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"content": "\u003cp>As California’s housing crisis spreads across the country, Congress is finalizing a package of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/housing\">bills \u003c/a>to forestall the worst of the Golden State’s fate by proposing what some national experts say are among the most significant federal housing reforms in years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed bills attack the country’s housing shortage at multiple angles: from innovating construction methods to simplifying federal programs to encouraging localities to plan for more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in many cases, they emulate laws California has already enacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local housing activists say Congress’ bills are unlikely to result in big changes here, but that some could support California’s goal of building \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/05/14/governor-newsom-unveils-proposal-to-cut-red-tape-and-fast-track-housing-and-development/\">2.5 million homes by 2030\u003c/a> by jumpstarting construction innovation and further streamlining existing laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government could be doing a lot more to really put the pedal to the metal, but this is a good first step,” said Laura Foote, executive director of YIMBY Action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075046\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251007-sacramentomiddlehousing_00240_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251007-sacramentomiddlehousing_00240_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251007-sacramentomiddlehousing_00240_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251007-sacramentomiddlehousing_00240_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Middle housing units are under construction at 2824 D St. in Sacramento on Oct. 7, 2025. Developers are reviving “middle housing” such as duplexes and cottage clusters, but say California’s rollout of the new rules has been anything but smooth. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both the House and Senate have been working on bipartisan bill packages since last year, which were consolidated \u003ca href=\"https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/minority/scott-warren-release-21st-century-road-to-housing-act-legislative-package-to-boost-housing-supply-and-bring-down-costs\">earlier this month\u003c/a> into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/MIR26311.pdf\">21st Century ROAD to Housing Act\u003c/a>. Last week, the Senate approved the package, but House leaders have called for a conference to discuss changes to the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the center of the debate is a recently added provision, which limits large institutional investors from buying single-family homes, a proposed rule President Donald \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/13/housing-deal-faces-new-hurdle-as-trump-pushes-investor-ban-00779021\">Trump requested in February\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, he announced his own set of reforms: two executive orders aiming to tackle both supply and demand. One order seeks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-removes-regulatory-barriers-to-affordable-home-construction/\">remove regulatory barriers, such as green building mandates, from\u003c/a> permitting requirements, while the other \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-promotes-access-to-mortgage-credit/\">loosens mortgage lending regulations\u003c/a> for community banks, according to the White House’s fact sheets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California experts say, should Congress’ suite of bills pass, it could amplify or complement efforts locally in some of the key areas they say have been clogging the housing production pipeline for years: old construction methods, lengthy environmental reviews and outdated regulations.[aside postID=news_12075689 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/RibbonCutting.jpg']Reforming some of those outdated federal regulations could help boost the state’s factory-built housing industry, which local lawmakers are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075043/its-expensive-to-build-housing-california-lawmakers-say-factory-built-is-the-future\">paying close attention\u003c/a> to this year. Congress’ package includes multiple provisions to improve financing for modular housing and removes \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/COMPS-10382\">outdated safety standard\u003c/a>s that industry experts argue makes manufactured housing more expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed, the federal regulations could work in lockstep with local bills encouraging modular and factory-built housing construction across California. State Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, a Democrat from Berkeley, plans to soon introduce a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075043/its-expensive-to-build-housing-california-lawmakers-say-factory-built-is-the-future\">package of state bills\u003c/a> aimed at the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Dworkin, CEO of the National Housing Conference, a housing advocacy coalition, said Congress’ focus on modular housing could also help Californian communities rebuild faster after a wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can tell you right now, if [Congress passes] this, people in California are gonna see it immediately in places like Altadena and other communities that were devastated by these fires,” he said. “It’s gonna significantly improve the ability to create housing off-site and design it so that it matches the existing architecture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068866\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/250618-NewTeacherHousing-18-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/250618-NewTeacherHousing-18-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/250618-NewTeacherHousing-18-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/250618-NewTeacherHousing-18-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers build at 750 Golden Gate Ave., in San Francisco, on June 18, 2025, during a groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of two affordable housing projects. One will deliver 75 units prioritized for SFUSD and City College educators, and the other at 850 Turk will add 92 family apartments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He also noted parts of the federal package were inspired by California’s recently passed laws \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046558/california-lawmakers-approve-major-overhaul-of-landmark-environmental-law\">streamlining state environmental reviews\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal package proposes similar streamlining under its national counterpart, the National Environmental Policy Act, for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6644/text#H9CB10B2CEB434513B2CF9AE36E3688E1\">number of federally funded projects\u003c/a>, including infill housing, small-scale construction and rehabilitation work. Dworkin said those changes were more palatable for Congressional progressives because of the reforms California already enacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Trump would never say this,” Dworkin said, “but I think that Gov. [Gavin] Newsom gets to pat himself on the back on this one.”[aside postID=news_12075043 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/026_KQED_Vallejo_FactoryOS_08062020_qed.jpg']The federal legislation could also complement California laws like AB 609, which exempts infill housing from state environmental review, by exempting those projects from national review as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other recently passed California laws could get a boost from Congress’ package, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059533/newsom-signs-ambitious-bill-to-boost-housing-density-near-public-transit\">SB 79\u003c/a>, which encourages dense housing near busy bus stops and train stations. That law could work in tandem with Congress’ package, which would reward projects built near public transit with easier access to federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed federal bills could also help California develop housing more quickly by encouraging localities to approve standardized designs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tara Roche, project director for the Pew Charitable Trusts’ housing policy initiative, pointed to a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1332\">2023 California law\u003c/a> that required cities and counties to create pre-approved designs for accessory dwelling units (ADUs), also known as in-law units or granny flats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress’ bill takes that a step further by offering grants to local governments to develop a similar type of “pattern book” for ADUs, as well as for duplexes and townhomes. Roche said that could speed approval timelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, California housing advocates say the bill package could go further to penalize cities and counties that don’t want to allow more housing. Foote said she doesn’t think the bills “will greatly change the incentives for cities” in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007-SACRAMENTOMIDDLEHOUSING_00195_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007-SACRAMENTOMIDDLEHOUSING_00195_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007-SACRAMENTOMIDDLEHOUSING_00195_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007-SACRAMENTOMIDDLEHOUSING_00195_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A site of new middle housing units is under construction at 2824 D St. in Sacramento on Oct. 7, 2025. Developers are reviving “middle housing” such as duplexes and cottage clusters, but say California’s rollout of the new rules has been anything but smooth. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This doesn’t have a lot of sticks,” she said. “This is all carrots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area Congressman Sam Liccardo, D-16, sponsored two of the bills that became part of the House’s package, which focus on making it easier to build affordable and infill housing with federal dollars. He said the reality of these bills is that they “will marginally reduce the cost of construction,” but said every dollar counts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he said, the fact that Congress was able to agree on something is in itself commendable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a group of modest improvements on housing policy,” he said. “We need to do far more, and we need to go far faster, but I think we should celebrate a first step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The federal legislation could also complement California laws like AB 609, which exempts infill housing from state environmental review, by exempting those projects from national review as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other recently passed California laws could get a boost from Congress’ package, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059533/newsom-signs-ambitious-bill-to-boost-housing-density-near-public-transit\">SB 79\u003c/a>, which encourages dense housing near busy bus stops and train stations. That law could work in tandem with Congress’ package, which would reward projects built near public transit with easier access to federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed federal bills could also help California develop housing more quickly by encouraging localities to approve standardized designs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tara Roche, project director for the Pew Charitable Trusts’ housing policy initiative, pointed to a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1332\">2023 California law\u003c/a> that required cities and counties to create pre-approved designs for accessory dwelling units (ADUs), also known as in-law units or granny flats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress’ bill takes that a step further by offering grants to local governments to develop a similar type of “pattern book” for ADUs, as well as for duplexes and townhomes. Roche said that could speed approval timelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, California housing advocates say the bill package could go further to penalize cities and counties that don’t want to allow more housing. Foote said she doesn’t think the bills “will greatly change the incentives for cities” in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007-SACRAMENTOMIDDLEHOUSING_00195_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007-SACRAMENTOMIDDLEHOUSING_00195_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007-SACRAMENTOMIDDLEHOUSING_00195_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007-SACRAMENTOMIDDLEHOUSING_00195_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A site of new middle housing units is under construction at 2824 D St. in Sacramento on Oct. 7, 2025. Developers are reviving “middle housing” such as duplexes and cottage clusters, but say California’s rollout of the new rules has been anything but smooth. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This doesn’t have a lot of sticks,” she said. “This is all carrots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area Congressman Sam Liccardo, D-16, sponsored two of the bills that became part of the House’s package, which focus on making it easier to build affordable and infill housing with federal dollars. He said the reality of these bills is that they “will marginally reduce the cost of construction,” but said every dollar counts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he said, the fact that Congress was able to agree on something is in itself commendable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a group of modest improvements on housing policy,” he said. “We need to do far more, and we need to go far faster, but I think we should celebrate a first step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As San Francisco faces a looming budget deficit, city leaders are breathing a momentary sigh of relief thanks to around $100 million in new state funding that will go toward expanding local psychiatric and addiction treatment beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest funding comes from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980415/newsom-celebrates-proposition-1-victory-after-sleepless-weeks\">Proposition 1\u003c/a>, a $6.4 billion bond that California voters passed in 2024, and will specifically fund additional beds at three different locations in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It comes as the city is also proposing to cut millions of dollars across departments, including public health, to close a nearly $900 million budget shortfall and amid federal funding cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These investments strengthen our city’s ability to respond with compassion and accountability. Facing a serious budget deficit as we are here in the city, we are leveraging every possible funding source,” Lurie said as he announced the funding on Thursday. “We’re not simply pouring money into something that’s broken, but investing in solutions that get people off the streets, into treatment and on a path to recovery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, California has distributed nearly $4.17 billion across the state in one-time Proposition 1 dollars to support nearly 7,000 residential treatment beds and 27,500 outpatient treatment slots, although \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12076232/projects-under-initial-prop-1-funding-hit-delays\">some projects have been delayed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036369\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The dormitory at the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center at the corner of Embarcadero and Beale Street in San Francisco on Jan. 30, 2020. San Francisco plans to expand a program pairing shelter beds at the Adante Hotel on Geary Street in Lower Nob Hill with access to addiction treatment, to intervene in the city’s drug crisis. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco received funding for 73 new locked and dual diagnosis treatment beds through the bond program last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this latest funding round, local health officials plan to put $70.2 million toward 50 sub-acute beds and six acute psychiatric beds at UCSF Health Hyde Hospital, $14.2 million toward 44 treatment beds on Treasure Island and $11.2 million toward opening a sobering center in an unused city property at 1660 Mission St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health Director Daniel Tsai said the funding is desperately needed. The city has a dearth of adequate and \u003ca href=\"https://www.findtreatment-sf.org/\">available beds\u003c/a>, which means that people who are ready for treatment must often leave the city.[aside postID=news_12075619 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/250418-SFPDFile-46-BL_qed.jpg']The move can pull them away from their support network, making their recovery even more difficult, or it can deter them from treatment entirely. “There are simply not enough beds. We are sending people as far as Santa Barbara for this level of care,” Tsai said on Thursday. “In many cases, folks are left on the street because there is no appropriate level of care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction for the new beds on Treasure Island is slated to begin in winter of 2026 at a 64,000-square-foot, six-story building located at Tradewinds Avenue and Mackey Lane. About 172 existing recovery beds on Treasure Island will also be relocated from the former U.S. Navy housing on the island to the site that is slated to be redeveloped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timelines for the other two projects were not specified, but Tsai said they will begin “as fast as humanely possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials added that the vision for the site at 1660 Mission St. includes a sobering center that also serves as a hub for other public health care services, like pharmacy pick-ups, case worker meetings and other health assessments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be the second sobering center that Lurie’s administration has attempted, after the city recently announced the upcoming opening of the so-called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073638/san-francisco-moves-ahead-with-sobering-center-despite-legal-risk-memo\">RESET Center\u003c/a>, where police are expected to drop off people they arrest for outdoor drug use, rather than taking them to jail for booking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-02-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-02-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new behavioral health center at 822 Geary St., opened by the Department of Public Health, in San Francisco on May 2, 2025, is geared toward treating unhoused individuals experiencing a behavioral health crisis. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, if someone has an outstanding warrant or other reason for arrest along with drug use, they could still be booked into jail. Some studies have shown that the risk of fatal and non-fatal \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10795482/\">overdose dramatically increases\u003c/a> following a release from jail or prison. That, along with Lurie’s controversial decision to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032239/overdoses-climb-lurie-orders-scaling-back-harm-reduction-programs\">scale back many of the city’s harm reduction\u003c/a> public health programs, has alarmed some addiction experts and advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new funding comes almost a year after Lurie opened a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038376/tenderloin-welcomes-mental-health-clinic-demands-broader-city-action-on-homelessness\">mental health crisis center at 822 Geary St.\u003c/a>, also intended for first responders to drop off people struggling on the street. Individuals can also walk in themselves for a quiet space to relax and get connected with medical professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These programs will provide much-needed mental health services to some of our most vulnerable individuals in the community and support them on their road to recovery,” Crestwood CEO Patty Bloom said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health organization will operate the new 50 locked beds at Health Hyde Hospital for people under mental health conservatorship, and it currently oversees the stabilization center at 822 Geary St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Patrick McDonald on Sixth Street in San Francisco after visiting the outdoor triage center to get a shelter space on Feb. 11, 2025. He has a broken hip. “I’ve been on the streets so long, I just want off,” he said. “I just want to cry.” \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028499/can-sfs-new-triage-centers-help-solve-the-addiction-crisis\">police-friendly triage center on Sixth Street\u003c/a>, however, did not have the same success and has quietly tapered off services such as offering a place to sit and get a hot coffee on the often-hectic South of Market neighborhood stretch, or sign up for social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, overdose rates have fluctuated on a month-to-month basis but \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--preliminary-unintentional-drug-overdose-deaths\">remain high in San Francisco\u003c/a>, with fentanyl still one of the most common substances involved in accidental overdose death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, the mayor touted the progress the city has made on street-level conditions, one of the key issues he campaigned on before entering office. Last month, the city saw a drop in tent encampments and more people participating in Journey Home, a program that covers transportation out of the city for unhoused people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that we have challenges on our streets, but with this momentum, we will continue to push for results for the people of San Francisco,” Lurie said. “We must keep going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The move can pull them away from their support network, making their recovery even more difficult, or it can deter them from treatment entirely. “There are simply not enough beds. We are sending people as far as Santa Barbara for this level of care,” Tsai said on Thursday. “In many cases, folks are left on the street because there is no appropriate level of care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction for the new beds on Treasure Island is slated to begin in winter of 2026 at a 64,000-square-foot, six-story building located at Tradewinds Avenue and Mackey Lane. About 172 existing recovery beds on Treasure Island will also be relocated from the former U.S. Navy housing on the island to the site that is slated to be redeveloped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timelines for the other two projects were not specified, but Tsai said they will begin “as fast as humanely possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials added that the vision for the site at 1660 Mission St. includes a sobering center that also serves as a hub for other public health care services, like pharmacy pick-ups, case worker meetings and other health assessments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be the second sobering center that Lurie’s administration has attempted, after the city recently announced the upcoming opening of the so-called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073638/san-francisco-moves-ahead-with-sobering-center-despite-legal-risk-memo\">RESET Center\u003c/a>, where police are expected to drop off people they arrest for outdoor drug use, rather than taking them to jail for booking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-02-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-02-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new behavioral health center at 822 Geary St., opened by the Department of Public Health, in San Francisco on May 2, 2025, is geared toward treating unhoused individuals experiencing a behavioral health crisis. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, if someone has an outstanding warrant or other reason for arrest along with drug use, they could still be booked into jail. Some studies have shown that the risk of fatal and non-fatal \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10795482/\">overdose dramatically increases\u003c/a> following a release from jail or prison. That, along with Lurie’s controversial decision to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032239/overdoses-climb-lurie-orders-scaling-back-harm-reduction-programs\">scale back many of the city’s harm reduction\u003c/a> public health programs, has alarmed some addiction experts and advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new funding comes almost a year after Lurie opened a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038376/tenderloin-welcomes-mental-health-clinic-demands-broader-city-action-on-homelessness\">mental health crisis center at 822 Geary St.\u003c/a>, also intended for first responders to drop off people struggling on the street. Individuals can also walk in themselves for a quiet space to relax and get connected with medical professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These programs will provide much-needed mental health services to some of our most vulnerable individuals in the community and support them on their road to recovery,” Crestwood CEO Patty Bloom said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health organization will operate the new 50 locked beds at Health Hyde Hospital for people under mental health conservatorship, and it currently oversees the stabilization center at 822 Geary St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Patrick McDonald on Sixth Street in San Francisco after visiting the outdoor triage center to get a shelter space on Feb. 11, 2025. He has a broken hip. “I’ve been on the streets so long, I just want off,” he said. “I just want to cry.” \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028499/can-sfs-new-triage-centers-help-solve-the-addiction-crisis\">police-friendly triage center on Sixth Street\u003c/a>, however, did not have the same success and has quietly tapered off services such as offering a place to sit and get a hot coffee on the often-hectic South of Market neighborhood stretch, or sign up for social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, overdose rates have fluctuated on a month-to-month basis but \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--preliminary-unintentional-drug-overdose-deaths\">remain high in San Francisco\u003c/a>, with fentanyl still one of the most common substances involved in accidental overdose death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, the mayor touted the progress the city has made on street-level conditions, one of the key issues he campaigned on before entering office. Last month, the city saw a drop in tent encampments and more people participating in Journey Home, a program that covers transportation out of the city for unhoused people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that we have challenges on our streets, but with this momentum, we will continue to push for results for the people of San Francisco,” Lurie said. “We must keep going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San José leaders are considering a plan to spread future shelters for people experiencing homelessness across the city, in response to complaints from some residents about the concentration of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072999/tiny-homes-big-ambitions-matt-mahans-run-for-governor-spotlights-his-shelter-strategy\">interim housing\u003c/a> in Downtown and South San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=15287745&GUID=E76CE262-AB90-4E36-B09E-1A3079B0EB10\">proposal\u003c/a>, unanimously approved Wednesday by the city council’s Rules and Open Government Committee, directs San José’s city manager to craft a policy to “decrease clustering” of future Emergency Interim Housing developments, typically communities of tiny homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The call for geographic equity mirrors a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050263/a-new-san-francisco-plan-would-spread-out-homeless-shelters-more-evenly\">similar push\u003c/a> in San Francisco, which enacted a policy last year to limit new shelter construction in certain neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José recently completed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072666/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-wants-to-be-governor-heres-a-look-into-his-signature-homelessness-program\">rapid expansion\u003c/a> of temporary shelter, opening nearly 2,200 shelter spots across nearly two dozen tiny home villages, converted motels and RV parking lots. But even after the ambitious buildout, many neighborhoods — including upscale West San José and Evergreen — have no shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a staff memo, while previous city councils have approved policies referencing “equitable distribution” of shelters, the idea has never been codified into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076281\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/250529-SJArrestShelterVote-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/250529-SJArrestShelterVote-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/250529-SJArrestShelterVote-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/250529-SJArrestShelterVote-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Via del Oro interim housing community in San José on May 29, 2025, developed by DignityMoves in partnership with the city. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Issa Ajlouny, who leads a neighborhood advisory committee for an interim housing site in South San José, said he pushed the council to consider a siting policy after reading a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059460/bay-area-cities-expand-homeless-shelters-winning-over-neighbors-is-the-hard-part\">KQED story\u003c/a> on the topic. Ajlouny and other supporters argue it is unfair that some neighborhoods aren’t part of a solution to a citywide problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just common sense,” Ajlouny said in an interview. “It keeps the integrity of what the city of San José officials have stated they were going to do, and it’s just the fair thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It remains to be seen whether the San José policy will require shelter in new neighborhoods — or simply restrict additional temporary housing near existing sites.[aside postID=news_12075812 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260202-SuperBowlOpeningNight-08-BL_qed.jpg']While the expansion of shelter into new parts of the city could garner neighborhood opposition, homeless advocates fear geographic equity plans implicitly promote the idea that shelters are a “burden” on local communities. Mayors, including Daniel Lurie in San Francisco and Matt Mahan in San José, have warned that such ordinances slow the process of bringing people indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059460/bay-area-cities-expand-homeless-shelters-winning-over-neighbors-is-the-hard-part\">interview\u003c/a> last year, Mahan said a restriction on new shelter in South San José would have prevented the city from opening Via del Oro, a tiny home development on land donated by a private developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you create a straitjacket through policy, you start missing opportunities,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Supervisor Bilal Mahmood first introduced San Francisco’s policy, it mandated a new temporary housing or behavioral health care facility in each supervisorial district by mid-2026. But after opposition from Lurie, the bill was amended to only \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/o0172-25.pdf\">restrict new shelters\u003c/a> in neighborhoods where the number of existing beds exceeds the number of unhoused residents — and even that restriction can be paused by a board vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072538\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_025-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_025-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_025-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_025-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers continue building units at the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. The interim housing site is expected to house up to 200 people. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In San José, the opening of new shelters could be years away. A construction sprint that added 1,000 beds in 2025 finished last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Wednesday’s hearing, Councilmember Domingo Candelas questioned whether a siting policy is worth staff time now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I also want to be realistic given the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075812/mahan-calls-for-belt-tightening-in-san-jose-budget-plan\">$56 million deficit\u003c/a> that we are facing and the reality that the administration on numerous occasions has come back and said we are not in expansion mode at all whatsoever,” Candelas said at Wednesday’s meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Vice Mayor Pam Foley, who co-authored the proposal, argued it’s not too early for the city to think about its next phase of shelter construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsheltered homelessness in San José decreased by 10% between 2023 and 2025, but last year’s point-in-time count found nearly 4,000 people were still without shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072535\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_014-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_014-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_014-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_014-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of a finished tiny home is seen through an open doorway at the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. Each unit includes a bed, storage space and basic furnishings for residents transitioning out of homelessness. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve already said as a council that we’re not moving forward with any more EIH [Emergency Interim Housing] at the time,” Foley said. “The idea is in the future, when we do make that decision, that we look at districts that do not have EIHs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Katcher, a resident who spoke at the meeting on behalf of the civil rights group Standing Up for Racial Justice, said the policy could be especially valuable for people who fall into homelessness in neighborhoods without existing shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that homelessness can befall anyone in any part of our city, and to have safe places for folks to go wherever they are living, near to where they are living, is very important,” Katcher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José recently completed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072666/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-wants-to-be-governor-heres-a-look-into-his-signature-homelessness-program\">rapid expansion\u003c/a> of temporary shelter, opening nearly 2,200 shelter spots across nearly two dozen tiny home villages, converted motels and RV parking lots. But even after the ambitious buildout, many neighborhoods — including upscale West San José and Evergreen — have no shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a staff memo, while previous city councils have approved policies referencing “equitable distribution” of shelters, the idea has never been codified into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076281\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/250529-SJArrestShelterVote-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/250529-SJArrestShelterVote-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/250529-SJArrestShelterVote-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/250529-SJArrestShelterVote-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Via del Oro interim housing community in San José on May 29, 2025, developed by DignityMoves in partnership with the city. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Issa Ajlouny, who leads a neighborhood advisory committee for an interim housing site in South San José, said he pushed the council to consider a siting policy after reading a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059460/bay-area-cities-expand-homeless-shelters-winning-over-neighbors-is-the-hard-part\">KQED story\u003c/a> on the topic. Ajlouny and other supporters argue it is unfair that some neighborhoods aren’t part of a solution to a citywide problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just common sense,” Ajlouny said in an interview. “It keeps the integrity of what the city of San José officials have stated they were going to do, and it’s just the fair thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It remains to be seen whether the San José policy will require shelter in new neighborhoods — or simply restrict additional temporary housing near existing sites.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While the expansion of shelter into new parts of the city could garner neighborhood opposition, homeless advocates fear geographic equity plans implicitly promote the idea that shelters are a “burden” on local communities. Mayors, including Daniel Lurie in San Francisco and Matt Mahan in San José, have warned that such ordinances slow the process of bringing people indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059460/bay-area-cities-expand-homeless-shelters-winning-over-neighbors-is-the-hard-part\">interview\u003c/a> last year, Mahan said a restriction on new shelter in South San José would have prevented the city from opening Via del Oro, a tiny home development on land donated by a private developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you create a straitjacket through policy, you start missing opportunities,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Supervisor Bilal Mahmood first introduced San Francisco’s policy, it mandated a new temporary housing or behavioral health care facility in each supervisorial district by mid-2026. But after opposition from Lurie, the bill was amended to only \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/o0172-25.pdf\">restrict new shelters\u003c/a> in neighborhoods where the number of existing beds exceeds the number of unhoused residents — and even that restriction can be paused by a board vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072538\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_025-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_025-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_025-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_025-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers continue building units at the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. The interim housing site is expected to house up to 200 people. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In San José, the opening of new shelters could be years away. A construction sprint that added 1,000 beds in 2025 finished last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Wednesday’s hearing, Councilmember Domingo Candelas questioned whether a siting policy is worth staff time now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I also want to be realistic given the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075812/mahan-calls-for-belt-tightening-in-san-jose-budget-plan\">$56 million deficit\u003c/a> that we are facing and the reality that the administration on numerous occasions has come back and said we are not in expansion mode at all whatsoever,” Candelas said at Wednesday’s meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Vice Mayor Pam Foley, who co-authored the proposal, argued it’s not too early for the city to think about its next phase of shelter construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsheltered homelessness in San José decreased by 10% between 2023 and 2025, but last year’s point-in-time count found nearly 4,000 people were still without shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072535\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_014-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_014-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_014-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_014-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of a finished tiny home is seen through an open doorway at the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. Each unit includes a bed, storage space and basic furnishings for residents transitioning out of homelessness. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve already said as a council that we’re not moving forward with any more EIH [Emergency Interim Housing] at the time,” Foley said. “The idea is in the future, when we do make that decision, that we look at districts that do not have EIHs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Katcher, a resident who spoke at the meeting on behalf of the civil rights group Standing Up for Racial Justice, said the policy could be especially valuable for people who fall into homelessness in neighborhoods without existing shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that homelessness can befall anyone in any part of our city, and to have safe places for folks to go wherever they are living, near to where they are living, is very important,” Katcher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A Campbell townhome complex that broke ground on Friday tests \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970993/these-new-california-housing-laws-are-going-into-effect-in-2024\">a 2023 state law\u003c/a> designed to fast-track small-scale homeownership opportunities for middle-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The six-unit Mercury Lane Townhomes, located at 300 Redding Road in Campbell, is believed to be the first construction under \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB684\">SB 684\u003c/a>, a state law known as California’s Starter Home Revitalization Act, state Sen. Anna Caballero said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 684 streamlines permitting for qualified projects that have two to ten units, like Mercury Lane, bypassing the public hearings and environmental reviews typically required for a new development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Units are expected to be completed in early 2027 with projected prices starting at around $1.15 million — well below the median home price in Campbell, which exceeds $1.8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s event represents progress, partnership and practical solutions to California’s housing shortage,” said Caballero, who authored the bill, at the Friday groundbreaking ceremony. “Proof that smart policy can translate into real homes for real families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075717\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075717\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Site-Aerial-Photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Site-Aerial-Photo.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Site-Aerial-Photo-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Site-Aerial-Photo-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Site-Aerial-Photo-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lot at 300 Redding Road in Campbell, where the Mercury Lane Townhomes will be built. Construction broke ground on Friday, March 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of AlphaX RE Capital)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nolan Gray, California YIMBY’s senior director of legislation and research, said the bill was designed to mitigate the lengthy approval process that otherwise \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965492/san-francisco-takes-forever-to-approve-new-housing-california-officials-are-forcing-change\">slows down\u003c/a> construction across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985468/map-what-you-need-to-earn-to-afford-a-median-priced-home-in-your-county-in-california\">Homeownership in California\u003c/a> has become increasingly out of reach, as the state holds the second-lowest homeownership rate in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s median home price is roughly eight times higher than the state’s median household income. Homeownership has skewed older, with younger buyers often banking on inherited wealth or property to get a foothold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You essentially need intergenerational wealth to become a homeowner, or you have to sort of morbidly wait for your parents to pass away and inherit their home,” said Gray.[aside postID=news_12075043 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/026_KQED_Vallejo_FactoryOS_08062020_qed.jpg']“This is not how we’re going to build the next generation of middle-class California families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under standard permitting, projects can face months or years of discretionary review, environmental analysis and potential litigation, Gray said. SB 684 created what is known as ministerial review — meaning if a project meets the legal requirements, it must be approved within 60 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s impossible to scale housing production as long as you have these sorts of delays,” Gray said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campbell Mayor Daniel Furtado said projects like Mercury Lane are precisely what the city needs. Campbell, a city of about 47,000 in Santa Clara County, already has roughly equal shares of single-family and multi-family housing. Campbell is the first city in Santa Clara County with a state-certified housing plan and a pro-housing designation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project’s developer, AlphaX RE Capital, is a Silicon Valley firm that has used new state housing laws to build more than 500 units. In this case, the company submitted its application under SB 684 in January 2025 and received approval eight months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruby Huo, a director at the firm, said the streamlined process led to a viable project that would have otherwise been financially unworkable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075718\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Stephanie-Yi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Stephanie-Yi.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Stephanie-Yi-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Stephanie-Yi-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Yi, founder and CEO of AlphaX RE Capital, speaks at the groundbreaking ceremony for Mercury Lane Townhomes in Campbell on Friday, March 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of AlphaX RE Capital)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huo said the streamlined review process helped the developer and builder reduce the holding and financing costs. Each unit will range from roughly 1,400 to nearly 2,000 square feet, with floor plans offering three or four bedrooms and two-car garages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AlphaX said that midway through construction, it plans to open an interest list for buyers, with a focus on younger families and first-time buyers. Huo said the firm is already using the same state law as it works on about 20 similar projects across the Bay Area, including four additional developments in Campbell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California YIMBY’s Muhammad Alameldin noted that while 60-day approval is a meaningful step forward, housing advocates would like to see more aggressive policy changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal here is for homes to be approved within 24 hours, just like it is in many other states,” he said. “This is a good start, but we’re in a housing crisis, and we’re treating it like a crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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In February, his office introduced an online portal that allows people to apply for certain types of permits. The state also passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965492/san-francisco-takes-forever-to-approve-new-housing-california-officials-are-forcing-change\">new laws in 2023\u003c/a> aimed at expediting the application review process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a marked improvement, Mahmood said the process still takes significantly longer than other cities analyzed in the report — including San Diego, where permitting approvals took an average of 134 days, and Austin, Texas, where the same process spanned just 91 days.[aside postID=news_12075043 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/026_KQED_Vallejo_FactoryOS_08062020_qed.jpg']“Yes, we’re getting faster at the ones we’re approving, but there’s still a lot that aren’t even approved,” he said. 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Earlier this year, a group of California lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://committees.assembly.ca.gov/selectcommitteeonhousingconstructioninnovation/hearings/all-hearings\">held a series of hearings\u003c/a> as part of the Select Committee on Housing Construction Innovation to understand what barriers stand in the way of scaling up factory-built construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It comes after lawmakers last year passed a series of bills that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046558/california-lawmakers-approve-major-overhaul-of-landmark-environmental-law\">streamlined environmental reviews\u003c/a> for housing developments and transformed the way \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042670/controversial-housing-near-transit-bill-advances-to-next-stop-in-legislature\">housing is built near transit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A key piece of making housing more affordable is bringing down the cost of construction,” Committee Chair and Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, D-Berkeley, said in a statement to KQED. “Factory-built housing is not a silver bullet, but it can be part of the solution to our housing crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/PathwaystoScaleInnovativeConstruction2026.pdf\">report, published Monday\u003c/a>, from UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation, found factory-built housing, also known as prefab and manufactured housing, could cut costs by up to 20% and slash building timelines in half — a key innovation needed to ramp up construction and meet the state’s goal of building \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/05/14/governor-newsom-unveils-proposal-to-cut-red-tape-and-fast-track-housing-and-development/\">2.5 million homes by 2030\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030_KQED_Vallejo_FactoryOS_08062020_qed-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075106\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030_KQED_Vallejo_FactoryOS_08062020_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030_KQED_Vallejo_FactoryOS_08062020_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030_KQED_Vallejo_FactoryOS_08062020_qed-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030_KQED_Vallejo_FactoryOS_08062020_qed-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Factory OS employee works on the assembly process of modular homes at the Vallejo warehouse on Aug. 6, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, these projects face big hurdles in securing financing and overcoming a patchwork of regulatory approvals that can vary by jurisdiction. 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Jeremy Smith, deputy legislative director for the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California, said during a committee hearing that while the trades \u003ca href=\"https://committees.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/transcipt-select-committee-on-housing-construction-innovation-hearing-2-january-14-2026.pdf\">prefer on-site construction methods\u003c/a>, modular-built housing “provides a solution to building — to actually building — more housing for people of all income levels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to Fullstack Modular, a construction company with a factory in Carson, California, which employs about 200 unionized workers to construct modular homes. 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That is how centuries of housing and communities have been built. And it is how you create the most safe, sustainable and dynamic neighborhoods,” Shoor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The course opened in 1960 and closed in 2004, according to the city. 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He pointed to city studies that show denser mid-rise projects often don’t pencil out for developers under current market conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese said Shoor and a group of like-minded community organizations calling for very dense housing on the land are oversimplifying a complex situation. 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That project doesn’t plan to replace the course, but will require a reconfiguration of three holes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Brentwood in the East Bay, voters overwhelmingly chose in a 2022 ballot measure to restrict potential developments across several golf course properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in San Diego, a developer is working to replace the Riverwalk Golf Club with 4,300 residential units, more than 150,000 square feet of retail space and 1 million square feet of office space, plus nearly 100 acres of green space, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/10/28/riverwalk-developer-secures-380m-resumes-construction-on-mission-valley-project/\">The San Diego Union-Tribune\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José, the Pleasant Hills Golf Course proposal is still undergoing environmental review. 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"title": "Tiny Homes, Big Ambitions: Matt Mahan’s Run for Governor Spotlights His Shelter Strategy",
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"headTitle": "Tiny Homes, Big Ambitions: Matt Mahan’s Run for Governor Spotlights His Shelter Strategy | KQED",
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"content": "\u003cp>Some mayors have airports as legacy projects. Others have downtown arenas. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/matt-mahan\">Matt Mahan\u003c/a> has tiny homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Mahan, the mayor of San José and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071306/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-announces-run-for-california-governor\">Democratic candidate\u003c/a> for California governor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072666/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-wants-to-be-governor-heres-a-look-into-his-signature-homelessness-program\">celebrated the opening\u003c/a> of a tiny home project in North San José. A six-acre patch of dirt next to the Valley Transportation Authority’s Cerone Yard was transformed into a hub of 162 private rooms for people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cerone ribbon-cutting marked the end of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064380/new-san-jose-tiny-homes-for-unhoused-open-next-to-former-encampment\">ambitious expansion\u003c/a> of shelter in the state’s third-largest city — the last project the city had budgeted in a construction sprint. In the last year, 11 temporary housing sites opened their doors and an existing site more than doubled in size, adding a total of 1,319 beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This phase of shelter expansion may be over for now,” Mahan said at the site’s opening. “But our fight to end unsheltered homelessness continues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter building boom is sunsetting just as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071841/can-a-centrist-democrat-win-the-governors-race\">new chapter\u003c/a> in Mahan’s political career begins. At the Cerone opening, the mayor’s usual cadre of city staff were joined by new faces: members of a campaign team guiding Mahan’s run for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that campaign, Mahan will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070167/governors-race-takes-shape-as-bonta-opts-out-mahan-weighs-run\">likely tout his ability\u003c/a> to take on the state’s most vexing problems by pointing to his experience as mayor. The tiny homes, converted motels and RV parking lots that together make up San José’s Emergency Interim Housing system stand as the visual embodiment of Mahan’s tenure — the fruit of multiple \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042688/mahan-unveils-final-san-jose-budget-plan\">budget fights\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949797/in-controversial-plan-san-jose-mayor-seeks-to-use-homelessness-dollars-to-build-more-temporary-shelters-instead-of-permanent-housing\">political clashes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Mahan and his supporters, the interim housing network is pragmatism in practice — an example of the type of “bias for action” prized in Silicon Valley that has delivered quick results on voters’ top issue. For critics, the tiny homes are monuments to political expediency, with a growing price tag that could weigh on the city’s books long after Mahan leaves office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072537\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_024-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_024-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_024-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_024-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan addresses reporters and city leaders at the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“San José set a goal to create a lot more shelter units, and they’ve done it,” said Jennifer Loving, CEO of Destination: Home, a housing nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the city’s new shelter focus has only solved “part of the problem,” Loving said. “Because obviously people can’t live in those places forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interim housing sites have filled up just as quickly as they have opened, offering residents a more comfortable alternative to traditional congregate shelters. And on Mahan’s most prized metric, reducing unsheltered homelessness, the tiny homes appear to be delivering: last year’s point-in-time count found the number of people sleeping outdoors had \u003ca href=\"https://osh.santaclaracounty.gov/data-and-reports/point-time-count\">dropped by 10%\u003c/a> since January 2023, when Mahan took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as this phase of the tiny home buildout winds down, nearly 4,000 people are still without shelter in San José — and the system’s future is uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072536\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_022-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_022-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_022-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_022-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">HomeFirst CEO Rene Ramirez speaks during a news conference at the grand opening of the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mahan and the council have committed to operate the shelter system in perpetuity, with no guarantee of ongoing funding help from the county, state or federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interim housing costs are outstripping the city’s dedicated homeless fund, and by 2029, the shelters could require an infusion of nearly $60 million from the city’s general fund, which pays for basic services like police and fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have leaned out in a big way in — some would say — taking a risk on going it alone and building out a system that is very expensive,” Mahan said. “The fact that we did that, though, and have shown that it’s working, I think has shown that we are committed to ending this crisis and has actually built the social and political capital to get others to the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A funding reversal\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the South Bay ranked last among large California Continuums of Care (HUD-designated regional homeless planning bodies) in shelter capacity, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/taking-stock-of-californias-capacity-to-house-its-homeless-population/\">an analysis\u003c/a> by the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San José, Santa Clara City and County Continuum of Care had 29 shelter beds per 100 people experiencing homelessness — well behind San Diego (61.1 beds per 100 homeless individuals), San Francisco (50.9), Riverside (40) and Los Angeles (34.9).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan won \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932432/cindy-chavez-concedes-race-for-san-jose-mayor-to-matt-mahan\">an upset victory\u003c/a> in the 2022 mayoral election on a vow to reduce unsheltered homelessness. But city funding was largely dedicated to building affordable apartments that offer a permanent path off the streets — though they typically take longer to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072533\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outdoor common areas and walkways are shown at the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. The site will include shared seating, shaded areas and support facilities for future residents. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To engineer San José’s shift toward a shelter-focused strategy, Mahan eyed a pot of money created by voters in a 2020 ballot initiative, Measure E. The tax on high-value real estate sales raises around $50 million to $60 million a year — roughly 75% of which is dedicated to building permanent affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first year as mayor, a council majority \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">rejected Mahan’s proposal\u003c/a> to redirect a larger share of the Measure E revenue toward interim housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">next two years\u003c/a>, Mahan evinced a political savvy in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026437/san-jose-mayor-proposes-permanent-shift-homeless-funding-from-housing-shelter\">spearheading the reversal\u003c/a> in city homeless funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacking the executive power of other big-city mayors, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979482/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-calls-for-urgent-action-on-homelessness-in-city-budget-plan\">trumpeted warnings\u003c/a> that the city could face fines for its lack of shelter; urged his colleagues to continue approving new shelter construction (adding pressure to find revenue to support the costs); and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024327/san-jose-council-taps-engineering-executive-carl-salas-vacant-seat\">built a roster of allies\u003c/a> on the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043418/san-jose-council-approves-mahans-shelter-enforcement-plan\">voted to permanently dedicate\u003c/a> 90% of the homeless fund toward shelter, with the remaining 10% earmarked for homeless prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funding reversal was complete, and construction of tiny home villages continued apace — in Downtown, Berryessa and South San José. Neighborhood opposition, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">once threatened to derail\u003c/a> the program, began to soften.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of Mahan’s tenure, the city was operating seven interim housing facilities. Now there are 23 — a mix of individual room projects such as Cerone, modular studio apartments, converted motel rooms and parking lots for lived-in vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Investments ‘started to bear fruit’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By the beginning of 2025, the South Bay had already caught up to the shelter capacity of other large California jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD has not yet released point-in-time counts of people experiencing homelessness in 2025 or the annual Housing Inventory Count of shelter. But seven of the state’s largest Continuums of Care provided the data they reported to HUD, either publicly or in response to a request from KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In two years, the South Bay’s ratio of beds per 100 people experiencing homelessness had jumped from 29.0 to 40.6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Local Shelter Capacity in California\" aria-label=\"Dot Plot\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-dmxrZ\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/dmxrZ/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"333\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout 2025, San José opened a dozen more interim projects, adding more than 1,000 additional beds that were not reflected in the count, which typically takes place at the beginning of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vacancy rates for the new tiny homes have remained low — in part because San José’s shelter expansion looks very different from the large congregate shelters that offer a cot or bunk-bed in a large room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congregate shelters can leave residents without privacy and dignity — and open to crime and abuse, said Benjamin Henwood, director of the Homelessness Policy Research Institute at USC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People sort of voted with their feet, meaning they opted out of these shelters,” Henwood said. “They preferred living unsheltered without all of those risks that came with a congregate shelter.”[aside postID=news_11988728 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7876_qut-1020x765.jpg']While the designs of San José’s tiny home shelters vary from site to site, nearly all offer a private room with a locked door — and access to case managers who can help coordinate medical needs and search for permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tiny homes have consistently been more than 95% full. The utilization rate across 13 locations tracked on an ongoing basis \u003ca href=\"https://app.powerbigov.us/view?r=eyJrIjoiMjUxM2ZiMjAtNmE5Zi00ZTJlLWI4YjQtYTU3NjdiY2Q5OTBkIiwidCI6IjBmZTMzYmUwLTYxNDItNGY5Ni05YjhkLTc4MTdkNWMyNjEzOSJ9&pageName=fc2a0a27f1654d314199%22\">stands at 96%\u003c/a> over the last seven months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miguel Torres moved into the Rue Ferrari interim housing community in South San José last year. He had been living in his car for a year, by a train station on Monterey Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Work was slow, and it was hard for me to find jobs and all that,” he said. “I didn’t have no resources in the car, and it’s hard to drive here and there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, Torres saw outreach workers knocking on nearby tents. They were offering spots at Rue Ferrari, which expanded this year from 124 to 268 beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He jumped at the opportunity but had concerns about what life would be like in short-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard a lot of stuff [about] shelters because, you know, you live with a lot of people in bunk beds,” Torres said. “But here it’s peaceful, you get your own room, they kind of show you how to be independent more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And for me, because I get a little anxiety, it’s perfect for me,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four months later, Torres has settled into his one-bedroom, one-bathroom unit. His bed is covered with a San Francisco 49ers blanket, and a TV and speakers sit at the foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Earlier today I was shaving, cutting my hair, and I had the music bumping — not too loud, respect the neighbors — but, ah man, you can’t complain, dude,” Torres said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A growing price tag\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thousands of new shelter beds, with high rates of usage, have contributed to a decline in the number of people sleeping outdoors in San José — from 4,411 in January 2023 to 3,959 in January 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A countywide financial assistance program also helped — \u003ca href=\"https://news.nd.edu/news/targeted-prevention-helps-stop-homelessness-before-it-starts/\">Notre Dame researchers\u003c/a> credited it with dramatically reducing the number of people becoming homeless in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The investments that the city has been making have really started to bear fruit,” said Anthony Tordillos, a city council member representing downtown. “By bringing that additional capacity online, the city’s been successful in actually being able to move people from the streets and get them into more secure housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_013-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_013-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_013-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_013-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of newly installed tiny homes line a pedestrian walkway at the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. The city secured $12.7 million in state funding to purchase the homes. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But San José is still thousands of beds short of the 5,477 shelter beds the city estimated last year would be needed to achieve “functional zero” homelessness — meaning anyone who lost their housing would be able to access a bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barring any influx of state or federal funding, the city’s shelter system won’t be greatly expanding anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just maintaining a system the size of San José’s could be difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In permanent supportive housing projects, tenants typically pay a small share of rent or are subsidized by a federal housing voucher. In interim housing, there is typically no rent to offset the mounting operating costs, which include staffing and utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t appear that these are sustainable strategies because…you’re paying the operation cost on an ongoing basis,” said Henwood, the USC professor. “Those are sort of never-ending costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the shift of Measure E funds from affordable housing to shelter will not be enough to completely pay for San José’s interim housing system in the years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A preliminary \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=15167200&GUID=86C22EAB-3F43-40BC-8A68-3C74BE78A74D\">budget forecast\u003c/a>, presented to the council last week, found the interim housing system would need an infusion of $17 million in the upcoming fiscal year from the general fund — increasing to $58 million in 2029-30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Required General Fund Contribution to Interim Housing ($ Millions)\" aria-label=\"Line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-t1P8M\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/t1P8M/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"450\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is already \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071569/matt-mahan-is-running-for-governor-what-does-that-mean-for-san-jose\">facing a budget shortfall\u003c/a> of roughly $55 million to $65 million in the coming year, so maintaining the interim housing system could force difficult spending trade-offs with other city services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city obviously took kind of a big bet making these investments to so dramatically expand our shelter capacity, and knowing that those do come with longer-term operational costs,” Tordillos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Tordillos said, the city will need to pivot into “optimization mode,” by finding ways to drive down the costs of on-site services — and finding financial help from other levels of government.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Not respecting the taxpayers’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Federal funding for the interim housing program has dried up, and support from the state (which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975319/newsom-reneges-on-sending-san-jose-tiny-homes-for-the-unhoused\">chipped in millions\u003c/a> for projects including Cerone) has declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state budget approved last year by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom appropriated no new flexible homeless dollars (known as the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2026/01/homelessness-funding-2026/\">Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention\u003c/a> — HHAP — program) for cities and counties in 2025-26 — a drop from the $1 billion approved in the previous budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make up those costs, Mahan has turned to Santa Clara County, arguing in part that the city’s reduction in unsheltered homelessness is saving the county money by reducing the number of visits unhoused people make to the emergency room and jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072535\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_014-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_014-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_014-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_014-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of a finished tiny home is seen through an open doorway at the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. Each unit includes a bed, storage space and basic furnishings for residents transitioning out of homelessness. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But county leaders have been among the sharpest critics of Mahan’s shelter-focused approach. They already fund more than 2,000 shelter placements of their own and have long prioritized funding permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know that as a policymaker, I’ve ever proposed a program, a service, that I expected another entity to support,” Supervisor Sylvia Arenas said. “Collaboration does actually make sense, but that means that you meet…and you talk about what you’re building together and have the same objective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know that we have the same objective,” Arenas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former San José council member, Arenas said she had longstanding concerns about continuing to expand the interim housing system without a stable funding source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think to build tiny homes, and then you forget, oh, we needed to also put in some money to operate all of these tiny homes, is not respecting the taxpayers,” she said. “And also not being true to what you’re actually providing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Accountability without resources\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042370/in-san-jose-a-controversial-choice-for-unhoused-shelter-or-arrest\">harsh rhetoric between\u003c/a> members of the council and board of supervisors last year — which nearly resulted in a rare joint meeting to hash out their differences in public — the city-county relationship over interim housing appears to be thawing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Mahan endorsed a county-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058418/santa-clara-county-sales-tax-measure-a-pitched-to-offset-deep-medicaid-cuts-measure-a\">ballot measure\u003c/a> to raise the sales tax, and county leaders committed to sending health workers to bring medical services directly to residents at tiny home sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan insists that city general fund spending on temporary housing should be on the table, given the priority residents have placed on reducing street homelessness.[aside postID=news_12071306 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/250312-MATT-MAHAN-ON-PB-MD-02-KQED-1.jpg']“That’s the nightmare scenario, but we have to plan for that,” he said. “So [if] federal, state and county all pull back and choose not to invest in things that are working, we can sustain the system we have, though that is far from ideal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As mayor, Mahan faces the same challenge as many big-city leaders across the state, said Darrell Steinberg, the former mayor of Sacramento and president pro tem of the state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the number one thing for a big-city mayor in California is that, aside from the HHAP funding, you have all the accountability but not the bulk of the resources,” Steinberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Mahan, the mayor, can’t secure money for the tiny homes now, he may be betting that Mahan, the governor, will be the program’s chief benefactor in the future, able to direct state resources toward the system he helped build in San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miguel Torres has dreams of something more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting on a picnic table outside of his unit at Rue Ferrari, Torres said he feels like a weight has been lifted off his shoulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ever since I got a spot, a roof over my head, I ain’t got to worry about being in the street or anything,” he said. “So I’m focusing on a career, on a job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s hoping his tiny home will be a launching pad for the future he is already starting to envision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just a regular little house, you know,” he said. “I got kids, so hopefully I could bring them in with me too — that’s pretty much my goal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter building boom is sunsetting just as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071841/can-a-centrist-democrat-win-the-governors-race\">new chapter\u003c/a> in Mahan’s political career begins. At the Cerone opening, the mayor’s usual cadre of city staff were joined by new faces: members of a campaign team guiding Mahan’s run for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that campaign, Mahan will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070167/governors-race-takes-shape-as-bonta-opts-out-mahan-weighs-run\">likely tout his ability\u003c/a> to take on the state’s most vexing problems by pointing to his experience as mayor. The tiny homes, converted motels and RV parking lots that together make up San José’s Emergency Interim Housing system stand as the visual embodiment of Mahan’s tenure — the fruit of multiple \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042688/mahan-unveils-final-san-jose-budget-plan\">budget fights\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949797/in-controversial-plan-san-jose-mayor-seeks-to-use-homelessness-dollars-to-build-more-temporary-shelters-instead-of-permanent-housing\">political clashes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Mahan and his supporters, the interim housing network is pragmatism in practice — an example of the type of “bias for action” prized in Silicon Valley that has delivered quick results on voters’ top issue. For critics, the tiny homes are monuments to political expediency, with a growing price tag that could weigh on the city’s books long after Mahan leaves office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072537\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_024-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_024-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_024-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_024-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan addresses reporters and city leaders at the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“San José set a goal to create a lot more shelter units, and they’ve done it,” said Jennifer Loving, CEO of Destination: Home, a housing nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the city’s new shelter focus has only solved “part of the problem,” Loving said. “Because obviously people can’t live in those places forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interim housing sites have filled up just as quickly as they have opened, offering residents a more comfortable alternative to traditional congregate shelters. And on Mahan’s most prized metric, reducing unsheltered homelessness, the tiny homes appear to be delivering: last year’s point-in-time count found the number of people sleeping outdoors had \u003ca href=\"https://osh.santaclaracounty.gov/data-and-reports/point-time-count\">dropped by 10%\u003c/a> since January 2023, when Mahan took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as this phase of the tiny home buildout winds down, nearly 4,000 people are still without shelter in San José — and the system’s future is uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072536\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_022-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_022-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_022-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_022-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">HomeFirst CEO Rene Ramirez speaks during a news conference at the grand opening of the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mahan and the council have committed to operate the shelter system in perpetuity, with no guarantee of ongoing funding help from the county, state or federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interim housing costs are outstripping the city’s dedicated homeless fund, and by 2029, the shelters could require an infusion of nearly $60 million from the city’s general fund, which pays for basic services like police and fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have leaned out in a big way in — some would say — taking a risk on going it alone and building out a system that is very expensive,” Mahan said. “The fact that we did that, though, and have shown that it’s working, I think has shown that we are committed to ending this crisis and has actually built the social and political capital to get others to the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A funding reversal\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the South Bay ranked last among large California Continuums of Care (HUD-designated regional homeless planning bodies) in shelter capacity, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/taking-stock-of-californias-capacity-to-house-its-homeless-population/\">an analysis\u003c/a> by the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San José, Santa Clara City and County Continuum of Care had 29 shelter beds per 100 people experiencing homelessness — well behind San Diego (61.1 beds per 100 homeless individuals), San Francisco (50.9), Riverside (40) and Los Angeles (34.9).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan won \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932432/cindy-chavez-concedes-race-for-san-jose-mayor-to-matt-mahan\">an upset victory\u003c/a> in the 2022 mayoral election on a vow to reduce unsheltered homelessness. But city funding was largely dedicated to building affordable apartments that offer a permanent path off the streets — though they typically take longer to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072533\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outdoor common areas and walkways are shown at the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. The site will include shared seating, shaded areas and support facilities for future residents. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To engineer San José’s shift toward a shelter-focused strategy, Mahan eyed a pot of money created by voters in a 2020 ballot initiative, Measure E. The tax on high-value real estate sales raises around $50 million to $60 million a year — roughly 75% of which is dedicated to building permanent affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first year as mayor, a council majority \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">rejected Mahan’s proposal\u003c/a> to redirect a larger share of the Measure E revenue toward interim housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">next two years\u003c/a>, Mahan evinced a political savvy in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026437/san-jose-mayor-proposes-permanent-shift-homeless-funding-from-housing-shelter\">spearheading the reversal\u003c/a> in city homeless funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacking the executive power of other big-city mayors, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979482/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-calls-for-urgent-action-on-homelessness-in-city-budget-plan\">trumpeted warnings\u003c/a> that the city could face fines for its lack of shelter; urged his colleagues to continue approving new shelter construction (adding pressure to find revenue to support the costs); and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024327/san-jose-council-taps-engineering-executive-carl-salas-vacant-seat\">built a roster of allies\u003c/a> on the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043418/san-jose-council-approves-mahans-shelter-enforcement-plan\">voted to permanently dedicate\u003c/a> 90% of the homeless fund toward shelter, with the remaining 10% earmarked for homeless prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funding reversal was complete, and construction of tiny home villages continued apace — in Downtown, Berryessa and South San José. Neighborhood opposition, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">once threatened to derail\u003c/a> the program, began to soften.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of Mahan’s tenure, the city was operating seven interim housing facilities. Now there are 23 — a mix of individual room projects such as Cerone, modular studio apartments, converted motel rooms and parking lots for lived-in vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Investments ‘started to bear fruit’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By the beginning of 2025, the South Bay had already caught up to the shelter capacity of other large California jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD has not yet released point-in-time counts of people experiencing homelessness in 2025 or the annual Housing Inventory Count of shelter. 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His bed is covered with a San Francisco 49ers blanket, and a TV and speakers sit at the foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Earlier today I was shaving, cutting my hair, and I had the music bumping — not too loud, respect the neighbors — but, ah man, you can’t complain, dude,” Torres said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A growing price tag\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thousands of new shelter beds, with high rates of usage, have contributed to a decline in the number of people sleeping outdoors in San José — from 4,411 in January 2023 to 3,959 in January 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A countywide financial assistance program also helped — \u003ca href=\"https://news.nd.edu/news/targeted-prevention-helps-stop-homelessness-before-it-starts/\">Notre Dame researchers\u003c/a> credited it with dramatically reducing the number of people becoming homeless in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The investments that the city has been making have really started to bear fruit,” said Anthony Tordillos, a city council member representing downtown. “By bringing that additional capacity online, the city’s been successful in actually being able to move people from the streets and get them into more secure housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_013-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_013-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_013-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_013-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of newly installed tiny homes line a pedestrian walkway at the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. The city secured $12.7 million in state funding to purchase the homes. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But San José is still thousands of beds short of the 5,477 shelter beds the city estimated last year would be needed to achieve “functional zero” homelessness — meaning anyone who lost their housing would be able to access a bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barring any influx of state or federal funding, the city’s shelter system won’t be greatly expanding anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just maintaining a system the size of San José’s could be difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In permanent supportive housing projects, tenants typically pay a small share of rent or are subsidized by a federal housing voucher. 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Each unit includes a bed, storage space and basic furnishings for residents transitioning out of homelessness. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But county leaders have been among the sharpest critics of Mahan’s shelter-focused approach. They already fund more than 2,000 shelter placements of their own and have long prioritized funding permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know that as a policymaker, I’ve ever proposed a program, a service, that I expected another entity to support,” Supervisor Sylvia Arenas said. “Collaboration does actually make sense, but that means that you meet…and you talk about what you’re building together and have the same objective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know that we have the same objective,” Arenas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former San José council member, Arenas said she had longstanding concerns about continuing to expand the interim housing system without a stable funding source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think to build tiny homes, and then you forget, oh, we needed to also put in some money to operate all of these tiny homes, is not respecting the taxpayers,” she said. “And also not being true to what you’re actually providing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Accountability without resources\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042370/in-san-jose-a-controversial-choice-for-unhoused-shelter-or-arrest\">harsh rhetoric between\u003c/a> members of the council and board of supervisors last year — which nearly resulted in a rare joint meeting to hash out their differences in public — the city-county relationship over interim housing appears to be thawing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Mahan endorsed a county-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058418/santa-clara-county-sales-tax-measure-a-pitched-to-offset-deep-medicaid-cuts-measure-a\">ballot measure\u003c/a> to raise the sales tax, and county leaders committed to sending health workers to bring medical services directly to residents at tiny home sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan insists that city general fund spending on temporary housing should be on the table, given the priority residents have placed on reducing street homelessness.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Roughly a month after neighborhood and small business groups sued San Francisco over a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065204/everything-you-need-to-know-about-san-franciscos-family-zoning-plan\">housing plan\u003c/a> they said went too far, a coalition of housing activists is filing their own suit, arguing the city’s plan doesn’t go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from YIMBY Law, California Housing Defense Fund and Californians for Homeownership said they filed a lawsuit on Thursday afternoon, alleging that Mayor Daniel Lurie’s recently-approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066478/san-francisco-passed-a-new-zoning-plan-how-will-it-change-the-city\">Family Zoning Plan\u003c/a> doesn’t effectively make way for the 36,000 new homes and apartments required under state housing law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference on Thursday morning, YIMBY Law Executive Director Sonja Trauss said the lawsuit was meant to show the city “tough love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here today on the precipice of St. Valentine’s Day out of love: love for the San Franciscans who can’t afford where they live, who are forgoing essential items like health care and saving for the future,” she said. “The Family Zoning Plan is inadequate; it’s not a real upzoning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It comes as the city battles a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069226/neighborhood-small-business-groups-file-lawsuit-over-san-francisco-rezoning-plan\">separate lawsuit filed last month\u003c/a> alleging the upzoning goes too far and could displace low-income renters and small businesses. A spokesperson for the City Attorney’s Office confirmed with KQED that the planning department can continue to implement the plan, even as it’s under litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Zisser, assistant deputy director of housing policy with California’s Housing and Community Development Department (HCD) said the fact that the city’s plan, called a housing element under state law, is the subject of multiple lawsuits does not invalidate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250519-AffordableHousingFile-08-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073372\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250519-AffordableHousingFile-08-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250519-AffordableHousingFile-08-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250519-AffordableHousingFile-08-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250519-AffordableHousingFile-08-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing in San Francisco’s Sunset District on May 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In housing element law, two entities are named as having the authority to decertify a housing element: HCD and a court of law,” he wrote in an email to KQED. “HCD had previously found San Francisco’s housing element complaint with state law and has not rescinded that finding, and a court has not issued an order regarding San Francisco’s housing element.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other cities across the state, San Francisco had to implement new development rules to allow significantly more apartments to be built across the city, particularly in areas that have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065615/san-franciscos-north-and-westside-residents-sound-off-on-housing-plan\">historically protected\u003c/a> from new housing. The city’s plan focused on increasing allowable residential building heights city-wide, particularly in San Francisco’s northern and western neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065708/san-francisco-supervisors-pass-rezoning-plan-making-way-for-taller-denser-housing\">approved the plan\u003c/a> in early December. Its passage came with controversy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months before the plan made its way to the supervisors, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062042/report-projects-weak-housing-production-under-san-francisco-zoning-plan-over-next-20-years\">city’s chief economist\u003c/a> released a report showing it overestimated the number of homes that could be built and did not account for expensive market conditions that have remained high after the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California is an expensive place to live. Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The most recent lawsuit against the rezoning plan makes the same allegations and argues the city added new restrictions, including limits on unit size and parking, that could undermine housing production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the time came to fulfill the promises that San Francisco made in its housing element, the city came up short,” said Nick Eckenwiler, a staff attorney with the California Housing Defense Fund. “And so we’re here to make sure that San Francisco follows through on those and actually gets enough housing built.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Lutvak, a spokesperson for Lurie’s office, said the city is going to meet state requirements for its housing element, while protecting “what’s so special about our neighborhoods and our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the cost of housing continues to rise, the Family Zoning Plan is going to help ensure that the next generation of San Franciscans can afford to raise their kids here,” he wrote in an email to KQED.[aside postID=news_12066478 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250325-APARTMENTSONWESTSIDE-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']But on the other side of the debate, organizers with Neighborhoods United SF and Small Business Forward worry the Family Zoning Plan could be too effective. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/neighborhoods-united-sf-lawsuit.pdf\">lawsuit filed in early January\u003c/a> by the two groups, and others, argues that the upzoning could displace people living in rent-controlled buildings and could harm historic buildings. It also accuses the city of not following the state’s landmark environmental law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph Smooke, an organizer with the city’s Race and Equity in All Planning Coalition, said not everyone in San Francisco wants to live in a high-rise condo tower. 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A spokesperson for the City Attorney’s Office confirmed with KQED that the planning department can continue to implement the plan, even as it’s under litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Zisser, assistant deputy director of housing policy with California’s Housing and Community Development Department (HCD) said the fact that the city’s plan, called a housing element under state law, is the subject of multiple lawsuits does not invalidate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250519-AffordableHousingFile-08-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073372\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250519-AffordableHousingFile-08-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250519-AffordableHousingFile-08-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250519-AffordableHousingFile-08-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250519-AffordableHousingFile-08-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing in San Francisco’s Sunset District on May 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In housing element law, two entities are named as having the authority to decertify a housing element: HCD and a court of law,” he wrote in an email to KQED. “HCD had previously found San Francisco’s housing element complaint with state law and has not rescinded that finding, and a court has not issued an order regarding San Francisco’s housing element.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other cities across the state, San Francisco had to implement new development rules to allow significantly more apartments to be built across the city, particularly in areas that have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065615/san-franciscos-north-and-westside-residents-sound-off-on-housing-plan\">historically protected\u003c/a> from new housing. The city’s plan focused on increasing allowable residential building heights city-wide, particularly in San Francisco’s northern and western neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065708/san-francisco-supervisors-pass-rezoning-plan-making-way-for-taller-denser-housing\">approved the plan\u003c/a> in early December. Its passage came with controversy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months before the plan made its way to the supervisors, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062042/report-projects-weak-housing-production-under-san-francisco-zoning-plan-over-next-20-years\">city’s chief economist\u003c/a> released a report showing it overestimated the number of homes that could be built and did not account for expensive market conditions that have remained high after the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California is an expensive place to live. Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The most recent lawsuit against the rezoning plan makes the same allegations and argues the city added new restrictions, including limits on unit size and parking, that could undermine housing production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the time came to fulfill the promises that San Francisco made in its housing element, the city came up short,” said Nick Eckenwiler, a staff attorney with the California Housing Defense Fund. “And so we’re here to make sure that San Francisco follows through on those and actually gets enough housing built.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Lutvak, a spokesperson for Lurie’s office, said the city is going to meet state requirements for its housing element, while protecting “what’s so special about our neighborhoods and our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the cost of housing continues to rise, the Family Zoning Plan is going to help ensure that the next generation of San Franciscans can afford to raise their kids here,” he wrote in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But on the other side of the debate, organizers with Neighborhoods United SF and Small Business Forward worry the Family Zoning Plan could be too effective. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/neighborhoods-united-sf-lawsuit.pdf\">lawsuit filed in early January\u003c/a> by the two groups, and others, argues that the upzoning could displace people living in rent-controlled buildings and could harm historic buildings. It also accuses the city of not following the state’s landmark environmental law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph Smooke, an organizer with the city’s Race and Equity in All Planning Coalition, said not everyone in San Francisco wants to live in a high-rise condo tower. He also argued that if people are displaced because their neighborhoods become too expensive due to new development, it will be hard for them to find a more affordable rental in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That household that’s looking for a new place to live is going to be confronted with whatever the market rents are at that time,” he said. “What you end up with is displacement, not just from communities, but from the city entirely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A settlement hearing in the Neighborhoods United lawsuit is set for Feb. 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trauss said her lawsuit and the opposing one are manifestations of the local politics surrounding housing affordability, with one side arguing the city isn’t doing enough to make way for more housing, while the other said the city isn’t protecting its existing residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a way, I think it’s good that the government is caught on both sides,” she said. “It demonstrates why state intervention is needed because left just to the local politics, they’re never going to quite get over the hump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Shareyourstory\">\u003c/a>California is expensive. Share your story of how you get by\u003c/h2>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe\n src='https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header?embedded=true'\n title='https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header'\n width='760' height='500'\n frameborder='0'\n marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Since San José Mayor Matt Mahan took office in 2023, the city has dramatically shifted the city’s approach to homelessness from building permanent affordable housing to building more temporary shelters, with the goal of getting people off the street faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071306/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-announces-run-for-california-governor\">as he eyes the governor’s office\u003c/a>, we look into how his signature homelessness program is going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1899974463&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:00] I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:00:05] Thank you all for being here today in North San Jose. San Jose’s District 4…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:11] Last week, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan appeared at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a 200-bed, tiny home community for the city’s unhoused residents. It’s going to be the city 23rd temporary housing site, way up from the seven that were there when Mahan first took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:00:33] When I ran, I promised that we would change our approach to homelessness, that we would get more people indoors faster, that we would stop letting the perfect be the enemy of the good because it was costing us lives, threatening the livelihoods of our small business owners, and worsening quality of life for all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:55] Mahan turned San Jose’s approach to homelessness upside down when he shifted the city’s focus on building permanent affordable housing to quick interim shelter instead. Now, Mahan wants to be California’s governor and he’s pointing to his track record on homelessness as a success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:01:20] I do think if you’re looking at him as a politician based on his time in San Jose, this tiny home program really is a good place to look because this has been really his signature initiative during his time at office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:33] Today, I sit down with KQED politics and government correspondent Guy Marzorati to unpack Mayor Matt Mahan’s signature homelessness program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:50] All right, Guy. So I understand you went to a ribbon cutting ceremony for a tiny home in San Jose yesterday. Can you tell me a little bit about this ceremony you went to?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:01] Yeah, so this was the ribbon cutting for a tiny home community that opened in North San Jose at the Cerone VTA Yard. This is a dirt parcel that’s owned by the Valley Transportation Authority that they’re leasing to San Jose to build a 200-bed tiny home community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:02:23] Even though we’ve all been together at grand openings like this many times before, this site is very special. It’s also the first site I fought hard for after becoming mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:37] This was a notable ribbon cutting because it marked the last tiny home project in the city’s pipeline. This has been a huge initiative under the current mayor, Matt Mahan and the city council, and the opening of this tiny home community at the Cerone VTA yard was a milestone in that effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:02:59] This phase of shelter expansion may be over for now, but our fight to end unsheltered homelessness continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:09] The city has basically reached the end of the line as far as the new tiny homes and shelters that they can fund. Mahan has said they just don’t have enough money to continue building this system out. And he’s described it now as a time to optimize these beds that they do have in order to meet the need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:27] I’m curious what these tiny homes actually looked like. Can you describe them for me?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:32] Yeah, so in the case of this new facility in North San Jose, they’re basically just single rooms with a door that locks on top of what looked like large metal risers. So you can almost think of like really large shipping containers on top of these metal riser with individual rooms and then on site different facilities for laundry, communal kitchen, places for staff to work for supportive services to either connect them with medical services they might need. To try to find them housing placements in the future. There’s often also county health workers that will come visit on site as well. Sometimes they’ll also have help with any like pet needs because people are allowed to bring their pets as well, it’s a lot of those kind of like supportive services that are available on site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:18] What is it actually like for folks living in one of these interim housing sites?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:04:26] You know, I think for the folks that I’ve talked to that are staying in the interim housing communities, I think it’s two things. On one hand, many of the people I talked to and including this man named Miguel Torres who lives at the Rue Ferrari interim housing complex, it’s a lot better than what they had thought of traditionally as shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miguel Torres \u003c/strong>[00:04:47] Here it’s like peaceful, you get your own room. You know, for me, because I get like a little anxiety, it’s perfect for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:04:54] These you know images of congregate shelter where people in large facilities and bunk beds and there’s no privacy and there are often cases of abuse or crime. This is something very different. This offers a level of privacy and as Miguel described it just like a way to kind of breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miguel Torres \u003c/strong>[00:05:14] I don’t have to worry about being in the street or anything. So I’m focusing on a career, on a job, trying to just move forward, you know, be independent and get my own spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:21] He’d only moved in a little while ago, but he already had it decked out with, you know, 49er blankets everywhere and he had his speaker system set up. He was able to make the place his own. At the same time, he said, like, this is not my ultimate dream for myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:39] What’s your dream for your own, like, spot?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miguel Torres \u003c/strong>[00:05:42] Oh man, if I told you…a big house, cars, boat, motorcycle, you don’t know. No – just a regular little house, you know, I got kids so hopefully I can bring them in with me too. That’s pretty much my goal, just to get a stable job, you know, affordable housing and my kids with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:04] What is supposed to happen to folks who stay in these tiny homes? Like how long are they supposed to be living in these?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:06:13] I think initially when this plan was envisioned in San Jose, it would be that maybe a six-month stay or thereabouts before people could move on to permanent housing, whether that’s moving into a supportive housing project, getting a rental voucher, and going and finding their own apartment, whatever the case may be, that in practice has not turned out to be a strict rule, and in many cases people do stay at these interim housing facilities for more than six months. But the goal of the program overall is to get people off of the streets so they’re not sleeping in tents or along river beds and move them towards a more permanent form of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:57] And you mentioned, Guy, that this project was sort of the last phase of this sort of broader effort by Mayor Matt Mahan to address homelessness by really focusing on interim housing. Can you remind us a little bit how different that focus on interim housing is from San approaches to homelessness in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:07:23] Yeah, that’s a great question, because when Mahan took office at the beginning of 2023, San Jose, Santa Clara, the South Bay, writ large, public officials were really focused on ending homelessness largely through spending money to build permanent affordable housing. Every year Mahan has been mayor, he’s put forward these plans where he wants to spend more and more of dedicated city homelessness dollars towards shelter. First time he proposed it was the first year he was mayor, it got rejected. He came back the next year, got more money towards shelter, and then it got to a point where last year, where the city council voted to basically spend all of this dedicated homeless money, 90% of it, towards interim housing and shelter. So. It’s gone from when he took office, 90% of this money was on affordable housing, now 90% on shelter. This is now a really robust system of more than 2,100 beds across the city. It’s been a complete turnaround in the way in which local government, and specifically in San Jose, has tried to reduce homelessness, and it has not been without controversy because we’ve seen, again and again, funding fights over whether to use city dollars towards shelter. Or whether to use it towards more permanent affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:41] And obviously, the goal for someone like Mahan is to very quickly get people off of streets to sort of end that visible form of homelessness. So Guy, it’s been three years since Mahan took office. I mean, how’s it going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:59] Yeah, I mean, I think when you look at the tiny home program mayhem would point to unsheltered homelessness being down 10% in San Jose since he took office and that being the North Star of success for why the shelter build out is working. That being said, it is still early and I think there are some open questions about this initiative going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:26] While visible forms of homelessness have gone down during Mahan’s time as mayor, experts have argued you can’t solve homelessness for good without permanent, affordable housing. It remains to be seen how many people living in these temporary shelters actually move into something more permanent. And that could all depend on whether the city can even continue paying to keep these tiny homes open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:10:04] This interim housing system is still not completely funded in the years to come, the operating costs. There was a budget report that came out from the city last week that found this system is about $17 million short in the coming budget year. It’s gonna need $30 million. The following year, it’s gonna need $58 million by 2029. Now, Mahan argues the city can get the cost down at these sites, they can optimize services. Or money will come from the state government or from the county government but if it doesn’t that money to keep these tiny homes operating will come from the city general fund and that’s what pays for all the rest of the basic services of the city like police, like fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:48] Yeah, that is so interesting. And I wonder what the conversations within local government have been around this. That is such a shift in the region’s approach to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:01] Yeah, it’s certainly not been without controversy. I think at the city level, Mahan and the city council got to a point where they had committed themselves to building out this system. Once that became the case, they were stuck looking for, okay, we need to find a way to pay for it. And this Measure E money, this money that’s raised every year through attacks on real estate transactions, that became pot they were looking for to build out this shelter system. There have been a lot of criticism of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sylvia Arenas \u003c/strong>[00:11:28] I think to build tiny homes and then you forget, oh, we needed to also put in some money to operate is not respecting the taxpayers and also not being true to what you’re actually providing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:42] And I talked to supervisor Sylvia Arenas who said she honestly felt like it was a mistake or perhaps irresponsible to build out a system without a clear way of paying for it in the years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sylvia Arenas \u003c/strong>[00:11:55] Are operating costs of interim housing, like those costs were going to outrun the revenue that we were receiving. So how on earth were we going to continue to provide the service?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:12:09] What Mahan has said is, well, I need to see other parts of government come in and help support these costs. I need the state to help me. I need a county government to come and help me, and county leaders have said, well wait a second, we never agreed with building out this system in the first place. I will say that there has been more collaboration between Santa Clara County and San Jose in recent months on providing services to people living in temporary housing. But there’s still no guarantee that the county is going to help pick up the tab, pick up the operating costs for these tiny homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sylvia Arenas \u003c/strong>[00:12:42] It is not meant for a permanent place for folks to live. And so unless we are going to feed the pipeline and the pipeline at the end of this is more affordable housing, we’re just creating more places for people to live, not interim, but for a longer period of time. So the question is, is this really interim or is this more permanent housing for folks who are unhoused?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:12] Yeah, it sounds like Matt Mahan is sort of celebrating the media and stuff, but it does sound like there might be some sort of long-term impacts that we have yet to see in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:13:27] Yeah, and I think this is, you know, experts that I’ve talked about with this, about building out shelter systems. And I heard this from Benjamin Henwood, who leads the Homelessness Policy Research Institute at USC, is that these shelter systems, once they’re built, can really be costly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Benjamin Henwood \u003c/strong>[00:13:47] I think the question becomes, are we designing a shelter system to sort of permanently manage a homelessness problem?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:13:55] If you think about an affordable housing project, the people who are living there are contributing some portion of the rent, or maybe if they’re unable to, they’re having a federal voucher that’s gonna pay for some portion the rent. So the operators of those apartments are getting some kind of revenue. When you look at a shelter or a tiny home, no one is paying anything who’s staying there. So there’s really no revenue that’s coming in to support this, yet the city has committed itself. To pay these operating costs year after year after year. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:00:05] Thank you all for being here today in North San Jose. San Jose’s District 4…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:11] Last week, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan appeared at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a 200-bed, tiny home community for the city’s unhoused residents. It’s going to be the city 23rd temporary housing site, way up from the seven that were there when Mahan first took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:00:33] When I ran, I promised that we would change our approach to homelessness, that we would get more people indoors faster, that we would stop letting the perfect be the enemy of the good because it was costing us lives, threatening the livelihoods of our small business owners, and worsening quality of life for all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:55] Mahan turned San Jose’s approach to homelessness upside down when he shifted the city’s focus on building permanent affordable housing to quick interim shelter instead. 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Can you tell me a little bit about this ceremony you went to?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:01] Yeah, so this was the ribbon cutting for a tiny home community that opened in North San Jose at the Cerone VTA Yard. This is a dirt parcel that’s owned by the Valley Transportation Authority that they’re leasing to San Jose to build a 200-bed tiny home community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:02:23] Even though we’ve all been together at grand openings like this many times before, this site is very special. It’s also the first site I fought hard for after becoming mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:37] This was a notable ribbon cutting because it marked the last tiny home project in the city’s pipeline. This has been a huge initiative under the current mayor, Matt Mahan and the city council, and the opening of this tiny home community at the Cerone VTA yard was a milestone in that effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:02:59] This phase of shelter expansion may be over for now, but our fight to end unsheltered homelessness continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:09] The city has basically reached the end of the line as far as the new tiny homes and shelters that they can fund. Mahan has said they just don’t have enough money to continue building this system out. And he’s described it now as a time to optimize these beds that they do have in order to meet the need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:27] I’m curious what these tiny homes actually looked like. Can you describe them for me?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:32] Yeah, so in the case of this new facility in North San Jose, they’re basically just single rooms with a door that locks on top of what looked like large metal risers. So you can almost think of like really large shipping containers on top of these metal riser with individual rooms and then on site different facilities for laundry, communal kitchen, places for staff to work for supportive services to either connect them with medical services they might need. To try to find them housing placements in the future. There’s often also county health workers that will come visit on site as well. Sometimes they’ll also have help with any like pet needs because people are allowed to bring their pets as well, it’s a lot of those kind of like supportive services that are available on site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:18] What is it actually like for folks living in one of these interim housing sites?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:04:26] You know, I think for the folks that I’ve talked to that are staying in the interim housing communities, I think it’s two things. On one hand, many of the people I talked to and including this man named Miguel Torres who lives at the Rue Ferrari interim housing complex, it’s a lot better than what they had thought of traditionally as shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miguel Torres \u003c/strong>[00:04:47] Here it’s like peaceful, you get your own room. You know, for me, because I get like a little anxiety, it’s perfect for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:04:54] These you know images of congregate shelter where people in large facilities and bunk beds and there’s no privacy and there are often cases of abuse or crime. This is something very different. This offers a level of privacy and as Miguel described it just like a way to kind of breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miguel Torres \u003c/strong>[00:05:14] I don’t have to worry about being in the street or anything. So I’m focusing on a career, on a job, trying to just move forward, you know, be independent and get my own spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:21] He’d only moved in a little while ago, but he already had it decked out with, you know, 49er blankets everywhere and he had his speaker system set up. He was able to make the place his own. At the same time, he said, like, this is not my ultimate dream for myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:39] What’s your dream for your own, like, spot?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miguel Torres \u003c/strong>[00:05:42] Oh man, if I told you…a big house, cars, boat, motorcycle, you don’t know. No – just a regular little house, you know, I got kids so hopefully I can bring them in with me too. That’s pretty much my goal, just to get a stable job, you know, affordable housing and my kids with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:04] What is supposed to happen to folks who stay in these tiny homes? Like how long are they supposed to be living in these?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:06:13] I think initially when this plan was envisioned in San Jose, it would be that maybe a six-month stay or thereabouts before people could move on to permanent housing, whether that’s moving into a supportive housing project, getting a rental voucher, and going and finding their own apartment, whatever the case may be, that in practice has not turned out to be a strict rule, and in many cases people do stay at these interim housing facilities for more than six months. But the goal of the program overall is to get people off of the streets so they’re not sleeping in tents or along river beds and move them towards a more permanent form of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:57] And you mentioned, Guy, that this project was sort of the last phase of this sort of broader effort by Mayor Matt Mahan to address homelessness by really focusing on interim housing. Can you remind us a little bit how different that focus on interim housing is from San approaches to homelessness in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:07:23] Yeah, that’s a great question, because when Mahan took office at the beginning of 2023, San Jose, Santa Clara, the South Bay, writ large, public officials were really focused on ending homelessness largely through spending money to build permanent affordable housing. Every year Mahan has been mayor, he’s put forward these plans where he wants to spend more and more of dedicated city homelessness dollars towards shelter. First time he proposed it was the first year he was mayor, it got rejected. He came back the next year, got more money towards shelter, and then it got to a point where last year, where the city council voted to basically spend all of this dedicated homeless money, 90% of it, towards interim housing and shelter. So. It’s gone from when he took office, 90% of this money was on affordable housing, now 90% on shelter. This is now a really robust system of more than 2,100 beds across the city. It’s been a complete turnaround in the way in which local government, and specifically in San Jose, has tried to reduce homelessness, and it has not been without controversy because we’ve seen, again and again, funding fights over whether to use city dollars towards shelter. 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That being said, it is still early and I think there are some open questions about this initiative going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:26] While visible forms of homelessness have gone down during Mahan’s time as mayor, experts have argued you can’t solve homelessness for good without permanent, affordable housing. It remains to be seen how many people living in these temporary shelters actually move into something more permanent. And that could all depend on whether the city can even continue paying to keep these tiny homes open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:10:04] This interim housing system is still not completely funded in the years to come, the operating costs. There was a budget report that came out from the city last week that found this system is about $17 million short in the coming budget year. It’s gonna need $30 million. The following year, it’s gonna need $58 million by 2029. Now, Mahan argues the city can get the cost down at these sites, they can optimize services. Or money will come from the state government or from the county government but if it doesn’t that money to keep these tiny homes operating will come from the city general fund and that’s what pays for all the rest of the basic services of the city like police, like fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:48] Yeah, that is so interesting. And I wonder what the conversations within local government have been around this. That is such a shift in the region’s approach to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:01] Yeah, it’s certainly not been without controversy. I think at the city level, Mahan and the city council got to a point where they had committed themselves to building out this system. Once that became the case, they were stuck looking for, okay, we need to find a way to pay for it. And this Measure E money, this money that’s raised every year through attacks on real estate transactions, that became pot they were looking for to build out this shelter system. There have been a lot of criticism of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sylvia Arenas \u003c/strong>[00:11:28] I think to build tiny homes and then you forget, oh, we needed to also put in some money to operate is not respecting the taxpayers and also not being true to what you’re actually providing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:42] And I talked to supervisor Sylvia Arenas who said she honestly felt like it was a mistake or perhaps irresponsible to build out a system without a clear way of paying for it in the years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sylvia Arenas \u003c/strong>[00:11:55] Are operating costs of interim housing, like those costs were going to outrun the revenue that we were receiving. 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And I heard this from Benjamin Henwood, who leads the Homelessness Policy Research Institute at USC, is that these shelter systems, once they’re built, can really be costly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Benjamin Henwood \u003c/strong>[00:13:47] I think the question becomes, are we designing a shelter system to sort of permanently manage a homelessness problem?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:13:55] If you think about an affordable housing project, the people who are living there are contributing some portion of the rent, or maybe if they’re unable to, they’re having a federal voucher that’s gonna pay for some portion the rent. So the operators of those apartments are getting some kind of revenue. When you look at a shelter or a tiny home, no one is paying anything who’s staying there. So there’s really no revenue that’s coming in to support this, yet the city has committed itself. To pay these operating costs year after year after year. 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If you don’t have anywhere else to go, they’ll still tell you, ‘We don’t want you here,’ because it makes the city look bad,” said Jered Thomas, a 33-year-old who is homeless and recently was sleeping near the South of Market and Mission neighborhoods. “But I don’t really feel like they’re solving the problem by moving us around or policing us, making it illegal to be homeless. It just makes the problem even worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 8,300 people are homeless in San Francisco, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--point-time-count-dashboard\">2024 Point-in-Time count\u003c/a>, a biennial snapshot of the city’s unhoused population. Just over half of the people included in the count were unsheltered. While the city has made a number of changes to its policies for addressing homelessness, affordable housing and access to subsidies remain out of reach for many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night, Thomas slept at the Gubbio Project. The nonprofit typically only offers respite and services for people who are unhoused during the day. But the week of the Super Bowl, the city is helping the program operate 24 hours a day to prepare meals for guests and oversee 80 beds (60 beds for people who drop in themselves, and 20 reserved for people dropped off by police or the city’s street response teams).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072187\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jered Thomas sits inside the sanctuary at St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church, home to the Gubbio Project, on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. The program provides guests a place to rest with no sign-in process and no one turned away. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year’s Super Bowl will be played at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, but it is expected to draw thousands of tourists from all over the globe to San Francisco, about 45 miles north. City leaders see the event, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071211/super-bowl-lx-promises-big-bucks-for-the-bay-area-cities-are-trying-to-cash-in\">projected to bring more than $600 million\u003c/a> to the region, as a catapult for the city’s post-pandemic economic rebound. Mayor Daniel Lurie has seized the opportunity to charm visitors and TV viewers, and change the negative narrative many conservative media pundits have spun about San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Next month, we will once again welcome people from across the globe for Super Bowl LX,” Lurie said during his State of the City address in January. “And I have no doubt that our city will once again rise to the occasion as the spotlight of the world shines on San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not unexpected that San Francisco will clear sidewalks of encampments ahead of the major event, which also came to the Bay Area in 2016, when major sweeps took place around the Embarcadero and other areas where Super Bowl festivities were happening. The city took a similar approach with other events, like the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference, when high-security levels prompted the closure of several streets downtown and restricted foot traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the city is shutting down blocks downtown around the Moscone Center, where the NFL is hosting events for football fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California is an expensive place to live. Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Officials at the Department of Emergency Management, which oversees the city’s street crews that respond to homeless encampments, said they are continuing with their regular schedule and are not ramping up enforcement efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco’s work to bring people indoors and improve street conditions is ongoing every day — regardless of whether a major event is happening in the Bay Area,” a spokesperson from DEM said. “Neighborhood Street Teams are extending hours and proactively encouraging people to accept services, as they do every day. The message is simple: help is available, and today is a good day to come inside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities in the Bay Area looking to lure tourists are also continuing to clear encampments ahead of the event and maintaining that they are not ramping up enforcement around any particular event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These efforts are part of San José’s ongoing, year-round strategy to reduce homelessness with compassion, dignity and long-term solutions — not a one-time response tied to any single event,” said Sarah Fields, deputy director of public affairs for San José’s Housing Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072189\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Department of Public Works employees clean up debris after a sweep of an encampment on Merlin Street in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood on Jan. 27, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tent clearings and citations for people sleeping outside have increased across San Francisco in the last year, especially after the 2024 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Grants Pass case that made it easier for cities to force homeless people to move, even if shelter is unavailable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s certainly been an uptick in operations for months now,” said John Do, an ACLU attorney who worked on a lawsuit against San Francisco over how it conducted homeless sweeps. The $2.8 million settlement for the case was officially finalized in September 2025. “The city wants to hide their homelessness crisis by displacing people … But those are temporary measures, which don’t, of course, address the underlying issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s Super Bowl also comes as nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--check-your-position-adult-shelter-waitlist\">400 residents remain on San Francisco’s waitlist\u003c/a> for a bed at one of the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--shelter-and-crisis-interventions\">53 shelter sites\u003c/a>, while others struggle to obtain permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the city opens up additional beds at Gubbio in the Mission District, it’s also winding down more than 100 beds at the Monarch and Adante hotels downtown. At the same time, dozens of displaced residents of a Tenderloin building that burned in December say they are struggling to find shelter even months after the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072185\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests sleep on cots arranged throughout the sanctuary at St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church, where the Gubbio Project is operating an overnight shelter during Super Bowl weekend on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Shelters are full. All of the sudden, the city is providing additional beds when we have been asking for this for months,” said Gardenia Zuniga-Haro, an advocate for the residents who previously lived at the burned building. “It’s convenient for the mayor to make it look like everything is peaches and cream, but that’s not the case. He has done nothing but spend millions on bringing in celebrities and promoting Taco Bell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lydia Bransten, executive director at the Gubbio Project, said the city’s decision to open additional beds at their site during Super Bowl week was a welcome change from past responses to major events, when the city cleared streets of homeless residents but offered them nowhere to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much as the city is being really hard on our folks who are experiencing homelessness, this is a good move to say we understand that people are going to be displaced and we’re going to respond to it by giving people an option of someplace to be,” Bransten said. “We can’t serve everybody, but we’ll maybe serve 80 people a night. That’s a lot of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night, several dozen guests lingered around the quiet courtyard at the Gubbio Project. Gubbio staff, who are working 12-hour shifts this week to take on the new 24-hour model, prepared chicken alfredo pasta with broccoli and buttered biscuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072186\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072186\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_012-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_012-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_012-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_012-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Wagner sits in the courtyard at St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. The program allows unhoused guests to rest inside the church without intake forms or barriers, emphasizing dignity, accessibility and safety. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rows of cot beds lined the inside of the church where the Gubbio Project is based, with soft sounds of snoring from those who had gone to sleep early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quiet shelter offered a place to finally relax for Joshua Wagner, who had been asked to move off the sidewalk on 11th Street in the South of Market neighborhood earlier that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me and several people that I’ve been with were told that we were not allowed to be out when the Super Bowl is happening this week, whatever the hell that means. We’re homeless. How can we not be allowed out?” Wagner said. “I can’t even rest for five minutes without somebody telling me to get up and go. I have health problems causing me great distress every time I have to battle gravity just to move along.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas arrived at the shelter after city outreach workers told him about the beds that would be available that night.[aside postID=news_12068047 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251211_YOUTHHOMELESSNESS_DECEMBER_GH-5-KQED.jpg']“They said that the church is opening the shelter for the week of the Super Bowl, because the city wants the homeless people off the streets for all the fans coming from the East Coast to see the city and celebrate for the Super Bowl,” Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in San Francisco, Thomas said street crews have asked him to move along before. He’s stayed in shelters, but has experienced harassment and had his items stolen in those spaces before, so he sticks by himself on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lately, however, he said there’s been even more shuffling around. “There’s increased police, and an obvious police presence today to say the least,” he said Monday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes to one day do outreach himself for people in his situation. He has an idea of what could get him there: “What would be helpful for me is an opportunity for housing without all the hoops you have to go through for federal assistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though he’s had negative experiences at some shelters, he was feeling good about his stay at Gubbio on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like it so far. The dinner’s good. The beds are, you know, they’re comfortable. They let you bring in your things. They don’t have so many restrictions. And I feel like the staff is more understanding here than at other shelters,” he said. “It’s like a breath of fresh air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Shareyourstory\">\u003c/a>California is expensive. Share your story of how you get by\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 8,300 people are homeless in San Francisco, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--point-time-count-dashboard\">2024 Point-in-Time count\u003c/a>, a biennial snapshot of the city’s unhoused population. Just over half of the people included in the count were unsheltered. While the city has made a number of changes to its policies for addressing homelessness, affordable housing and access to subsidies remain out of reach for many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night, Thomas slept at the Gubbio Project. The nonprofit typically only offers respite and services for people who are unhoused during the day. But the week of the Super Bowl, the city is helping the program operate 24 hours a day to prepare meals for guests and oversee 80 beds (60 beds for people who drop in themselves, and 20 reserved for people dropped off by police or the city’s street response teams).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072187\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jered Thomas sits inside the sanctuary at St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church, home to the Gubbio Project, on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. The program provides guests a place to rest with no sign-in process and no one turned away. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year’s Super Bowl will be played at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, but it is expected to draw thousands of tourists from all over the globe to San Francisco, about 45 miles north. City leaders see the event, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071211/super-bowl-lx-promises-big-bucks-for-the-bay-area-cities-are-trying-to-cash-in\">projected to bring more than $600 million\u003c/a> to the region, as a catapult for the city’s post-pandemic economic rebound. Mayor Daniel Lurie has seized the opportunity to charm visitors and TV viewers, and change the negative narrative many conservative media pundits have spun about San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Next month, we will once again welcome people from across the globe for Super Bowl LX,” Lurie said during his State of the City address in January. “And I have no doubt that our city will once again rise to the occasion as the spotlight of the world shines on San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not unexpected that San Francisco will clear sidewalks of encampments ahead of the major event, which also came to the Bay Area in 2016, when major sweeps took place around the Embarcadero and other areas where Super Bowl festivities were happening. The city took a similar approach with other events, like the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference, when high-security levels prompted the closure of several streets downtown and restricted foot traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the city is shutting down blocks downtown around the Moscone Center, where the NFL is hosting events for football fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California is an expensive place to live. Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Officials at the Department of Emergency Management, which oversees the city’s street crews that respond to homeless encampments, said they are continuing with their regular schedule and are not ramping up enforcement efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco’s work to bring people indoors and improve street conditions is ongoing every day — regardless of whether a major event is happening in the Bay Area,” a spokesperson from DEM said. “Neighborhood Street Teams are extending hours and proactively encouraging people to accept services, as they do every day. The message is simple: help is available, and today is a good day to come inside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities in the Bay Area looking to lure tourists are also continuing to clear encampments ahead of the event and maintaining that they are not ramping up enforcement around any particular event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These efforts are part of San José’s ongoing, year-round strategy to reduce homelessness with compassion, dignity and long-term solutions — not a one-time response tied to any single event,” said Sarah Fields, deputy director of public affairs for San José’s Housing Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072189\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Department of Public Works employees clean up debris after a sweep of an encampment on Merlin Street in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood on Jan. 27, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tent clearings and citations for people sleeping outside have increased across San Francisco in the last year, especially after the 2024 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Grants Pass case that made it easier for cities to force homeless people to move, even if shelter is unavailable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s certainly been an uptick in operations for months now,” said John Do, an ACLU attorney who worked on a lawsuit against San Francisco over how it conducted homeless sweeps. The $2.8 million settlement for the case was officially finalized in September 2025. “The city wants to hide their homelessness crisis by displacing people … But those are temporary measures, which don’t, of course, address the underlying issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s Super Bowl also comes as nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--check-your-position-adult-shelter-waitlist\">400 residents remain on San Francisco’s waitlist\u003c/a> for a bed at one of the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--shelter-and-crisis-interventions\">53 shelter sites\u003c/a>, while others struggle to obtain permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the city opens up additional beds at Gubbio in the Mission District, it’s also winding down more than 100 beds at the Monarch and Adante hotels downtown. At the same time, dozens of displaced residents of a Tenderloin building that burned in December say they are struggling to find shelter even months after the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072185\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests sleep on cots arranged throughout the sanctuary at St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church, where the Gubbio Project is operating an overnight shelter during Super Bowl weekend on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Shelters are full. All of the sudden, the city is providing additional beds when we have been asking for this for months,” said Gardenia Zuniga-Haro, an advocate for the residents who previously lived at the burned building. “It’s convenient for the mayor to make it look like everything is peaches and cream, but that’s not the case. He has done nothing but spend millions on bringing in celebrities and promoting Taco Bell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lydia Bransten, executive director at the Gubbio Project, said the city’s decision to open additional beds at their site during Super Bowl week was a welcome change from past responses to major events, when the city cleared streets of homeless residents but offered them nowhere to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much as the city is being really hard on our folks who are experiencing homelessness, this is a good move to say we understand that people are going to be displaced and we’re going to respond to it by giving people an option of someplace to be,” Bransten said. “We can’t serve everybody, but we’ll maybe serve 80 people a night. That’s a lot of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night, several dozen guests lingered around the quiet courtyard at the Gubbio Project. Gubbio staff, who are working 12-hour shifts this week to take on the new 24-hour model, prepared chicken alfredo pasta with broccoli and buttered biscuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072186\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072186\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_012-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_012-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_012-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_012-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Wagner sits in the courtyard at St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. The program allows unhoused guests to rest inside the church without intake forms or barriers, emphasizing dignity, accessibility and safety. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rows of cot beds lined the inside of the church where the Gubbio Project is based, with soft sounds of snoring from those who had gone to sleep early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quiet shelter offered a place to finally relax for Joshua Wagner, who had been asked to move off the sidewalk on 11th Street in the South of Market neighborhood earlier that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me and several people that I’ve been with were told that we were not allowed to be out when the Super Bowl is happening this week, whatever the hell that means. We’re homeless. How can we not be allowed out?” Wagner said. “I can’t even rest for five minutes without somebody telling me to get up and go. I have health problems causing me great distress every time I have to battle gravity just to move along.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas arrived at the shelter after city outreach workers told him about the beds that would be available that night.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/housing\">Affordable housing\u003c/a> developers in California are met with a lot of demands: pay for sidewalks and extra sewer lines, make sure there’s money for parks and art projects, don’t forget schools and subways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All those demands add up — contributing to about $20,000 per apartment, on average, or $2 million for a 100-unit building, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/assessing-the-cost-of-impact-fees-on-affordable-housing-an-analysis-of-low-income-housing-tax-credit-projects-in-california/\">new report\u003c/a> from UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, released Thursday, looked at some 700 projects across the state built between 2020 and 2023 and found those fees totaled a whopping $1.2 billion — money the report’s author, Ben Metcalf, said could be better spent building more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we could have instead reinvested that $1.2 billion into new affordable housing, that could have been 5,000 families that would be off the streets or stably housed or in a much better condition,” said Metcalf, who is also the managing director for the center. “There’s a trade-off that we’re making.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings come as the state and federal government look for ways to spur housing construction and make it cheaper to build and buy homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/13/nx-s1-5674777/trump-federal-reserve-jerome-powell\">aggressively pushed\u003c/a> the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, which he claimed would \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/politics/trump-housing-costs.html\">make homeownership more affordable\u003c/a>. And during his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069094/in-final-state-of-state-speech-gov-newsom-says-california-offers-model-for-the-nation\">State of the State\u003c/a> address earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he would focus on the cost of construction during his final term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers build at 750 Golden Gate Ave. in San Francisco on June 18, 2025, during a groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of two affordable housing projects. One will deliver 75 units prioritized for SFUSD and City College educators, and the other at 850 Turk will add 92 family apartments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But many of the biggest construction costs, including labor, material and — despite the president’s attempts — interest rates are virtually immovable. Experts say the fees local municipalities charge developers are one lever left to pull.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pulling that lever, however, may be easier said than done. Known as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017695/san-francisco-wants-to-make-it-cheaper-for-developers-to-build-housing-downtown\">impact fees\u003c/a>” or “developer fees,” the money helps fund infrastructure and municipal services cities argue are needed to support the new residents of the development, including schools, parks, streets, sewage, electricity and public art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apart from local bonds and sales tax measures, impact fees are one of the few ways local governments can generate tax revenue.[aside postID=news_12069513 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/IMG_9694.JPG_qed.jpg']That’s largely a result of Prop 13, a landmark 1978 ballot measure that capped property taxes and limited how much they can increase each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many cities have become increasingly hamstrung in raising revenues to pay for services, and they’re not eager to forgo the extra fees they say are necessary to maintain basic public facilities and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t make money on these fees,” said Jason Rhine, senior director of legislative affairs for the League of California Cities. “They literally go directly back to the services and facilities … not to support anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the Terner Center’s report found that impact fees, on average, accounted for around 1% of cities’ total revenue. And many cities aren’t generating fee revenue on affordable housing at all because they’re not building any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report looked specifically at projects built using the Low Income Housing Tax Program (LIHTC), a federal effort to \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RS22389\">encourage affordable housing construction\u003c/a> by awarding developers tax credits to offset construction costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062182\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction is underway on an affordable housing apartment building at 2550 Irving St. in San Francisco’s Sunset District on May 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Out of the 482 cities studied, a little more than half didn’t receive a single LIHTC award between 2020 and 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike market-rate housing, affordable housing developments are exempt from some impact fees. Still, the Terner Center’s report argues, a fee is a fee. And with affordable housing, it has to be covered by taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those fees can vary depending on the type of project and where it’s built. On average, family housing projects were charged around $24,000 in impact fees, while senior housing and housing for people with special needs were charged about $19,100 and $13,800, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smaller, more suburban cities, where the project necessitated new infrastructure, such as roads and utility lines, tended to charge higher impact fees, while cities with larger populations usually charged lower fees.[aside postID=news_12068746 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/250618-NewTeacherHousing-18-BL_qed.jpg']“If the infrastructure doesn’t exist, you have to create that infrastructure,” Rhine said. “And since we’re limited in how we can charge or generate revenue to fund that infrastructure, it really falls on the development community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers said these fees don’t necessarily break a project, but they can shape what it looks like, what amenities are included and how quickly it can be built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Friend is the chief lending officer at Housing Trust Silicon Valley, a financial institution that provides loans for affordable housing projects across the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said higher impact fees can affect the number of family-sized apartments versus studios and one-bedrooms in a development. It can also mean using cheaper building materials and reducing the amount of common space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That can result in projects sometimes looking half-built with “spaces for amenities yet to come,” he said. “Spaces might be left empty, when they are imagined [to be], say, a playground or a landscape design feature or something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007-SACRAMENTOMIDDLEHOUSING_00195_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007-SACRAMENTOMIDDLEHOUSING_00195_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007-SACRAMENTOMIDDLEHOUSING_00195_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007-SACRAMENTOMIDDLEHOUSING_00195_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A site of new middle housing units is under construction at 2824 D St. in Sacramento on October 7, 2025. Developers are reviving “middle housing” such as duplexes and cottage clusters, but say California’s rollout of the new rules has been anything but smooth. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To avoid those compromises, some developers told KQED they try to work with cities to waive the fees or wait to pay them until tenants are ready to move in. The city of Palo Alto waived the impact fees for \u003ca href=\"https://edenhousing.org/properties/mitchell-park-place/\">Mitchell Park Place\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloaltoonline.com/housing/2025/12/19/mitchell-park-place-begins-to-welcome-tenants-into-affordable-housing\">recently completed\u003c/a> affordable apartment building with 50 units, including some set aside for people with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The waiver meant more than $3 million in cost savings for Eden Housing, the developer. “Most of the cities would like to build the housing, so they’d like to find a solution, particularly [for] affordable housing,” said Linda Mandolini, president and CEO of the nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some developers and housing activists argue there are other cities that impose hefty impact fees as a way to shut out development entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://mailchi.mp/housingactioncoalition/news-from-hac-xvlkxure9o-13363216\">Housing Action Coalition\u003c/a> recently announced it had sent a letter to the Manhattan Beach City Council and had complained to the state’s housing agency after the city proposed increasing its impact fees for multifamily housing by almost three times more per square foot than for single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066836\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251211-PEOPLES-PARK-RENDERINGS-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1134\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251211-PEOPLES-PARK-RENDERINGS-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251211-PEOPLES-PARK-RENDERINGS-02-KQED-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251211-PEOPLES-PARK-RENDERINGS-02-KQED-1536x871.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The university will work with Satellite Affordable Housing Associates, a Bay Area nonprofit, to build the permanent supportive housing project on Berkeley’s People’s Park. A rendering of the proposed permanent supportive housing project that will include at least 100 units for people exiting homelessness and for low-income residents. \u003ccite>(LMS Architects/Hood Design Studio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Manhattan Beach can plan for infrastructure needs without adopting policies to deter the multifamily and below-market housing it is required to encourage [under state law],” Jesse Zwick, the coalition’s southern California director, wrote in the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To spur housing construction and make sure cities can reach their state-mandated housing goals, lawmakers have recently passed laws aiming to lessen the burden of impact fees. The new rules require cities to provide an \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1820\">estimate of the fees\u003c/a> early in the development process and allow \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB937\">certain types of projects\u003c/a> to pay them once construction and inspections are complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities are under more scrutiny to approve and build housing as the state’s affordability crisis worsens. Developers argue that if it’s easier for them to build housing, the cities can meet their goals faster. 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It can also mean using cheaper building materials and reducing the amount of common space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That can result in projects sometimes looking half-built with “spaces for amenities yet to come,” he said. “Spaces might be left empty, when they are imagined [to be], say, a playground or a landscape design feature or something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007-SACRAMENTOMIDDLEHOUSING_00195_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007-SACRAMENTOMIDDLEHOUSING_00195_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007-SACRAMENTOMIDDLEHOUSING_00195_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007-SACRAMENTOMIDDLEHOUSING_00195_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A site of new middle housing units is under construction at 2824 D St. in Sacramento on October 7, 2025. Developers are reviving “middle housing” such as duplexes and cottage clusters, but say California’s rollout of the new rules has been anything but smooth. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To avoid those compromises, some developers told KQED they try to work with cities to waive the fees or wait to pay them until tenants are ready to move in. 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The new rules require cities to provide an \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1820\">estimate of the fees\u003c/a> early in the development process and allow \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB937\">certain types of projects\u003c/a> to pay them once construction and inspections are complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities are under more scrutiny to approve and build housing as the state’s affordability crisis worsens. Developers argue that if it’s easier for them to build housing, the cities can meet their goals faster. 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