated list of hazardous waste sites in the state. She wrote that the site is not in an earthquake fault zone or a federally designated flood hazard area. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260723-marinasafeway-ng-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092376\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260723-marinasafeway-ng-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260723-marinasafeway-ng-25-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260723-marinasafeway-ng-25-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Safeway location in San Francisco’s Marina District on July 23, 2026. (Nina Glick/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A required assessment identified what the city called a “recognized environmental condition,” and Dennis Phillips wrote that a further endangerment assessment must follow. But that review, she said, happens later, during permitting and construction — overseen by the health department and the water board — and is “not part of the planning approval process under AB 2011.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://files.constantcontact.com/013299da001/a355ef17-5841-45d8-af35-b2915d7baec8.pdf?rdr=true\">June\u003c/a>, Sherrill and a coalition of neighborhood groups asked the city to find the site ineligible for development under AB 2011, arguing the law applies only where at least 75% of a site’s perimeter adjoins parcels developed with “urban uses.” About half the Safeway site instead adjoins Fort Mason and a city-owned parcel holding the Marina Yacht Harbor, Marina Green and parking — land they describe as restricted to maritime and recreational use. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture made the same argument \u003ca href=\"https://files.constantcontact.com/013299da001/c46a3e61-6b94-4a71-b8e1-1a6e4306ea32.pdf?rdr=true\">in their own letter\u003c/a>, while stressing the site “is suitable for residential development.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>However, the city’s planning department considers the site surrounded by urban uses and stands by its finding, Dennis Phillips wrote. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Align has described the Yacht Harbor parcel as a fully developed, manmade landscape — filled for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition and which now holds parking lots, yacht clubs, a fuel dock and a coffee shop. Reversing course, the developer warned, “would expose the City to significant liability” under the Housing Accountability Act, and the project would still qualify through other state pathways even without AB 2011. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The office of Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, who wrote AB 2011, said the law’s perimeter rule exists to keep it aimed at infill rather than open land. Asked whether this site belongs, the office said the real question is whether the project is going up “in an urban location along a commercial corridor,” and the answer is “unfailingly yes.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Other local officials are split on the project.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener, who co-authored AB 2011, told KQED he still supports the project. Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who backed the project last year, said his position also stands, but added that he expects developers to “follow through on their commitments to the communities they serve, including maintaining access to essential neighborhood amenities like grocery stores.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie, who is also a District 2 resident, opposed the original proposal and his position “hasn’t changed,” a spokesperson said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Planning Department told KQED it received the revised plans July 14 and must decide by Aug. 13 whether they meet its objective standards; if the project is deemed consistent, the city would have until roughly Oct. 12 to approve it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also said it had not yet finished reviewing the project’s affordable housing plans, including whether 86 units still satisfy state requirements.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Roach said, even with the latest changes, the building “remains roughly six times taller than anything around it,” leading some residents to oppose the project’s impact on the neighborhood’s scenic views.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now, Roach and a coalition of neighborhood groups are fighting the project’s qualification under AB 2011, a state law that lets housing on commercially zoned land win approval through a ministerial process — meaning no Planning Commission vote, no Board of Supervisors vote and no environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act, as long as the projects meet specified affordability, labor, and environmental criteria. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We are not opposed to housing here. We would really like to see housing here,” Roach said. “But the project that’s being proposed is really difficult for this area of the Marina to handle — on health and safety reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roach said the eastern Marina is built on fill over old wetlands and groundwater, in a liquefaction zone, atop the footprint of a former manufactured gas plant. Drilling to bedrock, she warned, could disturb buried contamination and push polluted groundwater toward neighbors’ homes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Marina Community Association hired an environmental attorney, then an independent soils expert who, according to Roach, found the area polluted. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“With a project this divisive, the City needs to be extraordinarily clear as to how and why approvals are granted,” Marina District Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, who has opposed the project along with some of his constituents, said in a statement. He added that Thursday’s town hall “is another step toward giving the community this transparency.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>However, the city argues the project is a strong contender for development under the law. In a July 20 letter to Sherrill, Planning Director Sarah Dennis Phillips wrote that the property is not “on the Cortese List,” a publicly available and regularly updated list of hazardous waste sites in the state. She wrote that the site is not in an earthquake fault zone or a federally designated flood hazard area. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260723-marinasafeway-ng-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092376\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260723-marinasafeway-ng-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260723-marinasafeway-ng-25-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260723-marinasafeway-ng-25-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Safeway location in San Francisco’s Marina District on July 23, 2026. 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But that review, she said, happens later, during permitting and construction — overseen by the health department and the water board — and is “not part of the planning approval process under AB 2011.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://files.constantcontact.com/013299da001/a355ef17-5841-45d8-af35-b2915d7baec8.pdf?rdr=true\">June\u003c/a>, Sherrill and a coalition of neighborhood groups asked the city to find the site ineligible for development under AB 2011, arguing the law applies only where at least 75% of a site’s perimeter adjoins parcels developed with “urban uses.” About half the Safeway site instead adjoins Fort Mason and a city-owned parcel holding the Marina Yacht Harbor, Marina Green and parking — land they describe as restricted to maritime and recreational use. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture made the same argument \u003ca href=\"https://files.constantcontact.com/013299da001/c46a3e61-6b94-4a71-b8e1-1a6e4306ea32.pdf?rdr=true\">in their own letter\u003c/a>, while stressing the site “is suitable for residential development.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>However, the city’s planning department considers the site surrounded by urban uses and stands by its finding, Dennis Phillips wrote. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Align has described the Yacht Harbor parcel as a fully developed, manmade landscape — filled for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition and which now holds parking lots, yacht clubs, a fuel dock and a coffee shop. Reversing course, the developer warned, “would expose the City to significant liability” under the Housing Accountability Act, and the project would still qualify through other state pathways even without AB 2011. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The office of Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, who wrote AB 2011, said the law’s perimeter rule exists to keep it aimed at infill rather than open land. Asked whether this site belongs, the office said the real question is whether the project is going up “in an urban location along a commercial corridor,” and the answer is “unfailingly yes.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Other local officials are split on the project.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener, who co-authored AB 2011, told KQED he still supports the project. 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"content": "\u003cp>Business boosters in Solano County are decrying the loss of a major shipbuilding contract that had promised to bring thousands of jobs to the underemployed region but say it hasn’t completely derailed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-forever\">California Forever’s plan\u003c/a> to build its proposed mega-development. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Saronic, an autonomous shipbuilding defense start-up, \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/saronic-technologies/saronic-to-build-port-alpha-americas-next-generation-shipyard-in-brownsville-texas-f71c15565ec6\">announced\u003c/a> it would build its Port Alpha naval shipyard in Brownsville, Texas, instead of on California Forever-owned land in Collinsville. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“As California’s most vocal advocates for new industries, high-wage jobs, and homes people can afford, our coalition is extremely frustrated that California lost this historic opportunity,” company officials said in a \u003ca href=\"https://californiaforever.com/statement-from-labor-and-business-coalition-on-saronic-shipyard-going-to-texas/\">joint statement\u003c/a> with other business advocacy groups. “Shipbuilding is in California’s heritage, and California was the natural home for Port Alpha.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/250513-CaliforniaForeverAnnexExplainer-40-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/250513-CaliforniaForeverAnnexExplainer-40-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/250513-CaliforniaForeverAnnexExplainer-40-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/250513-CaliforniaForeverAnnexExplainer-40-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Waterfront in the town of Collinsville in Solano County on May 13, 2025. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The company had been courting the shipbuilding start-up since late last year, hoping to ink a deal valued at $3.2 billion. Earlier this month, officials from California Forever were working with Gov. Gavin Newsom on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12089233/california-forevers-bid-to-win-manufacturing-jobs-divides-solano-county-residents\">legislation\u003c/a> that would smooth regulatory reviews if it secures a deal with a major manufacturer. That legislation, a trailer bill to the state budget, has not yet been published or approved by lawmakers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>With Saronic out of the picture, the company will have to successfully finalize a deal with another manufacturer in order for that legislation, if approved, to have an effect. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of California Forever, however, are celebrating the news and pointing to the loss of the deal as evidence company officials had over-promised on what they could deliver. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“California Forever just suffered a massive loss and I couldn’t be happier,” Michael Jefferson, a member of California ForNever, posted on the group’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/775318240797761\">Facebook page\u003c/a>. “We are one major step forward in stopping this abject top-down travesty.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Jefferson, a resident of Suisun City, led a campaign to recall the entire city council. He has said the city has mishandled a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059985/california-forever-clears-first-hurdle-in-suisun-city-annexation\">proposal to annex\u003c/a> some of California Forever’s land and bolster its tax base. This November, a number of council seats are up for reelection, and Jefferson is \u003ca href=\"https://michaeljefferson4suisunmayor.crd.co/\">vying \u003c/a>to win the mayor’s seat. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But for proponents of the project hoping to attract new businesses to the county, which has the highest unemployment rate in the Bay Area, the news is shattering.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is a devastating outcome,” said Chris Rico, president of Solano County’s Economic Development Corporation. “We have the location, workforce, infrastructure and maritime heritage in this community. The only thing we couldn’t deliver was a clear and predictable path to build at the speed Saronic required.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some, like Vacaville Mayor John Carli, say recalcitrance on the part of some local electeds likely contributed to that slow pace and led to the loss of the contract. Last spring, when the company announced interest in developing a shipyard, the county’s Board of Supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037142/california-forevers-shipbuilding-plans-need-more-details-solano-county-officials-say\">criticized the plan for lacking details\u003c/a>. Earlier this year, Supervisor Mitch Mashburn, a vocal critic, called the proposal a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.thereporter.com/2026/01/27/mashburn-calls-maritime-zone-a-nothingburger/\">nothingburger.\u003c/a>” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement, Carli called that attitude “a profound dereliction of duty.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You don’t win 10,000 jobs by insulting the company bringing them,” Carli said. “Solano County deserves leaders who fight to open doors, not lock them from the inside.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1777\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/250804-CaliforniaForeverSuisunCity-47_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091516\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/250804-CaliforniaForeverSuisunCity-47_qed.jpg 1777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/250804-CaliforniaForeverSuisunCity-47_qed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/250804-CaliforniaForeverSuisunCity-47_qed-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1777px) 100vw, 1777px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An aerial view of the Suisun Slough in Suisun City, Solano County, on Aug. 4, 2025. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the joint \u003ca href=\"https://californiaforever.com/statement-from-labor-and-business-coalition-on-saronic-shipyard-going-to-texas/\">statement\u003c/a> published by California Forever and other business groups, the company said it had “easily the best site and was one of two finalists for a 10,000 job opportunity,” and pinned some of the blame for the lost deal on the failure to pass special legislation in time. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Today’s news was really a gut punch to everyone who has worked so hard to take advantage of this opportunity,” said Joshua Arce, executive director for the California Alliance for Jobs, a signatory to California Forever’s joint statement. “It’s disappointing to say the least.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Company officials say they will continue to work with the state to pass the trailer bill and attract other manufacturers to the future shipbuilding site. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Calls to rejuvenate the shipbuilding industry locally have come all the way from the federal government. 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This November, a number of council seats are up for reelection, and Jefferson is \u003ca href=\"https://michaeljefferson4suisunmayor.crd.co/\">vying \u003c/a>to win the mayor’s seat. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But for proponents of the project hoping to attract new businesses to the county, which has the highest unemployment rate in the Bay Area, the news is shattering.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is a devastating outcome,” said Chris Rico, president of Solano County’s Economic Development Corporation. “We have the location, workforce, infrastructure and maritime heritage in this community. The only thing we couldn’t deliver was a clear and predictable path to build at the speed Saronic required.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some, like Vacaville Mayor John Carli, say recalcitrance on the part of some local electeds likely contributed to that slow pace and led to the loss of the contract. Last spring, when the company announced interest in developing a shipyard, the county’s Board of Supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037142/california-forevers-shipbuilding-plans-need-more-details-solano-county-officials-say\">criticized the plan for lacking details\u003c/a>. Earlier this year, Supervisor Mitch Mashburn, a vocal critic, called the proposal a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.thereporter.com/2026/01/27/mashburn-calls-maritime-zone-a-nothingburger/\">nothingburger.\u003c/a>” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement, Carli called that attitude “a profound dereliction of duty.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You don’t win 10,000 jobs by insulting the company bringing them,” Carli said. “Solano County deserves leaders who fight to open doors, not lock them from the inside.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1777\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/250804-CaliforniaForeverSuisunCity-47_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091516\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/250804-CaliforniaForeverSuisunCity-47_qed.jpg 1777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/250804-CaliforniaForeverSuisunCity-47_qed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/250804-CaliforniaForeverSuisunCity-47_qed-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1777px) 100vw, 1777px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An aerial view of the Suisun Slough in Suisun City, Solano County, on Aug. 4, 2025. 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But almost all of the city’s upcoming permanent supportive housing projects receive some form of state funding, making them ineligible for drug-free housing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy would apply specifically to new city-funded permanent supportive housing projects. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We have not secured funding for all of the projects in the pipeline, but we almost always pursue state funding for 100% affordable projects, including PSH,” said Anne Stanley, communications manager for the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development. “Projects need to be fully funded through local dollars in order for the [drug-free] ordinance to apply.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If someone living in a drug-free building were to get caught using drugs, Dorsey said eviction would be uncommon. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>New permanent supportive housing in San Francisco must prohibit on-site drug use in order to receive full city funding, after a controversial vote this week at the Board of Supervisors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The board voted 7-4 to approve the ordinance, authored by Supervisor Matt Dorsey, that enables evictions on the basis of drug use in city-funded housing projects. The plan has drawn criticism from public health and homelessness advocates who say it could send more \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034006/san-francisco-mans-housing-struggle-relapse-put-him-back-on-streets\">drug users to the street if they relapse\u003c/a>, a common experience for people recovering from substance-use disorder. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But proponents say it will create environments where more people in recovery can succeed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This responds to real needs of [permanent supportive housing] residents themselves, people who may or may not be in recovery, but who simply want to live in a drug-free residential community,” Dorsey, who identifies as a former drug addict himself, said at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco has around 9,600 site-based permanent supportive housing units, most of which follow the state’s Housing First approach, which attempts to keep people housed regardless of drug use. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12034108\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood speaks with District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey before a press conference about strategies to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco, California, on April 10, 2024. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>There are currently just over 1,400 total permanent supportive housing units in San Francisco in various stages of development, according to the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development. But almost all of the city’s upcoming permanent supportive housing projects receive some form of state funding, making them ineligible for drug-free housing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy would apply specifically to new city-funded permanent supportive housing projects. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We have not secured funding for all of the projects in the pipeline, but we almost always pursue state funding for 100% affordable projects, including PSH,” said Anne Stanley, communications manager for the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development. “Projects need to be fully funded through local dollars in order for the [drug-free] ordinance to apply.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If someone living in a drug-free building were to get caught using drugs, Dorsey said eviction would be uncommon. But those who do violate the policy could be evicted or relocated to a new building or homeless shelter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We should expect evictions under this ordinance to be exceedingly rare,” he said. “The self-selection of residents who voluntarily opt into drug-free residential communities largely solves in advance for scenarios that involve persistent drug relapses or habitual returns to use.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supporters of the plan said it builds on the work the city is doing to prop up more sober-living options, such as Hope House and James Baldwin Place. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But opposing members on the Board of Supervisors raised concerns about unintended outcomes from the policy change. Supervisor Jackie Fielder put forward an amendment that would have removed shelters from the list of places someone relapsing could be relocated. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Shelter is not housing. Shelter is a rough place for someone struggling with substance-use disorder to be. A person is not considered housed when they’re in shelter, they’re still considered homeless,” Fielder said on Tuesday. “People should be offered the option for treatment and if they participate in treatment, be able to return to their unit.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The amendment failed to pass, despite research showing that relapse is a common part of the recovery journey for many people who have struggled with substance use. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We don’t want somebody who doesn’t have the linear progression of being sober and falls off the wagon a couple of times to have to go back to square one and have to start in the coordinated entry system at shelter,” said Supervisor Myrna Melgar, who supported Fielder’s amendment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The version of the ordinance passed this week comes after years of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082132/following-newsoms-veto-lawmaker-returns-with-drug-free-homeless-housing-bill\">advocacy at the state level\u003c/a> to allow for more state-funded drug-free housing, along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990693/san-francisco-lawmakers-want-sober-housing-to-be-part-of-homelessness-plan\">months of discussions\u003c/a> about the local proposal with neighbors, local leaders and medical professionals, including some who previously opposed Dorsey’s measure for putting additional risk on vulnerable residents. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“An individual with a substance-use disorder evicted from housing because of relapses should be moved to a setting with more intensive services,” a May 4 letter from members of the San Francisco-Marin Medical Society said. “The ordinance as currently written does not contain minimum guardrails that, at the very least, would ensure that the evicted individual is not relegated to an undetermined setting with less support and possibly homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_006-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12072183\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_006-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_006-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_006-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Signs promoting dignity and welcome hang on a door inside St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church, home to the Gubbio Project, on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. The program allows unhoused guests to rest inside the church without intake requirements. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The policy does not prohibit alcohol or marijuana or medication-assisted recovery treatment like methadone or buprenorphine, which assist in opioid-use disorder. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Other homelessness advocates said the plan creates new barriers to building housing that is affordable to extremely low-income residents, at a time when rents in the city are skyrocketing, evictions are increasing and the city is on the hook to build thousands of affordable housing units to meet state requirements. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This unnecessarily creates obstacles for backfilling Trump HUD cuts, and for projects in the pipeline,” Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director for the Coalition on Homelessness, said in a letter to the Board of Supervisors. “We can and should do sober housing, have done sober housing and simply need to recognize that by doing so we don’t want to drive up evictions.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco has seen a downward trend in overdose deaths this year, according to new data from the Department of Public Health. From January to June 2026, there were a total of 262 overdose deaths, around 27% fewer compared to the same time period last year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This downward trend is encouraging, but the number of people that continue to die of overdose is still unacceptable,” Deputy Director of Public Health Naveena Baba said during a press conference on Wednesday. “It is not enough to prevent deaths. We want people to flourish.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Health officials attributed the changes in overdose deaths to a number of interventions in the city, including ramping up access to medication-assisted treatment. The city’s trajectory also mirrors nationwide trends of a decreasing rate of overdose deaths, Baba said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new policy also comes as Mayor Daniel Lurie has initiated various changes to the city’s drug response, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032239/overdoses-climb-lurie-orders-scaling-back-harm-reduction-programs\">shift away from harm reduction\u003c/a> practices that aim to reduce health and social risks involved with drug use. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Under his administration, the city has stopped handing out safe smoking supplies and people seeking access to other harm reduction services now must participate in counseling. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now that the ordinance has passed, Dorsey said city leaders can still work together to finalize details around implementation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For 30 years, an empty, blighted lot in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/east-oakland\">East Oakland\u003c/a> has been home to weeds, dumped trash, a billboard and a debt so large no buyer would come near it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Alameda County leaders voted to hand the tax-defaulted property at 8215 MacArthur Blvd. to a Black community initiative and nonprofit housing developer for only $10.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The county hopes the sale of the 15,000-square-foot parcel — a quarter of a football field — can become a model by which blighted property can be transformed into affordable housing and serve as part of a broader effort to keep Black residents in East Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Today is historic,” Treasurer-Tax Collector Henry Levy told the Board of Supervisors, noting it was the county’s first transfer of its kind in about a decade. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The parcel had been “stuck,” county officials said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After going into tax default in 1995, the county sold it a decade later to a nonprofit that was supposed to build affordable housing on it, but which dissolved in 2013 without ever doing so. Because the taxes are owed by an entity that no longer exists, the debt kept compounding into nothing: as of June 30 of this year, back taxes, penalties and city liens totaled roughly $1.7 million.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12090941\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sweet fennel grows above the fencing at the lot at 8215 MacArthur Blvd., in East Oakland, on July 14, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In April, an appraiser valued the land at $900,000, meaning the debt now exceeds what the dirt is worth. That is the legal hinge of the deal. Because a sale could not cover the debt, the county is free, under Chapter 8 of the state tax code, to set whatever price it sees fit.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to describe it as giving up [on collecting back taxes],” said Casey Farmer, the county’s Chapter 8 program manager. “The only way to get that property really back to paying taxes or back to good public use is to find a new owner to take on that property.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nobody, she said, would take it. The county tried to auction it off in 2013, starting at $634,255, and it did not sell, nor did it sell again in 2023. Several lots within half a mile also sit empty.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s just not a very attractive property,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Oakland has continued spending to clear weeds and debris under its nuisance abatement program, and neighbors have asked both the city and county to address the blight.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Farmer said her office approached several organizations in the neighborhood to take over the lot, and each declined — some could not afford the lot, some considered it too small, and many did not want to contend with the Clear Channel billboard, which stands directly on the property. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Finally, the county found a partner in the Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation. According to Regina Davis, BCZ’s deputy CEO of real estate, two neighbors brought the lot to the nonprofit’s attention.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They also made the county aware of us, and that’s how we started working together,” Davis said. “People bring things to us because they believe that we can make something happen that is both fair, equitable, and innovative.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The parcel is BCZ’s sixth acquisition along MacArthur, she said. The zone spans 60 by 60 blocks — stretching from the Oakland hills to the baywater, and High Street to the city’s border with San Leandro. 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Because the taxes are owed by an entity that no longer exists, the debt kept compounding into nothing: as of June 30 of this year, back taxes, penalties and city liens totaled roughly $1.7 million.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12090941\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260714-ALCO-BCZ-HOUSING-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sweet fennel grows above the fencing at the lot at 8215 MacArthur Blvd., in East Oakland, on July 14, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In April, an appraiser valued the land at $900,000, meaning the debt now exceeds what the dirt is worth. That is the legal hinge of the deal. Because a sale could not cover the debt, the county is free, under Chapter 8 of the state tax code, to set whatever price it sees fit.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to describe it as giving up [on collecting back taxes],” said Casey Farmer, the county’s Chapter 8 program manager. “The only way to get that property really back to paying taxes or back to good public use is to find a new owner to take on that property.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nobody, she said, would take it. The county tried to auction it off in 2013, starting at $634,255, and it did not sell, nor did it sell again in 2023. Several lots within half a mile also sit empty.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s just not a very attractive property,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Oakland has continued spending to clear weeds and debris under its nuisance abatement program, and neighbors have asked both the city and county to address the blight.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Farmer said her office approached several organizations in the neighborhood to take over the lot, and each declined — some could not afford the lot, some considered it too small, and many did not want to contend with the Clear Channel billboard, which stands directly on the property. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Finally, the county found a partner in the Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation. According to Regina Davis, BCZ’s deputy CEO of real estate, two neighbors brought the lot to the nonprofit’s attention.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They also made the county aware of us, and that’s how we started working together,” Davis said. “People bring things to us because they believe that we can make something happen that is both fair, equitable, and innovative.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The parcel is BCZ’s sixth acquisition along MacArthur, she said. The zone spans 60 by 60 blocks — stretching from the Oakland hills to the baywater, and High Street to the city’s border with San Leandro. 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(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A $10 price tag, she said, is not the same as a cheap project.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If you think, ‘You’re getting the property for $10’ — yeah, but still we have to raise $40 million in order to build it,” Davis said. “That’s a process. That’s the other long part of putting together the financial stack, so that it’s also affordable.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>To compete for the tax credits that finance affordable housing, she said, a project generally needs to be around 100 units. The housing plan for the site has not been determined, and the first step will not be a rendering, she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the meantime, BCZ will clear and activate the lot, as it did at Liberation Park, a “so-called hub for community empowerment” the nonprofit turned into an outdoor market, community roller rink and future affordable housing site. 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The measure, organized by Faith in Action Bay Area, a religious advocacy group, qualified after county elections officials verified 4,751 signatures, more than the roughly 4,500 required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are legally obligated by state law to either enact the measure outright or to place it on the ballot for the voters to decide,” Councilmember Chris Sturken told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would cap annual rent increases for qualified units at 5% — or 60% of inflation, whichever is less — and roll rents back to their October 2025 levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of California’s Costa-Hawkins Act, the cap would reach only multifamily buildings built before Feb. 1, 1995 — about 40% of the city’s rental stock, according to a city staff report, or roughly one in five housing units citywide, according to the city’s consultant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of the \u003ca href=\"https://meetings.redwoodcity.org/AgendaOnline/Documents/ViewDocument/8.A.%20ATTACHMENT%20A%20%E2%80%93%20PROPOSED%20ORDINANCE.pdf?meetingId=2726&documentType=Agenda&itemId=14940&publishId=23496&isSection=false\">46-page measure\u003c/a> is even more stringent, expanding just-cause eviction protections to nearly all rentals, including single-family homes and ADUs; raising relocation payments for no-fault evictions to at least $12,000; guaranteeing displaced tenants a right to return to the unit; barring landlords from passing utility costs to tenants in rent-capped units; and creating a new, fee-funded city program to run a rent registry, hear petitions and provide free legal aid to low-income tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090358\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2246065193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2246065193.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2246065193-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2246065193-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Logo for Redwood City, California on the side door of a city vehicle, Nov. 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city commissioned its own study of what the ordinance would do. Economic & Planning Systems, the firm Redwood City hired, found its reach extends well past the rent cap — the eviction, relocation and fee provisions carry “material costs and risks to property owners and investors,” managing principal Jason Moody told the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Gomez, a school social worker and Faith in Action leader, said nearly 60% of students in the Redwood City School District are socioeconomically disadvantaged, and that many live doubled- or tripled-up while parents work multiple jobs to cover rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A family of three earning about $50,000 a year takes home roughly $4,000 a month, he said — about what rent for a one-bedroom now costs in the area.[aside postID=news_12089546 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/IMG_1571.jpg']“When it comes to housing, it seems for us to always prioritize corporations that value profit over human belonging,” Gomez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the campaign, rents in older buildings have risen 57% over 15 years, and corporations and real estate trusts own 87% of the city’s apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwood City has never had local rent control, relying instead on California’s 2019 Tenant Protection Act, which imposed rules concerning rent increases and tenants rights in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents tried to qualify a similar measure in recent years but fell short on valid signatures. Sturken said the city’s absence of a rent cap — even as neighbors like East Palo Alto have had one for years — comes down to a “fierce” real estate lobby and past policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier councils had sought compromise, producing an anti-displacement strategy and a tenant-protection ordinance that stopped short of rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents, led by real estate and landlord groups, argue the measure would do the opposite of what it intends. Fernando Peña, government affairs director for the San Mateo County Association of Realtors, said it “doesn’t add one unit of housing” and would “reduce supply, increase cost for everyone, and discourage investment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090359\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2226825406.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2226825406.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2226825406-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2226825406-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial view of Redwood City, California in the Silicon Valley, June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He noted that only two of the measure’s 46 pages deal with rent control, with the rest covering evictions, relocation and fees. The burden, he said, would fall on small homeowners — “families, the retirees” — not just corporations. The city should focus on building housing, he said, arguing Redwood City already has among the county’s strongest anti-displacement protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Apartment Association, which represents landlords across the state, also opposes the measure. In a statement, Joshua Howard, the group’s executive vice president of local public affairs, said California and Redwood City already provide strong protections and that the initiative would swap them for “an expensive new layer of city bureaucracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This measure builds government, not housing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard also pointed to Proposition 33, the 2024 statewide rent-control expansion he said nearly 60% of Redwood City voters rejected, and dismissed the measure’s provision letting owners petition for higher increases as “a farce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPS’s analysis estimated the new program would cost the city $5 million to $11 million a year — far more than the $84 to $120 per-unit annual fees written into the ordinance, which it said would cover only 13% to 32% of the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real per-unit fees, it projected, would run $320 to $700. Moody said the heaviest impact would fall on pre-1995 buildings, which he called the city’s “naturally occurring affordable housing,” and warned that the ban on billing tenants for utilities would be “an immediate hit” to older properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970115\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-672643689-1.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a city, with a bridge over a waterway.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1104\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-672643689-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-672643689-1-800x460.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-672643689-1-1020x587.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-672643689-1-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-672643689-1-1536x883.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Redwood City. \u003ccite>(Thomas Winz/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>EPS also found that, adjusted for inflation, Redwood City rents have gradually declined over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPS associate Kaavya Chhatrapati, who modeled the effect on affordable housing, said the measure “is not expected to directly prevent Redwood City from meeting its” state-mandated housing goals, “but it could make affordable housing production and preservation more difficult over time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sturken told KQED the council’s role is “a bridge” between “sides that are diametrically opposed.” His bigger worry, he said, is the campaign ahead: “There’s going to be a lot of misinformation, a lot of fear-mongering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He urged voters to read the measure and the city’s financial reports before Election Day arguments are due on Aug. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would cap annual rent increases for qualified units at 5% — or 60% of inflation, whichever is less — and roll rents back to their October 2025 levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of California’s Costa-Hawkins Act, the cap would reach only multifamily buildings built before Feb. 1, 1995 — about 40% of the city’s rental stock, according to a city staff report, or roughly one in five housing units citywide, according to the city’s consultant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of the \u003ca href=\"https://meetings.redwoodcity.org/AgendaOnline/Documents/ViewDocument/8.A.%20ATTACHMENT%20A%20%E2%80%93%20PROPOSED%20ORDINANCE.pdf?meetingId=2726&documentType=Agenda&itemId=14940&publishId=23496&isSection=false\">46-page measure\u003c/a> is even more stringent, expanding just-cause eviction protections to nearly all rentals, including single-family homes and ADUs; raising relocation payments for no-fault evictions to at least $12,000; guaranteeing displaced tenants a right to return to the unit; barring landlords from passing utility costs to tenants in rent-capped units; and creating a new, fee-funded city program to run a rent registry, hear petitions and provide free legal aid to low-income tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090358\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2246065193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2246065193.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2246065193-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2246065193-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Logo for Redwood City, California on the side door of a city vehicle, Nov. 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city commissioned its own study of what the ordinance would do. Economic & Planning Systems, the firm Redwood City hired, found its reach extends well past the rent cap — the eviction, relocation and fee provisions carry “material costs and risks to property owners and investors,” managing principal Jason Moody told the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Gomez, a school social worker and Faith in Action leader, said nearly 60% of students in the Redwood City School District are socioeconomically disadvantaged, and that many live doubled- or tripled-up while parents work multiple jobs to cover rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A family of three earning about $50,000 a year takes home roughly $4,000 a month, he said — about what rent for a one-bedroom now costs in the area.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“When it comes to housing, it seems for us to always prioritize corporations that value profit over human belonging,” Gomez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the campaign, rents in older buildings have risen 57% over 15 years, and corporations and real estate trusts own 87% of the city’s apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwood City has never had local rent control, relying instead on California’s 2019 Tenant Protection Act, which imposed rules concerning rent increases and tenants rights in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents tried to qualify a similar measure in recent years but fell short on valid signatures. Sturken said the city’s absence of a rent cap — even as neighbors like East Palo Alto have had one for years — comes down to a “fierce” real estate lobby and past policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier councils had sought compromise, producing an anti-displacement strategy and a tenant-protection ordinance that stopped short of rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents, led by real estate and landlord groups, argue the measure would do the opposite of what it intends. Fernando Peña, government affairs director for the San Mateo County Association of Realtors, said it “doesn’t add one unit of housing” and would “reduce supply, increase cost for everyone, and discourage investment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090359\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2226825406.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2226825406.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2226825406-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2226825406-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial view of Redwood City, California in the Silicon Valley, June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He noted that only two of the measure’s 46 pages deal with rent control, with the rest covering evictions, relocation and fees. The burden, he said, would fall on small homeowners — “families, the retirees” — not just corporations. The city should focus on building housing, he said, arguing Redwood City already has among the county’s strongest anti-displacement protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Apartment Association, which represents landlords across the state, also opposes the measure. In a statement, Joshua Howard, the group’s executive vice president of local public affairs, said California and Redwood City already provide strong protections and that the initiative would swap them for “an expensive new layer of city bureaucracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This measure builds government, not housing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard also pointed to Proposition 33, the 2024 statewide rent-control expansion he said nearly 60% of Redwood City voters rejected, and dismissed the measure’s provision letting owners petition for higher increases as “a farce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPS’s analysis estimated the new program would cost the city $5 million to $11 million a year — far more than the $84 to $120 per-unit annual fees written into the ordinance, which it said would cover only 13% to 32% of the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real per-unit fees, it projected, would run $320 to $700. Moody said the heaviest impact would fall on pre-1995 buildings, which he called the city’s “naturally occurring affordable housing,” and warned that the ban on billing tenants for utilities would be “an immediate hit” to older properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970115\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-672643689-1.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a city, with a bridge over a waterway.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1104\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-672643689-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-672643689-1-800x460.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-672643689-1-1020x587.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-672643689-1-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-672643689-1-1536x883.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Redwood City. \u003ccite>(Thomas Winz/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>EPS also found that, adjusted for inflation, Redwood City rents have gradually declined over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPS associate Kaavya Chhatrapati, who modeled the effect on affordable housing, said the measure “is not expected to directly prevent Redwood City from meeting its” state-mandated housing goals, “but it could make affordable housing production and preservation more difficult over time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sturken told KQED the council’s role is “a bridge” between “sides that are diametrically opposed.” His bigger worry, he said, is the campaign ahead: “There’s going to be a lot of misinformation, a lot of fear-mongering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He urged voters to read the measure and the city’s financial reports before Election Day arguments are due on Aug. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Dahlia Burns was placed in a homeless shelter that housed 90 men, they didn’t feel comfortable — not least of all because they don’t identify with a specific gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After voicing concerns, they were moved to New Haven Inn in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a>, an LGBTQ-focused shelter with a capacity of 20 people. After four months there, the 61-year-old says they’ve found a bit more security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the freedom of knowing that somebody is there to care,” Burns says. “They don’t say, ‘Yeah, we’ll get to it,’ and don’t ever do it. They stay true to their word.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New Haven Inn is one of only a handful of adult LGBTQ-focused homeless shelters in the country, despite the community being overrepresented in the homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who identify as LGBTQ+ make up around \u003ca href=\"https://nationalhomeless.org/lgbtq-homelessness/\">40% of homeless youth\u003c/a>, but only 10% of the general youth population. 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