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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan’s initial approval last month came after extensive public wrangling led Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985585/newsom-threatens-half-moon-bay-with-legal-action-over-delays-in-approving-farmworker-housing\">to intercede on behalf of the project\u003c/a>, calling the delay “egregious” and \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/05/09/governor-newsom-calls-on-half-moon-bay-to-approve-housing-for-farmworkers-following-mass-shooting/\">threatening to sic\u003c/a> the state’s Housing Accountability Unit on the city if leaders didn’t go ahead with development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, within days of the planning commissioners’ vote, opponents \u003ca href=\"https://www.half-moon-bay.ca.us/845/555-Kelly-Avenue---Affordable-Housing\">filed three appeals\u003c/a>, challenging the approval process and arguing that the project violated local policies and state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council heard arguments from supporters and detractors on Wednesday before deciding. Objectors said the \u003ca href=\"https://legistarweb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/pdf/2615131/11._Public_Comments_05.09.2024_thru_05.10.2024.pdf\">development threatens the city’s small-town appeal\u003c/a>, citing traffic congestion and raising concerns it would strain the area’s already-limited parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five-story apartment building is one of two low-income developments for farmworkers the city has pursued since the shooting. The other \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982817/half-moon-bay-prepares-to-break-ground-on-farmworker-housing\">consists of 47 manufactured homes\u003c/a> for very low-income families, including those displaced from the mushroom farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drawn-out approval process for the senior housing has pushed back the completion timeline significantly, said Kelly Hollywood, an associate director of real estate development at Mercy Housing. Without the final OK, developers couldn’t apply for crucial sources of funding, some of which only become available a couple of times a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With these approvals, we can work towards those other local and state sources,” Hollywood said. She expects to be able to apply for vital tax credits from the state in mid-2025. “We’re thankful that the determination of the community and the spirit allowed us to continue to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction is set to start in mid-2026 and wrap up in late 2027 at the earliest. The building is expected to cost $43 million and will include a farmworker resource center run by ALAS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the farmworker population is difficult to count, \u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/assets/files/publications/housing-smcs-farmworkers-final-june-2024.pdf\">a report\u003c/a> commissioned after last year’s shooting estimated that 1,300 to 1,600 farmworkers live in San Mateo County. \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/media/31031/download?inline=\">A 2016 assessment \u003c/a>estimated San Mateo County needs over 1,000 affordable housing units for farmworkers, finding that “a key reason for the county’s shrinking farm labor pool is the lack of available housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though this project only meets a fraction of the need, Hernández-Arriaga said she hopes it will serve as a model of “what housing should look like for senior farmworkers across California and if not across the country,” noting that farmworkers, particularly seniors, are often relegated to city outskirts. “Taking them out of the shadows, bringing them into the main streets of our downtowns, [in] housing that is vibrant, that allows them to not be isolated, not be hidden, to be in and with the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>From a distance, the lime-green vehicle with wide awnings looks like a fancy food truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the tricked-out RV has all the necessities of a preschool classroom, including a short toilet and sink, carpeted play area and cabinets full of building blocks, musical instruments and art supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recent morning, the mobile classroom was parked near a recreation center in Oakland’s Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, staffers rolled out rugs and laid out books, toys and snacks before gathering a group of children for a singalong. A flat-screen TV hanging on one side of the RV showed “Sesame Street,” but the roughly two dozen toddlers were more interested in chasing bubbles and playing at the sand table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its launch in November, this preschool on wheels has been going to homeless shelters and city parks in Oakland in an effort to keep more children enrolled in Head Start and Early Head Start programs, which serve children from lower-income families. The stop in Chinatown gives parents who signed up for Head Start’s home visiting program a chance to socialize and get information about their children’s development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, many children weren’t showing up consistently or on time, and a significant number inevitably dropped out, particularly those who didn’t have a stable place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This most recent school year, 78 out 423 Oakland families — or more than 18% — who qualified for Head Start, experienced homelessness, according to Everardo Mendoza, the program’s recruitment and enrollment coordinator. These families can’t afford rent on their own, he said, so they tend to “double up or triple up” in small apartments with other families or sleep in shelters or their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a way to meet kids and families where they are, Mendoza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988306\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988306\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two mothers play with their young children on a green rug inside a classroom.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families play with their children inside Oakland’s Head Start mobile classroom on May 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t want families to be dropping because they don’t have control of their housing situation,” he said. “We wanted to follow them to wherever they go and continue to provide the services that they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mobile classrooms are increasingly being deployed in places short on accessible and affordable preschools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Colorado, a preschool on wheels rolls up to \u003ca href=\"https://unitedwaydenver.org/news_post/first-mobile-preschool-in-denver-launched/\">Denver neighborhoods with few child care options\u003c/a> and a bilingual preschool on wheels called \u003ca href=\"https://www.aspenpublicradio.org/education/2019-09-09/the-wheels-on-the-bus-el-busesito-preschool-takes-school-on-wheels\">El Busesito\u003c/a> serves Spanish-speaking families in the Roaring Fork Valley. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/Residents/Education/Strong-Start-Academies\">city of Las Vegas\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.xiente.org/programs/preschool-youth-services/mobile-preschool/\">a nonprofit in Philadelphia\u003c/a> also provide half-day early learning programs in their mobile classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s $530,000 investment in its mobile classroom is helping the city meet the growing demand for Head Start. There are more than 400 families on the waitlist for the program, according to the city’s Head Start program director, Diveena Cooppan, who said the program has wrestled with finding enough workers and facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more on early childhood education\" tag=\"early-childhood-education\"]“A facility where we could have that space for all those classrooms, from infants to preschool, is ideal but rare and hard to find,” she said. “So this model is actually more cost-effective than [operating a center].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout Alameda County, almost 700 families are experiencing homelessness, according to \u003ca href=\"https://everyonehome.org/main/continuum-of-care/point-in-time-count-2024/\">a January point-in-time count survey\u003c/a> — down 17% from two years ago. But experts say that’s likely an undercount because families with young kids often get overlooked, as they are more likely to sleep in motels, their cars or on someone’s couch, as opposed to on the street or in a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why we call it hidden homelessness,” said Erin Patterson, director of education initiatives at SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., focused on youth homelessness. “And so it really feels like we are ignoring this whole portion of the homeless population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SchoolHouse Connection \u003ca href=\"https://schoolhouseconnection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Infant-and-Toddler-Homelessness-Across-50-States-2021-2022.pdf\">estimates that in California\u003c/a>, only one in six infants and toddlers experiencing homelessness are enrolled in early childhood development programs like Head Start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a heartbreaking statistic, Patterson said, because these are the kids who need it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For an infant or toddler to be experiencing homelessness and not knowing where they’re going to sleep during a time when they’re supposed to be potty trained and have routine and consistency, that’s difficult enough,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Programs like Head Start offer a range of support for unhoused families, from free diapers to access to educators who are trained in caring for children affected by trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988312\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988312\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two parents play with a small child outside as a large green truck with the letters 'ready set go' printed on it appears in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents Jay and Jasmine play with their 18-month-old son, Jayden, outside Oakland’s Head Start mobile classroom at Lincoln Square Park in Oakland on May 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Everything the parent or the adult in the situation is experiencing in terms of trauma, the child is also experiencing,” Patterson said. “Babies experiencing homelessness carry trauma. They feel stress, but they can’t articulate it with words yet. And so that’s why it’s even more critical to get interventions and supports to them as early as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, who leaned on Head Start services for her son when she was a single mother experiencing homelessness, called the city’s new mobile classroom a “huge game changer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just because your family is going through some housing issues or housing insecurity doesn’t mean that the resources for your children should stop,” she said \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzpQnYLNe2V/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng%3D%3D\">at a news conference\u003c/a> announcing the program last November. “It actually means that you need it more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mobile Head Start classroom currently serves families who signed up for home visits but may not have a steady place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the mobile classroom’s spacious interior includes a kitchenette, a health-check station and a computer area — equipped with its own server— where parents can access the Internet to work on job or housing applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988309\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A small Asian boy sits on an outside map on the ground, playing with toys.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shi Li Zhong (right) with her two young sons outside the Head Start mobile classroom at Lincoln Square Park in Oakland on May 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know that in a lot of different areas that we are in, there may not be access to technology, so we want to ensure that’s not a barrier to families,” said Shelley Taylor, who oversees Head Start facilities for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staffers also use the space to conduct developmental screenings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shi Li Zhong, who came to the mobile classroom event in Chinatown, said she didn’t know her older son had a speech delay until he was enrolled in Head Start when he was almost 2 years old. A caseworker referred her to a speech therapist, and she said her son is now starting to talk more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a lot of things I didn’t know,” Zhong said about being a first-time parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She came to this event with her second son, who is almost 1, to give him a chance to interact with other children and for her a chance to build community.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, many children weren’t showing up consistently or on time, and a significant number inevitably dropped out, particularly those who didn’t have a stable place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This most recent school year, 78 out 423 Oakland families — or more than 18% — who qualified for Head Start, experienced homelessness, according to Everardo Mendoza, the program’s recruitment and enrollment coordinator. These families can’t afford rent on their own, he said, so they tend to “double up or triple up” in small apartments with other families or sleep in shelters or their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a way to meet kids and families where they are, Mendoza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988306\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988306\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two mothers play with their young children on a green rug inside a classroom.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families play with their children inside Oakland’s Head Start mobile classroom on May 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t want families to be dropping because they don’t have control of their housing situation,” he said. “We wanted to follow them to wherever they go and continue to provide the services that they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mobile classrooms are increasingly being deployed in places short on accessible and affordable preschools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Colorado, a preschool on wheels rolls up to \u003ca href=\"https://unitedwaydenver.org/news_post/first-mobile-preschool-in-denver-launched/\">Denver neighborhoods with few child care options\u003c/a> and a bilingual preschool on wheels called \u003ca href=\"https://www.aspenpublicradio.org/education/2019-09-09/the-wheels-on-the-bus-el-busesito-preschool-takes-school-on-wheels\">El Busesito\u003c/a> serves Spanish-speaking families in the Roaring Fork Valley. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/Residents/Education/Strong-Start-Academies\">city of Las Vegas\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.xiente.org/programs/preschool-youth-services/mobile-preschool/\">a nonprofit in Philadelphia\u003c/a> also provide half-day early learning programs in their mobile classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s $530,000 investment in its mobile classroom is helping the city meet the growing demand for Head Start. There are more than 400 families on the waitlist for the program, according to the city’s Head Start program director, Diveena Cooppan, who said the program has wrestled with finding enough workers and facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“A facility where we could have that space for all those classrooms, from infants to preschool, is ideal but rare and hard to find,” she said. “So this model is actually more cost-effective than [operating a center].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout Alameda County, almost 700 families are experiencing homelessness, according to \u003ca href=\"https://everyonehome.org/main/continuum-of-care/point-in-time-count-2024/\">a January point-in-time count survey\u003c/a> — down 17% from two years ago. But experts say that’s likely an undercount because families with young kids often get overlooked, as they are more likely to sleep in motels, their cars or on someone’s couch, as opposed to on the street or in a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why we call it hidden homelessness,” said Erin Patterson, director of education initiatives at SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., focused on youth homelessness. “And so it really feels like we are ignoring this whole portion of the homeless population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SchoolHouse Connection \u003ca href=\"https://schoolhouseconnection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Infant-and-Toddler-Homelessness-Across-50-States-2021-2022.pdf\">estimates that in California\u003c/a>, only one in six infants and toddlers experiencing homelessness are enrolled in early childhood development programs like Head Start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a heartbreaking statistic, Patterson said, because these are the kids who need it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For an infant or toddler to be experiencing homelessness and not knowing where they’re going to sleep during a time when they’re supposed to be potty trained and have routine and consistency, that’s difficult enough,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Programs like Head Start offer a range of support for unhoused families, from free diapers to access to educators who are trained in caring for children affected by trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988312\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988312\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two parents play with a small child outside as a large green truck with the letters 'ready set go' printed on it appears in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents Jay and Jasmine play with their 18-month-old son, Jayden, outside Oakland’s Head Start mobile classroom at Lincoln Square Park in Oakland on May 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Everything the parent or the adult in the situation is experiencing in terms of trauma, the child is also experiencing,” Patterson said. “Babies experiencing homelessness carry trauma. They feel stress, but they can’t articulate it with words yet. And so that’s why it’s even more critical to get interventions and supports to them as early as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, who leaned on Head Start services for her son when she was a single mother experiencing homelessness, called the city’s new mobile classroom a “huge game changer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just because your family is going through some housing issues or housing insecurity doesn’t mean that the resources for your children should stop,” she said \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzpQnYLNe2V/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng%3D%3D\">at a news conference\u003c/a> announcing the program last November. “It actually means that you need it more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mobile Head Start classroom currently serves families who signed up for home visits but may not have a steady place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the mobile classroom’s spacious interior includes a kitchenette, a health-check station and a computer area — equipped with its own server— where parents can access the Internet to work on job or housing applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988309\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A small Asian boy sits on an outside map on the ground, playing with toys.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shi Li Zhong (right) with her two young sons outside the Head Start mobile classroom at Lincoln Square Park in Oakland on May 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know that in a lot of different areas that we are in, there may not be access to technology, so we want to ensure that’s not a barrier to families,” said Shelley Taylor, who oversees Head Start facilities for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staffers also use the space to conduct developmental screenings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shi Li Zhong, who came to the mobile classroom event in Chinatown, said she didn’t know her older son had a speech delay until he was enrolled in Head Start when he was almost 2 years old. 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The organization has been one of the key champions of the measure. “This will give voters the opportunity to address one of the most critical issues facing our region and our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With state funding constrained by a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/06/california-budget-deal-4/\">multibillion-dollar budget deficit\u003c/a>, advocates say the bond is crucial to making a dent in the homelessness crisis in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bond revenue would provide funding for all nine counties and region-wide programs. \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/meetings/attachments/6036/7c_Resolution_0034_Attachment_A_2024_Housing_Bond_Language_6_18_24_v9_.pdf\">Distribution estimates\u003c/a> indicate Santa Clara County would receive the most funding, around $4.5 billion, while Napa would receive the least, about $364 million. Roughly $4 billion would be dedicated to regional needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevada Merriman, vice president of policy and advocacy for MidPen Housing, a nonprofit affordable housing developer, told commissioners that there’s a roster of developments ready to tap into the funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a pipeline here that’s ready to go,” she said, noting MidPen alone has 1,300 units awaiting financing. As a measure of need, she pointed out that there’s a waitlist of about 100,000 people for the roughly 10,000 affordable apartments the organization operates across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonor Godinez, an organizer with Faith in Action East Bay, noted that she had hoped to see a tax exemption in the ballot measure for low-income homeowners but expressed support nonetheless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe it will allow local officials to invest in the community and provide much-needed affordable housing in a critical housing crisis,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of those who spoke against the bond at Wednesday’s BAHFA meeting focused on concerns about the cost to property owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bond attacks homeowners,” said Lafayette resident Libby Henry, who identified herself as part of the group Livable California and added that she doesn’t feel the accountability provisions built into the measure are sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballot measure requires a citizens oversight committee to be assembled to review annual spending and for an audit to be submitted to BAHFA annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BAHFA officials estimate the bond would raise property taxes by around $20 on average for every $100,000 of assessed home value. The total cost of the bond, including principal and interest, is estimated to be about $48 billion, and it is expected to be paid off by fiscal year 2077.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roma Dawson, the former president of the League of Women Voters Bay Area, said the group supports the bond but pushed for robust oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are trusting in all of you to set a new standard for public engagement and transparency,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preliminary polling shows voters are nearly evenly split on the bond. The authority hired data analytics firm EMC Research to test the viability of such a bond in the months before Wednesday’s vote. The pollsters found between 54% and 55% of likely voters surveyed across the nine counties supported it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special taxes like the bond currently require a two-thirds majority to pass. However, the regional bond is timed to coincide with a statewide vote on a constitutional amendment, ACA 1, that would lower the threshold to 55% approval for local taxes dedicated to affordable housing or infrastructure projects. If ACA 1 passes, the regional bond measure would be subject to the lower threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the face of the tough odds, several advocates expressed their commitment to campaigning hard for the bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The message the polling tells us is ‘All hands on deck,’” said Warren Cushman, an organizer with Community Resources for Independent Living. “Well, I’m one of the hands, I’m on deck. I’m looking for other hands, and we’re going to make this work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Housing Finance Authority has until Aug. 9 to submit the bond measure to the registrar of voters in each county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a chance to get it right. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/dean-preston\">Dean Preston\u003c/a>, like other progressive city leaders, is no stranger to fending off NIMBY allegations from pro-development groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest swipe came this week in a lawsuit accusing him of lying in his reelection paperwork when he said he had approved 30,000 new housing units. Corey Smith, executive director of the Housing Action Coalition, filed a writ of mandate on Monday asking the San Francisco Department of Elections to remove Preston’s claim from his candidate statement, arguing that the number is closer to 14,000, according to the California Department of Housing and Community Development data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston called the move a publicity stunt “splitting hairs” over his housing record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit cites UC Berkeley political science professor David Broockman, who in 2021 created “\u003ca href=\"https://nimby.report/preston\">Dean Preston’s Housing Graveyard\u003c/a>,” a website listing housing projects the supervisor has voted against since taking office in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2023, volunteers supporting Preston released their own report, slighting the “graveyard” and critiques of his housing record as “disinformation.” According to their site, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.deanshousingrecord.com/\">Dean’s Housing Record\u003c/a>,” Preston voted to approve over 29,800 housing units through 2023, 86% of which were affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few of the projects it includes are among those Smith’s lawsuit said were false and misleading, such as the temporary transition of hotel rooms to low-income housing during the COVID-19 pandemic and 10,000 units of municipal housing approved through Proposition K, a ballot measure passed by voters in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I had voted against [authorizing] Proposition K, my critics would say I was opposing 10,000 units,” Preston said, arguing against Smith’s claim that voters, not board members, approved these units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somehow, when I’m the author of that ballot measure [and] I voted for that ballot measure at the [Board of Supervisors] to put it on the ballot, somehow it’s incorrect for someone to characterize that as a vote for 10,000 units of housing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said he believes Preston is opposed to building market-rate housing, which he calls a hindrance to increasing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people think, ‘The only thing we need to be building is affordable housing,’ and I think that’s actually a mask for those who actually want to oppose housing but are scared to do so politically,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith’s Housing Action Coalition and other pro-development groups like SF YIMBY argue that building more housing at every level will bring all housing costs down, often going toe to toe with Preston and other progressive city leaders like Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who is running for mayor. Preston and Mayor London Breed have commonly sparred over the number of affordable units in housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Preston’s two challengers in his reelection campaign, the SF YIMBY-endorsed Bilal Mahmood, has also parrotted the claim that Preston is a NIMBY.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has blocked thousands of units of housing, not just affordable housing but middle-income housing,” Mahmood told KQED in March. “We need to be building housing at all levels, and Dean has been standing in the way of that progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In pushing back against this week’s lawsuit, Preston called the Housing Action Coalition, which describes itself as a nonprofit advocating for more homes at all levels, a “landlord lobbyist group” and said its leaders have sued to try to halt multiple of his office’s affordable housing efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can only describe it as a publicity stunt and probably designed to drain our campaign of time and resources defending ourselves,” Preston said, adding that his voting record is public and saying that he favors affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston also pointed to a recent report from the city’s Housing Stability Fund Oversight Board that examined affordable housing funds his 2020 ballot measure, \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/voter-guide/2020-11/sf-prop-i-transfer-tax-increase#:~:text=Proposition%20I%20would%20double%20San%20Francisco%E2%80%99s%20property%20transfer,%2425%20million%20or%20more%20from%203%25%20to%206%25.\">Proposition I\u003c/a>, which doubles the transfer tax on properties sold for over $10 million, has generated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition I revenue, which flows into the general fund but is intended for use on rent relief and affordable housing, according to Preston, has reached $324 million since 2021. Of it, $203 million has advanced affordable housing initiatives and provided emergency rent relief, including by acquiring five sites for affordable housing projects totaling 550 units and a sixth to build 66 units of educator housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The efforts to further affordable housing have been an uphill battle, Preston said, blaming Breed for not earmarking any general fund money for affordable housing projects in her annual budget since Proposition I passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to sugarcoat, at the end of the day, we need massive federal and state investment to really scale up affordable housing in San Francisco, but through Prop. I, we really showed that people are willing to levy this kind of tax in order to push to fund these kind of alternate strategies for affordable housing locally,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2023, volunteers supporting Preston released their own report, slighting the “graveyard” and critiques of his housing record as “disinformation.” According to their site, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.deanshousingrecord.com/\">Dean’s Housing Record\u003c/a>,” Preston voted to approve over 29,800 housing units through 2023, 86% of which were affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few of the projects it includes are among those Smith’s lawsuit said were false and misleading, such as the temporary transition of hotel rooms to low-income housing during the COVID-19 pandemic and 10,000 units of municipal housing approved through Proposition K, a ballot measure passed by voters in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I had voted against [authorizing] Proposition K, my critics would say I was opposing 10,000 units,” Preston said, arguing against Smith’s claim that voters, not board members, approved these units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somehow, when I’m the author of that ballot measure [and] I voted for that ballot measure at the [Board of Supervisors] to put it on the ballot, somehow it’s incorrect for someone to characterize that as a vote for 10,000 units of housing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said he believes Preston is opposed to building market-rate housing, which he calls a hindrance to increasing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people think, ‘The only thing we need to be building is affordable housing,’ and I think that’s actually a mask for those who actually want to oppose housing but are scared to do so politically,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith’s Housing Action Coalition and other pro-development groups like SF YIMBY argue that building more housing at every level will bring all housing costs down, often going toe to toe with Preston and other progressive city leaders like Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who is running for mayor. Preston and Mayor London Breed have commonly sparred over the number of affordable units in housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Preston’s two challengers in his reelection campaign, the SF YIMBY-endorsed Bilal Mahmood, has also parrotted the claim that Preston is a NIMBY.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has blocked thousands of units of housing, not just affordable housing but middle-income housing,” Mahmood told KQED in March. “We need to be building housing at all levels, and Dean has been standing in the way of that progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In pushing back against this week’s lawsuit, Preston called the Housing Action Coalition, which describes itself as a nonprofit advocating for more homes at all levels, a “landlord lobbyist group” and said its leaders have sued to try to halt multiple of his office’s affordable housing efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can only describe it as a publicity stunt and probably designed to drain our campaign of time and resources defending ourselves,” Preston said, adding that his voting record is public and saying that he favors affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston also pointed to a recent report from the city’s Housing Stability Fund Oversight Board that examined affordable housing funds his 2020 ballot measure, \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/voter-guide/2020-11/sf-prop-i-transfer-tax-increase#:~:text=Proposition%20I%20would%20double%20San%20Francisco%E2%80%99s%20property%20transfer,%2425%20million%20or%20more%20from%203%25%20to%206%25.\">Proposition I\u003c/a>, which doubles the transfer tax on properties sold for over $10 million, has generated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition I revenue, which flows into the general fund but is intended for use on rent relief and affordable housing, according to Preston, has reached $324 million since 2021. Of it, $203 million has advanced affordable housing initiatives and provided emergency rent relief, including by acquiring five sites for affordable housing projects totaling 550 units and a sixth to build 66 units of educator housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The efforts to further affordable housing have been an uphill battle, Preston said, blaming Breed for not earmarking any general fund money for affordable housing projects in her annual budget since Proposition I passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to sugarcoat, at the end of the day, we need massive federal and state investment to really scale up affordable housing in San Francisco, but through Prop. I, we really showed that people are willing to levy this kind of tax in order to push to fund these kind of alternate strategies for affordable housing locally,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After a packed three-hour meeting Tuesday, the Solano County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to delay placing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972769/not-just-a-crazy-idea-california-forever-releases-ballot-details-for-new-bay-area-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversial proposal\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on the November ballot to build a city from scratch over what is now farmland. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The board followed the suggestion of the county administrator’s office and requested a study looking at the project’s impacts on existing cities in the area. The administrator’s office and the Solano County Department of Resource Management will compile the report and present it to the board in late July, at which time the board could decide to approve the proposed new city or place it on the November ballot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative from the billionaire-backed California Forever company — which promises a walkable city with enough housing to eventually bring some 400,000 new residents and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986569/california-forever-says-12-start-ups-will-open-workplaces-in-its-new-city\">15,000 new jobs\u003c/a>, along with millions of dollars in down payment assistance programs for first-time homebuyers — has drawn skepticism, criticism and admiration since it was first proposed last fall. Some of the skepticism was on display Tuesday, with Supervisor Monica Brown refraining from swearing outright in her initial comments to the board, but coming close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“All of us need to know what the ‘H’ this is going to do to our community,” Brown said, adding that requesting the report “is the only option I would ever agree to.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Supervisor John Vasquez said the county will hire consultants to help compile the report and added that the administrator’s office has already started to analyze the plan’s impacts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I just want the public to know that we haven’t just been sitting here waiting for this day,” he said. “The work has already proceeded, and it has been going on for a number of months.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991978\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-09-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991978\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jan Sramek (second from right), CEO of California Forever, listens to public comments during a Solano County Board of Supervisors meeting in Fairfield on June 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://eastsolanoplan.com/news/northbay-health-announces-partnership-with-california-forever-to-accelerate\">California Forever announced a partnership \u003c/a>with the healthcare company NorthBay Health, which plans to open at least six clinics throughout the county over the next two years, including one in Rio Vista. It’s one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987138/california-forever-hands-out-500k-to-solano-nonprofits-ahead-of-november-election\">many promises\u003c/a> the company has made on its path to the November ballot as it seeks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984830/california-forever-shells-out-2m-in-campaign-to-build-city-from-scratch\">woo potential voters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those promises have included building a new \u003ca href=\"https://eastsolanoplan.com/news/california-forever-secures-water-for-the-first-100-000-residents-of-the-new\">wastewater treatment facility\u003c/a> to process thousands of gallons of recycled water and to build a regional sports complex with facilities for \u003ca href=\"https://eastsolanoplan.com/news/community-working-group-to-co-design-solano-sports-complex\">almost any sport imaginable\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But several supervisors were skeptical of the company’s ability to deliver on all those promises, with Supervisor Wanda Williams particularly curious about the company’s “\u003ca href=\"https://eastsolanoplan.com/10-guarantees\">Ten Guarantees”\u003c/a> and how the county could hold California Forever accountable to deliver on all of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We would have to depend on California Forever and this initiative to make sure they do it themselves; we can’t force them to do it,” she said of the company’s promises. “We don’t even have an environmental impact report to understand the implications of the initiative.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-08-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991977\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees of a Solano County Board of Supervisors meeting wait in line to give public comment on the California Forever/East Solano Plan in Fairfield on June 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Undeterred by the supervisors’ skepticism, California Forever CEO Jan Sramek left the meeting optimistic of his initiative’s chances at the ballot box and said, “If the election was held today, we would win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the people who really believe in this plan, so many of them are working parents, young parents, people who have full time jobs,” he said. “Despite that, so many of them took time out of their day to come here and speak for the plan. So, we’re very confident about November.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Throughout the two hours of public comment, support and opposition to California Forever’s plan was nearly evenly split. Those in favor mentioned the need for more affordable housing, jobs, and business opportunities and said growth in the county had come to a “standstill.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Robert McGary, an ironworker and Fairfield resident, was particularly interested in California Forever’s promise to bring jobs to the county. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I have a son who is an ironworker, and he had to move out of California because he can’t afford to buy here, even though he makes a premium wage,” McGary said. “I think a lot of people [against the plan] are small minded in this — they don’t realize the future. It’s like steam engines back in the 1880s. Everybody wanted to keep their horses.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991973\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991973\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Areanna Deloney holds a sign advocating against the California Forever/East Solano Plan outside a Solano County Board of Supervisors meeting in Fairfield on June 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California YIMBY, a prominent pro-housing organization, \u003ca href=\"https://cayimby.org/news-events/statement-in-support-of-the-east-solano-plan/\">voiced its support\u003c/a> last week for the company’s project, claiming that the proposal “calls for housing densities that would rival the most walkable neighborhoods in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This endorsement came as a shock to many others in the\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> pro-housing movement\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, especially those who worry the ambitious plan could \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/IDoTheThinking/status/1803290117483930094\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fizzle out into a collection of sleepy suburbs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Residents who spoke in opposition raised concerns about the new city’s impacts on Travis Air Force Base, its \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991234/california-forever-releases-water-plan-but-there-are-still-some-questions\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">water rights\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the traffic it could bring and whether the housing would truly be affordable. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members from Solano Together, the leading organization opposed to the plan, came out in full force during the meeting, donning bright red stickers with the organization’s name and carrying signs reading, “No to California Forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11991234,news_11986569,news_11984830\"]Sarah Sorokin, a member of the organization, said her main concern was the loss of habitat in the Jepson Prairie and its vernal pools. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It contains species that are endemic just to these systems, and for me, I don’t see the rationale of getting rid of it,” she said. “Infill development, where there’s already infrastructure — our dollars will go much farther [there].”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite stark divisions among the meeting’s attendees, Supervisor Mitch Mashburn lauded their cordial conduct as emblematic of a functioning democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope the world is watching, and they see what it means for people to be able to come together and participate in the democratic process,” he said. “That is the way democracy should work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mashburn has previously said he opposes the plan “on a personal level.” At Tuesday’s meeting, Mashburn said his final vote will come at the board’s next meeting in July. Regardless of how he feels, however, the supervisors will have only two options in front of them at that meeting: to approve California Forever’s plan or let the voters decide.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After a packed three-hour meeting Tuesday, the Solano County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to delay placing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972769/not-just-a-crazy-idea-california-forever-releases-ballot-details-for-new-bay-area-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversial proposal\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on the November ballot to build a city from scratch over what is now farmland. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The board followed the suggestion of the county administrator’s office and requested a study looking at the project’s impacts on existing cities in the area. The administrator’s office and the Solano County Department of Resource Management will compile the report and present it to the board in late July, at which time the board could decide to approve the proposed new city or place it on the November ballot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative from the billionaire-backed California Forever company — which promises a walkable city with enough housing to eventually bring some 400,000 new residents and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986569/california-forever-says-12-start-ups-will-open-workplaces-in-its-new-city\">15,000 new jobs\u003c/a>, along with millions of dollars in down payment assistance programs for first-time homebuyers — has drawn skepticism, criticism and admiration since it was first proposed last fall. Some of the skepticism was on display Tuesday, with Supervisor Monica Brown refraining from swearing outright in her initial comments to the board, but coming close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“All of us need to know what the ‘H’ this is going to do to our community,” Brown said, adding that requesting the report “is the only option I would ever agree to.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Supervisor John Vasquez said the county will hire consultants to help compile the report and added that the administrator’s office has already started to analyze the plan’s impacts. \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\">“I just want the public to know that we haven’t just been sitting here waiting for this day,” he said. “The work has already proceeded, and it has been going on for a number of months.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991978\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-09-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991978\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jan Sramek (second from right), CEO of California Forever, listens to public comments during a Solano County Board of Supervisors meeting in Fairfield on June 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://eastsolanoplan.com/news/northbay-health-announces-partnership-with-california-forever-to-accelerate\">California Forever announced a partnership \u003c/a>with the healthcare company NorthBay Health, which plans to open at least six clinics throughout the county over the next two years, including one in Rio Vista. It’s one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987138/california-forever-hands-out-500k-to-solano-nonprofits-ahead-of-november-election\">many promises\u003c/a> the company has made on its path to the November ballot as it seeks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984830/california-forever-shells-out-2m-in-campaign-to-build-city-from-scratch\">woo potential voters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those promises have included building a new \u003ca href=\"https://eastsolanoplan.com/news/california-forever-secures-water-for-the-first-100-000-residents-of-the-new\">wastewater treatment facility\u003c/a> to process thousands of gallons of recycled water and to build a regional sports complex with facilities for \u003ca href=\"https://eastsolanoplan.com/news/community-working-group-to-co-design-solano-sports-complex\">almost any sport imaginable\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But several supervisors were skeptical of the company’s ability to deliver on all those promises, with Supervisor Wanda Williams particularly curious about the company’s “\u003ca href=\"https://eastsolanoplan.com/10-guarantees\">Ten Guarantees”\u003c/a> and how the county could hold California Forever accountable to deliver on all of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We would have to depend on California Forever and this initiative to make sure they do it themselves; we can’t force them to do it,” she said of the company’s promises. “We don’t even have an environmental impact report to understand the implications of the initiative.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-08-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991977\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees of a Solano County Board of Supervisors meeting wait in line to give public comment on the California Forever/East Solano Plan in Fairfield on June 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Undeterred by the supervisors’ skepticism, California Forever CEO Jan Sramek left the meeting optimistic of his initiative’s chances at the ballot box and said, “If the election was held today, we would win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the people who really believe in this plan, so many of them are working parents, young parents, people who have full time jobs,” he said. “Despite that, so many of them took time out of their day to come here and speak for the plan. So, we’re very confident about November.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Throughout the two hours of public comment, support and opposition to California Forever’s plan was nearly evenly split. Those in favor mentioned the need for more affordable housing, jobs, and business opportunities and said growth in the county had come to a “standstill.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Robert McGary, an ironworker and Fairfield resident, was particularly interested in California Forever’s promise to bring jobs to the county. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I have a son who is an ironworker, and he had to move out of California because he can’t afford to buy here, even though he makes a premium wage,” McGary said. “I think a lot of people [against the plan] are small minded in this — they don’t realize the future. It’s like steam engines back in the 1880s. Everybody wanted to keep their horses.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991973\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991973\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240625-SOLANO-COUNTY-BOARD-OF-SUPES-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Areanna Deloney holds a sign advocating against the California Forever/East Solano Plan outside a Solano County Board of Supervisors meeting in Fairfield on June 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California YIMBY, a prominent pro-housing organization, \u003ca href=\"https://cayimby.org/news-events/statement-in-support-of-the-east-solano-plan/\">voiced its support\u003c/a> last week for the company’s project, claiming that the proposal “calls for housing densities that would rival the most walkable neighborhoods in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This endorsement came as a shock to many others in the\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> pro-housing movement\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, especially those who worry the ambitious plan could \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/IDoTheThinking/status/1803290117483930094\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fizzle out into a collection of sleepy suburbs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Residents who spoke in opposition raised concerns about the new city’s impacts on Travis Air Force Base, its \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991234/california-forever-releases-water-plan-but-there-are-still-some-questions\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">water rights\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the traffic it could bring and whether the housing would truly be affordable. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members from Solano Together, the leading organization opposed to the plan, came out in full force during the meeting, donning bright red stickers with the organization’s name and carrying signs reading, “No to California Forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Sarah Sorokin, a member of the organization, said her main concern was the loss of habitat in the Jepson Prairie and its vernal pools. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It contains species that are endemic just to these systems, and for me, I don’t see the rationale of getting rid of it,” she said. “Infill development, where there’s already infrastructure — our dollars will go much farther [there].”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite stark divisions among the meeting’s attendees, Supervisor Mitch Mashburn lauded their cordial conduct as emblematic of a functioning democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope the world is watching, and they see what it means for people to be able to come together and participate in the democratic process,” he said. “That is the way democracy should work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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About $9.5 billion on top of current spending, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.allhomeca.org/2024/06/25/what-it-will-take-modeling-solutions-to-homelessness-in-the-bay-area/\">report released Tuesday\u003c/a> from the research and policy nonprofit All Home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could cut unsheltered homelessness across the Bay Area by 75% over the next five years and reduce the number of new people falling into homelessness by 15%, the nonprofit projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The projections are part of the nonprofit’s new \u003ca href=\"https://www.allhomeca.org/regionalactionplan/\">Regional Action Plan\u003c/a>, a roadmap for achieving “functional zero,” a state in which homelessness is “rare, brief and one-time.” The organization’s first such plan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.allhomeca.org/wp-content/themes/allhome/library/images/plan/210413_Regional_Action_Plan_Final.pdf\">released in 2021\u003c/a>, laid a roadmap for shrinking the homeless population by three-quarters in three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years later, there are still around 25,000 unsheltered, unhoused people in the region — a 30% drop from All Home’s approximation of 35,000 in 2021 — and the nonprofit estimates that at least three people fall into homelessness for every one person who gets housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just haven’t had the level of resources needed to achieve very significant change,” said Ken Kirkey, chief partnerships officer with All Home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blueprint emphasizes prevention — for every unit of temporary housing built, the nonprofit calls for two permanent units and four preventive interventions, such as emergency rental assistance to help with a security deposit — and has garnered endorsements from cities and counties across the region. However, the updated report cites several key roadblocks to progress, including a failure to invest in programs aimed at prevention, public frustration that stymies the political will to fund homelessness solutions at scale and inadequate funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to chip away at those, the new report comes with an interactive \u003ca href=\"https://www.allhomeca.org/rap-dashboard/\">dashboard\u003c/a> that allows users to see how spending money on one preventive solution affects the overall cost of reducing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, according to All Home’s modeling, reducing Bay Area homelessness by 75% in five years without spending any money on programs to prevent new homelessness would require some 10,000 units of temporary housing and 47,000 permanent homes at a cost of nearly $11 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spending about $1.4 billion on prevention efforts, the model shows, would reduce the number of new temporary shelter beds needed to about 2,400 and bring down the number of new permanent homes to about 31,000, reducing the total cost to achieve the same decrease in homelessness to about $8.6 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really highlights that investments in targeted prevention are not only vitally important to helping individuals and households avoid the trauma of experiencing homelessness, but from an administrative standpoint, it is also more cost-effective,” said Adrian Gonzales, deputy chief of programs for All Home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dashboard allows users to explore costs for individual counties or the entire region. It draws on data from the federal government’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/ahar/2023-ahar-part-1-pit-estimates-of-homelessness-in-the-us.html\">Point-In-Time Count\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/hmis/\">Homeless Management Information System\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The updated regional plan reflects recommendations from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982237/california-audit-questions-state-homelessness-spending-san-jose\">recent state audit \u003c/a>that found the state lacks the infrastructure to evaluate how well its response to homelessness works. It includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.allhomeca.org/support-card/\">a tool aimed at helping cities and counties\u003c/a> hold themselves accountable by tracking their progress using key metrics, like the number of people returning to homelessness and the number leaving temporary placements for permanent homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know pretty well what prevents and ends homelessness,” said Ray Bramson, chief operating officer at the nonprofit Destination: Home, who served on an advisory committee that helped shape the action plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s putting those solutions to work at the necessary scale that’s the challenge, he said. “The best way to get those dollars that we need to make these solutions work is to look at a regional level and get all the communities together rowing in the same direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area voters may soon get a chance to do just that. On Wednesday, the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/meetings-events/bay-area-housing-finance-authority-2024-06-26t163500\">is expected to decide\u003c/a> whether to put a $20 billion regional affordable housing bond on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revenue from the bond would be used to create affordable housing for local workers, seniors, veterans and people experiencing homelessness. It would provide funding for all nine counties and region-wide programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s timed to coincide with the statewide vote on a constitutional amendment, ACA 1, that would lower the threshold needed to pass a bond measure to 55% of votes cast instead of two-thirds. If ACA 1 passes, the regional bond measure would be subject to the lower threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>One of the biggest questions surrounding California Forever’s ambitious proposal to build a city from scratch in eastern Solano County is about water, where it will come from and whether the company’s plan can withstand the inevitable yearslong drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the company released its \u003ca href=\"https://eastsolanoplan.com/news/california-forever-secures-water-for-the-first-100-000-residents-of-the-new\">long-awaited plan\u003c/a>, outlining how it expects to provide water to a new city of 100,000 residents initially and that will eventually grow to serve 400,000 when it is fully built out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will be the most sustainable city on Earth,” Bronson Johnson, the company’s head of infrastructure and sustainability, said to KQED. “We are creating a diverse portfolio of water supplies. It’s what you need to manage through drought conditions and what you need to manage seasonally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Forever plans to use a combination of water sources to supply the needs of the new city, including tapping into groundwater and surface water rights, which the company already owns thanks to its purchase of more than 60,000 acres of farmland. Right now, the water is being used to irrigate “some marginal [almond] orchards that don’t produce very much,” according to CEO Jan Sramek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They expect the groundwater and local surface water to make up more than a quarter of the new city’s water supply and will be used for some of the drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Forever representatives said they also plan to import almost a third of their water supply “upriver from out-of-county sites in California,” conveying it through “existing points of diversion on the Sacramento River and its associated tributaries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water experts who have reviewed California Forever’s plan said it’s clear the company did its homework, but some vital questions remain — especially around its plan to rely on water diverted from rivers in a state where drought is so commonplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am impressed that California Forever has engaged water resource management and legal experts to evaluate the complex issues that are raised by the proposed city,” Brian Gray, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California’s Water Policy Center, said to KQED. “However, the projected short- and long-term water supplies will be tight, and there are many details that remain unresolved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Gray said it’s not uncommon for California cities to import water to serve their residents, he noted how precarious it might be for California Forever to rely so heavily on that amount of imported water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way they’re describing their imported water strategy suggests that the long-term water supplies are tenuous,” Gray said. “I’m not saying it’s impossible, but I think there’s a lot of red flags.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gray also questioned where the company could import enough surface water to make up a third of the new city’s total supply, especially because California Forever has stated it will not seek water from Lake Berryessa via Solano County’s irrigation district. They have not identified precisely any other long-term water supply source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company representatives said they are in “advanced talkes on numerous aquisitions” and the details will be ironed out before it releases an environmental impact report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can’t be some loose thing in the future that we’ll acquire what we need, we actually have to have the control of that water,” he said. “We’ll acquire some amount greater than what we actually need for resilience in drought years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gray noted that water acquired from existing users in the Sacramento River basin would have to be conveyed through the California Department of Water Resources’ North Bay Aqueduct, which is currently “oversubscribed” by other cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to importing water, California Forever plans to pump groundwater from the Fairfield-Suisun and Solano Subbasins, whose 60,000-acre property sits atop. A concern there, Gray said, is that the basins could become overdrafted, like many others, over years of drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So much water has been pumped from the Solano subbasin that the state’s Department of Water Resources has required local agencies to limit the amount of water landowners can use from the ground in times of drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest percentage of the new city’s water supply — about 40% — will come from what the company calls a “circular economy” of recycled water powered by water and wastewater treatment plants to be built in the new city. The recycled water won’t be used for drinking, cooking, laundry or other household uses, but instead will be put to agricultural, industrial, commercial and other uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11991588\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25%E2%80%AFPM-scaled-e1719020205883.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2201\" height=\"1414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25 PM-scaled-e1719020205883.jpg 2201w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25 PM-scaled-e1719020205883-800x514.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25 PM-scaled-e1719020205883-1020x655.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25 PM-scaled-e1719020205883-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25 PM-scaled-e1719020205883-1536x987.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25 PM-scaled-e1719020205883-2048x1316.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25 PM-scaled-e1719020205883-1920x1233.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2201px) 100vw, 2201px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11991589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26%E2%80%AFPM-scaled-e1719020231518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2180\" height=\"1431\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26 PM-scaled-e1719020231518.jpg 2180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26 PM-scaled-e1719020231518-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26 PM-scaled-e1719020231518-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26 PM-scaled-e1719020231518-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26 PM-scaled-e1719020231518-1536x1008.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26 PM-scaled-e1719020231518-2048x1344.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26 PM-scaled-e1719020231518-1920x1260.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2180px) 100vw, 2180px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re focusing on that lower-hanging fruit,” Johnson said. “We can design those plants so that we’re able to move that recycled water where it is best used and then maintain those precious potable water supplies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Forever argued its new city won’t require as much water as other, more suburban cities because it will be dense by design and will not have room for lush, green lawns and sprawling golf courses. Its residents will only use 60 gallons of water per day, far less than other cities in Solano County, which average about 100 gallons each day. For reference, \u003ca href=\"https://sfpuc.org/sites/default/files/documents/Water%20Resources%20Annual%20Report%20FY%2020-21.pdf\">San Francisco residents\u003c/a> use up to 42 gallons per day, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/SacDOU_2019_AnnualReport-Web.pdf?db=master&la=en&vs=1&ts=20201229T1935107284#:~:text=As%20of%202009%2C%20the%20City,time%20low%20of%20152%20GPCD.\">Sacramento uses about 152 gallons per day\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some experts noticed similarities between California Forever’s water plan and those of other cities that are now amending their water plans to withstand drought. David Sedlak, director of Berkeley’s Water Center, said the use of recycled water to irrigate landscape and agriculture “is a very well-established approach in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11989766,news_11987138,news_11986569\"]“The per capita water use that they use in their calculations are not very different from what is being obtained in similar developments,” he said to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An outstanding question is where the new city’s wastewater might filter out to, Sedlak said, once it has been processed in the new treatment facilities. There could be environmental issues if a river or stream becomes overly saturated with waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company representatives said if the initiative is approved, they will study these options in an environmental impact report to be published next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company asked at least three water engineering firms to review its plan, and company representatives have repeatedly said that the new city will not strain water access for existing cities in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support for the company’s plan is slowly growing as residents and outsiders alike watch the project gradually take shape. California YIMBY, a powerful pro-housing advocacy group, \u003ca href=\"https://cayimby.org/news-events/statement-in-support-of-the-east-solano-plan/\">voiced their support for California Forever\u003c/a> this week, citing that more discussion must happen before the project is at its “best version” but that a better future starts with “yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some are unconvinced by the company’s promises. The Solano Land Trust, an open space advocate for the county, opposes California Forever’s plan, with water scarcity listed as their biggest concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re talking about surface water, we’re talking about water that flows right into the delta and where Solano residents are currently pulling some of our water,” said Nicole Braddock, the group’s executive director. “It’s hard to imagine how that doesn’t affect our current water sources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Forever’s view is that their water plan would not impact Solano’s current water situation, as they plan to use the same amount of surface water as ranches and farms have in the past, substituting any new diversions with recycled water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Braddock remains unconvinced about the ambitious project and think the acres in east Solano County are best kept for dryland farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, they’re proposing this huge development about the size of Vacaville, which is one of our larger cities and operating it on dryland farms — basically growing food only using rainwater,” she said. “To me, [farming] is the best use of that land.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One of the biggest questions surrounding California Forever’s ambitious proposal to build a city from scratch in eastern Solano County is about water, where it will come from and whether the company’s plan can withstand the inevitable yearslong drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the company released its \u003ca href=\"https://eastsolanoplan.com/news/california-forever-secures-water-for-the-first-100-000-residents-of-the-new\">long-awaited plan\u003c/a>, outlining how it expects to provide water to a new city of 100,000 residents initially and that will eventually grow to serve 400,000 when it is fully built out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will be the most sustainable city on Earth,” Bronson Johnson, the company’s head of infrastructure and sustainability, said to KQED. “We are creating a diverse portfolio of water supplies. It’s what you need to manage through drought conditions and what you need to manage seasonally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Forever plans to use a combination of water sources to supply the needs of the new city, including tapping into groundwater and surface water rights, which the company already owns thanks to its purchase of more than 60,000 acres of farmland. Right now, the water is being used to irrigate “some marginal [almond] orchards that don’t produce very much,” according to CEO Jan Sramek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They expect the groundwater and local surface water to make up more than a quarter of the new city’s water supply and will be used for some of the drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Forever representatives said they also plan to import almost a third of their water supply “upriver from out-of-county sites in California,” conveying it through “existing points of diversion on the Sacramento River and its associated tributaries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water experts who have reviewed California Forever’s plan said it’s clear the company did its homework, but some vital questions remain — especially around its plan to rely on water diverted from rivers in a state where drought is so commonplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am impressed that California Forever has engaged water resource management and legal experts to evaluate the complex issues that are raised by the proposed city,” Brian Gray, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California’s Water Policy Center, said to KQED. “However, the projected short- and long-term water supplies will be tight, and there are many details that remain unresolved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Gray said it’s not uncommon for California cities to import water to serve their residents, he noted how precarious it might be for California Forever to rely so heavily on that amount of imported water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way they’re describing their imported water strategy suggests that the long-term water supplies are tenuous,” Gray said. “I’m not saying it’s impossible, but I think there’s a lot of red flags.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gray also questioned where the company could import enough surface water to make up a third of the new city’s total supply, especially because California Forever has stated it will not seek water from Lake Berryessa via Solano County’s irrigation district. They have not identified precisely any other long-term water supply source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company representatives said they are in “advanced talkes on numerous aquisitions” and the details will be ironed out before it releases an environmental impact report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can’t be some loose thing in the future that we’ll acquire what we need, we actually have to have the control of that water,” he said. “We’ll acquire some amount greater than what we actually need for resilience in drought years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gray noted that water acquired from existing users in the Sacramento River basin would have to be conveyed through the California Department of Water Resources’ North Bay Aqueduct, which is currently “oversubscribed” by other cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to importing water, California Forever plans to pump groundwater from the Fairfield-Suisun and Solano Subbasins, whose 60,000-acre property sits atop. 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Its residents will only use 60 gallons of water per day, far less than other cities in Solano County, which average about 100 gallons each day. For reference, \u003ca href=\"https://sfpuc.org/sites/default/files/documents/Water%20Resources%20Annual%20Report%20FY%2020-21.pdf\">San Francisco residents\u003c/a> use up to 42 gallons per day, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/SacDOU_2019_AnnualReport-Web.pdf?db=master&la=en&vs=1&ts=20201229T1935107284#:~:text=As%20of%202009%2C%20the%20City,time%20low%20of%20152%20GPCD.\">Sacramento uses about 152 gallons per day\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some experts noticed similarities between California Forever’s water plan and those of other cities that are now amending their water plans to withstand drought. David Sedlak, director of Berkeley’s Water Center, said the use of recycled water to irrigate landscape and agriculture “is a very well-established approach in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The per capita water use that they use in their calculations are not very different from what is being obtained in similar developments,” he said to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An outstanding question is where the new city’s wastewater might filter out to, Sedlak said, once it has been processed in the new treatment facilities. There could be environmental issues if a river or stream becomes overly saturated with waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company representatives said if the initiative is approved, they will study these options in an environmental impact report to be published next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company asked at least three water engineering firms to review its plan, and company representatives have repeatedly said that the new city will not strain water access for existing cities in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support for the company’s plan is slowly growing as residents and outsiders alike watch the project gradually take shape. California YIMBY, a powerful pro-housing advocacy group, \u003ca href=\"https://cayimby.org/news-events/statement-in-support-of-the-east-solano-plan/\">voiced their support for California Forever\u003c/a> this week, citing that more discussion must happen before the project is at its “best version” but that a better future starts with “yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some are unconvinced by the company’s promises. The Solano Land Trust, an open space advocate for the county, opposes California Forever’s plan, with water scarcity listed as their biggest concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re talking about surface water, we’re talking about water that flows right into the delta and where Solano residents are currently pulling some of our water,” said Nicole Braddock, the group’s executive director. “It’s hard to imagine how that doesn’t affect our current water sources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Forever’s view is that their water plan would not impact Solano’s current water situation, as they plan to use the same amount of surface water as ranches and farms have in the past, substituting any new diversions with recycled water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Braddock remains unconvinced about the ambitious project and think the acres in east Solano County are best kept for dryland farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A November ballot measure to make it easier for local governments to borrow money for new infrastructure and affordable housing will likely include a big exception, preventing that money from being used to buy single-family homes. That’s thanks to a last-minute deal hammered out between a top legislative Democrat and the state real estate lobby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next Thursday is the deadline for state lawmakers to get their preferred initiatives finalized for the Nov. 5 ballot. That makes these final weeks of June peak sausage-making season in the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affordable housing measure is a prime example of legislative bratwurst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Davis Democratic Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/cecilia-aguiar-curry-101332\">Cecilia Aguiar-Curry\u003c/a> pushed through the \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ballot-measures/pdf/aca-1.pdf\">proposed amendment to the state constitution (PDF)\u003c/a> that would lower the electoral bar that local infrastructure and housing bonds need to clear. Currently, that threshold sits at a heightened two-thirds majority of voters. Aguiar-Curry’s proposal, which had failed to get out of the Legislature three times until last session, would bring that figure down to a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/08/housing-bonds/\">more attainable 55%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the amendment passed last year, it left some implementation questions unanswered. Two bills — \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240aca10\">ACA 10\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2813\">AB 2813\u003c/a> — were introduced to do that tweaking. That set off a fresh months-long round of negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After winning an exemption for single-family home, duplex, triplex and fourplex purchases, the California Association of Realtors announced that it would no longer oppose the legislation — and by implication, the Nov. 5 ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the course of several months, the author, her staff and stakeholders were able to reach an agreement that satisfies the concerns C.A.R. raised. C.A.R. would like to thank the author for her leadership and steadfast commitment to ensuring that homeownership can become a reality for generations of Californians,” the organization’s lobbyist Vanessa Chavez said in a letter obtained by CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association did not respond to a request for comment late today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballot measure would still allow local bond issues to provide funds for the construction of smaller affordable units. The ban applies to purchasing existing homes — notably, one of the ways that Realtors make money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neutrality of the Realtors — regularly \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2020/10/california-lawmakers-big-donors-special-interest-independent-expenditures/\">among the biggest campaign spenders in California\u003c/a> — is a political win for backers of the initiative. (It is still opposed by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, which \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Susan_Shelley/status/1804585518723940378\">issued a statement\u003c/a> saying it will fight it “with all our strength.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many of the supporters of the constitutional amendment aren’t pleased about the last-minute agreement. Earlier this week, a coalition of tenant rights groups, “Yes in My Backyard” advocates and legal aid associations penned a letter urging Aguiar-Curry not to accept the Realtors deal, saying that it would “enshrine a discriminatory housing policy in state law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101905160,news_11980019,news_11985468\"]Exempting single-family homes from a statewide affordable housing policy is also symbolically hard to swallow, said Francisco Dueñas, executive director of the nonprofit advocacy organization Housing Now!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The single family map that we have now comes from a lot of redlining, from racist systems that we’ve had in the past,” he said. “If we are again saying that those areas are off the table for these solutions, are we then further enshrining the legacy of these racist policies?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dueñas also said the new restrictions on bond funds would prohibit local governments from pursuing novel approaches to housing affordability, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/08/realestate/community-land-trusts-gentrification.html\">community land trusts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the Realtors won a key exemption, there are exceptions to that exemption. Local governments could still use the funds to purchase homes and reserve them for “survivors of domestic violence, refugees, or people with developmental disabilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making it easier to pass housing bonds is a top priority for affordable housing advocates this year. That’s especially true for those in the San Francisco Bay Area, where a first-of-its-kind regional housing finance authority plans to \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/06/20/could-a-20-billion-bond-measure-help-solve-the-bay-areas-affordable-housing-crisis/\">float an IOU of as much as $20 billion\u003c/a> to fund housing projects across the region, if voters approve in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Exempting single-family homes from a statewide affordable housing policy is also symbolically hard to swallow, said Francisco Dueñas, executive director of the nonprofit advocacy organization Housing Now!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The single family map that we have now comes from a lot of redlining, from racist systems that we’ve had in the past,” he said. “If we are again saying that those areas are off the table for these solutions, are we then further enshrining the legacy of these racist policies?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dueñas also said the new restrictions on bond funds would prohibit local governments from pursuing novel approaches to housing affordability, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/08/realestate/community-land-trusts-gentrification.html\">community land trusts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the Realtors won a key exemption, there are exceptions to that exemption. Local governments could still use the funds to purchase homes and reserve them for “survivors of domestic violence, refugees, or people with developmental disabilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making it easier to pass housing bonds is a top priority for affordable housing advocates this year. That’s especially true for those in the San Francisco Bay Area, where a first-of-its-kind regional housing finance authority plans to \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/06/20/could-a-20-billion-bond-measure-help-solve-the-bay-areas-affordable-housing-crisis/\">float an IOU of as much as $20 billion\u003c/a> to fund housing projects across the region, if voters approve in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When a judge ruled recently that a controversial state housing law did not apply to a handful of southern California cities, Julie Testa saw it as an invitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/E100038299.pdf\">late April opinion\u003c/a> from Los Angeles County Judge Curtis Kin held that a 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB9\">state law \u003c/a>letting homeowners \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/08/california-housing-crisis-zoning-bill/\">split up their houses into as many as four separate units regardless of local zoning restrictions\u003c/a> had no effect in Redondo Beach, Carson, Torrance, Whittier or Del Mar. The reason: The five SoCal jurisdictions are “charter cities” — jurisdictions with their own municipal constitutions that grant them extra independence from state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testa, the vice mayor of Pleasanton, wanted what Redondo Beach was having. She wanted to turn her bedroom community east of San Francisco Bay into a charter city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state Legislature has declared war on our cities,” Testa said. “We think that this is a turning of that tide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since first winning local office in 2020, Testa has spent much of her short political career chafing against the \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/california-housing-laws/\">spate of new state housing laws\u003c/a> that force local governments to automatically approve \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb423\">apartment buildings\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2022/04/duplex-housing-resistance/\">duplexes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/11/adu-san-diego/\">backyard cottages\u003c/a>. She cobbled together a loose group of like-minded politicians under the banner of the California Alliance of Local Electeds. A few days after Kin’s ruling, the group’s weekly Zoom meeting saw near-record turnout, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Pleasanton is one of at least three California cities, all San Francisco Bay Area suburbs, that have taken the first step toward adopting a charter since the April ruling. Testa and three of her four city council colleagues \u003ca href=\"https://www.independentnews.com/news/pleasanton_news/city-to-pursue-the-protection-of-local-housing-control/article_9f31e6c8-136c-11ef-8552-db5b391922eb.html\">instructed city staff to look into making the transition\u003c/a> in mid-May. City councils in \u003ca href=\"https://contracosta.news/2024/06/12/brentwood-agrees-to-look-into-becoming-a-charter-city/amp/\">nearby Brentwood\u003c/a> and the hyper-affluent Silicon Valley \u003ca href=\"https://www.almanacnews.com/atherton/2024/06/07/atherton-considers-becoming-a-charter-city-to-restore-local-control/\">suburb of Atherton\u003c/a> followed suit this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becoming a charter city — as roughly 120 of California’s 482 cities have done over the course of the state’s history — requires local voter approval. Before that, city officials have to actually write a charter, a comprehensive, technical governing document that covers everything from local election procedure to the dos and don’ts of municipal debt management. The three cities are probably kicking off that lengthy process too late for this November’s election, meaning that voters in the three cities won’t weigh in until at least 2026 — if at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will see a lot of irreversible consequences in that period of time, so I am disappointed, but I do believe that we must do what we can do to defend our constitutional right to local control,” Testa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jovita Mendoza, the Brentwood council member who is pushing the charter effort in her city, said housing policy isn’t her sole motivation. Charter cities have more flexibility over contracting and purchasing policies, election procedures and taxation. However, the recent ruling out of Los Angeles “definitely helped” provide fresh inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brentwood’s council voted unanimously to begin the process last Tuesday. At a late evening hearing on the subject, Planning Commissioner Rod Flohr endorsed the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the public is still kind of unaware of how restricted we’ve become, almost to the point where it feels sometimes like the planning commission and city council can’t really do anything anymore,” he said. “This may be our only avenue to…keep working to make Brentwood the jewel of east county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has ordered local governments to plan for an \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/03/03/state-plan-calls-for-2-5-million-new-homes-by-2030/\">additional 2.5 million new homes\u003c/a> through the end of the decade in an effort to bring down prices and rents. That’s part of a broader political shift in Sacramento as the governor, the attorney general and the Legislature have more aggressively promoted more housing, even over the objections of local elected officials and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza in Brentwood was one of the chief proponents of a proposed statewide ballot initiative that would have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-legislature-session-representation/#wm-story-3\">allowed local governments to override state land use laws\u003c/a>. The measure failed to gather enough signatures for this year’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The April ruling opened up a new potential strategy. “If the charter cities win on appeal, I think you’re going to see it happening more and more,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On housing, the tie often goes to the state\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many legal experts are skeptical that the ruling will hold — and if it does, whether that would be the death blow to state land use authority that many local control advocates hope it will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11984016,news_11981595,news_11970993\" label=\"Related Stories\"]“If I were looking to become a charter city in order to avoid (the state’s duplex law), I would not waste my time,” UC Davis law professor Darien Shanske said. “This decision will be overturned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1880s, California cities have come in two distinct flavors: “General law” cities, which have to govern themselves under rules set forth by the state Legislature, and charter cities, which the state constitution grants autonomy regarding “municipal affairs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unhelpfully, the constitution doesn’t actually specify what those “municipal affairs” are. That makes the precise scope of a charter city’s political autonomy from the state an uncertain and moving target that courts have had to address on a case-by-case basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_26.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990863\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_26.jpg\" alt=\"A home under construction.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_26.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_26-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_26-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_26-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_26-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_26-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New homes under construction in Pleasanton on June 16, 2024. The city of Pleasanton has voted to explore the possibility of becoming a charter city. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As state lawmakers have unleashed a raft of pro-construction bills over the last decade, the courts have typically allowed them to apply to charter and general law cities alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The courts generally have not been very receptive to charter city arguments given the housing crisis,” said Barbara Kautz, a land use attorney who regularly represents cities and counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kautz’s law firm, Goldfarb & Lipman, has represented Pleasanton, Brentwood and Atherton but is not doing so in their current quests to become charter cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The April ruling is a notable exception to the trend. But it’s also an exceedingly narrow one and not something on which to hang a legal revolution in land use policy, Kautz said. “As a long-term strategy to avoid (state housing law), I just don’t know if it would have any effect,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What the ruling does — and doesn’t — say\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California courts have generally let the Legislature steamroll local authorities, even in charter cities, if state lawmakers can prove that they are addressing a matter of “statewide concern” and that the bill they’re passing is narrowly tailored to address that concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2021 law itself specifies that the “statewide concern” in question is to ensure “access to affordable housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately for the state, “affordable housing” has multiple definitions. Affordable housing might refer to units that are legally required to be reserved for people making under a certain income with regulated rents or prices, sometimes called “deed-restricted affordable housing.” Or the term can simply refer to housing that’s cheap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his ruling, Kin concluded that the Legislature, in laying out its “statewide concern,” must have meant “affordable” in the first, deed-restricted sense. Because letting homeowners split their houses into duplexes “has, at best, an attenuated connection to affordable housing,” he wrote, the law wasn’t written narrowly enough to advance its stated goal and, therefore, doesn’t have the authority to trample over the rights of charter cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, the ruling dings the state duplex law because it didn’t justify its intent with the right term. UC Davis’ Shanske referred to the ruling jokingly as a “Simon didn’t say” legal test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kin has yet to submit a final judgment, which will clarify whether the ruling applies to just the five cities that sued or to every one of the \u003ca href=\"https://my.calcities.org/Directories/City-Directory?lawtype=2\">more than 100 charter cities\u003c/a> across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the ruling doesn’t say is that charter cities are exempt from the duplex law because the state fundamentally lacks the authority to regulate how homes can be divided up. Nor does it say that charter cities are exempt from state housing requirements in general, which would have been at odds with a slew of recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocregister.com/2023/03/30/huntington-beach-is-1-for-7-in-charter-city-fights/\">court\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/11/27/san-jose-other-charter-cities-cant-flout-state-housing-law-appellate-court-finds/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_content=tw-EastBayTimes&utm_source=twitter.com\">rulings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Elmendorf, one of Shanske’s colleagues at UC Davis School of Law who regularly \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/CSElmendorf/status/1783307005094224082\">opines on housing policy on social media\u003c/a>, called Kin’s conclusion “a weird, narrow decision that turns on a lawyerly sleight of hand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_19.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990862\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_19.jpg\" alt=\"A residential street with cars parked in front of homes.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_19.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_19-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_19-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_19-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_19-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_19-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A residential street in Pleasanton on June 16, 2024. The city of Pleasanton has voted to explore the possibility of becoming a charter city. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even some of those who welcomed the ruling as a victory for local control were \u003ca href=\"https://marinpost.org/blog/2024/4/26/a-win-is-win-but-keeping-it-in-perspective-is-important\">tempered in their enthusiasm\u003c/a>, if only because the ruling seemed to invite the Legislature to simply fix its wording with another bill. San Diego Democratic Sen. Toni Atkins, who authored the four-unit housing law, is working on a bill this year, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb450?slug=CA_202320240SB450\">Senate Bill 450,\u003c/a> which aims to make it harder for local governments to obstruct the earlier duplex law by delaying approvals or imposing costly or unworkable \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/state-law-local-interpretation-senate-bill-9/\">size, design and setback requirements\u003c/a>. An analysis last year by the UC Berkeley Terner Center found that the duplex law had \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-18/new-california-duplex-law-housing-sb9-homeowners\">resulted in precious little new housing\u003c/a>, partially due to such restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether Atkins plans to respond to Kin’s ruling with a legislative fix, the senator’s spokesperson, Meredith McNamee, said in a statement that the senator believes “some legislative clean-up” would improve the implementation of the law she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Justice Department, which represented the state in the Redondo Beach case, has already filed a notice of appeal.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“If I were looking to become a charter city in order to avoid (the state’s duplex law), I would not waste my time,” UC Davis law professor Darien Shanske said. “This decision will be overturned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1880s, California cities have come in two distinct flavors: “General law” cities, which have to govern themselves under rules set forth by the state Legislature, and charter cities, which the state constitution grants autonomy regarding “municipal affairs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unhelpfully, the constitution doesn’t actually specify what those “municipal affairs” are. That makes the precise scope of a charter city’s political autonomy from the state an uncertain and moving target that courts have had to address on a case-by-case basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_26.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990863\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_26.jpg\" alt=\"A home under construction.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_26.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_26-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_26-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_26-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_26-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_26-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New homes under construction in Pleasanton on June 16, 2024. The city of Pleasanton has voted to explore the possibility of becoming a charter city. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As state lawmakers have unleashed a raft of pro-construction bills over the last decade, the courts have typically allowed them to apply to charter and general law cities alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The courts generally have not been very receptive to charter city arguments given the housing crisis,” said Barbara Kautz, a land use attorney who regularly represents cities and counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kautz’s law firm, Goldfarb & Lipman, has represented Pleasanton, Brentwood and Atherton but is not doing so in their current quests to become charter cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The April ruling is a notable exception to the trend. But it’s also an exceedingly narrow one and not something on which to hang a legal revolution in land use policy, Kautz said. “As a long-term strategy to avoid (state housing law), I just don’t know if it would have any effect,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What the ruling does — and doesn’t — say\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California courts have generally let the Legislature steamroll local authorities, even in charter cities, if state lawmakers can prove that they are addressing a matter of “statewide concern” and that the bill they’re passing is narrowly tailored to address that concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2021 law itself specifies that the “statewide concern” in question is to ensure “access to affordable housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately for the state, “affordable housing” has multiple definitions. Affordable housing might refer to units that are legally required to be reserved for people making under a certain income with regulated rents or prices, sometimes called “deed-restricted affordable housing.” Or the term can simply refer to housing that’s cheap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his ruling, Kin concluded that the Legislature, in laying out its “statewide concern,” must have meant “affordable” in the first, deed-restricted sense. Because letting homeowners split their houses into duplexes “has, at best, an attenuated connection to affordable housing,” he wrote, the law wasn’t written narrowly enough to advance its stated goal and, therefore, doesn’t have the authority to trample over the rights of charter cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, the ruling dings the state duplex law because it didn’t justify its intent with the right term. UC Davis’ Shanske referred to the ruling jokingly as a “Simon didn’t say” legal test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kin has yet to submit a final judgment, which will clarify whether the ruling applies to just the five cities that sued or to every one of the \u003ca href=\"https://my.calcities.org/Directories/City-Directory?lawtype=2\">more than 100 charter cities\u003c/a> across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the ruling doesn’t say is that charter cities are exempt from the duplex law because the state fundamentally lacks the authority to regulate how homes can be divided up. Nor does it say that charter cities are exempt from state housing requirements in general, which would have been at odds with a slew of recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocregister.com/2023/03/30/huntington-beach-is-1-for-7-in-charter-city-fights/\">court\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/11/27/san-jose-other-charter-cities-cant-flout-state-housing-law-appellate-court-finds/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_content=tw-EastBayTimes&utm_source=twitter.com\">rulings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Elmendorf, one of Shanske’s colleagues at UC Davis School of Law who regularly \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/CSElmendorf/status/1783307005094224082\">opines on housing policy on social media\u003c/a>, called Kin’s conclusion “a weird, narrow decision that turns on a lawyerly sleight of hand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_19.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990862\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_19.jpg\" alt=\"A residential street with cars parked in front of homes.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_19.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_19-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_19-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_19-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_19-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/061624_Pleasanton_LE_CM_19-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A residential street in Pleasanton on June 16, 2024. The city of Pleasanton has voted to explore the possibility of becoming a charter city. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even some of those who welcomed the ruling as a victory for local control were \u003ca href=\"https://marinpost.org/blog/2024/4/26/a-win-is-win-but-keeping-it-in-perspective-is-important\">tempered in their enthusiasm\u003c/a>, if only because the ruling seemed to invite the Legislature to simply fix its wording with another bill. San Diego Democratic Sen. Toni Atkins, who authored the four-unit housing law, is working on a bill this year, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb450?slug=CA_202320240SB450\">Senate Bill 450,\u003c/a> which aims to make it harder for local governments to obstruct the earlier duplex law by delaying approvals or imposing costly or unworkable \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/state-law-local-interpretation-senate-bill-9/\">size, design and setback requirements\u003c/a>. An analysis last year by the UC Berkeley Terner Center found that the duplex law had \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-18/new-california-duplex-law-housing-sb9-homeowners\">resulted in precious little new housing\u003c/a>, partially due to such restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether Atkins plans to respond to Kin’s ruling with a legislative fix, the senator’s spokesperson, Meredith McNamee, said in a statement that the senator believes “some legislative clean-up” would improve the implementation of the law she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A pair of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> lawmakers on Monday outlined their plans to require the city to create more drug-free recovery housing in its push to house the unhoused population, building on a growing movement toward establishing sober housing for people trying to exit homelessness while struggling with addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation that San Francisco Supervisors Matt Dorsey and Rafael Mandelman plan to introduce Tuesday acknowledges that some permanent supportive housing projects are legally restricted to “drug-permissive,” harm-reduction approaches, which means they are required to accept applicants regardless of their sobriety and cannot evict residents solely for the use of illicit drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any unrestricted funding, however, would be required to go toward drug-free or “recovery-oriented” housing until at least 25% of units in the city’s broader initiative to provide permanent housing for the homeless population are drug-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California’s “Housing First” policy, there are no drug-free public housing options, a void that advocates argue is critical to fill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not enough to get folks indoors and keep them alive until they die of overdose. The point is to get them indoors so we can support them in living long and full and productive lives,” Mandelman said at a news conference on Monday at City Hall announcing the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Brathwaite, a San Francisco-based recovery advocate, highlighted the urgency of the situation in a recent \u003ca href=\"https://a17.asmdc.org/press-releases/20240415-new-bill-ends-californias-ban-funding-drug-free-recovery-housing\">press release\u003c/a> from a California legislator aiming to allow state housing funds to go toward sober housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been sober for 16 months, but I can’t find any available drug-free housing that can give me the programming and support I need to continue being sober,” Brathwaite said. “I’m in danger of relapsing and falling back into a cycle I fought so hard to get out of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/docs/housing-first-fact-sheet.pdf\">Housing First policy\u003c/a>, enacted in 2016, prioritizes rapid rehousing without prerequisites such as credit checks, criminal background reviews, income verification, or sobriety, with the goal of quickly moving people into housing before following up with addiction treatment, healthcare, mental health services and job training. Crucially, the policy prohibits state funding for sober housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/sapb/CDPH%20Document%20Library/2020-Overdose-Mortality-Data-Brief_ADA.pdf\">fentanyl use\u003c/a> surged nationwide, critics have argued that the state’s policy is too restrictive, limiting housing options for those attempting to avoid drugs. Addiction specialists contend that living in environments permeated by drug use can derail recovery efforts, even for highly motivated individuals.[aside postID=news_11990665 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-003-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg']“San Francisco needs different kinds of supportive housing for the diverse range of people who are homeless, including recovery-oriented housing for people with addictions,” Keith Humphreys, a Stanford psychology professor who served as senior drug policy advisor in the Obama administration, said Monday in a news release from Dorsey’s office. “Research shows that recovery housing helps residents cease substance use, find a job and stay out of jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although federal housing officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.usich.gov/sites/default/files/document/All_In.pdf\">revised their Housing First guidelines\u003c/a> to include provisions for drug-free recovery housing in 2022, California has yet to adopt similar measures, leaving a gap in support for those in recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Matt Haney (D-San Francisco) is leading efforts to amend state law. His proposed bill, \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2479/id/2927209\">AB 2479\u003c/a>, would allocate up to 25% of state housing funds for drug-free housing. The bill has passed the state Assembly and is now under consideration by the state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people seeking recovery don’t want to live next to others who are still using drugs, and they shouldn’t be forced to. 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