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Gavin Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2024-Encampments-EO-7-24.pdf\">July executive order\u003c/a> urging cities to clear encampments and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">June Supreme Court decision\u003c/a> that granted cities greater power to police homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Champions of the measure said it would have reined in Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004348/berkeley-moves-to-expand-homeless-encampment-sweeps-in-more-aggressive-approach\">newly aggressive approach\u003c/a> to policing homelessness, though city officials disagreed with their assessment, \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024-11-12%20Item%2018b%20Companion%20Report%20Resolution%20Opposing.pdf\">arguing existing policy is already consistent with this approach\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council took no action on the resolution, marking the second time in five months that Berkeley leaders opted not to take a stand against punitive strategies to address homelessness. It followed a resolution this summer from \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/UrgentItem-GrantsPass.pdf\">Councilmember Cecilia Lunaparra\u003c/a> calling for a similar action that was also scuttled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For advocates, however, Tuesday’s decision took on new meaning after the election of former President Donald Trump, as several invoked what they expected to be a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013983/how-another-trump-presidency-could-impact-housing-in-california\">draconian federal homelessness agenda\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003055\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020_9408_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020_9408_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020_9408_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020_9408_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020_9408_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020_9408_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020_9408_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tent encampment under a freeway overpass in Berkeley on March 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>George Lippman, vice chair of the Peace and Justice Commission, which advises the City Council on social justice issues, said the resolution was a “referendum on who we are and our values,” adding the city “should take a moral stance of upholding a stronger standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That doesn’t end after Election Day,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Berkeley surprised observers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004348/berkeley-moves-to-expand-homeless-encampment-sweeps-in-more-aggressive-approach\">by joining the growing list\u003c/a> of cities embracing stronger enforcement tools to crack down on encampments in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling. Some two dozen cities and counties across the state have enacted or begun enforcing anti-camping laws, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006541/sfs-homeless-sweeps-have-cleared-over-1200-tents-where-are-people-going\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/09/23/sheng-thao-homeless-camps-order-grants-pass/\">Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25291291-9_10_2024-clk-resolution-city-council-71513-encampment-policy-resolution-to-promote-healthy-and-safe-neighborhoods?responsive=1&title=1\">Berkeley’s new policy\u003c/a>, workers will continue to offer shelter “whenever practicable” before closing encampments, but there are now several exceptions. City workers can clear tents and cite and arrest unhoused people if an encampment is determined to be a health or fire hazard, public nuisance, too close to traffic or near a construction zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Radu, assistant to the city manager, emphasized that \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024-10-7%20Implementation%20of%20Berkeley%E2%80%99s%20New%20Encampment%20Policy.pdf\">the policy’s exceptions are narrow\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12013983 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2176495054-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a high bar,” he said. “We need to get them out of a dangerous situation now, or we need to accommodate some urgent operations or construction schedule now. And sometimes it’s just as simple as asking them and working with them to move across the street to accommodate that while we continue the hard work of getting them connected to resources that will end their homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Radu said, the city has twice taken advantage of its new authority to ask people to move without offering shelter: to clear Civic Center Park for a construction project and to remove someone encamped on a center median on University Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radu, who manages the division that oversees the city’s homeless response team, said no one was cited or arrested during the operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not interested in criminalizing homelessness,” he said. “We want to end it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, advocates like attorney Andrea Henson argue that the policy’s exceptions are overly broad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not narrow exceptions,” she said. “To be in proximity to traffic — every homeless encampment is in proximity to traffic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henson said unhoused residents are rattled by the shift toward more aggressive enforcement at the state and local level, and Trump’s election has only exacerbated that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are really scared,” she said. “They’re very scared because of what’s happening, because of the election, because of the language that they’re hearing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was among those who invoked the incoming federal administration at the City Council meeting and urged leaders to take a stand against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a decision to make here in Berkeley, and it’s the same decision that people need to make in this country,” she said. “Either you’re with our new government, which is quickly becoming very fascist … or you take a firm stand. 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"content": "\u003cp>As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to reenter the White House, California housing advocates are bracing for how a second term could impact the state’s notoriously high home prices, rents and rates of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Trump promised to fix the country’s growing housing affordability crisis by slashing mortgage rates, reducing regulations and opening federal land for housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a stark contrast to his first term when housing policy was largely absent from either major candidate’s presidential platforms. This time around, that’s changed, and Trump has recognized housing affordability is a problem, said Matthew Schwartz, executive director of the policy organization the California Housing Partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the Trump administration has four years to fulfill a promise to make housing more affordable,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, just how that happens is a point of concern among many California lawmakers, prompting Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier last week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013535/california-and-the-bay-area-took-on-trump-before-theyre-ready-to-do-it-again\">to call for a special session\u003c/a> of the Legislature to strategize ways to counteract the more harmful aspects of Trump’s proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How are we going to strengthen — from a legal perspective, as well as a policy perspective — the policies that are in place in California,” state Sen. Aisha Wahab (D-Fremont) said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, policymakers in California are wrestling with Democrats’ losses this election — not just nationally but also inside California. Two statewide ballot measures that would have directly helped residents better afford housing — by \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=5&year=2024\">raising money for new affordable housing\u003c/a> and allowing local governments to \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=33&year=2024\">strengthen tenant protections\u003c/a> — both failed. A third measure, which would raise \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=32&year=2024\">the minimum wage\u003c/a>, also \u003ca href=\"https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/ballot-measures\">appeared headed toward defeat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us not to have approved propositions that could have supported the people that we say we care about — I think we’re in an identity crisis,” said Nikki Beasley, executive director of Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services. “We say one thing, but we’re actually doing something completely different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how other California housing advocates are thinking about \u003ca href=\"#A\">housing supply\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#B\">federal funding for affordable housing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"#C\">homelessness\u003c/a> under a second Trump term.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Housing supply\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>State officials have tasked cities with planning for about 2.5 million new homes in their respective jurisdictions by 2030. But, the number of new homes and apartments that can actually get built is determined by a number of factors; two of the most important are the cost of construction and the amount of red tape developers have to cut through before they can actually build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Lewis, a spokesperson for California YIMBY, said the federal government’s role in local policymaking is limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s mostly about some tax policies and funding mechanisms, but not much else,” he said. “What this really points back to is that the role of the state Legislature is even more important now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While lawmakers in California have made significant strides in passing bills to encourage more housing development, many cities have upheld policies or enacted new ones to slow growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta and the state’s housing department have launched several lawsuits against cities in recent years — including Elk Grove, Huntington Beach, Portola, and most recently, the city of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/about-hcd/newsroom/governor-newsom-takes-action-against-norwalk-its-unlawful-shelter-ban\">Norwalk\u003c/a> — for violating state housing laws and preventing new housing from being built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most likely outcome [of the Trump presidency] is slightly worse than the status quo,” Lewis said. “But even that won’t change if the cities won’t reduce their barriers to build more housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the cost of constructing housing, however, Trump’s promises to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013409/immigrant-advocates-anticipate-fight-against-trump-border-policies\">crack down on illegal immigration\u003c/a>, if realized, could grind “the construction industry to a halt,” said Russell Lowery, executive director for the California Rental Housing Association. An estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/EW-Construction-factsheet.pdf\">23% of the construction industry nationally (PDF)\u003c/a> is made up of undocumented immigrant workers, according to the Center for American Progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That would have a negative impact on supply no matter what,” he said. “If you don’t have people who can build the product, you’re not going to increase supply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tariffs could also make the cost of construction materials more expensive, Lowery said. Trump promised to impose \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/11/trump-trade-policies-will-fuel-freight-rates-consumers-pay-price.html\">blanket tariffs of 10% to 20% on all imports\u003c/a>, which could raise the cost of imported construction supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/blog/how-us-trade-policy-contributes-our-insane-construction-materials-costs\">2018 report from the Cato Institute\u003c/a>, a libertarian think tank, the cost of construction materials increased dramatically after Trump instituted tariffs and trade restrictions during his first term in the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, it is still unknown how Trump’s policies will shape the housing supply. Lowery said it could take years, perhaps after Trump has left office, to determine the effect his administration had on the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The changes that happen at the federal level take time to change the behavior and really impact the rental market in individual states, certainly in a state as large as California,” he said. “It took years to get us into this crisis, and it’s going to take — no matter who is in charge — years to get out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>Federal funding for affordable housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The extent to which a second Trump administration can force its agenda on California remains to be seen, but affordable housing and homelessness policy experts say federal funding could be used as both a carrot and a stick to influence state action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several experts listed cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) budget as top concerns. During Trump’s first term, White House officials proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/trump-budget-deeply-cuts-health-housing-other-assistance-for-low-and-moderate-income\">slashing\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://nlihc.org/resource/president-trump-proposes-drastic-cuts-affordable-housing-programs\">federal funding\u003c/a> for affordable housing, though \u003ca href=\"https://www.enterprisecommunity.org/blog/fiscal-year-2024-budget-sees-significant-increase-huds-native-american-programs\">\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Congress rebuffed some of those requests\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. With Republicans likely to take control of Congress this year, that guardrail is less secure, said Christopher Martin, policy director at Housing California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could probably move these things now under a new Congress that is just as radically motivated as he is,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharon Rapport, California state policy director for the Corporation for Supportive Housing, is most worried about efforts to defund rental subsidy programs for lower-income people, known as Housing Choice Vouchers or Section 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuts to those programs lead directly to more people falling into homelessness,” she said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/socal-connected/the-rise-of-homelessness-in-the-1980s#:~:text=The%20second%20key%20event%20was,to%20curtail%20them%20were%20introduced\">citing evidence\u003c/a> that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/proposed-cuts-public-housing-threaten-repeat-1980s-housing-crisis\">rise of\u003c/a> mass \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa127.pdf\">homelessness\u003c/a> in the ’80s corresponded with \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519584/#:~:text=The%20recession%20of%20the%201980s,in%201990)%20and%20in%20subsidized\">major cuts to HUD programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin said that’s one area where the state could step in to help mitigate the impacts of potentially reduced federal funding. Rapport agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Otherwise, we will see significant increases in homelessness for sure,” she said, though she acknowledged the state’s budget deficit presents a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/trump-administrations-proposed-mixed-status-housing-rule-another-form-family\">previously endorsed\u003c/a> calls for the eviction of all noncitizens, including those in mixed-status families, from federally subsidized housing, a policy proposal that also appears in \u003ca href=\"https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-15.pdf\">Project 2025\u003c/a> — a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/politics/trump-project-2025.html\">900-page policy playbook\u003c/a> from the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy document advocates for doing away with federal commitments to the \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/resource/housing-first/\">Housing First\u003c/a> approach to homelessness, which prioritizes permanent housing and supportive services. Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/politics/trump-project-2025.html\">disavowed the agenda\u003c/a> despite the fact that many of its authors \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/22/us/politics/project-2025-trump-heritage-foundation.html\">served in his first administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the driver of what does work in California,” said Alex Visotzky, senior California policy fellow at the National Alliance to End Homelessness. “It’s partially because of California’s commitment to Housing First that the state-funded [Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program] \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/california.business.consumer.services.and.housing.agency/viz/HHAPReport/Overview\">has made 40,000 permanent housing placements\u003c/a> since the beginning of 2023.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>Homelessness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A Republican-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23504323/housing-first-homelessness-houston-homes\">backlash against Housing First\u003c/a> in recent years, championed most fervently \u003ca href=\"https://ciceroinstitute.org/research/housing-first-is-a-failure/\">by the Cicero Institute\u003c/a>, has helped bring about the rise of punitive approaches to dealing with homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s first-term rhetoric and promises for a continuation of those policies point to an extreme agenda, advocates for people experiencing homelessness said, but one which they say mirrors an anti-homeless approach some state and local leaders in California have already embraced.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12013909,news_12012553,news_12012489\"]“We already see it manifesting in cities across California, and the new administration is just going to supercharge it,” said Eric Tars, senior policy director for the National Homelessness Law Center. “We see the next four years as posing a real threat to the rights of homeless people, and that will likely cause a severe growth of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his first term, Trump repeatedly disparaged California over its homelessness crisis, calling it “a disgrace to the nation,” and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/09/10/trump-pushing-major-crackdown-homeless-camps-california-with-aides-discussing-moving-residents-government-backed-facilities/\">pushed for a crackdown on homeless encampments\u003c/a> in the state. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/07/02/trump_we_may_intercede_on_homelessness_crisis_in_california.html\">floated taking unilateral action\u003c/a> on homelessness in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and aides reportedly discussed moving people living on the streets into government facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s built on that foundation with \u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/agenda47-ending-the-nightmare-of-the-homeless-drug-addicts-and-dangerously-deranged\">promises\u003c/a> to relocate houseless people to “tent cities,” with doctors and social workers on site and institutionalize those with severe mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has also vowed to divert money spent aiding Ukraine and on “shelter and transport of illegal aliens” to \u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/agenda47-ending-veteran-homelessness-in-america\">addressing homelessness\u003c/a>. He’s said he would “ban urban camping wherever possible” and have violators arrested unless they accept drug treatment or services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court removed a significant hurdle to implementing that vision earlier this summer when it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">gave cities the green light\u003c/a> to enforce camping bans regardless of whether or not they have shelter beds available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, jurisdictions across California have passed new anti-camping ordinances, and Newsom has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">pressured local officials\u003c/a> to seize the opportunity to clear encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eve Garrow, senior policy analyst and advocate at the ACLU of Southern California, wants to see the state push back against a Trump 2.0 agenda, which she calls an “existential threat” to people living on the streets, with a “strong and unequivocal commitment for equal rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sees little appetite for that now among elected leaders who’ve taken an increasingly aggressive approach to the crisis but hopes the political calculus could change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could represent a turning point for policy in California if the Newsom administration and local governments are viewed as following in lockstep with a Trump administration,” she said. “It could be a wake-up call and an opportunity to pivot away from Trump-like policies and move in a direction that is effective and caring and nonviolent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ-ZKtuSHdeWqxooQwfEcr-oiOpdpJcf2RLZInU7aqjjQlRQ/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to reenter the White House, California housing advocates are bracing for how a second term could impact the state’s notoriously high home prices, rents and rates of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Trump promised to fix the country’s growing housing affordability crisis by slashing mortgage rates, reducing regulations and opening federal land for housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a stark contrast to his first term when housing policy was largely absent from either major candidate’s presidential platforms. This time around, that’s changed, and Trump has recognized housing affordability is a problem, said Matthew Schwartz, executive director of the policy organization the California Housing Partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the Trump administration has four years to fulfill a promise to make housing more affordable,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, just how that happens is a point of concern among many California lawmakers, prompting Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier last week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013535/california-and-the-bay-area-took-on-trump-before-theyre-ready-to-do-it-again\">to call for a special session\u003c/a> of the Legislature to strategize ways to counteract the more harmful aspects of Trump’s proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How are we going to strengthen — from a legal perspective, as well as a policy perspective — the policies that are in place in California,” state Sen. Aisha Wahab (D-Fremont) said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, policymakers in California are wrestling with Democrats’ losses this election — not just nationally but also inside California. Two statewide ballot measures that would have directly helped residents better afford housing — by \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=5&year=2024\">raising money for new affordable housing\u003c/a> and allowing local governments to \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=33&year=2024\">strengthen tenant protections\u003c/a> — both failed. A third measure, which would raise \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=32&year=2024\">the minimum wage\u003c/a>, also \u003ca href=\"https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/ballot-measures\">appeared headed toward defeat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us not to have approved propositions that could have supported the people that we say we care about — I think we’re in an identity crisis,” said Nikki Beasley, executive director of Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services. “We say one thing, but we’re actually doing something completely different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how other California housing advocates are thinking about \u003ca href=\"#A\">housing supply\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#B\">federal funding for affordable housing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"#C\">homelessness\u003c/a> under a second Trump term.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Housing supply\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>State officials have tasked cities with planning for about 2.5 million new homes in their respective jurisdictions by 2030. But, the number of new homes and apartments that can actually get built is determined by a number of factors; two of the most important are the cost of construction and the amount of red tape developers have to cut through before they can actually build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Lewis, a spokesperson for California YIMBY, said the federal government’s role in local policymaking is limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s mostly about some tax policies and funding mechanisms, but not much else,” he said. “What this really points back to is that the role of the state Legislature is even more important now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While lawmakers in California have made significant strides in passing bills to encourage more housing development, many cities have upheld policies or enacted new ones to slow growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta and the state’s housing department have launched several lawsuits against cities in recent years — including Elk Grove, Huntington Beach, Portola, and most recently, the city of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/about-hcd/newsroom/governor-newsom-takes-action-against-norwalk-its-unlawful-shelter-ban\">Norwalk\u003c/a> — for violating state housing laws and preventing new housing from being built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most likely outcome [of the Trump presidency] is slightly worse than the status quo,” Lewis said. “But even that won’t change if the cities won’t reduce their barriers to build more housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the cost of constructing housing, however, Trump’s promises to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013409/immigrant-advocates-anticipate-fight-against-trump-border-policies\">crack down on illegal immigration\u003c/a>, if realized, could grind “the construction industry to a halt,” said Russell Lowery, executive director for the California Rental Housing Association. An estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/EW-Construction-factsheet.pdf\">23% of the construction industry nationally (PDF)\u003c/a> is made up of undocumented immigrant workers, according to the Center for American Progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That would have a negative impact on supply no matter what,” he said. “If you don’t have people who can build the product, you’re not going to increase supply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tariffs could also make the cost of construction materials more expensive, Lowery said. Trump promised to impose \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/11/trump-trade-policies-will-fuel-freight-rates-consumers-pay-price.html\">blanket tariffs of 10% to 20% on all imports\u003c/a>, which could raise the cost of imported construction supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/blog/how-us-trade-policy-contributes-our-insane-construction-materials-costs\">2018 report from the Cato Institute\u003c/a>, a libertarian think tank, the cost of construction materials increased dramatically after Trump instituted tariffs and trade restrictions during his first term in the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, it is still unknown how Trump’s policies will shape the housing supply. Lowery said it could take years, perhaps after Trump has left office, to determine the effect his administration had on the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The changes that happen at the federal level take time to change the behavior and really impact the rental market in individual states, certainly in a state as large as California,” he said. “It took years to get us into this crisis, and it’s going to take — no matter who is in charge — years to get out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>Federal funding for affordable housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The extent to which a second Trump administration can force its agenda on California remains to be seen, but affordable housing and homelessness policy experts say federal funding could be used as both a carrot and a stick to influence state action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several experts listed cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) budget as top concerns. During Trump’s first term, White House officials proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/trump-budget-deeply-cuts-health-housing-other-assistance-for-low-and-moderate-income\">slashing\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://nlihc.org/resource/president-trump-proposes-drastic-cuts-affordable-housing-programs\">federal funding\u003c/a> for affordable housing, though \u003ca href=\"https://www.enterprisecommunity.org/blog/fiscal-year-2024-budget-sees-significant-increase-huds-native-american-programs\">\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Congress rebuffed some of those requests\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. With Republicans likely to take control of Congress this year, that guardrail is less secure, said Christopher Martin, policy director at Housing California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could probably move these things now under a new Congress that is just as radically motivated as he is,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharon Rapport, California state policy director for the Corporation for Supportive Housing, is most worried about efforts to defund rental subsidy programs for lower-income people, known as Housing Choice Vouchers or Section 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuts to those programs lead directly to more people falling into homelessness,” she said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/socal-connected/the-rise-of-homelessness-in-the-1980s#:~:text=The%20second%20key%20event%20was,to%20curtail%20them%20were%20introduced\">citing evidence\u003c/a> that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/proposed-cuts-public-housing-threaten-repeat-1980s-housing-crisis\">rise of\u003c/a> mass \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa127.pdf\">homelessness\u003c/a> in the ’80s corresponded with \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519584/#:~:text=The%20recession%20of%20the%201980s,in%201990)%20and%20in%20subsidized\">major cuts to HUD programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin said that’s one area where the state could step in to help mitigate the impacts of potentially reduced federal funding. Rapport agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Otherwise, we will see significant increases in homelessness for sure,” she said, though she acknowledged the state’s budget deficit presents a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/trump-administrations-proposed-mixed-status-housing-rule-another-form-family\">previously endorsed\u003c/a> calls for the eviction of all noncitizens, including those in mixed-status families, from federally subsidized housing, a policy proposal that also appears in \u003ca href=\"https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-15.pdf\">Project 2025\u003c/a> — a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/politics/trump-project-2025.html\">900-page policy playbook\u003c/a> from the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy document advocates for doing away with federal commitments to the \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/resource/housing-first/\">Housing First\u003c/a> approach to homelessness, which prioritizes permanent housing and supportive services. Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/politics/trump-project-2025.html\">disavowed the agenda\u003c/a> despite the fact that many of its authors \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/22/us/politics/project-2025-trump-heritage-foundation.html\">served in his first administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the driver of what does work in California,” said Alex Visotzky, senior California policy fellow at the National Alliance to End Homelessness. “It’s partially because of California’s commitment to Housing First that the state-funded [Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program] \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/california.business.consumer.services.and.housing.agency/viz/HHAPReport/Overview\">has made 40,000 permanent housing placements\u003c/a> since the beginning of 2023.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>Homelessness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A Republican-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23504323/housing-first-homelessness-houston-homes\">backlash against Housing First\u003c/a> in recent years, championed most fervently \u003ca href=\"https://ciceroinstitute.org/research/housing-first-is-a-failure/\">by the Cicero Institute\u003c/a>, has helped bring about the rise of punitive approaches to dealing with homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s first-term rhetoric and promises for a continuation of those policies point to an extreme agenda, advocates for people experiencing homelessness said, but one which they say mirrors an anti-homeless approach some state and local leaders in California have already embraced.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated at 5 p.m. on Nov. 13.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results of Tuesday’s presidential election \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013186/san-franciscans-react-trumps-win\">have left a deep impact in the Bay Area\u003c/a>. And now, former president Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris opens the door to massive changes in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/01/nx-s1-5164531/deportations-local-police-sheriff-trump-border-immigrants\">immigration\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013256/how-health-care-could-change-under-the-new-trump-administration\">health care\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/06/nx-s1-5181327/trump-election-economy-tariffs-deportations\">national security and economic policy\u003c/a> as Trump has vowed to take the country in a radically different direction from the last four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">California’s leaders have vowed to push back against the incoming administration in court\u003c/a>, but many residents nonetheless remain anxious that the sweeping changes Trump has promised could directly affect them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"#find-legal-aid-bay-area\">\u003cstrong>Where can I find free legal aid in the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“Many folks are feeling vulnerable and insecure about how they might fit into this country at this moment,” said Cynthia Chagolla, chief program officer at Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, which provides free legal services to low- and moderate-income families in Santa Clara County. She said her team is preparing for what they expect is a higher demand for their services during the new administration, as folks respond to changes in the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Irrespective of the outcome of the presidential election, individuals are still going to be entitled to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/equality/due-process-equal-protection-and-disenfranchisement/\">due process\u003c/a>,” Chagolla said. “We want to make sure that folks know, should they receive any kind of adverse court papers … who to contact locally if they need help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Law Foundation of Silicon Valley is one of the several organizations in the Bay Area that offer free legal aid: legal advice and representation, provided at no cost, to people who cannot afford to hire a private attorney. And there are dozens of different situations when someone may need legal assistance, not just in a criminal proceeding. For example, if you received an eviction notice from their landlord and need to know what your rights are; if you are applying for a change in your immigration status; or even if you qualify for certain public benefits but aren’t receiving what you’re entitled to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading to find out more about what legal aid services are available in the Bay Area, who qualifies for free legal aid and how to best prepare for a meeting with a legal aid office.[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How is legal aid different from using a private law firm?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A legal aid organization is not the same thing as a private law firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While private law firms charge clients fees in exchange for legal counsel and representation, a legal aid organization provides legal representation at no charge — but only for individuals and families who meet the eligibility requirements, which are usually based on income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are licensed attorneys with years of experience but we do not charge a dime for our services,” said Carolina Martín Ramos, executive director of La Raza Centro Legal, a legal aid and advocacy organization that has worked for decades in San Francisco’s Mission District. Martín Ramos adds that, from what she has seen, private attorneys can charge a few hundred dollars an hour. But if someone qualifies to receive services from La Raza Centro Legal, they wouldn’t have to worry about paying any attorney fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where folks might have to pay something, it would be a government fee,” Martín Ramos said, “So, for instance, in the context of immigration law, if you’re applying for your legal permanent residency or citizenship, the federal government will have a filing fee that has to be paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What can a legal aid group help me with?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The legal world is vast and complex, which is why many attorneys focus on a specific type of law. Legal aid organizations also specialize in specific areas, and one group may not be able to support your needs if it falls out of their scope — so check their website or give them a call first to make sure they are able to respond to your particular situation. Below are examples of different services offered by legal aid groups that KQED spoke with in the Bay Area:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is legal assistance for tenants facing eviction proceedings. Some groups, like the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, also focus on supporting clients if they are experiencing poor housing conditions, like infestations or electrical issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The services that we provide in the housing team vary from just offering advice and counsel or general information,” Chagolla said, “and then can extend up all the way through our full scope of representation, where we’re ultimately walking with tenants in court and representing tenants in court as their attorneys.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Immigration\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martín Ramos of La Raza Centro Legal said the immigration services her organization offers can be placed into two categories: affirmative legal aid and defensive legal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The affirmative immigration program,” she explained, “offers services that are outside of the immigration court, outside the adversarial context, where people can apply for legal permanent residency or they can apply for citizenship and other types of immigration benefits, like a U or T visa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013614\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigration attorneys give free consultations to immigrants during a Know Your Rights event in Los Angeles, Calif. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Defensive immigration, on the other hand, deals with deportation proceedings. If deportations are scaled up during the next administration, Martín Ramos said that there is a network of legal aid groups already in place ready to respond to the needs of the region’s undocumented community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those rapid response networks have not gone away, and will pick up and do what we did before, if we have to,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consumer rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC), based in Berkeley, is one of the few legal aid groups in California that provides consumer protection services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramon Becerra Alcantar, EBCLC’s director of operations, said their consumer justice program provides “hands-on assistance and representation” on a variety of consumer issues, “including debt collection defense, student loans, car fraud, predatory lending and consumer scams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Youth services\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley and EBCLC have teams that focus on serving kids and teenagers. “Issues range from some limited immigration matters, some school discipline or special education matters,” said the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley’s Chagolla. “We also represent children who are in dependency proceedings in the county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of those cases come to us by either direct referral from external partners, stakeholders or come to us through the court,” Chagolla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Workers’ rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This type of legal aid usually covers issues of wage theft, retaliation, and workplace discrimination. In many instances, you can also reach out with questions if there is something happening at work that you aren’t sure if it goes against the law but want to talk to an expert about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED also has a series of guides that cover many of the rights and protections California workers have available now, regardless of immigration status, which include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992472/these-california-cities-just-raised-the-minimum-wage-make-sure-youre-getting-paid-the-right-amount\">What to do if your employer is paying you less than the minimum wage.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>During a heat wave, what protections are available for you if \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999014/working-inside-during-a-heat-wave-what-to-know-about-californias-new-protections\">you work indoors\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886628/feeling-the-heat-how-workers-can-advocate-for-safer-working-conditions-under-the-sun\">outdoors\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If you are a farmworker, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958506/guide-unsafe-working-conditions-employer-retaliation-and-worker-protections\">what do you do if your employer fires you or cuts your hours after you speak out against unsafe working conditions\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health and public benefits\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This area involves making sure patients receive the treatment they need, which could involve negotiating with health care providers or insurance companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chagolla said that the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley also represents individuals who are on federal or state public benefits, but who are “not getting the full amount or they have an overpayment notice from the state or federal agency saying they owe money”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman looking at documents. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How can I best prepare for a meeting with a legal aid office?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even just thinking about courts and lawyers can be pretty overwhelming, especially if you are already in a high-pressure situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are things you can do to help you feel more prepared — and, crucially, to make the most of the time you have talking to a legal aid organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, try to have all the documents related to your situation in one place so you can easily share them when talking to an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This may include court documents, letters, eviction notices, applications, case numbers,” said Becerra Alcantar of EBCLC. “Stuff like that will allow our team to better help them, especially if it’s an emergency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if you don’t have all your documents on hand, that’s OK, Chagolla said. “For example, if your landlord served you a notice to pay rent or quit, but you no longer have a copy of the document,” she said. “You can still call us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want anyone walking away thinking if they don’t have paperwork that they can’t call us,” Chagolla said.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"kqed-guides\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something else to think about: a timeline of key events relating to your situation. For example, if you are seeking immigration help, knowing the dates of when you came into the U.S., and if there were any changes to your immigration status since then and when, can make things a lot easier, Martín Ramos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One more logistical tip: make sure you have access to an email account so that an attorney can quickly share important updates about your situation. If you don’t have an email account, or you only have access to a shared email, you can \u003ca href=\"https://support.google.com/mail/answer/56256?hl=en\">make a new one for free using tools like Gmail.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you’re able to talk to an attorney, Martín Ramos strongly recommends that you are 100% honest with your attorney, to give them the full picture without holding anything back. “You are protected by attorney-client privilege,” she said. “An attorney could lose their license if they don’t respect your privacy or confidentiality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she stressed, let your attorney know when you \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> understand something they’ve said, or about any aspect of the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can ask the attorney or legal staff to slow down, to repeat things, to tell them you don’t understand and to explain things better,” Martín Ramos said. “Even with your own attorney, you have to be your own advocate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"find-legal-aid-bay-area\">\u003c/a>Where to find free legal aid in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The organizations KQED spoke to for this story confirmed that the best way to get in contact with them is over the phone, but some also offer walk-in services. When talking to representatives from these organizations, make sure to check in about the income eligibility requirements for the services you are looking for, as each organization has different guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lrcl.org/\">\u003cem>La Raza Centro Legal (San Francisco):\u003c/em>\u003c/a> Besides immigration legal aid, La Raza Centro Legal also has teams that serve the specific needs of youth and elders. You can make an appointment by calling 415-575-3500 or emailing pilar@lrcl.org.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/\">\u003cem>Centro Legal de la Raza (Oakland):\u003c/em>\u003c/a> You can call 510-437-1554 or email the team at \u003ca href=\"mailto:info@centrolegal.org\">info@centrolegal.org\u003c/a>. The center also offers several remote legal clinics covering workers’, immigrants’ and tenants’ rights each month. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How is legal aid different from using a private law firm?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A legal aid organization is not the same thing as a private law firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While private law firms charge clients fees in exchange for legal counsel and representation, a legal aid organization provides legal representation at no charge — but only for individuals and families who meet the eligibility requirements, which are usually based on income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are licensed attorneys with years of experience but we do not charge a dime for our services,” said Carolina Martín Ramos, executive director of La Raza Centro Legal, a legal aid and advocacy organization that has worked for decades in San Francisco’s Mission District. Martín Ramos adds that, from what she has seen, private attorneys can charge a few hundred dollars an hour. But if someone qualifies to receive services from La Raza Centro Legal, they wouldn’t have to worry about paying any attorney fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where folks might have to pay something, it would be a government fee,” Martín Ramos said, “So, for instance, in the context of immigration law, if you’re applying for your legal permanent residency or citizenship, the federal government will have a filing fee that has to be paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What can a legal aid group help me with?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The legal world is vast and complex, which is why many attorneys focus on a specific type of law. Legal aid organizations also specialize in specific areas, and one group may not be able to support your needs if it falls out of their scope — so check their website or give them a call first to make sure they are able to respond to your particular situation. Below are examples of different services offered by legal aid groups that KQED spoke with in the Bay Area:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is legal assistance for tenants facing eviction proceedings. Some groups, like the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, also focus on supporting clients if they are experiencing poor housing conditions, like infestations or electrical issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The services that we provide in the housing team vary from just offering advice and counsel or general information,” Chagolla said, “and then can extend up all the way through our full scope of representation, where we’re ultimately walking with tenants in court and representing tenants in court as their attorneys.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Immigration\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martín Ramos of La Raza Centro Legal said the immigration services her organization offers can be placed into two categories: affirmative legal aid and defensive legal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The affirmative immigration program,” she explained, “offers services that are outside of the immigration court, outside the adversarial context, where people can apply for legal permanent residency or they can apply for citizenship and other types of immigration benefits, like a U or T visa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013614\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigration attorneys give free consultations to immigrants during a Know Your Rights event in Los Angeles, Calif. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Defensive immigration, on the other hand, deals with deportation proceedings. If deportations are scaled up during the next administration, Martín Ramos said that there is a network of legal aid groups already in place ready to respond to the needs of the region’s undocumented community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those rapid response networks have not gone away, and will pick up and do what we did before, if we have to,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consumer rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC), based in Berkeley, is one of the few legal aid groups in California that provides consumer protection services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramon Becerra Alcantar, EBCLC’s director of operations, said their consumer justice program provides “hands-on assistance and representation” on a variety of consumer issues, “including debt collection defense, student loans, car fraud, predatory lending and consumer scams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Youth services\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley and EBCLC have teams that focus on serving kids and teenagers. “Issues range from some limited immigration matters, some school discipline or special education matters,” said the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley’s Chagolla. “We also represent children who are in dependency proceedings in the county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of those cases come to us by either direct referral from external partners, stakeholders or come to us through the court,” Chagolla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Workers’ rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This type of legal aid usually covers issues of wage theft, retaliation, and workplace discrimination. In many instances, you can also reach out with questions if there is something happening at work that you aren’t sure if it goes against the law but want to talk to an expert about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED also has a series of guides that cover many of the rights and protections California workers have available now, regardless of immigration status, which include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992472/these-california-cities-just-raised-the-minimum-wage-make-sure-youre-getting-paid-the-right-amount\">What to do if your employer is paying you less than the minimum wage.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>During a heat wave, what protections are available for you if \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999014/working-inside-during-a-heat-wave-what-to-know-about-californias-new-protections\">you work indoors\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886628/feeling-the-heat-how-workers-can-advocate-for-safer-working-conditions-under-the-sun\">outdoors\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If you are a farmworker, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958506/guide-unsafe-working-conditions-employer-retaliation-and-worker-protections\">what do you do if your employer fires you or cuts your hours after you speak out against unsafe working conditions\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health and public benefits\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This area involves making sure patients receive the treatment they need, which could involve negotiating with health care providers or insurance companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chagolla said that the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley also represents individuals who are on federal or state public benefits, but who are “not getting the full amount or they have an overpayment notice from the state or federal agency saying they owe money”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman looking at documents. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How can I best prepare for a meeting with a legal aid office?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even just thinking about courts and lawyers can be pretty overwhelming, especially if you are already in a high-pressure situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are things you can do to help you feel more prepared — and, crucially, to make the most of the time you have talking to a legal aid organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, try to have all the documents related to your situation in one place so you can easily share them when talking to an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This may include court documents, letters, eviction notices, applications, case numbers,” said Becerra Alcantar of EBCLC. “Stuff like that will allow our team to better help them, especially if it’s an emergency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if you don’t have all your documents on hand, that’s OK, Chagolla said. “For example, if your landlord served you a notice to pay rent or quit, but you no longer have a copy of the document,” she said. “You can still call us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want anyone walking away thinking if they don’t have paperwork that they can’t call us,” Chagolla said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something else to think about: a timeline of key events relating to your situation. For example, if you are seeking immigration help, knowing the dates of when you came into the U.S., and if there were any changes to your immigration status since then and when, can make things a lot easier, Martín Ramos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One more logistical tip: make sure you have access to an email account so that an attorney can quickly share important updates about your situation. If you don’t have an email account, or you only have access to a shared email, you can \u003ca href=\"https://support.google.com/mail/answer/56256?hl=en\">make a new one for free using tools like Gmail.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you’re able to talk to an attorney, Martín Ramos strongly recommends that you are 100% honest with your attorney, to give them the full picture without holding anything back. “You are protected by attorney-client privilege,” she said. “An attorney could lose their license if they don’t respect your privacy or confidentiality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she stressed, let your attorney know when you \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> understand something they’ve said, or about any aspect of the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can ask the attorney or legal staff to slow down, to repeat things, to tell them you don’t understand and to explain things better,” Martín Ramos said. “Even with your own attorney, you have to be your own advocate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"find-legal-aid-bay-area\">\u003c/a>Where to find free legal aid in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The organizations KQED spoke to for this story confirmed that the best way to get in contact with them is over the phone, but some also offer walk-in services. When talking to representatives from these organizations, make sure to check in about the income eligibility requirements for the services you are looking for, as each organization has different guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lrcl.org/\">\u003cem>La Raza Centro Legal (San Francisco):\u003c/em>\u003c/a> Besides immigration legal aid, La Raza Centro Legal also has teams that serve the specific needs of youth and elders. You can make an appointment by calling 415-575-3500 or emailing pilar@lrcl.org.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/\">\u003cem>Centro Legal de la Raza (Oakland):\u003c/em>\u003c/a> You can call 510-437-1554 or email the team at \u003ca href=\"mailto:info@centrolegal.org\">info@centrolegal.org\u003c/a>. The center also offers several remote legal clinics covering workers’, immigrants’ and tenants’ rights each month. To register, call ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/get-help\">\u003cem>Asian Law Caucus (ALC)\u003c/em>\u003c/a>: The ALC offers legal aid services on immigration, tenant and workers’ rights issues, with interpretation services available in over 200 languages, including Arabic, Cantonese, Farsi, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog, Spanish, Urdu, and Vietnamese. You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/get-help\">complete a form on their website to request help\u003c/a> or call the ALC offices directly at 415-896-1701.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lawfoundation.org/contactus\">\u003cem>Law Foundation of Silicon Valley:\u003c/em>\u003c/a> The foundation’s housing team offers walk-in hours on Thursdays from 1 p.m. till appointments are booked and the health team’s walk-in hours are on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 p,m. to 3 p.m. You can also call the organization’s general phone line to figure out which service works best for your needs at 408-293-4790.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ebclc.org/get-help/\">\u003cem>East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC):\u003c/em>\u003c/a> Besides the services listed in this guide, EBCLC offers services to small business owners, people living with HIV seeking treatment, unhoused individuals, people with a criminal record reentering society and much more. Walk-in hours for the different legal teams \u003ca href=\"https://ebclc.org/get-help/\">are available on EBCLC’s website\u003c/a> and you can also call their offices directly at 510-548-4040.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://baylegal.org/what-we-do/areas-of-practice/\">\u003cem>Bay Area Legal Aid (BALA):\u003c/em>\u003c/a> BALA has offices in seven of the Bay Area’s nine counties, each with their own contact information, but you can also use the organization’s general legal advice line at 800-551-5554.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lsc-sf.org/how-we-can-help/\">\u003cem>Legal Services for Children (LSC):\u003c/em>\u003c/a> LSC is a San Francisco-based nonprofit that provides free legal aid for youth in both San Francisco and Alameda County. LSC represents kids who are dealing with difficult situations at home with their biological or foster family, dealing with discipline issues at school and immigration cases as well, including asylum, special immigrant juvenile status and young adults with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). You can reach LSC staff on Mondays and Thursdays from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. by calling (415) 780-6366 for English and (415) 780-6367 for Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Rent control has been central to this election, statewide and around the Bay Area, but early returns suggest voters have little appetite to strengthen rent regulations — with one exception: Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians seem to be voting down \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008424/prop-33-rent-control-is-on-the-ballot-again-election-2024-california\">Proposition 33, \u003c/a>which would repeal a 1995 law, known as the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, that limits how far local governments can go with their rent control laws. The state law prohibits cities and counties from imposing rent control on all single-family homes, condos and apartments built after 1995 and ensures landlords can bring rents up to market rate when a new tenant moves in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That race is still too close to call late Tuesday night, but that didn’t stop o\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pponents from taking a victory lap. “For the THIRD time, Californians have said no to extreme rent control. This fight isn’t over — together with our coalition, we’ll work to actually make housing more accessible for Californians,” the No on Prop 33 campaign posted on X. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11844438/californians-reject-rent-control-again-in-defeat-of-proposition-21\">In 2018 and 2020, voters rejected similar initiatives\u003c/a> that would have gutted Costa-Hawkins, but advocates and political leaders have increasingly turned to rent control as they struggle to rein in housing costs, and polling in California has shown an increase in support among likely voters. The policy is also gaining traction nationally, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/housing/365063/kamala-harris-housing-rent-control-landlords\">President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris embracing\u003c/a> it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russell Lowery, executive director of the California Rental Housing Association, said Prop 33’s apparent defeat reflected the No campaign’s successful messaging. “We’re glad and relieved that the voters of California have not made our housing crisis worse,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The group raised about $3 million to support the No campaign, according to Lowery. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters also appear to be narrowly supporting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california/proposition-34\">Proposition 34\u003c/a>, which on its face, has nothing to do with rent control. But really, it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/prop34-aids-healthcare-foundation-rent-control\">all about the politics\u003c/a> of this controversial policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure asks voters to decide whether the state should restrict how certain health care providers can spend revenue from prescription drug sales. But the stipulations mean it would likely only apply to a single organization: the L.A.-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a major force in state and local housing policies and the group bankrolling Prop. 33 and the last two attempts to roll back Costa-Hawkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rent control appears to be faring somewhat better in the Bay Area, at least in Berkeley. Preliminary tallies show 51.79% of Berkeley voters narrowly supporting Measure BB, which would expand rent control and renter protections and 62.45 % shutting down Measure CC, which would rein in rent regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“That’s really reassuring,” said Leah Simon-Weisberg, chair of the Berkeley Rent Board. “I think the trend will continue to go that way as we know the even in Berkeley the early voters are more conservative.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County voters are a different story and appear to be pushing back on a range of rent control measures. Larkspur’s Measure K, a bid to expand rent control, is losing by 64% to 35.9%. An effort to repeal Fairfax’s rent cap, Measure I, is ahead 68% to 31.9%, and San Anselmo’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-n-tab\">Measure N\u003c/a>, a referendum on local rent control, is down 65.9% to 34 %, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-o-tab\">Measure O\u003c/a>, to create new tenant protections, is down 69.3% to 30.6%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Live 2024 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results,Follow results for every Bay Area race in the 2024 general election.' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/10/Aside-Results-California-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 34, whose primary sponsor is the California Apartment Association, is aimed at kneecapping the health care foundation’s political spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would work like this: Federal law allows health providers that serve lower-income patients to buy prescription drugs at a discount, sell them at retail rates and use the profits to expand services. Proposition 34 would require some providers to spend 98% of that net revenue on direct patient care or risk losing their licenses or tax-exempt status. It would only apply to health care providers who’ve spent at least $100 million on things other than patient care in the past decade and own apartment buildings that have been slapped with 500 or more health and safety violations. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is believed to be the only organization that fits the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='election-2024'] \u003c/span>Propositions 33 and 34 are the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/10/california-rent-control-propositions-campaign-money/\">most expensive measures on this year’s ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locally, rent control is on ballots in Berkeley and Marin County’s Larkspur, Fairfax and San Anselmo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/10/18/berkeley-ballot-measures-2024-bb-cc-rent-stabilization-ordinance\">Berkeley’s competing measures\u003c/a> would overhaul the city’s rent regulations in different ways. Measure BB, put forward by renters’ advocates, would lower the city’s rent cap, make more units subject to rent control and add new restrictions on evictions, among other tenant protections. Measure CC, championed by property owners’ advocates, would raise the rent cap marginally, exempt more properties from rent control, significantly curtail the rent board’s power, and make other changes to the city’s Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Good Cause Ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marin County, the rent-related measures are also split on whether they would protect tenants or landlords. On the side of supporting tenants, Larkspur’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-k-tab\">Measure K\u003c/a> would lower the city’s rent cap from 7% to 3% and add new eviction protections, and San Anselmo’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-o-tab\">Measure O\u003c/a> would strengthen tenant protections. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Rent control has been central to this election, statewide and around the Bay Area, but early returns suggest voters have little appetite to strengthen rent regulations — with one exception: Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians seem to be voting down \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008424/prop-33-rent-control-is-on-the-ballot-again-election-2024-california\">Proposition 33, \u003c/a>which would repeal a 1995 law, known as the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, that limits how far local governments can go with their rent control laws. The state law prohibits cities and counties from imposing rent control on all single-family homes, condos and apartments built after 1995 and ensures landlords can bring rents up to market rate when a new tenant moves in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That race is still too close to call late Tuesday night, but that didn’t stop o\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pponents from taking a victory lap. “For the THIRD time, Californians have said no to extreme rent control. This fight isn’t over — together with our coalition, we’ll work to actually make housing more accessible for Californians,” the No on Prop 33 campaign posted on X. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11844438/californians-reject-rent-control-again-in-defeat-of-proposition-21\">In 2018 and 2020, voters rejected similar initiatives\u003c/a> that would have gutted Costa-Hawkins, but advocates and political leaders have increasingly turned to rent control as they struggle to rein in housing costs, and polling in California has shown an increase in support among likely voters. The policy is also gaining traction nationally, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/housing/365063/kamala-harris-housing-rent-control-landlords\">President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris embracing\u003c/a> it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russell Lowery, executive director of the California Rental Housing Association, said Prop 33’s apparent defeat reflected the No campaign’s successful messaging. “We’re glad and relieved that the voters of California have not made our housing crisis worse,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The group raised about $3 million to support the No campaign, according to Lowery. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters also appear to be narrowly supporting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california/proposition-34\">Proposition 34\u003c/a>, which on its face, has nothing to do with rent control. But really, it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/prop34-aids-healthcare-foundation-rent-control\">all about the politics\u003c/a> of this controversial policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure asks voters to decide whether the state should restrict how certain health care providers can spend revenue from prescription drug sales. But the stipulations mean it would likely only apply to a single organization: the L.A.-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a major force in state and local housing policies and the group bankrolling Prop. 33 and the last two attempts to roll back Costa-Hawkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rent control appears to be faring somewhat better in the Bay Area, at least in Berkeley. Preliminary tallies show 51.79% of Berkeley voters narrowly supporting Measure BB, which would expand rent control and renter protections and 62.45 % shutting down Measure CC, which would rein in rent regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“That’s really reassuring,” said Leah Simon-Weisberg, chair of the Berkeley Rent Board. “I think the trend will continue to go that way as we know the even in Berkeley the early voters are more conservative.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County voters are a different story and appear to be pushing back on a range of rent control measures. Larkspur’s Measure K, a bid to expand rent control, is losing by 64% to 35.9%. An effort to repeal Fairfax’s rent cap, Measure I, is ahead 68% to 31.9%, and San Anselmo’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-n-tab\">Measure N\u003c/a>, a referendum on local rent control, is down 65.9% to 34 %, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-o-tab\">Measure O\u003c/a>, to create new tenant protections, is down 69.3% to 30.6%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/span>Propositions 33 and 34 are the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/10/california-rent-control-propositions-campaign-money/\">most expensive measures on this year’s ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locally, rent control is on ballots in Berkeley and Marin County’s Larkspur, Fairfax and San Anselmo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/10/18/berkeley-ballot-measures-2024-bb-cc-rent-stabilization-ordinance\">Berkeley’s competing measures\u003c/a> would overhaul the city’s rent regulations in different ways. Measure BB, put forward by renters’ advocates, would lower the city’s rent cap, make more units subject to rent control and add new restrictions on evictions, among other tenant protections. Measure CC, championed by property owners’ advocates, would raise the rent cap marginally, exempt more properties from rent control, significantly curtail the rent board’s power, and make other changes to the city’s Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Good Cause Ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marin County, the rent-related measures are also split on whether they would protect tenants or landlords. On the side of supporting tenants, Larkspur’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-k-tab\">Measure K\u003c/a> would lower the city’s rent cap from 7% to 3% and add new eviction protections, and San Anselmo’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-o-tab\">Measure O\u003c/a> would strengthen tenant protections. Meanwhile, voters in San Anselmo will also decide on \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-n-tab\">Measure N\u003c/a>, a referendum on a rent control ordinance city leaders passed this spring. And Fairfax’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-i-tab\">Measure I\u003c/a> would repeal the city’s rent control and just cause eviction ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/03/24/470710747/more-teachers-cant-afford-to-live-where-they-teach\">years\u003c/a>, Bay Area teachers have said one of their biggest concerns is finding affordable housing close to where they work. For some teachers, the fact that their salaries \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/better-pay-would-keep-teachers-from-quitting-but-theres-more-to-it/2022/07\">can’t keep up with the increased cost of living\u003c/a> has some considering leaving the profession altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, more school districts across California are taking matters into their own hands by getting into the business of building housing for their teachers and staff on empty parking lots, unused office buildings and other excess land. And, in the Bay Area, two districts are turning to bond measures to help pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those two bonds — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/santaclara/measures#measure-r\">Measure R in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/sanmateo/measures#measure-k\">Measure K in San Mateo County\u003c/a> — would raise $1.15 billion and $153 million, respectively, to pay for upgrades to school district facilities. Both measures include building affordable housing for teachers and staff in their descriptions for what the bond could fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measures come as state leaders ask voters to consider a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california/proposition-2\">$10 billion bond measure\u003c/a> to upgrade school facilities across California. And, as state leaders are faced with a lofty goal to plan for 2.5 million new homes statewide by 2030, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\">they are encouraging school districts to be more proactive\u003c/a> about building housing for their staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo County, a group of parents and teachers at the Cabrillo Unified School District saw other school districts develop housing for their employees and were inspired to campaign to get Measure K on the ballot. If approved by voters, most of the $153 million will be used to fix classrooms, according to members of the board. Some of the money can also be used to construct educator housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Unified School District’s Measure R anticipates dedicating approximately $283 million of the total $1.15 billion bond to build housing for staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010731\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A brochure supporting Measure R In San José. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Renata Sanchez, president of the San José Teachers Union, said the district has seen employee vacancy rates rise, especially among instructional associates, the staff who support special education teachers, and who are often paid less than teachers. She said the bond could help keep those associates from leaving the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody here wants to be in the business of developing land for housing,” Sanchez said. “We just feel that we’re cornered into it. We have to do something because nobody else is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, opponents of local bond measures say school districts should focus on educating their students, and that bond measures are often proposed too lightly, without thought to how they will impact future residents who have to pay back the debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anybody who owns a home is going to pay more for that home every year,” said Mark Hinkle, president of the Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association, which is opposed to both measures R and K. “And even if you’re a renter, guess where the landlord gets the money to pay these taxes?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"2024 Bay Area Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/bayarea,Learn about every single race and measure across the nine Bay Area counties' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Bay-Area-Voter-Guide-2024-Primary-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, only a handful of school districts across the state have successfully completed construction on new workforce housing. Santa Clara Unified School District was the first district to build housing for its staff, according to the California School Board Association. The apartment complex, \u003ca href=\"https://www.santaclarausd.org/about-us/departments/facility-development-and-planning/teacher-housing-foundation\">named Casa Del Maestro\u003c/a>, opened in 2002 and has 70 one- and two-bedroom apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\">Department of Education announced an initiative\u003c/a> to help schools navigate the muddy waters of housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the California School Board Association hosted a summit with school district staff, affordable housing advocates and researchers to look into how schools can more effectively build housing. According to Scott Roark, a spokesperson for the Department of Education, more than 150 districts across the state are now in “some stage of developing housing on district property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Flint, a spokesperson for the California School Board Association, said districts are well-positioned to develop housing because they already own the land. And he argued such projects tend to have a shorter timeline than traditional affordable housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land or the buildings that the school districts own — that is under their control, and they have a lot of autonomy,” he said. “You can get from concept to people moving into housing in as little as five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez and others in the San José Unified School District have concrete plans for where they would build the new housing if their bond passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One project would turn an empty parking lot into 75 studio and one-bedroom apartments with parking underground. Another would move a magnet school to a larger campus and use the existing land to build approximately 120 apartments and townhomes. Their third site would build educator housing on what is currently a special education school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010729\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010729\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The proposed site for educator housing on Lenzen Avenue, currently used as an employee parking lot for the San José Unified School District in San José. If approved, the project would create 75 studio and one-bedroom units. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The biggest project would transform an open field on a technical education campus into an estimated 300 two-bedroom apartments and townhomes. Sanchez said funds from Measure R could fund two of the smaller projects or the one with 300 units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if the bond measures are approved, the projects will have to go through each city’s complicated and often costly permitting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, in Half Moon Bay, the proposed housing has already caused consternation amongst neighbors who worry the new development could be “out of character” with the existing homes. Mike Alifano, a Half Moon Bay resident and member of previous school bond oversight committees, said this is the district’s first bond measure to mention teacher housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a community that doesn’t like a lot of change, and it’s because we want to keep this look and feel of the way things are right now,” he said. “There were other areas [the district] was looking at in different communities, and we had a bit of pushback in those communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said there have been plans to develop teacher housing in San José since 2020, but once the pandemic hit, the district had to put the projects on hold. But she said she didn’t want to wait any longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are losing teachers across the state, but in this area, at an alarming rate,” she said. “Our kids will suffer if we don’t do something soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What housing questions do you have for KQED? \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ-ZKtuSHdeWqxooQwfEcr-oiOpdpJcf2RLZInU7aqjjQlRQ/viewform?embedded=true\">Let us know\u003c/a>:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ-ZKtuSHdeWqxooQwfEcr-oiOpdpJcf2RLZInU7aqjjQlRQ/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The apartment complex, \u003ca href=\"https://www.santaclarausd.org/about-us/departments/facility-development-and-planning/teacher-housing-foundation\">named Casa Del Maestro\u003c/a>, opened in 2002 and has 70 one- and two-bedroom apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\">Department of Education announced an initiative\u003c/a> to help schools navigate the muddy waters of housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the California School Board Association hosted a summit with school district staff, affordable housing advocates and researchers to look into how schools can more effectively build housing. According to Scott Roark, a spokesperson for the Department of Education, more than 150 districts across the state are now in “some stage of developing housing on district property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Flint, a spokesperson for the California School Board Association, said districts are well-positioned to develop housing because they already own the land. And he argued such projects tend to have a shorter timeline than traditional affordable housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land or the buildings that the school districts own — that is under their control, and they have a lot of autonomy,” he said. “You can get from concept to people moving into housing in as little as five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez and others in the San José Unified School District have concrete plans for where they would build the new housing if their bond passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One project would turn an empty parking lot into 75 studio and one-bedroom apartments with parking underground. 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If approved, the project would create 75 studio and one-bedroom units. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The biggest project would transform an open field on a technical education campus into an estimated 300 two-bedroom apartments and townhomes. Sanchez said funds from Measure R could fund two of the smaller projects or the one with 300 units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if the bond measures are approved, the projects will have to go through each city’s complicated and often costly permitting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, in Half Moon Bay, the proposed housing has already caused consternation amongst neighbors who worry the new development could be “out of character” with the existing homes. Mike Alifano, a Half Moon Bay resident and member of previous school bond oversight committees, said this is the district’s first bond measure to mention teacher housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a community that doesn’t like a lot of change, and it’s because we want to keep this look and feel of the way things are right now,” he said. “There were other areas [the district] was looking at in different communities, and we had a bit of pushback in those communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said there have been plans to develop teacher housing in San José since 2020, but once the pandemic hit, the district had to put the projects on hold. 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In April, an SUV crashed into a tent after jumping a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/video-suv-hits-pedestrians-sacramento/\">curb in Sacramento\u003c/a>, sending three people to the hospital. And last summer, a \u003ca href=\"https://kmph.com/news/local/family-wants-justice-for-woman-killed-in-lawn-mower-accident-in-modesto\">woman in Modesto\u003c/a> died after getting run over by a lawnmower while sleeping in tall grass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing these tragedies happen because people are living on our streets and not in housing and in safe places,” said Crystal Sanchez, founder and president of the Sacramento Homeless Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. 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The team trained the model to recognize not just simple keywords but also to identify a covenant even when a document scan is degraded, common strings of words and where in the document covenants are often located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ask ChatGPT to detect racial covenants, it’ll do a decent job out of the box,” Surani said. “The challenge is when you are going over 5 million, 10 million, 20 million records, you need to be virtually perfect, or else you’re going to be missing something or you’re going to be buried under a pile of false positives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surani and Ho said the model has so far shown itself to be nearly 100% accurate in finding covenants in the records it searched. In all, the AI-based technology was able to save about 86,000 person-hours for the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The racist covenants and restrictions often included racial epithets. The covenants were less often seen in the very early 20th century because it was still legal to zone by race. 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Terms such as ‘Negro,’ ‘Mongolian,’ and ‘colored’ were commonly employed to delineate the racial boundaries of acceptable property owners and tenants,” the RegLab’s research paper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1953px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010146\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1953\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED.png 1953w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED-800x251.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED-1020x320.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED-160x50.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED-1536x481.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED-1920x602.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1953px) 100vw, 1953px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An example of racist covenant clauses found in thousands of Santa Clara County deed records that were flagged by an AI-powered tool from Stanford University’s RegLab. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Stanford RegLab)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ho said he is optimistic the technology could be used to help governments look for other violations of California’s fair housing laws, including protections based on veteran status, family status, income and religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surani said that as someone who identifies as Asian American, he was struck by the bluntness and banality of how the covenants were included in contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be one provision which says, you know, you have to install a sewage tank. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Even in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara\">Santa Clara\u003c/a> County, home to many of the companies and centers of innovation that have earned Silicon Valley its name, governments often do things in an old-fashioned manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when California lawmakers handed down a mandate in 2021 that all counties in the state needed to cull their property deed records to find and redact racially restrictive covenants, Santa Clara County put two employees on the daunting task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They began in 2022 what they expected might be an up to five-year project to manually sift through tens of millions of pages of paper and digitized property deed records. They were looking for racist language that barred people of specific races or ethnicities from owning properties in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, it was literally eyes on paper turning pages, then it was eyes on the computer going through those same type of pages on the reels. And they did an excellent job,” said Louis Chiaramonte, the county’s assistant clerk-recorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s team only made its way through around 100,000 records, finding about 400 of the thousands of defunct racist clauses that are tucked into documents related to ownership of homes and control of blocks and neighborhoods of the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the county and \u003ca href=\"https://reglab.stanford.edu/\">Stanford University’s RegLab\u003c/a>, a hub for research and development into how government agencies can perform core services more efficiently, partnered to bring the power of AI language models onto the job, significantly speeding up the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After curating racist covenant documents from seven counties across the nation, the RegLab researchers trained an open-source language model on those examples. They then put it to work, scanning 5.2 million Santa Clara County deed records from 1902 through 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took about a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What our project really shows is there’s a very different and compelling path forward to achieving these kinds of tasks that don’t suffer the kinds of cost overruns that have historically really plagued government technology contracting,” said Daniel Ho, a professor and the director of the RegLab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-06/l-a-county-will-remove-racist-restrictive-covenant-language-from-millions-of-documents\">outsourced the work\u003c/a> to a contractor for about $8 million in a process expected to take about seven years to finish, Ho said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiaramonte said the RegLab model helped Santa Clara County accelerate the process of flagging and mapping about 7,500 restrictive covenants. From there, the covenants are reviewed and sent to the county’s lawyers for final approval before a new, modified version of the deed is recorded. About 4,500 have been completed, and the original deeds remain unchanged for historical reference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just amazing. I’m very thankful that this opportunity presented itself, and we’re able to work with them, Chiaramonte said. “And it appears that this language model tool that they have is extremely effective and has produced meaningful changes to how we could approach things in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county employees who started the work will shift their focus to manually culling through the remaining records from 1850 to 1901 — most of which were handwritten — and digitizing newer records from after 1981.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://reglab.github.io/racialcovenants/static/maps/dotmap_embedded.html\" width=\"1000\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Map by \u003ca href=\"https://reglab.github.io/racialcovenants/\">Stanford University’s RegLab\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faiz Surani, one of the co-authors of the \u003ca href=\"https://reglab.github.io/racialcovenants/\">research paper on the project\u003c/a>, noted that the curation of examples and the training of the open-source model was the bulk of the front-end work, and it needed to be precise. The team trained the model to recognize not just simple keywords but also to identify a covenant even when a document scan is degraded, common strings of words and where in the document covenants are often located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ask ChatGPT to detect racial covenants, it’ll do a decent job out of the box,” Surani said. “The challenge is when you are going over 5 million, 10 million, 20 million records, you need to be virtually perfect, or else you’re going to be missing something or you’re going to be buried under a pile of false positives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surani and Ho said the model has so far shown itself to be nearly 100% accurate in finding covenants in the records it searched. In all, the AI-based technology was able to save about 86,000 person-hours for the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The racist covenants and restrictions often included racial epithets. The covenants were less often seen in the very early 20th century because it was still legal to zone by race. After the nation outlawed that practice as unconstitutional in 1917, deed restrictions became more commonplace as a way to use private transactions to maintain segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The language in these covenants became more targeted and explicit. Deed records reveal widespread exclusion of specific ethnic groups, including African Americans, Chinese, Japanese, and other non-Caucasian communities. 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"content": "\u003cp>As he walks down Jones Street in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tenderloin\">Tenderloin\u003c/a>, Russell Roberts pauses to strike up conversation with a couple leaning against a corner apartment building and hands them some fruit snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you all have housing?” he asks after a few minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trisha and Jay tell Roberts, who is making his rounds as a community ambassador with the San Francisco anti-poverty nonprofit GLIDE, that they signed up a couple of weeks ago and were waiting for an update. They had been on a city program that provides cash assistance to low-income residents, they say, but Jay missed his most recent check-in, so he lost his eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts invites the couple to walk with him the two blocks back to GLIDE, where there’s hot fried chicken being served — and options to sign up for a place to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can help get you guys assessed, get you a number to give you an idea of how long it’s going to be [to get housed]. In the meantime, I can get you guys into shelters,” Roberts tells Trisha and Jay, who are already packing the blanket they’re sitting on into a rolling cart carrying the rest of their belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want, even today, I can get you guys a place to stay. It’s up to you guys, if you come with us,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They quickly agree, and Roberts is back on the move to tell them about their possible next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community ambassador program that has Roberts and others walking the streets of the Tenderloin was launched in July in honor of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983768/cecil-williams-legendary-pastor-of-glide-church-dies-at-94\">the late Cecil Williams\u003c/a> — GLIDE’s longtime pastor and a civil rights leader — and funded by Mayor London Breed’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978610/breed-unveils-san-franciscos-downtown-revival-plan-in-annual-city-address\">30X30 downtown revitalization plan\u003c/a>. Its goals are to make the Tenderloin safer and cleaner, build community in the neighborhood and ease peoples’ transition from the streets to housing and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The launch came at a tough time for the Tenderloin, as Breed promised aggressive encampment sweeps after a Supreme Court decision made it easier for cities to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">cite or arrest people for sleeping on the streets\u003c/a>. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998871/the-rhetoric-is-amplified-sf-homeless-sweeps-a-focal-point-of-mayors-race\">tight re-election year\u003c/a> for Breed, all eyes have been on how the mayor handles the neighborhood’s notorious problems, and how her challengers say they would if elected next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009983\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLIDE Community Ambassador Kenneth Holloway checks to see if an unhoused person is in need of medical care in the Tenderloin on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crackdowns and sweeps have certainly had an effect on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006541/sfs-homeless-sweeps-have-cleared-over-1200-tents-where-are-people-going\">the number of tents and visible encampments\u003c/a> on the area’s sidewalks since August, but GLIDE’s strategy is emblematic of another approach to people experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit’s chief operating and information officer Donna LaSala said its work has a “special sauce” that helps people not just move around more but get off the streets for good, and also serves to revitalize the neighborhood, which has become increasingly fraught in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cecil said all the time, ‘We got to be for the people, feet in the street,’” LaSala told KQED. “And so what we did was we launched an ambassador program to bring those feet in the street and bring our walk-in center out into the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, we’re out there cleaning the neighborhood — almost as an excuse to be there and to build the trust and to engage with folks,” she continued. “Our ultimate goal is to create a relationship so we can get them to trust us so that we can bring them into services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GLIDE’s seven community ambassadors have lived experiences that make it easier for them to connect with potential clients, and understand which resources to offer and how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are these people,” said Roberts, who grew up in Reno, Nevada, where he said he experienced a lot of problems similar to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997174/sfs-top-district-5-candidates-outline-bold-plans-to-tackle-drug-crisis-in-tenderloin\">those the Tenderloin is facing\u003c/a>. He moved to San Francisco after being released from incarceration, looking for a fresh start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only difference between them and me is that I have a roof over my head at the moment. But, you know, that’s subject to change. If I miss a paycheck or two, guess what? I’m in the same position that they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLIDE Community Ambassadors Jamika Love and Ezellia Johnson speak with unhoused people in the Tenderloin on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roberts leads one of the four ambassador teams at GLIDE. They all start with a 7:30 a.m. meeting before heading out to their designated zones in pairs for morning rounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We clean up everything from last night’s parties or encampments that were started,” Roberts says as he picks up littered receipts and dumps them into the quickly filling trash can he’s pushing. “We want to get the streets as clean for the community as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ambassadors are acutely aware that the Tenderloin is also home to a community of small businesses — and one of the largest child populations in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They need to be able to walk and access services too,” Gina Fromer, GLIDE’s president and CEO, said at a morning meeting full of song, prayer and friendly greetings Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rene Colorado, the executive director of the Tenderloin Merchants and Property Owners Association, said he’s seen the ambassadors out and about, doing a lot of cleaning that helps the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no one above picking up some garbage; there’s no one below engaging with ‘Good morning,’ ‘How are you doing today?’” said Sam Dodge, the director of street response coordination for the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has worked closely with GLIDE to get the ambassador program up and running, and said it has made real gains in the community, despite a long road ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not easy. It’s a marathon. It’s coming back and back,” he says to the ambassadors. “Our friend here said it’s giving people three or four chances — no, we’re in the double digits at least. That’s unconditional love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009981\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLIDE Community Ambassadors Kenneth Holloway (left) and Chaz Cobb pick up trash on the sidewalk in the Tenderloin on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As they walk along picking up trash, the ambassadors also check in with anyone sitting or lying on the sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are idle,” says Kenneth Holloway, another ambassador. “By going up and engaging, saying ‘Hi,’ letting them know GLIDE has lunch, it kind of re-enlivens them. Telling them to just go around the corner and get something to eat, something to drink. And now look — do you see anybody still sitting there?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After heading out of GLIDE’s headquarters on Ellis Street and up Taylor, Holloway engages with familiar faces like a man known as Smooth, whom the ambassadors see just about every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, he’s having a good day; sometimes he comes down to GLIDE and gets food. Sometimes, it’s like, he’s not,” Holloway says. “But either way, we’re here; we say, ‘I still got you,’ every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holloway has been in San Francisco for a long time, though he was in prison for about 30 years of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was on the front page of the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> one time. I robbed a bank and I shot some people many years ago,” he says as he walks back to GLIDE for lunch alongside clients and regulars in need of a warm meal. “I’m almost 60 now, but I didn’t want to be acting like I’m some Puritan person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ambassadors, who travel in pairs, are all considered low-threshold case managers, meaning they’re trained in “starting the process of bringing people out of marginalization back into community,” LaSala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s their focus in the afternoon, though they all have a different area of expertise. Some work on street beautification, while others, like Holloway, offer people on the streets snacks and socks, grab water from corner stores, and encourage them to come to GLIDE for meals, harm reduction tools and other resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts looks for ways to connect his clients with housing. Sometimes it can take many tries to get people into a housing option that works for them. But when it happens, he says, “it’s a success story for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a couple with a dog that I’ve been working with since we started in July,” he tells KQED. “I finally got them housing on Monday for both of them in the same spot with their animals. You know, it’s very gratifying because we went through like three different shelters to get to where we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s often said that people on the streets \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11962388/san-francisco-will-enforce-sit-lie-laws-when-people-refuse-shelter\">refuse shelter\u003c/a>, LaSala said that the truth is more complicated than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t accept housing that feels dangerous to them,” she told KQED. “So, yes, we have folks who are afraid to go into the shelter system here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never experienced any one of our clients refusing long-term housing, but what I have experienced is people afraid to go into the shelters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12006541 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Roberts has gotten eight people into shelters and 13 into the Journey Home program, a relocation assistance service that Breed required to be the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998474/breed-orders-sf-homeless-outreach-workers-to-offer-relocation-out-of-city-before-shelter\">first offer\u003c/a> for unhoused residents starting in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts also regularly checks in on his many clients who are still on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know these people, I know them by face,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been times when he’s out on a shift and comes across one of his clients in a tense situation with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of talking to them like … somebody that’s committing crime, I come up and I talk to them like a person, and I make them remember who they are,” Roberts says. “I ask, ‘Hey, it’s me, man. What can I do for you?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One ambassador says he’s helped reverse seven overdoses in his first two and a half months on the job. More than two dozen people have been referred to recovery support groups, and four have been placed in sober living environments, according to GLIDE’s early data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GLIDE “allowed my lived experience to be a viable, marketable, usable tool to help them,” Holloway said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They gave me the opportunity to really help me too — I’m employed. When I stand up and get to see you on the street, I get to stand up with a straight face and almost be on equal footing with everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community ambassador program that has Roberts and others walking the streets of the Tenderloin was launched in July in honor of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983768/cecil-williams-legendary-pastor-of-glide-church-dies-at-94\">the late Cecil Williams\u003c/a> — GLIDE’s longtime pastor and a civil rights leader — and funded by Mayor London Breed’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978610/breed-unveils-san-franciscos-downtown-revival-plan-in-annual-city-address\">30X30 downtown revitalization plan\u003c/a>. Its goals are to make the Tenderloin safer and cleaner, build community in the neighborhood and ease peoples’ transition from the streets to housing and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The launch came at a tough time for the Tenderloin, as Breed promised aggressive encampment sweeps after a Supreme Court decision made it easier for cities to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">cite or arrest people for sleeping on the streets\u003c/a>. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998871/the-rhetoric-is-amplified-sf-homeless-sweeps-a-focal-point-of-mayors-race\">tight re-election year\u003c/a> for Breed, all eyes have been on how the mayor handles the neighborhood’s notorious problems, and how her challengers say they would if elected next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009983\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLIDE Community Ambassador Kenneth Holloway checks to see if an unhoused person is in need of medical care in the Tenderloin on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crackdowns and sweeps have certainly had an effect on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006541/sfs-homeless-sweeps-have-cleared-over-1200-tents-where-are-people-going\">the number of tents and visible encampments\u003c/a> on the area’s sidewalks since August, but GLIDE’s strategy is emblematic of another approach to people experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit’s chief operating and information officer Donna LaSala said its work has a “special sauce” that helps people not just move around more but get off the streets for good, and also serves to revitalize the neighborhood, which has become increasingly fraught in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cecil said all the time, ‘We got to be for the people, feet in the street,’” LaSala told KQED. “And so what we did was we launched an ambassador program to bring those feet in the street and bring our walk-in center out into the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, we’re out there cleaning the neighborhood — almost as an excuse to be there and to build the trust and to engage with folks,” she continued. “Our ultimate goal is to create a relationship so we can get them to trust us so that we can bring them into services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GLIDE’s seven community ambassadors have lived experiences that make it easier for them to connect with potential clients, and understand which resources to offer and how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are these people,” said Roberts, who grew up in Reno, Nevada, where he said he experienced a lot of problems similar to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997174/sfs-top-district-5-candidates-outline-bold-plans-to-tackle-drug-crisis-in-tenderloin\">those the Tenderloin is facing\u003c/a>. He moved to San Francisco after being released from incarceration, looking for a fresh start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only difference between them and me is that I have a roof over my head at the moment. But, you know, that’s subject to change. If I miss a paycheck or two, guess what? I’m in the same position that they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLIDE Community Ambassadors Jamika Love and Ezellia Johnson speak with unhoused people in the Tenderloin on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roberts leads one of the four ambassador teams at GLIDE. 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