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They arrive late, set up after dark and break down again before sunrise in a daily cycle of, as he puts it, “Go and come back, go and come back, go and come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250701-GRANTSPASS-03-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046792\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250701-GRANTSPASS-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250701-GRANTSPASS-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250701-GRANTSPASS-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250701-GRANTSPASS-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armando Herrera Vargas (left) talks with a friend at The Gubbio Project in San Francisco on July 1, 2025, with his belongings nearby. The project provides a safe place for unhoused people to rest during the day inside local churches. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That routine has kept Herrera out of jail, but it hasn’t \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/housing\">gotten him off the street\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade into homelessness, he’s navigating a new and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046259\">more aggressive era of street enforcement\u003c/a> in San Francisco, one shaped by last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">U.S. Supreme Court ruling\u003c/a> giving cities broad authority to punish people for sleeping outside, even when there are no shelter beds available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, some 50 cities statewide have passed or strengthened anti-camping ordinances, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5257640\">May report\u003c/a> from UC Berkeley. San Francisco has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/nx-s1-5094930/supreme-court-homeless-camps-san-francisco\">leaned into a tougher stance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since July of last year, the city conducted at least 471 encampment sweeps and placed over 900 people into shelters. Meanwhile, police arrested more than 1,100 people for “lodging without permission,” essentially public camping, and the city’s district attorney \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/Public-Safety/District-Attorney-Cases-Prosecuted/dcjk-vw8q/data_preview\">filed charges\u003c/a> in just over 250 of those cases. So far, about 100 \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/Public-Safety/District-Attorney-Case-Resolutions/ynfy-z5kt/data_preview\">have been resolved\u003c/a>, most through diversion programs that allow people to avoid a criminal record if they meet certain conditions.[aside postID=news_12050701 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-08-BL-KQED.jpg']Those efforts have reshaped the streets and changed the lives of unhoused residents like Herrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera has a warm, slightly weary demeanor, with a smile that reveals straight white teeth and deep creases around his brown eyes. He’s 53 and has lived in San Francisco for three decades. He said he moved here from Mexico City and married an American citizen. He had three kids, a home and a furniture restoration business. Then it all unraveled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been kinda like chaos for the last 15 years,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The details and timeline of his story are a little murky. He said after the 2008 financial crisis, his business failed, then he worked for someone else in the furniture business until a job injury ended that, too. He said his wife died, and he lost contact with his kids. His disability benefits provided enough income to pay for a place to live or for food and essentials, but not both. In 2014, he lost his home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a while, he got by in cheap hotels, selling what he had until there was nothing left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when I started seeing people putting tents everywhere,” he said. “I was like, ‘Well, might as well do the same,’ since I really got no place to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man experiencing homelessness packs up his belongings in anticipation of an encampment sweep by San Francisco’s Department of Public Works around Showplace Square on Aug. 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He camped with others for safety and a sense of belonging. “Being homeless and then being alone, you just feel like you don’t belong,” he said. “That’s when depression comes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, he was arrested for possessing a stolen bike — something he said he bought off the street. From jail, he entered a diversion program, which led him to rehab. That’s where he was when the Supreme Court handed down its decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-Mayor London Breed was among the first in the state to begin enforcing a crackdown on public camping, vowing to make people sleeping outside “so uncomfortable on the streets of San Francisco that they have to take our offer [of shelter]” in part by authorizing police to issue citations, which could lead to misdemeanors.[aside postID=news_12050263 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-ShelterFamilies-09-BL_qed.jpg']Back outside, Herrera found fewer tents and fewer familiar faces. “All the people that I knew back then, they’re gone,” he said. “I don’t know if it’s because they have housing now … they just totally disappear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep from getting ticketed, Herrera learned to stay mobile. He got a storage unit and bought an electric scooter, lashing a city garbage can to it so he could haul his supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to carry all the stuff everywhere you go,” he said. “It’s a pain in the butt being in the street and not being comfortable and not being in a place where you can lay your head and take a nap.” He said it’s exhausting to be around people constantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all the ways the new era has made Herrera’s life harder, he said there are some upsides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crackdown on encampments has changed the way housed residents treat him. In the past, when he had a messy camp near businesses, he said owners dumped water on his tent, and once, he suspects, even set fire to it. “They were always calling the cops,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that he moves his tent daily, he said some of those same business owners smile at him. “They do treat me differently,” he said. “They always say hi.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250617-GRANTSPASSDECISIONANNI-03-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046789\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250617-GRANTSPASSDECISIONANNI-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250617-GRANTSPASSDECISIONANNI-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250617-GRANTSPASSDECISIONANNI-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250617-GRANTSPASSDECISIONANNI-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathy Vaughn, a tenant organizer and peer counselor with Tenderloin Housing Clinic, stands near her apartment in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco on June 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the parts of the city hardest hit by homelessness, business owners and residents have long said encampments make their lives miserable — driving away customers and forcing them to dodge syringes and human waste on the sidewalk. Some say things have improved since the sweeps ramped up. Others say not much has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Kathy Vaughn, a Tenderloin resident, the difference is personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just felt like nobody gave a damn,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before, she had to walk in the street, dodging cars, to avoid the tents that stretched from her doorway to the corner store. “It was like literally a nightmare to try to get through this neighborhood,” she said.[aside postID=news_12049612 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-05-BL-KQED.jpg']Vaughn was homeless herself once, and said she has empathy for unhoused people, but she supports the city’s more aggressive approach. “I love my neighborhood. I love the people,” she said. “I wanna see it even better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera said he didn’t like the old status quo either. He hated feeling like a nuisance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s better for both of us. I never thought it was a good thing,” he said of setting up camp in front of businesses and apartment buildings. “I did it because I needed it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he may be keeping a lower profile now and making life easier for business owners and housed residents, he’s still homeless. He said he wants to work. He had a job with the Salvation Army for a few months, and eventually hopes to get back to restoring furniture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need a place I can stay so I can go on with my life,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recently got a break: his social worker told him some housing had finally opened up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like ‘No, I can’t believe it!’ I almost started crying,” he said. “I gave her a big hug.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera had few details about the offer at the time, but was expecting to move in within the next few weeks. It’s not clear if that happened. He hasn’t answered his phone since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Palo Alto, like cities across California, has a law on the books that forces developers of new housing projects to foot the bill for the state’s shortage of affordable homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New residential projects need to set aside a share of the units they plan to build for lower-income renters and homeowners under the terms of the city’s “inclusionary zoning” ordinance. Builders who refuse have to instead pay a fee, ranging from the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An East Palo Alto homeowner filed a \u003ca href=\"https://pacificlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Wesley-Yu-v.-City-of-East-Palo-Alto-California_-Complaint_7.31.25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit in federal court\u003c/a> on Thursday challenging the constitutionality of that law, likening it to “extortion” — and he had a little help from the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The implications of the lawsuit range far beyond the Bay Area. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.lincolninst.edu/app/uploads/legacy-files/pubfiles/thaden_wp17et1_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 report\u003c/a> estimated that 149 cities and counties across California have some form of inclusionary zoning rule, though the specific terms vary. That makes it one of the most commonly used \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/affordable-housing/\">affordable housing\u003c/a> programs both in California and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/business/affordable-housing-montgomery-county.html\">in the country\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now all that may be on the constitutional chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was filed in federal court in San Francisco by Wesley Yu, a husband and father between jobs, who was planning to build a home and backyard guest cottage for himself and his extended family on a neighboring parcel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Yu was planning to construct two new structures, the city’s inclusionary zoning rules kicked in, requiring him to either sell or rent out one of the units at “affordable” rates or to pay a one-time fee of $54,891 to be deposited in the city’s affordable housing subsidy fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12046558 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomAP3.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The core of Yu’s lawsuit, which was filed by the libertarian-oriented \u003ca href=\"https://pacificlegal.org/case/east-palo-alto-inclusionary-zoning/\">Pacific Legal Foundation\u003c/a>, draws on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling from last year that also emerged from a heated California housing dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That case was brought by Placerville septuagenarian, George Sheetz, who contested that the government of El Dorado County had not done enough to justify the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/01/impact-fees-supreme-court/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WhatMatters&utm_source=31&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Trump%20immigration%20crackdown%20undermines%20CA%20tenant%20protections&utm_campaign=WhatMatters\">$23,420 traffic fee\u003c/a> it placed on his home construction project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/07/homebuilding-development-fees/\">Sheetz’s case\u003c/a> drew on the U.S. Constitution’s Fifth Amendment, which puts limits on when the government can take private property. Decades of court rulings have said that if a local government wants to base approval of a construction permit on certain conditions, those conditions have to \u003ca href=\"https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/483/825/\">directly relate\u003c/a> to the costs associated with the development. A city, for example, might be able to hold off on approving a new dump until a developer pays an environmental clean up fee, but not a fee to fund local arts and recreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courts have also ruled that such “exactions” on private development should be “roughly proportionate” to their cost. That is, the $23,420 that El Dorado County wanted to impose on Sheetz should match the cost of fixing the wear and tear his new home would leave on local roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/maternal-health-california-tortillas/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WhatMatters&utm_source=31&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Trump%20immigration%20crackdown%20undermines%20CA%20tenant%20protections&utm_campaign=WhatMatters#wm-story-1\">agreed\u003c/a> that these standards ought to apply to the impact fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Yu and his legal team are asking a federal judge to apply that same rule to inclusionary zoning. For East Palo Alto’s program to pass constitutional muster, the city would have to show that the $54,891 fee or the requirement to set aside new units at a discount relates to and matches the cost that Yu’s development would impose upon the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city won’t be able to show that, said David Deerson, the lead lawyer representing Yu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“New residential development doesn’t have a negative impact on housing affordability. If anything, it has a positive impact,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2025/07/31/new-housing-slows-rent-growth-most-for-older-more-affordable-units\">growing\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/joeg/article-abstract/22/6/1309/6362685\">body\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/105/2/359/100977/Local-Effects-of-Large-New-Apartment-Buildings-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">of\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4906689\">economic\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://vrollet.github.io/files/city_structure.pdf\">research\u003c/a> has indeed found that local market-rate development puts downward pressure on neighborhood and city-wide rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Affordable housing in California zoning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the past, California courts have ruled that the high constitutional bar set by the Fifth Amendment \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10564227/california-supreme-court-upholds-san-joses-affordable-housing-rules\">doesn’t apply\u003c/a> to inclusionary zoning programs like the one in East Palo Alto. Requiring private developers to toss in some added affordable housing isn’t an “exaction,” the courts have found, but a standard land-use restriction akin to any other zoning rule.[aside postID=news_12044014 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/024_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-1020x680.jpg']Whether a city decides it needs more schools, apartment buildings, businesses or, in the case of inclusionary zoning, affordable housing, it has broad power under the constitution to “decide, for the good of the general welfare, that we’re going to require this,” said Mike Rawson, director of litigation at the Public Interest Law Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Supreme Court ruled as such most recently in 2015. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to weigh in, a tacit approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can always change their mind,” said Rawson. “I don’t see a basis for it, though obviously that doesn’t necessarily stop them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The composition of the court has changed since 2015, veering sharply to the right. The Sheetz decision from last year has offered new fodder for legal challenges to inclusionary zoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sheetz really helps out here a lot” in that campaign, said Deerson. He pointed to other challenges in \u003ca href=\"https://pacificlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/redT-Homes-v.-City-and-County-of-Denver-Colorado_PLF-Complaint_5.29.25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denver\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wyomingnews.com/family-sues-teton-county-over-affordable-and-workforce-housing-fees/article_d7f305f2-c841-47d9-8693-1f11b3f9bf24.html\">Teton County, Wyoming\u003c/a>. “I would expect them to keep coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tradeoffs in housing policy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If and when the nation’s highest court takes up the issue of inclusionary zoning, it will be wading into one of the more politically charged debates in housing policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence on the impact of these laws is \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/99647/inclusionary_zoning._what_does_the_research_tell_us_about_the_effectiveness_of_local_action_2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mixed\u003c/a>. Requiring private developers to build affordable units can and regularly does result in more local housing options for lower-income tenants at no additional cost to taxpayers. By putting affordable and market-rate units side-by-side, they also promote economic and racial integration, supporters argue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But inclusionary requirements can also make any given housing project less profitable, meaning that fewer units get built, leading to \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0042098009360683?casa_token=smwsJ6eKiBcAAAAA:LVzyoPqfS51YAopYzDnv3ASz4njmVFT0qKagHKHRoMQGIBNLE3kF1VTzrKn2fnNoIlFVffF0ZhVgTD0\">higher prices and rents overall\u003c/a>. In housing markets, like California’s, that see relatively little new development, the rate at which these programs add designated affordable units to the housing stock is also quite slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That policy debate isn’t relevant to the legal case, which will be fought and won over abstract constitutional principles. But for libertarian-leaning groups like the Pacific Legal Foundation, building industry groups and many “Yes In My Backyard” housing development advocates, an end to inclusionary zoning would be a win on both fronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to being illegal, I think that these inclusionary zoning policies are also frankly stupid,” said Deerson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/08/affordable-housing-developer-fees/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Whether a city decides it needs more schools, apartment buildings, businesses or, in the case of inclusionary zoning, affordable housing, it has broad power under the constitution to “decide, for the good of the general welfare, that we’re going to require this,” said Mike Rawson, director of litigation at the Public Interest Law Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Supreme Court ruled as such most recently in 2015. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to weigh in, a tacit approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can always change their mind,” said Rawson. “I don’t see a basis for it, though obviously that doesn’t necessarily stop them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The composition of the court has changed since 2015, veering sharply to the right. The Sheetz decision from last year has offered new fodder for legal challenges to inclusionary zoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sheetz really helps out here a lot” in that campaign, said Deerson. He pointed to other challenges in \u003ca href=\"https://pacificlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/redT-Homes-v.-City-and-County-of-Denver-Colorado_PLF-Complaint_5.29.25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denver\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wyomingnews.com/family-sues-teton-county-over-affordable-and-workforce-housing-fees/article_d7f305f2-c841-47d9-8693-1f11b3f9bf24.html\">Teton County, Wyoming\u003c/a>. “I would expect them to keep coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tradeoffs in housing policy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If and when the nation’s highest court takes up the issue of inclusionary zoning, it will be wading into one of the more politically charged debates in housing policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence on the impact of these laws is \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/99647/inclusionary_zoning._what_does_the_research_tell_us_about_the_effectiveness_of_local_action_2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mixed\u003c/a>. Requiring private developers to build affordable units can and regularly does result in more local housing options for lower-income tenants at no additional cost to taxpayers. By putting affordable and market-rate units side-by-side, they also promote economic and racial integration, supporters argue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But inclusionary requirements can also make any given housing project less profitable, meaning that fewer units get built, leading to \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0042098009360683?casa_token=smwsJ6eKiBcAAAAA:LVzyoPqfS51YAopYzDnv3ASz4njmVFT0qKagHKHRoMQGIBNLE3kF1VTzrKn2fnNoIlFVffF0ZhVgTD0\">higher prices and rents overall\u003c/a>. In housing markets, like California’s, that see relatively little new development, the rate at which these programs add designated affordable units to the housing stock is also quite slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That policy debate isn’t relevant to the legal case, which will be fought and won over abstract constitutional principles. But for libertarian-leaning groups like the Pacific Legal Foundation, building industry groups and many “Yes In My Backyard” housing development advocates, an end to inclusionary zoning would be a win on both fronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to being illegal, I think that these inclusionary zoning policies are also frankly stupid,” said Deerson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/08/affordable-housing-developer-fees/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco is one step closer to establishing a city-wide standard for opening homeless shelters after city leaders this week voted on legislation that would\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038376/tenderloin-welcomes-mental-health-clinic-demands-broader-city-action-on-homelessness\"> spread out shelters more equitably\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The One City Shelter Act, authored by Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, is part of a broader effort to address the shortage of shelter for its homeless population, and address concerns of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037895/12037895-autosave-v1\">Tenderloin and South of Market residents \u003c/a>who say their neighborhoods already house more than their fair share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventy-five percent of the city’s shelters and housing beds are situated in eight neighborhoods, according to \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/CON_Shelter_Assessment_Report.pdf\">city data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new legislation is a departure from Mahmood’s original proposal back in April, which would have required that new shelters be built in each district. But after weeks of talks with Mayor Daniel Lurie and other lawmakers, Mahmood, who represents the Tenderloin, adopted his proposal as a model that proposes new shelters based on neighborhood needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood also amended his original proposal to construct new shelters — which include transitional housing facilities and treatment centers — at least 300 feet away from existing shelters nearby. Originally, the proposed distance was at least 1,000 feet from existing shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043476\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Supervisor Bilal Mahmood speaks at a rally against the Trump administration’s travel bans in front of City Hall in San Francisco on June 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a commitment to new neighborhoods that are going to help their unhoused neighbors come indoors,” Mahmood told KQED. “We’re not going to put multiple shelters on the same block.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation also requires the city to conduct a report every two years to monitor which neighborhoods are meeting their shelter capacity. Based on the results, the city would then reallocate funding for neighborhoods with greater need.[aside postID=news_12049612 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-05-BL-KQED.jpg']The board voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bill on Tuesday. Supervisors Connie Chan and Chyanne Chen voted against it, with Chan calling the bill “overly prescriptive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Placing a shelter in every neighborhood without intentional community input won’t address root causes of housing and affordability, behavioral health issues and more,” Chen said in the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coalition on Homelessness’s executive director, Jennifer Friedenbach, echoed Chen’s concern over a lack of housing and the city’s overreliance on emergency shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shelter should not be expanded unless housing is expanded along with it,” Friedenbach said. “You want them to move out and into housing, and then that leaves the bed open for someone else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Friedenbach supports more geographic diversity within the city’s shelter system, she also pushed back against the idea that unhoused residents are “a burden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation is slated for a final consent vote in September before it lands on Lurie’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Space is limited in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/soma\">South of Market\u003c/a> kitchen Maritza Salinas shares, so she gets up around 5:30 a.m. to make breakfast for her three kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s just one way living in a homeless shelter shapes her daily routine. On top of parenting duties, she frequently checks in with a case worker and looks for updates on the availability of a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cycle of moving in and out of shelters weighs heavily on Salinas and is especially hard for her 6-year-old son, who has autism. She dreams of the day she can bring them to a home they can stay in for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to say to my kids, ‘We got a key. We’re going to our place,’” Salinas said while pushing a stroller with her two young children on Market Street. Her 4-year-old daughter often asks when they’re going to go home. “That’s one of the hardest things for me as a mom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has intensified efforts to clear street-level homelessness, a key issue in Mayor Daniel Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047353/heres-why-sf-homeless-advocates-are-glad-lurie-ditched-push-for-1500-shelter-beds\">campaign platform\u003c/a>. Yet hundreds of families living in shelters still lack stable housing each night, as the city struggles with a shortage of affordable homes and limited subsidies for residents with extremely low income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049536\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Salinas plays with her daughter Ranea, 4, at a playground in San Francisco on July 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Salinas has experienced homelessness since leaving an abusive relationship in 2022. She stayed in cars, on sidewalks and multiple shelters for domestic violence survivors before arriving at her current spot, Harbor House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s on one of the city’s waitlists for housing, but her time at Harbor House is running out. She knows this feeling of stress and worry well. Last year, while at another shelter, she requested an extension to avoid ending up on the streets while her housing application was pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process was confusing and frequently left her panicked about whether she’d have a place to live at the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounds so easy, but I was being pushed away,” Salinas said. “What am I supposed to do, you know? Where do I need to go?”[aside postID=news_12049323 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/240610-HomelessFamilies-12-BL_qed.jpg']San Francisco is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049323/sf-homeless-agency-walks-back-more-restrictive-policy-on-family-shelter-stays\">making it easier for families to remain in temporary shelters\u003c/a> longer starting this fall, according to a Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing memo sent to the board of supervisors this month. Beginning Oct. 1, people in temporary family shelters can apply for an unlimited number of 90-day extensions, so long as they meet eligibility requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy shift came after months of pushback against a rule implemented in December that required families to apply for 30-day extensions after their initial 90-day stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This win would not have happened without homeless families coming to City Hall themselves to tell their stories and organizing the community for months on end,” Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who advocated for the policy change, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a welcome change for those repeatedly filing extension applications while waiting for permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We started receiving eviction notices almost every month,” said Yaneth Perez, who lives in the Oasis shelter, in a press statement. Perez and Salinas have both organized alongside groups such as Faith in Action and the Coalition on Homelessness, advocating for more funding and resources for homeless families. “It created incredible stress and anxiety for us and our kids.” Advocates held press conferences outside schools to protest the evictions and met with Mayor Lurie in February. “We’re glad he’s finally listening,” Perez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Salinas and her daughter Ranea, 4, and son Matthew, 6, attend a rally at City Hall in San Francisco on July 22, 2025, in opposition to a citywide RV ban. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But extensions don’t resolve the underlying need for more affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 13% of people in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/CON_Shelter_Assessment_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to a March 2025 report\u003c/a> from the city controller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one of the fundamental problems, said Christin Evans, vice chair of the city’s homelessness oversight body. “When people come into shelter, they’re seeking assistance to secure stable housing. They don’t want to remain in the shelter,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since taking office, Lurie has set up a public-private fund to build out more transitional beds, passed legislation to speed up contracts for homelessness service providers, and opened up a new drop-in facility for mental health care. The city has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/illegal-lodging-arrests-are-soaring-in-s-f-20269807.php\">increased citations and arrests\u003c/a> for people sleeping outside and is clearing more encampments.[aside postID=news_12044180 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250428_WarrantlessSearches_GC-29_qed.jpg']However, Lurie has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047353/heres-why-sf-homeless-advocates-are-glad-lurie-ditched-push-for-1500-shelter-beds\">walked back a key\u003c/a> campaign trail promise to build 1,500 shelter beds within his first six months in office. Now, he’s focused on moving people more quickly through the homelessness response system and building more behavioral health and drug treatment beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">His $16 billion budget\u003c/a> aligns with those new priorities. The board of supervisors approved his plan to reallocate funding for permanent supportive housing to improve existing parts of the shelter system. The budget deal restored $30 million for rental subsidies for homeless families, which was previously on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lurie’s initial budget proposal did not include any new investments in addressing family homelessness. Advocates and experts were alarmed, pointing out that the number of families experiencing homelessness nearly doubled from 2022 to 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/2024_PIT_Slide_Brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the city’s 2024 Point in Time count\u003c/a> of the homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have limited funds going to rapid rehousing vouchers and permanent supportive housing placements, and there are very long waitlists for people to get those resources,” Evans said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, advocates for unhoused families celebrated the shelter extension policy and additions to the budget. Lurie praised the change, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members at 16th and Mission streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So many families get stuck in our system, with kids growing up year after year in temporary shelter without a path to stable, permanent housing. Meanwhile, thousands of people sleep on the street every night, and the city has few indoor options to offer because our shelters are full,” Lurie said in a statement. “When government isn’t afraid to try things and listen to feedback, we can craft thoughtful, effective policies, and that’s what we’ve done here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But experts say the city still needs far more places for residents with extremely low income to live so shelter stays are brief and new people can move in and out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without that, efforts to open more shelter beds and improve flow through the system overall will fall short, said Margot Kushel, an expert on homelessness based at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Time limits are an effort to spread the limited resource of shelters around, but the only way to truly create enough shelter spots is to have reasonable options for people to leave shelter with housing,” Kushel said in an email. “We need to be sure that we create housing that front-line workers can afford, that those on disability can afford. And that is really hard to do, because the numbers don’t always pencil out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049537\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Salinas hugs her daughter, Ranea, 4, at a playground in San Francisco on July 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mothers like Salinas are meanwhile stuck in line while trying to give their children a reliable routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between check-ins with her case worker, she likes to walk her kids to a park near their shelter. In a stroller so large Salinas struggles to take it on the bus, her daughter looks up while chatting away about robots and “minions,” the yellow one-eyed characters from the movie \u003cem>Despicable Me\u003c/em>. Her son sits in the front of the carriage, playing a game on his iPad with headphones on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salinas is still on a waitlist for a subsidized three-bedroom unit, and doesn’t know if she’ll need to seek another extension after her 90-day stay at the shelter is up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re placed on a waiting list and you don’t know how many people are before you,” she said. “I’m just hoping for one of these days to be able to say to my kids, ‘We have a home to go to, and you’re going to have a room, with butterflies on the walls, and we’re going to be happy.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>San Francisco is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049323/sf-homeless-agency-walks-back-more-restrictive-policy-on-family-shelter-stays\">making it easier for families to remain in temporary shelters\u003c/a> longer starting this fall, according to a Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing memo sent to the board of supervisors this month. Beginning Oct. 1, people in temporary family shelters can apply for an unlimited number of 90-day extensions, so long as they meet eligibility requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy shift came after months of pushback against a rule implemented in December that required families to apply for 30-day extensions after their initial 90-day stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This win would not have happened without homeless families coming to City Hall themselves to tell their stories and organizing the community for months on end,” Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who advocated for the policy change, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a welcome change for those repeatedly filing extension applications while waiting for permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We started receiving eviction notices almost every month,” said Yaneth Perez, who lives in the Oasis shelter, in a press statement. Perez and Salinas have both organized alongside groups such as Faith in Action and the Coalition on Homelessness, advocating for more funding and resources for homeless families. “It created incredible stress and anxiety for us and our kids.” Advocates held press conferences outside schools to protest the evictions and met with Mayor Lurie in February. “We’re glad he’s finally listening,” Perez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Salinas and her daughter Ranea, 4, and son Matthew, 6, attend a rally at City Hall in San Francisco on July 22, 2025, in opposition to a citywide RV ban. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But extensions don’t resolve the underlying need for more affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 13% of people in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/CON_Shelter_Assessment_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to a March 2025 report\u003c/a> from the city controller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one of the fundamental problems, said Christin Evans, vice chair of the city’s homelessness oversight body. “When people come into shelter, they’re seeking assistance to secure stable housing. They don’t want to remain in the shelter,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since taking office, Lurie has set up a public-private fund to build out more transitional beds, passed legislation to speed up contracts for homelessness service providers, and opened up a new drop-in facility for mental health care. The city has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/illegal-lodging-arrests-are-soaring-in-s-f-20269807.php\">increased citations and arrests\u003c/a> for people sleeping outside and is clearing more encampments.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>However, Lurie has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047353/heres-why-sf-homeless-advocates-are-glad-lurie-ditched-push-for-1500-shelter-beds\">walked back a key\u003c/a> campaign trail promise to build 1,500 shelter beds within his first six months in office. Now, he’s focused on moving people more quickly through the homelessness response system and building more behavioral health and drug treatment beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">His $16 billion budget\u003c/a> aligns with those new priorities. The board of supervisors approved his plan to reallocate funding for permanent supportive housing to improve existing parts of the shelter system. The budget deal restored $30 million for rental subsidies for homeless families, which was previously on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lurie’s initial budget proposal did not include any new investments in addressing family homelessness. Advocates and experts were alarmed, pointing out that the number of families experiencing homelessness nearly doubled from 2022 to 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/2024_PIT_Slide_Brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the city’s 2024 Point in Time count\u003c/a> of the homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have limited funds going to rapid rehousing vouchers and permanent supportive housing placements, and there are very long waitlists for people to get those resources,” Evans said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, advocates for unhoused families celebrated the shelter extension policy and additions to the budget. Lurie praised the change, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members at 16th and Mission streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So many families get stuck in our system, with kids growing up year after year in temporary shelter without a path to stable, permanent housing. Meanwhile, thousands of people sleep on the street every night, and the city has few indoor options to offer because our shelters are full,” Lurie said in a statement. “When government isn’t afraid to try things and listen to feedback, we can craft thoughtful, effective policies, and that’s what we’ve done here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But experts say the city still needs far more places for residents with extremely low income to live so shelter stays are brief and new people can move in and out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without that, efforts to open more shelter beds and improve flow through the system overall will fall short, said Margot Kushel, an expert on homelessness based at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Time limits are an effort to spread the limited resource of shelters around, but the only way to truly create enough shelter spots is to have reasonable options for people to leave shelter with housing,” Kushel said in an email. “We need to be sure that we create housing that front-line workers can afford, that those on disability can afford. And that is really hard to do, because the numbers don’t always pencil out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049537\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Salinas hugs her daughter, Ranea, 4, at a playground in San Francisco on July 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mothers like Salinas are meanwhile stuck in line while trying to give their children a reliable routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between check-ins with her case worker, she likes to walk her kids to a park near their shelter. 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Gavin Newsom’s office, which called it a harmful imitation of the state’s approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order, signed Thursday, also calls for increased institutionalization of people with mental illness and promises to defund the state’s — and \u003ca href=\"https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/11/20071107-2.html\">nation’s\u003c/a> — \u003ca href=\"https://www.va.gov/HOMELESS/featuredarticles/VAs-Implementation-of-Housing-First.asp#:~:text=The%20core%20principles%20of%20Housing,states%20have%20effectively%20ended%20homelessness.\">longstanding\u003c/a> “housing first” policy, among other provisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tara Gallegos, a spokesperson for Newsom’s office, derided Trump’s order as “more focused on creating distracting headlines and settling old scores than producing any positive impact.” Still, she acknowledged it resembled the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">governor’s own approach\u003c/a>, which has emphasized clearing street encampments and bolstering mental health and drug abuse treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, there were more than \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_PopSub_State_CA_2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">187,000 people experiencing homelessness\u003c/a> in California, a 3% increase over the previous year. But, Gallegos argued, the state has outperformed the nation, which saw an \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_PopSub_NatlTerrDC_2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">18%\u003c/a> increase during the same time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year, the governor issued an executive order addressing encampments that was based on the law and the facts, not harmful stereotypes and ineffective public policy,” she told KQED in an email. “But, his imitation (even poorly executed) is the highest form of flattery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s order comes as the Department of Housing and Urban Development has asked local governments to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/stat/cpd/fy2024-coc-competition\">reapply\u003c/a> for federal Continuum of Care funding for fiscal year 2025 — a critical grant program that serves as the “backbone” of the homelessness response system, said Katie Barnett with the policy organization All Home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049738\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/241119-SFHomelessArrests-33-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/241119-SFHomelessArrests-33-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/241119-SFHomelessArrests-33-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/241119-SFHomelessArrests-33-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco sheriff’s officers place an unhoused man into the back of a van during an arrest in San Francisco’s Mission District on Nov. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the past fiscal year, local organizations and agencies in California received nearly $683 million in Continuum of Care grants, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/stat/cpd/fy2024-coc-competition\">according to HUD\u003c/a>. Most of that funding is allocated based on certain quantitative factors, such as the number of people experiencing homelessness and a region’s success in getting and keeping people housed, said Vivian Wan, CEO of the nonprofit Abode Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But part of the grant application is judged competitively on how well it hews to federal policy, she said. For years, that’s meant following the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.va.gov/HOMELESS/nchav/docs/Research_Brief-May2023-The_Evidence_Behind_the_Housing_First_Model-Tsai_508c.pdf\">housing first\u003c/a>” model — an approach \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/end-homelessness-carson-should-continue-housing-first-approach\">first adopted\u003c/a> by George W. Bush’s administration. It essentially means providing housing without requiring that someone be enrolled in substance abuse or mental health treatment, though \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/blog/housing-first-not-housing-only\">those services are typically offered\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new executive order appears to end that practice, requiring recipients of federal funding to ensure people in their programs with mental illness or substance abuse disorders use services “as a condition of participation.”[aside postID=news_12039730 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/080924-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEP-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']But Wan said it’s yet unclear what that will look like in practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does that mean we do drug testing?” she asked. “Do we ask people, ‘Are you sober?’ The devil is in the details.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Home Director of Policy Susannah Parsons called the order “a grab bag of some of the worst ideas out there for addressing homelessness.” Amie Fishman, executive director of the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California, described it as a policy rooted in “cruelty, fear, and punishment.” But other observers have welcomed the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Webster, a senior fellow at the conservative Cicero Institute, called it “a huge step in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to Los Angeles, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-06/homeless-deaths-in-l-a-county-are-leveling-off-but-still-nearly-seven-per-day\">seven unhoused people, on average, died each day\u003c/a> in 2023 — a rate that’s 4.5 times higher than the general population. Drug- and alcohol-related overdoses accounted for 45% of those deaths, the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve known for years that homelessness isn’t just about housing but that it’s about folks who’ve got serious illnesses, addictions, mental health challenges, behavioral health challenges,” Webster said. “This is a humanitarian crisis on the streets of some of our largest cities, and we’ve ignored it for far too long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Tents with various items on a sidewalk next to a large vehicle.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless encampment on Division Street in San Francisco in 2016. \u003ccite>(Amy Mostafa/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s own executive order last year directing state agencies to clear encampments from state land, along with his calls earlier this year for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">cities to do the same\u003c/a>, is an admission that the status quo isn’t working, Webster argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California, because they are impacted the most from other states in the country, they’ve got to figure out how to do things differently,” Webster said, adding that’s meant “focusing more on the provision of treatment, focusing more on the fact that encampments are dangerous for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also pushed for the adoption of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007175/care-court-was-supposed-to-help-those-hardest-to-treat-heres-how-its-going\">CARE Court\u003c/a>, an alternative mental health court designed to assist people with untreated schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980236/california-voters-pass-proposition-1-requiring-counties-to-fund-programs-tackling-homelessness\">Proposition 1\u003c/a>, which required counties to dedicate more money to housing and programs for people experiencing homelessness with serious mental illnesses or substance abuse problems.[aside postID=news_12049323 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/240610-HomelessFamilies-12-BL_qed.jpg']But Julie Lo, deputy director of programs with the advocacy group Housing California, said CARE Court’s approach to treatment is philosophically different from Trump’s executive order: The state’s process is centered on community-based treatment, emphasizing empowerment and allowing family members and behavioral health providers to be part of the discussion for court-ordered treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lo pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953623007657\">multiple\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/involuntary-sweeps-of-homeless-encampments-do-not-improve-public-safety-study-finds\"> studies\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://nhchc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NHCHC-encampment-sweeps-issue-brief-12-22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> showing\u003c/a> encampment sweeps can be ineffective in decreasing homelessness and increasing public safety, and said that if the executive order is trying to achieve that goal, “this is certainly not the path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen over and over that sweeping encampments and increasing enforcement or forcing people into institutional settings — it doesn’t reduce homelessness,” she said. “It moves people around and makes it harder for them to access services. And really, it creates a cycle of trauma with no path to stability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beth Stokes, executive director of Episcopal Community Services San Francisco, worries the order threatens to undo decades of progress in the movement to end homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are deeply troubled by the administration’s executive order, which abandons compassionate and evidence-based programs, like \u003ca href=\"https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/harm-reduction\">harm reduction\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/blog/housing-first-not-housing-only\">housing first\u003c/a>, and replaces them with cruel policies such as forced treatment and criminalizing poor people for being unhoused,” she said in a statement. “Instead of investing in solutions we know work, this policy punishes people for the system’s failures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>After a five-year legal battle, nearly $1 billion generated from an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a> sales tax can finally go toward solving its homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unanimous decision on Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors came amid \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandside.org/2025/07/02/measure-w-alameda-county-homelessness-bas/\">some uncertainty\u003c/a> over whether all the revenue would go toward housing and homelessness — as initially billed to voters, when the measure narrowly passed in 2020 — or if some should go to other county programs, such as mental health or violence prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the board decided to allocate the vast majority of the funds to its original purpose, with a smaller portion going to other county programs. The 10-year half-cent sales tax has accrued about $810 million through June, according to county officials. Those funds will continue to grow through 2031, and officials estimate they could generate a total of more than $1.8 billion, with roughly $1.4 billion dedicated to solving the county’s homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The windfall comes amid federal reductions in other safety net programs, such as \u003ca href=\"https://frac.org/news/senatevotejuly25\">food stamps\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/putting-880-billion-in-potential-federal-medicaid-cuts-in-context-of-state-budgets-and-coverage/\">Medicaid\u003c/a>. At the state level, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a budget late last month, which includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045673/newsom-slashes-funding-for-homelessness-in-state-budget-leaving-cities-scrambling\">no new funding for a key statewide homelessness grant program\u003c/a> in the current fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local leaders argued that the recently released cash from Measure W puts Alameda County in a unique position to continue progress on housing people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t made a dent in the last 20 years, 10 years,” Board President David Haubert said. “We have more needs than we have resources, which is why we have to be smart about the dollars that we’re spending.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985917\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985917\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tent under a freeway overpass in Oakland on Jan. 31, 2017, the day of the point-in-time survey of Alameda County’s homeless population. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Alameda%20County%202024%20PIT%20Homelessness%20Report%20-%20FINAL%20.pdf\">Alameda County’s most recent count,\u003c/a> more than 9,400 people were estimated to be experiencing homelessness in the county, but for the first time since 2013, that number has declined — down 3% compared to 2022. Unsheltered homelessness declined even more — 11% during the same time frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realize that the Trump administration means that there are significant cuts that are coming your way,” Oakland City Council President Kevin Jenkins told supervisors at the meeting. “All of you guys represent an area where people are literally dying in our streets. And so we have the resources with Measure W to start getting people off the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure had been held up in litigation after the Alameda Taxpayers Association sued the county, a\u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2025/a168775.html\">rguing it was actually a special tax\u003c/a>, requiring a two-thirds majority to pass. Voters had only narrowly approved it with a 50.09% majority. Earlier this year, however, a judge ruled the measure was indeed a general tax and released the funds, which had been sitting in escrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco faced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837613/proposition-c-court-win-delivers-nearly-500-million-for-san-franciscos-homeless-but-how-will-it-be-spent\">similar battle\u003c/a> over Proposition C, which voters approved in 2018 and was subsequently tied up in litigation. In 2020, the state supreme court ruled the tax was valid and could be implemented as originally promised. Earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044180/spike-in-homelessness-stalled-after-sf-started-these-programs-lurie-is-slashing-them\">Mayor Daniel Lurie announced plans\u003c/a> to reallocate some of the funds from homelessness prevention programs to interim shelters.[aside postID=news_12044180 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250428_WarrantlessSearches_GC-29_qed.jpg']When Measure W was presented to Alameda County voters, officials estimated it could generate $150 million per year. Since the tax started collection in July 2021, its revenue has mildly exceeded expectations, generating a little more than $160 million per year. County officials expect future years will yield roughly $170 million for the duration of the tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board agreed to allocate 80% of Measure W funds to the county’s Home Together Fund, which is used for a wide range of services, including acquiring and maintaining temporary and permanent housing and providing services for people experiencing or exiting homelessness. And if the tax generates more than $170 million in a given year, any additional funds would also go into the Home Together Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining 20% of Measure W’s revenue will be set aside for safety net programs, including food security, behavioral health care and senior services. And, following a recommendation from county staff, the board created a $170 million reserve, which the county can dip into if economic conditions worsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Alameda supervisors adopted guiding principles for how the fund will be allocated on Tuesday, the granular allocations will be decided at a special meeting next Wednesday. In the meantime, cities are vying for their piece of the pie. Oakland’s newly elected mayor, Barbara Lee, campaigned on a promise to get \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/03/19/oakland-mayor-election-loren-taylor-barbara-lee-difference-comparison/#h-homelessness-and-housing\">her city’s fair share of Measure W\u003c/a> funds. \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Alameda%20County%202024%20PIT%20Homelessness%20Report%20-%20FINAL%20.pdf\">More than half\u003c/a> of Alameda County’s homeless population lives in Oakland, despite its residents making up only a quarter of the county’s total population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044478\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland mayor Barbara Lee speaks to a crowd of protesters at the No Kings protest in Oakland on June 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>As decisions are being made about where those dollars go, it’s important to ground those conversations based on the need,” Lee said at the meeting. “In Oakland, that need is urgent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, who represents Oakland, agreed with Lee, while also emphasizing the need to address racial disparities in the county’s homeless population. According to \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Alameda%20County%202024%20PIT%20Homelessness%20Report%20-%20FINAL%20.pdf\">county data\u003c/a>, the largest racial group experiencing homelessness in Alameda County is Black. Black residents make up 41% of people experiencing homelessness, despite representing only a tenth of the general public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to Measure W, I do agree that we have to invest the funds where there is the most need,” she told KQED. “And we have to work towards eliminating those racial disparities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But during the board’s discussion on Tuesday, Haubert challenged the idea that throwing money at the problem will actually solve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In fact, I think it’s kind of the opposite — the more money you pour into something, the less urgency there is to actually perform,” he said. “I wanna see progress on things year by year, so I’d like to see us reallocate this every year based on what’s working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The board’s vote this week agreed to allocate $750,000 to the pool in recognition of the county’s role in the displacement of former Russell City residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Hayward pledged an additional $250,000 to the new fund as part of its justice initiative, bringing the total to $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The destruction of Russell City is an atrocity that cannot be undone,” Márquez said during the board meeting. “The displacement of homes, businesses and livelihoods represents a profound injustice that continues to affect former residents, including the elders who are still alive and living in Alameda County today, as well as their descendants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922175/remembering-russell-city-a-thriving-east-bay-town-razed-by-racist-government\">Russell City\u003c/a>, an unincorporated neighborhood of about 1,400 people near the Hayward Shoreline, was a cultural and residential haven for Black and Latino families in the years following World War II. 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Mural artists are Joshua Powell, assisted by Wythe Bowart, Nicole Pierret and Brent McHugh. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because the city was unincorporated, however, it also lacked essential city services such as sewage, plumbing and electricity. When residents turned to local officials for assistance, they were repeatedly denied. Instead, officials used the conditions to declare Russell City a “blight” on the surrounding communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1960s, Alameda County and the city of Hayward began seizing property in the area through eminent domain as part of a plan to turn the neighborhood into an industrial park. By 1966, the beloved neighborhood was bulldozed to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a thousand residents were displaced from their homes, forced to rebuild their lives at a time when racist policies like redlining and racial steering made it extremely difficult for Black and brown people to relocate.[aside postID=news_12048684 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/004_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qed.jpg']Márquez acknowledged the role county officials played in the destruction of the community, adding that the funds are a recognition of the pain they inflicted on former residents and the suffering that continues to the present day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and the national reckoning it sparked, Hayward issued a formal apology for its culpability in the takeover of Russell City. It launched the Russell City Reparative Justice Project the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It signals to the community that the city of Hayward acknowledges what happened and is willing to take steps forward to apologize … and to make good on something that was so terribly wrong,” said Mayor Mark Salinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Hayward officials didn’t issue eviction notices themselves, the city still benefited from the acquisition of Russell City and helped secure investors and developers, Salinas said, adding that it’s time to acknowledge the harm they caused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope cities begin to look at and evaluate their own histories in relation to families of color and neighborhoods of color,” he said. “Things don’t just happen out of thin air. People meet, people plan and people build. That’s where institutional racism and discrimination manifest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922192\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Property-Russell-City-sized.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photograph of several wooden buildings including a home, a large shed or garage and several small structures.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1568\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Property-Russell-City-sized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Property-Russell-City-sized-800x653.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Property-Russell-City-sized-1020x833.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Property-Russell-City-sized-160x131.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Property-Russell-City-sized-1536x1254.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Russell City home circa 1950. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Hayward Area Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Supervisor David Haubert, who allocated $100,000 to the redress fund from his office, said he hopes that the money will allow families to “move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This doesn’t completely address and redress all of the harms which are long-lasting, which are traumatic, and yet at the same time, I think it is very symbolic in terms of going beyond the apology,” Haubert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the funds secured, the next step for officials is to determine eligibility requirements, identify which families lived in Russell City and figure out a process for disbursement, Salinas said. 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James Knowles serves on Alameda County’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/bnc/#/board/a0U4N00000NObxiUAD\"> Reparations Commission\u003c/a>, and Aisha Knowles volunteers for Hayward’s committee focused on\u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/hayward-history/russell-city/steering-committee\"> Russell City\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the daughter of someone who lived in Russell City, I didn’t start this fight,” Knowles said. “But I feel like … it is part of my responsibility in living and paying things forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, decades later, Knowles’ father and other former residents of Russell City may receive a form of payment from Alameda County and Hayward to make amends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she heard the news last week, Knowles said her emotions ranged from surprised to grateful to “a little bit cautious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a positive start,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What was Russell City?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Due to widespread racist policies like redlining, Russell City was one of the rare places where Black and Latino people could own homes in the Bay Area after World War II. It was a thriving community with schools, clubs, a church and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897843/decades-after-cultural-genocide-residents-of-a-bulldozed-community-get-apology-from-hayward\">a vibrant culture hub\u003c/a> for blues music, with legendary performers like Etta James and Ray Charles taking the stage there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048781\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/010_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/010_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/010_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/010_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A motorcycle drives by a mural depicting scenes from Russell City at A Street and Maple Court in Hayward on Dec. 2, 2021. Mural artists are Joshua Powell, assisted by Wythe Bowart, Nicole Pierret and Brent McHugh. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But because Russell City was unincorporated, it lacked basic city services such as sewage or plumbing. Residents repeatedly petitioned the county and the city of Hayward for assistance, but were denied. Instead, officials declared the community a “blight,” seized property through eminent domain and made plans to redevelop it into an industrial park. In 1963, officials cleared out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897843/decades-after-cultural-genocide-residents-of-a-bulldozed-community-get-apology-from-hayward\">the entire community\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 1,400 people were forcibly dislocated, including Knowles’ family. She said many former residents struggled to recover, including her grandfather, who lost the auto shop he owned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very difficult for him to recover from not being able to have a business,” she said. “He died at the age of 48 …There are a lot of memories, harm, and trauma that many families have experienced.”[aside postID=news_12044638 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/12m-Reparations-1.jpg']After the 2020 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, cities across the country, including in the Bay Area, began taking steps to acknowledge their discriminatory and racist histories. In 2021, Hayward issued\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897843/decades-after-cultural-genocide-residents-of-a-bulldozed-community-get-apology-from-hayward\"> a public apology\u003c/a> to former residents of Russell City. The following year, the city launched the Russell City Reparative Justice Project, which presented recommendations to the city council in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were in support and happy when we did the apology, but it did feel like it wasn’t enough. Those are just words. It wasn’t anything tangible,” said Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Márquez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early July, Hayward, Márquez and fellow Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley announced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/news/jul25/city-hayward-and-alameda-county-ad-hoc-committee-reparations-announce-creation\">$900,000 fund\u003c/a> dedicated to the former residents of Russell City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our commitment to say, ‘We meant what we said publicly with apology,’” Márquez said. “By no means is it meant to cover the cost of what they lost because that’s insurmountable. But we do want to publicly tell them, ‘We care about you. We care about the pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This could be just the beginning as well. There might be other ways that we can get at redressing the harm for Russell City,” added Miley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Márquez, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors is expected to vote to approve the funding for the Russell City fund on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just really important that we act as quickly as possible,” Márquez said. “It is really painful to learn every year that another elder has passed away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much money is in the fund?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There is \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/news/jul25/city-hayward-and-alameda-county-ad-hoc-committee-reparations-announce-creation\">$900,000\u003c/a> in the redress fund:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>$250,000 will come from the city of Hayward\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$400,000 from Márquez’s office\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$250,000 from Miley’s office\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Márquez added she is hoping the fund can reach a million dollars, and that “we’re all gonna work collectively — really hard — engaging in philanthropy as well as local businesses and anyone interested in contributing to the redress fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic.jpg\" alt=\"Three women stand together. The woman on the left is wearing glasses, a turquoise sweater with a brown purse. The woman in the middle with her hand holding her wrist is wearing a green shirt and light brown bag. The woman on the right is wearing a grey shirt with a black purse on her left shoulder.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frances Doyal (left), Winny Knowles (center) and Aisha Knowles, former residents and descendants of families from Russell City, pose for a photo during the annual Russell City reunion picnic at Kennedy Park in Hayward on Sept. 3, 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Aisha Knowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Knowles pointed out that there have been other government agencies in the area who could also contribute to the redress fund since they “had a role in what happened in Russell City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The fund is] a good start. It also is a sign to these other agencies to look at the history within their own organizations,” Knowles said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Márquez said she is also working with the city of Hayward to find a local foundation that can administer the funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who is eligible?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Márquez said her priority is for the funds to go to former residents and elders who are still living. They may consider expanding that criteria depending on how much money is ultimately raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922177\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922177\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photograph of kids playing volleyball by an empty field. Some low buildings rise up in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large group of children playing volleyball on a dirt playground at Russell School, circa 1950. Former Russell City residents fondly remember playing together at the edge of town. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Hayward Area Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To identify past residents and collect their information, Márquez said the city did a survey with close to 400 respondents and held two town halls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That data is being compiled, and that’s what we’ll have to look at, in terms of who do we know that actually lived there,” she said. “Now that the issue has been elevated, [it] is very likely that we’ll learn of more former residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much does a former resident get?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It depends on how much the fund raises, Márquez said. She said the county is aiming to launch a website containing details in the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When will people see the compensation?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Márquez said her “ideal” timeline would be 60 to 90 days to get the fund running.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is the precedent for this?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I do feel it’s historic,” said Márquez. “This is a blueprint of what you could do at the local level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kamilah Moore, an attorney who chaired \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">California’s Reparations Task Force\u003c/a>, said some local governments and states created funds or programs to address past harms. In 2019, Evanston, Illinois, established a fund for Black residents using the city’s\u003ca href=\"https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/22/city/poetic-justice-how-cannabis-fuels-evanstons-reparations/\"> 3% sales tax on marijuana\u003c/a>. In the 1990s, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/rosewood-reparations/\">Florida passed a law\u003c/a> allowing descendants of a Black majority town that suffered a massacre in 1923 to attend college tuition-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029390\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamilah Moore at Northeastern University in Oakland on Feb. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This fund in Russell City seems to be unique,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her studies of international law and reparations, Moore said a key component of making amends is providing payments to survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we talk about recommendations, at the end of the day, we’ve got to make sure it includes compensation,” she said.[aside postID=news_11897843 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Hayward_RussellCity_Mural-672x372.jpg']From her perspective, conversation about reparations has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044638/california-reparations-bills-definition-12-million-explainer\">stagnated on the state level\u003c/a>, even as California officials discuss how to disperse the $12 million allocated toward reparative legislation. But she sees the Russell City fund as an example of momentum building locally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Localities are still doing what they need to do to make sure that they’re rectifying harms,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowles — who produced a documentary about Russell City called \u003ca href=\"https://www.theapologyfilm.com/\">\u003cem>The Apology\u003c/em>\u003c/a> — said it is important for communities across California to research past discrimination and violence, ensure harm is repaired and “prevent it from happening in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an adult, it seems like there were efforts made to erase the history of Russell City,” she said, her voice breaking as she held back tears. “I feel like my grandparents and my relatives who are no longer here are proud of me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandmother had faith all the time. She was not an angry woman,” she added. “She believed that there would always be something greater, even if she didn’t get to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the creation of the redress fund, there is a little bit of peace that I received, in understanding maybe this is what she knew that this would happen one day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What other questions do you have?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we aim to publish guides and explainers that dispel confusion and answer pressing questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have more inquiries about reparations or racial justice in California, please let us know, and we’ll do our best to answer. 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It wasn’t anything tangible,” said Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Márquez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early July, Hayward, Márquez and fellow Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley announced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/news/jul25/city-hayward-and-alameda-county-ad-hoc-committee-reparations-announce-creation\">$900,000 fund\u003c/a> dedicated to the former residents of Russell City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our commitment to say, ‘We meant what we said publicly with apology,’” Márquez said. “By no means is it meant to cover the cost of what they lost because that’s insurmountable. But we do want to publicly tell them, ‘We care about you. We care about the pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This could be just the beginning as well. 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The woman on the left is wearing glasses, a turquoise sweater with a brown purse. The woman in the middle with her hand holding her wrist is wearing a green shirt and light brown bag. The woman on the right is wearing a grey shirt with a black purse on her left shoulder.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frances Doyal (left), Winny Knowles (center) and Aisha Knowles, former residents and descendants of families from Russell City, pose for a photo during the annual Russell City reunion picnic at Kennedy Park in Hayward on Sept. 3, 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Aisha Knowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Knowles pointed out that there have been other government agencies in the area who could also contribute to the redress fund since they “had a role in what happened in Russell City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The fund is] a good start. It also is a sign to these other agencies to look at the history within their own organizations,” Knowles said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Márquez said she is also working with the city of Hayward to find a local foundation that can administer the funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who is eligible?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Márquez said her priority is for the funds to go to former residents and elders who are still living. They may consider expanding that criteria depending on how much money is ultimately raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922177\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922177\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Kids-play-Russell-City-sized.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photograph of kids playing volleyball by an empty field. 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In the 1990s, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/rosewood-reparations/\">Florida passed a law\u003c/a> allowing descendants of a Black majority town that suffered a massacre in 1923 to attend college tuition-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029390\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250228-RACIAL-VIOLENCE-CONFERENCE-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamilah Moore at Northeastern University in Oakland on Feb. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This fund in Russell City seems to be unique,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her studies of international law and reparations, Moore said a key component of making amends is providing payments to survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we talk about recommendations, at the end of the day, we’ve got to make sure it includes compensation,” she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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