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We want to hear your story.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>At least 145 of those evictions — the most of any county in the region — took place in Santa Clara County. Tenants’ attorneys say that figure is an undercount, since most tenants leave or get locked out before law enforcement ever gets involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11857361 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff’s deputies clear anti-eviction demonstrators blocking the front doors of Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose on Jan. 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are here to demand from the sheriff no evictions during the pandemic,” said Betty Gabaldon, a tenant organizer. 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He said he had gotten into an argument with his friend, who was letting him stay in an outbuilding on his property, and who now wants him gone. But O’Malley says he has nowhere to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m homeless,” he said. “You’re kicking someone out during coronavirus. That should be a crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3739576\">A November study\u003c/a>, still awaiting peer review, by UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health, linked the lifting of eviction moratoriums in 27 states to 433,000 new COVID-19 cases and 11,000 deaths. 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Deputies then moved the remaining protestors out of the courtyard in front of the courthouse, which resulted in some scrimmages between law enforcement and protestors. Three other people were arrested, the sheriff’s office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of protestors appeared to be there for legitimate concerns, however there was a small group of individuals who were clearly there to incite violence and violate the Court Order,” Sgt. Michael Low, a spokesman for the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1555px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-6.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11857382 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1555\" height=\"1036\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-6.jpg 1555w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-6-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-6-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-6-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1555px) 100vw, 1555px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally in front of Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose on the morning of Jan. 27, 2021, demanding stronger eviction protections in California. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There were at least 527 evictions in the Bay Area from the start of the statewide coronavirus lockdown on March 19 through the end of December, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856817/more-than-500-bay-area-residents-have-been-evicted-during-the-pandemic-despite-protections\">data collected by KQED and CalMatters\u003c/a> from sheriffs’ offices in the Bay Area’s nine counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#share\">Have you experienced eviction — or had landlord problems — during the pandemic? We want to hear your story.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>At least 145 of those evictions — the most of any county in the region — took place in Santa Clara County. Tenants’ attorneys say that figure is an undercount, since most tenants leave or get locked out before law enforcement ever gets involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11857361 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff’s deputies clear anti-eviction demonstrators blocking the front doors of Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose on Jan. 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are here to demand from the sheriff no evictions during the pandemic,” said Betty Gabaldon, a tenant organizer. She called on Superior Court Judge Deborah Ryan to “halt all eviction proceedings during the pandemic, and for Gov. Gavin Newsom to pass a stronger eviction moratorium.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, lawmakers approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835565/newsom-announces-new-statewide-eviction-moratorium-but-major-concessions-may-threaten-tenants\">Assembly Bill 3088\u003c/a>, which prevents tenants impacted by the pandemic from being immediately evicted for non-payment of rent — a protection that expires on Jan. 31. On Monday, Newsom and key legislators \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/01/lawmakers-propose-extending-eviction-moratorium-until-june-30/\">introduced Senate Bill 91\u003c/a>, which extends those protections through the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new bill, like the previous one, requires tenants to continue paying at least 25% of their rent. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Kevin Matthew O’Malley, 58, happened to be at the courthouse on Wednesday to fight his own eviction. He said he had gotten into an argument with his friend, who was letting him stay in an outbuilding on his property, and who now wants him gone. But O’Malley says he has nowhere to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m homeless,” he said. “You’re kicking someone out during coronavirus. That should be a crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3739576\">A November study\u003c/a>, still awaiting peer review, by UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health, linked the lifting of eviction moratoriums in 27 states to 433,000 new COVID-19 cases and 11,000 deaths. The researchers attributed those cases to an increased spread of the virus, the result of people searching for new housing, doubling up with friends or family, or becoming homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Evictions are deadly,” Gabaldon, the tenant organizer, said. “They’re telling us to stay home to fight COVID, but how are we going to do it if they are kicking us out?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1539px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11857389\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1539\" height=\"1026\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg 1539w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1539px) 100vw, 1539px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-eviction demonstrators stand with hands raised in front of Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose on Jan. 27, 2021, demanding stronger protections for renters. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SB 91 outlines a complex scheme for distributing $2.6 billion in federal stimulus funding for rental assistance. Under the proposal, landlords can receive 80% of unpaid back rent for low-income renters — but only if they agree to permanently forgive the remaining 20% and not pursue eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the landlord doesn’t agree, however, the tenant is on the hook for coming up with 75% of the back rent owed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, said he’s concerned about the ability of landlords to opt out of rent relief for their tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The power imbalance between tenants and landlords is real and it’s troubling,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-5-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11857362\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-5-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-5-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-5-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-5-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-5-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-5-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tenants’ rights demonstrator is detained and led away by sheriff’s deputies during an anti-eviction protest in San Jose on Jan. 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#share\">Share your pandemic housing story with KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Jean Kendrick stood in the rain outside the duplex she had shared with her disabled son as movers wheeled boxes filled with their belongings onto a truck headed for storage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like a nightmare,” Kendrick said. “I wouldn’t wish this feeling on anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the second week of December. Kendrick, 70, and her 42-year-old son, Stanley Jackson III, were being evicted from their home in Richmond, even as a deadly surge in coronavirus cases was sweeping through the Bay Area and the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jean Kendrick\"]‘It was like a nightmare. I wouldn’t wish this feeling on anyone.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of a pandemic, on a rainy Sunday morning, we wind up having to move,” Kendrick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are now spending nearly $900 a week for a room at a nearby Extended Stay America hotel, and Kendrick says she has already depleted most of her savings: “And we don’t know where we’re going to go when we run out of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendrick and her son are among at least 527 individuals and families in the Bay Area who were evicted between the start of the statewide coronavirus lockdown, on March 19, and the end of December. That’s according to data from sheriffs’ offices in the Bay Area’s nine counties, collected by KQED and CalMatters through public records requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those 527 evictions, however, represent only a fraction of the total number of people who were forced from their homes during that period. Tenants’ attorneys say many tenants leave or get locked out before sheriffs get involved. But the data does provide insight into who is most vulnerable to evictions and where those evictions are happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11857274\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1.png 1640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1-800x351.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1-1020x448.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1-160x70.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1-1536x674.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data from county sheriffs’ departments. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The most evictions in the Bay Area during that time period — roughly half the total — were in Santa Clara County, with 145, and Contra Costa County, with 135. The largest clusters were in San Jose and Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County, where Kendrick lives, also had one of the highest rates of evictions — 100 per 100,000 renter households — according to an analysis of the data by the Urban Displacement Project at UC Berkeley, in partnership with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a stark contrast to some nearby counties: In San Francisco, sheriff’s deputies carried out only 17 evictions during those nine and a half months. And in Alameda County, only eight were carried out, the lowest in the region. Tenants’ advocates attribute the low numbers to the tenant protections those counties put in place during the pandemic, which are among the strongest in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#share\">Have you experienced eviction — or had landlord problems — during the pandemic? We want to hear your story.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>”The low level of evictions in San Francisco and Oakland, for example, is encouraging that these interventions actually work,” said Tim Thomas, research director for the Urban Displacement Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data also points to ongoing racial disparities in evictions. Thomas and his colleagues estimate that Black renters, like Kendrick, were more than twice as likely to be evicted, as compared to white renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To predict the race of the person evicted, Thomas used an \u003ca href=\"https://evictions.study/washington/data-and-methods.html\">algorithm that combines last names with neighborhood demographics\u003c/a>, and applied it to the 335 eviction records that included names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the findings were in keeping with earlier research in \u003ca href=\"https://evictions.study/washington/index.html\">Seattle\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://evictions.study/maryland/report/baltimore.html\"> Baltimore\u003c/a> that showed higher rates of eviction for Black households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Evictions really are a civil rights issue,” he said. “It seems to fall on the backs of Black households more than any other group.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following map was produced by Alex Ramiller and Tim Thomas of UC Berkeley’s Urban Displacement Project, based on their analysis of eviction data collected by KQED and CalMatters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://urban-displacement.github.io/eviction_maps/bay_area/pandemic_evictions.html\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis also shows that evictions have been happening in neighborhoods that are home to some of California’s most vulnerable renters. Those neighborhoods have higher poverty rates and higher levels of rent burden — meaning renters pay more than a third of their income toward rent — compared to neighborhoods where there were no evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renters, many of whom were already struggling to afford the Bay Area’s high housing costs, have also been particularly \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/covid-19-and-californias-vulnerable-renters/\">hard hit by job losses from the pandemic\u003c/a>, because they tend to work in industries that have been shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Loopholes in the Law\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even as evictions have continued, tenants’ attorneys across the Bay Area say rates have been well below what they normally see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the state has had some form of eviction protection in place since April, and some cities and counties have added stronger rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Judicial Council, which oversees California courts, put a stop to most eviction cases between April and August. The state Legislature then passed Assembly Bill 3088, which prevents people from being evicted for non-payment of rent, at least until the end of January. Lawmakers on Monday introduced new legislation, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB91\">Senate Bill 91\u003c/a>, to extend the moratorium through the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under both pieces of legislation, tenants have to demonstrate that they’ve lost income due to the pandemic and must continue to pay at least 25% of their rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pre-pandemic eviction numbers are not widely available, but in Contra Costa County, for example,\u003ca href=\"http://64.166.146.245/docs/2020/BOS/20200414_1601/41623_Sheriff%27s%20Department%20Eviction%20Report.pdf\"> the Sheriff’s Office reported\u003c/a> enforcing roughly 30 evictions per week in the 18 months prior to the pandemic, as compared to an average of three per week, between March 19 and the end of December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many landlords argue that even in a pandemic, they still need the option to evict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11857369 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-.png 1640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br--800x319.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br--1020x406.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br--160x64.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br--1536x612.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data from county sheriffs’ departments and the U.S. Census Bureau. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jenny Zhao owns three properties in San Jose and says she doesn’t want to evict any of her tenants. But her husband recently lost his job, and she doesn’t know how long she can keep paying the mortgage on one of her properties, where her tenants are already three months behind on rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I don’t pay, I will lose my house,” Zhao said. “Whether I sell or foreclose, that means the tenant will eventually lose their home anyway, and then where do they go?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants’ advocates, however, argue that nobody should be evicted while the state continues to restrict various business operations and activities, because displacement can threaten not only the health of individuals being evicted, but the entire community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research has long shown that evictions lead to higher rates of physical and mental\u003ca href=\"https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mdesmond/files/desmondkimbro.evictions.fallout.sf2015_2.pdf\"> health problems\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"evictions\"]But during a global pandemic, they can also be deadly.\u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3739576\"> A November study\u003c/a> by UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health, that’s still awaiting peer review, linked the lifting of eviction moratoriums in 27 states to 433,000 new COVID-19 cases and 11,000 deaths. The researchers attributed those cases to an increased spread of the virus, as a result of people searching for new housing, doubling up with friends or family, or becoming homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing is one of the most fundamental things to stay healthy and stay alive,” said Kathryn Leifheit, a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA and lead researcher on the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s why advocates in many counties are arguing for even stronger eviction protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The moratoriums were good, but they haven’t gone far enough,” said Nadia Aziz, a housing attorney for the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, a legal services nonprofit. “There are loopholes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landlords in many counties can still evict tenants for a number of reasons, including things like owing back rent from before the pandemic started, submitting late paperwork declaring income loss or for minor breaches of the lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data from sheriffs’ offices showing 527 lockouts in the Bay Area didn’t include reasons for the evictions and may include cases involving a health and safety threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aziz said nuisance claims made up a small portion of all evictions prior to the pandemic, but have become more common, in part because it’s one of the few ways property managers can now remove tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s things that are on the margins or could be something that the tenant has always done, but the landlord never really enforced it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the exception of San Francisco and Alameda counties, eviction moratoriums also don’t cover renters who were issued eviction notices prior to the pandemic and were waiting on a court date or for sheriff’s deputies to lock them out. That includes families like Jean Kendrick and her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11856819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46473_001_KQED_Richmond_Eviction_12222020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11856819\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46473_001_KQED_Richmond_Eviction_12222020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46473_001_KQED_Richmond_Eviction_12222020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46473_001_KQED_Richmond_Eviction_12222020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46473_001_KQED_Richmond_Eviction_12222020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46473_001_KQED_Richmond_Eviction_12222020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46473_001_KQED_Richmond_Eviction_12222020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean Kendrick and her son Stanley at Extended Stay America in Richmond, where they are renting a room following their eviction in December. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She received her first eviction notice in November 2019, after her son got into an argument with the property manager. Their case was delayed during the start of the lockdown, but resumed when courts started reopening. She got her final eviction notice last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two are surviving off of Social Security and disability checks, but fear they could soon end up living on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m worried about that all the time,” said Kendrick, who has diabetes and hypertension — two underlying health conditions that put her at higher risk if she were to contract COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also needs a CPAP machine to help her breathe because of sleep apnea. And her son requires daily access to reliable electricity to charge his wheelchair.\u003cbr>\n“If we live on the street,” she said, “we’re dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Gaps in Protection\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The varying strengths of local eviction moratoriums are one of the main reasons for the wide disparities in evictions across counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really is what your county stepped up and did,” said Anne Tamiko Omura, executive director of the Eviction Defense Center, which offers legal services to tenants in Alameda and parts of Contra Costa counties.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Nadia Aziz, housing attorney\"]‘The moratoriums were good, but they haven’t gone far enough. There are loopholes.’[/pullquote]As compared to the strict moratoriums in Alameda County and San Francisco, rules in counties like Contra Costa are more narrowly focused on protecting renters who have fallen behind on paying rent during the pandemic and can prove a financial loss because of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda and San Francisco also have well-established tenants’ rights organizations that provide free legal support, including a right to counsel in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Contra Costa County supervisors voted to approve spending federal funding on emergency rental assistance, including $600,000 for tenant counseling and legal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still need to do better,” said Diane Burgis, a Contra Costa County supervisor whose district includes Brentwood, Oakley and parts of Antioch, where evictions rates are comparatively high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burgis said it can be difficult to reach people who are vulnerable to eviction, because the East Contra Costa area has fewer nonprofit outreach services than other parts of the Bay Area. Households who are low-income or are non-English speakers can be particularly vulnerable, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s probably some landlords that are taking advantage of certain ways to evict people who don’t have the resources or the understanding, or feel confident that they can get the help or know where to look,” Burgis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Looming Debt\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even as moratoriums have protected many from eviction, there is mounting concern about the debt that has been building up, and the impact on both renters and landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.philadelphiafed.org/community-development/housing-and-neighborhoods/household-rental-debt-during-covid-19\">Multiple\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/103532/averting-an-eviction-crisis.pdf\">studies\u003c/a> estimate that renters in California could owe anywhere from \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312\">$400 million\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://bayareaequityatlas.org/research/analyses/COVID-19-evictions-california\">$3.6 billion\u003c/a> in back rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 91 — the bill to extend California’s eviction moratorium until the end of June — also calls for the distribution of $2.6 billion in federal relief funding for rental assistance. Landlords could receive 80% of the back rent owed by low-income renters, but only if they agree to permanently forgive the remaining amount, and not pursue eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has some tenants’ advocates worried that many people will be left out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that landlords get to choose, and then if they decide not to do it, tenants are basically on the hook,” said Leah Simon-Weisberg, a tenants’ attorney and member of the Berkeley Rent Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rent relief would be a big help for small landlords like Jenny Zhao and her tenants, who have lost work and owe her thousands of dollars in back rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hopes that the process to apply for rent forgiveness is simple enough for landlords and tenants to navigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It needs to be easy,” Zhao said. “Some of my tenants don’t speak good English and probably won’t have the ability to complete it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If lawmakers approve the plan, the governor’s office hopes to begin distributing the aid by March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the debt relief won’t help renters like Jean Kendrick, who have already been evicted. While staying in the hotel with her son, she has been searching for another, more affordable housing option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, she hasn’t had any luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed to this report\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"share\">\u003c/a>Share Your Story\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdEYwbLJZFt6TlGwoOQYPaHZfQhqM_BBj0XlVQuJoa4Po87mg/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of a pandemic, on a rainy Sunday morning, we wind up having to move,” Kendrick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are now spending nearly $900 a week for a room at a nearby Extended Stay America hotel, and Kendrick says she has already depleted most of her savings: “And we don’t know where we’re going to go when we run out of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendrick and her son are among at least 527 individuals and families in the Bay Area who were evicted between the start of the statewide coronavirus lockdown, on March 19, and the end of December. That’s according to data from sheriffs’ offices in the Bay Area’s nine counties, collected by KQED and CalMatters through public records requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those 527 evictions, however, represent only a fraction of the total number of people who were forced from their homes during that period. Tenants’ attorneys say many tenants leave or get locked out before sheriffs get involved. But the data does provide insight into who is most vulnerable to evictions and where those evictions are happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11857274\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1.png 1640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1-800x351.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1-1020x448.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1-160x70.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1-1536x674.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data from county sheriffs’ departments. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The most evictions in the Bay Area during that time period — roughly half the total — were in Santa Clara County, with 145, and Contra Costa County, with 135. The largest clusters were in San Jose and Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County, where Kendrick lives, also had one of the highest rates of evictions — 100 per 100,000 renter households — according to an analysis of the data by the Urban Displacement Project at UC Berkeley, in partnership with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a stark contrast to some nearby counties: In San Francisco, sheriff’s deputies carried out only 17 evictions during those nine and a half months. And in Alameda County, only eight were carried out, the lowest in the region. Tenants’ advocates attribute the low numbers to the tenant protections those counties put in place during the pandemic, which are among the strongest in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#share\">Have you experienced eviction — or had landlord problems — during the pandemic? We want to hear your story.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>”The low level of evictions in San Francisco and Oakland, for example, is encouraging that these interventions actually work,” said Tim Thomas, research director for the Urban Displacement Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data also points to ongoing racial disparities in evictions. Thomas and his colleagues estimate that Black renters, like Kendrick, were more than twice as likely to be evicted, as compared to white renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To predict the race of the person evicted, Thomas used an \u003ca href=\"https://evictions.study/washington/data-and-methods.html\">algorithm that combines last names with neighborhood demographics\u003c/a>, and applied it to the 335 eviction records that included names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the findings were in keeping with earlier research in \u003ca href=\"https://evictions.study/washington/index.html\">Seattle\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://evictions.study/maryland/report/baltimore.html\"> Baltimore\u003c/a> that showed higher rates of eviction for Black households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Evictions really are a civil rights issue,” he said. “It seems to fall on the backs of Black households more than any other group.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following map was produced by Alex Ramiller and Tim Thomas of UC Berkeley’s Urban Displacement Project, based on their analysis of eviction data collected by KQED and CalMatters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://urban-displacement.github.io/eviction_maps/bay_area/pandemic_evictions.html\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis also shows that evictions have been happening in neighborhoods that are home to some of California’s most vulnerable renters. Those neighborhoods have higher poverty rates and higher levels of rent burden — meaning renters pay more than a third of their income toward rent — compared to neighborhoods where there were no evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renters, many of whom were already struggling to afford the Bay Area’s high housing costs, have also been particularly \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/covid-19-and-californias-vulnerable-renters/\">hard hit by job losses from the pandemic\u003c/a>, because they tend to work in industries that have been shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Loopholes in the Law\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even as evictions have continued, tenants’ attorneys across the Bay Area say rates have been well below what they normally see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the state has had some form of eviction protection in place since April, and some cities and counties have added stronger rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Judicial Council, which oversees California courts, put a stop to most eviction cases between April and August. The state Legislature then passed Assembly Bill 3088, which prevents people from being evicted for non-payment of rent, at least until the end of January. Lawmakers on Monday introduced new legislation, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB91\">Senate Bill 91\u003c/a>, to extend the moratorium through the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under both pieces of legislation, tenants have to demonstrate that they’ve lost income due to the pandemic and must continue to pay at least 25% of their rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pre-pandemic eviction numbers are not widely available, but in Contra Costa County, for example,\u003ca href=\"http://64.166.146.245/docs/2020/BOS/20200414_1601/41623_Sheriff%27s%20Department%20Eviction%20Report.pdf\"> the Sheriff’s Office reported\u003c/a> enforcing roughly 30 evictions per week in the 18 months prior to the pandemic, as compared to an average of three per week, between March 19 and the end of December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many landlords argue that even in a pandemic, they still need the option to evict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11857369 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-.png 1640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br--800x319.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br--1020x406.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br--160x64.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br--1536x612.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data from county sheriffs’ departments and the U.S. Census Bureau. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jenny Zhao owns three properties in San Jose and says she doesn’t want to evict any of her tenants. But her husband recently lost his job, and she doesn’t know how long she can keep paying the mortgage on one of her properties, where her tenants are already three months behind on rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I don’t pay, I will lose my house,” Zhao said. “Whether I sell or foreclose, that means the tenant will eventually lose their home anyway, and then where do they go?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants’ advocates, however, argue that nobody should be evicted while the state continues to restrict various business operations and activities, because displacement can threaten not only the health of individuals being evicted, but the entire community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research has long shown that evictions lead to higher rates of physical and mental\u003ca href=\"https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mdesmond/files/desmondkimbro.evictions.fallout.sf2015_2.pdf\"> health problems\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But during a global pandemic, they can also be deadly.\u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3739576\"> A November study\u003c/a> by UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health, that’s still awaiting peer review, linked the lifting of eviction moratoriums in 27 states to 433,000 new COVID-19 cases and 11,000 deaths. The researchers attributed those cases to an increased spread of the virus, as a result of people searching for new housing, doubling up with friends or family, or becoming homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing is one of the most fundamental things to stay healthy and stay alive,” said Kathryn Leifheit, a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA and lead researcher on the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s why advocates in many counties are arguing for even stronger eviction protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The moratoriums were good, but they haven’t gone far enough,” said Nadia Aziz, a housing attorney for the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, a legal services nonprofit. “There are loopholes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landlords in many counties can still evict tenants for a number of reasons, including things like owing back rent from before the pandemic started, submitting late paperwork declaring income loss or for minor breaches of the lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data from sheriffs’ offices showing 527 lockouts in the Bay Area didn’t include reasons for the evictions and may include cases involving a health and safety threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aziz said nuisance claims made up a small portion of all evictions prior to the pandemic, but have become more common, in part because it’s one of the few ways property managers can now remove tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s things that are on the margins or could be something that the tenant has always done, but the landlord never really enforced it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the exception of San Francisco and Alameda counties, eviction moratoriums also don’t cover renters who were issued eviction notices prior to the pandemic and were waiting on a court date or for sheriff’s deputies to lock them out. That includes families like Jean Kendrick and her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11856819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46473_001_KQED_Richmond_Eviction_12222020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11856819\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46473_001_KQED_Richmond_Eviction_12222020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46473_001_KQED_Richmond_Eviction_12222020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46473_001_KQED_Richmond_Eviction_12222020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46473_001_KQED_Richmond_Eviction_12222020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46473_001_KQED_Richmond_Eviction_12222020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46473_001_KQED_Richmond_Eviction_12222020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean Kendrick and her son Stanley at Extended Stay America in Richmond, where they are renting a room following their eviction in December. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She received her first eviction notice in November 2019, after her son got into an argument with the property manager. Their case was delayed during the start of the lockdown, but resumed when courts started reopening. She got her final eviction notice last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two are surviving off of Social Security and disability checks, but fear they could soon end up living on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m worried about that all the time,” said Kendrick, who has diabetes and hypertension — two underlying health conditions that put her at higher risk if she were to contract COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also needs a CPAP machine to help her breathe because of sleep apnea. And her son requires daily access to reliable electricity to charge his wheelchair.\u003cbr>\n“If we live on the street,” she said, “we’re dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Gaps in Protection\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The varying strengths of local eviction moratoriums are one of the main reasons for the wide disparities in evictions across counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really is what your county stepped up and did,” said Anne Tamiko Omura, executive director of the Eviction Defense Center, which offers legal services to tenants in Alameda and parts of Contra Costa counties.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As compared to the strict moratoriums in Alameda County and San Francisco, rules in counties like Contra Costa are more narrowly focused on protecting renters who have fallen behind on paying rent during the pandemic and can prove a financial loss because of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda and San Francisco also have well-established tenants’ rights organizations that provide free legal support, including a right to counsel in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Contra Costa County supervisors voted to approve spending federal funding on emergency rental assistance, including $600,000 for tenant counseling and legal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still need to do better,” said Diane Burgis, a Contra Costa County supervisor whose district includes Brentwood, Oakley and parts of Antioch, where evictions rates are comparatively high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burgis said it can be difficult to reach people who are vulnerable to eviction, because the East Contra Costa area has fewer nonprofit outreach services than other parts of the Bay Area. Households who are low-income or are non-English speakers can be particularly vulnerable, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s probably some landlords that are taking advantage of certain ways to evict people who don’t have the resources or the understanding, or feel confident that they can get the help or know where to look,” Burgis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Looming Debt\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even as moratoriums have protected many from eviction, there is mounting concern about the debt that has been building up, and the impact on both renters and landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.philadelphiafed.org/community-development/housing-and-neighborhoods/household-rental-debt-during-covid-19\">Multiple\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/103532/averting-an-eviction-crisis.pdf\">studies\u003c/a> estimate that renters in California could owe anywhere from \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312\">$400 million\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://bayareaequityatlas.org/research/analyses/COVID-19-evictions-california\">$3.6 billion\u003c/a> in back rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 91 — the bill to extend California’s eviction moratorium until the end of June — also calls for the distribution of $2.6 billion in federal relief funding for rental assistance. Landlords could receive 80% of the back rent owed by low-income renters, but only if they agree to permanently forgive the remaining amount, and not pursue eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has some tenants’ advocates worried that many people will be left out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that landlords get to choose, and then if they decide not to do it, tenants are basically on the hook,” said Leah Simon-Weisberg, a tenants’ attorney and member of the Berkeley Rent Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rent relief would be a big help for small landlords like Jenny Zhao and her tenants, who have lost work and owe her thousands of dollars in back rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hopes that the process to apply for rent forgiveness is simple enough for landlords and tenants to navigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It needs to be easy,” Zhao said. “Some of my tenants don’t speak good English and probably won’t have the ability to complete it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If lawmakers approve the plan, the governor’s office hopes to begin distributing the aid by March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the debt relief won’t help renters like Jean Kendrick, who have already been evicted. While staying in the hotel with her son, she has been searching for another, more affordable housing option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, she hasn’t had any luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed to this report\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"share\">\u003c/a>Share Your Story\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe\n src='https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdEYwbLJZFt6TlGwoOQYPaHZfQhqM_BBj0XlVQuJoa4Po87mg/viewform?embedded=true?embedded=true'\n title='https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdEYwbLJZFt6TlGwoOQYPaHZfQhqM_BBj0XlVQuJoa4Po87mg/viewform?embedded=true'\n width='760' height='500'\n frameborder='0'\n marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When the pandemic hit, Marquisse Moore lost his job, and it didn’t take long before he lost his home, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had been working as a forklift driver at a tortilla factory before being laid off in early April. New jobs were hard to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he realized he wouldn’t be able to continue paying rent on his Mountain View apartment, he told his landlord he would be moving out. For the next six months, he and his 6-year-old daughter bounced between family and friends’ couches. Sometimes he slept in his car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made sure my daughter always had a roof over her head, even if I didn’t,” he said. “It was a very big struggle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a leap of faith, he applied to a two-bedroom apartment in Oakland’s Fruitvale District in December. And to his surprise, the landlord was interested in renting to him even though he wasn’t working yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore had just been offered a job at Alameda Health Systems, working in its COVID-19 ward. But there was still another problem: He couldn’t afford the security deposit and first month’s rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the landlord connected him to a program called \u003ca href=\"https://www.keepoaklandhoused.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keep Oakland Housed\u003c/a>. Since 2018, it has provided more than $11.5 million in direct financial assistance and legal counsel to nearly 5,000 households. Most of the money — 85% — comes from philanthropic donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It actually had me in tears,” Moore said, after finding out the program would foot the bill to help him move in. “It meant everything to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11855386\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marquisse Moore looks out the window at his home in Oakland on Jan. 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea behind the program is simple, said Zoë Polk, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://ebclc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Community Law Center\u003c/a>: “Stop homelessness before it happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program began in 2018 as a three-year pilot program and is a partnership between the city of Oakland and local nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Zoë Polk, executive director of the East Bay Community Law Center\"]‘It may be hard to remember, but our homelessness crisis was huge even before COVID. And, in light of COVID, it became even more imperative that people are able to stay in a place where they have been able to keep their family together.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people need legal support to fight an eviction, Polk said. That’s where the law center comes in. Others, like Moore, need direct rental assistance or housing. And for that, \u003ca href=\"https://housing.bayareacs.org/\">Bay Area Community Services\u003c/a> intervenes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some people need other kinds of help, Polk said, such as connecting to employment or health services. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cceb.org/\">Catholic Charities East Bay\u003c/a> takes care of that piece of the puzzle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to be targeting people so they can stay where they currently are, stay in their homes,” Polk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep Oakland Housed launched in response to a dramatic rise in both rents and homelessness in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average rent for an apartment more than doubled between 2010 and 2019, from $1,396 to $2,905, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-market/market-snapshots/renting-america-housing-changed-past-decade/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to an analysis\u003c/a> by the apartment listing service RENTCafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the number of people experiencing homelessness on any given night increased 85% between 2015 and 2019, growing from 2,191 people to 4,071, according to the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/2019-Oakland-Point-In-Time-Count-2-page-infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">biennial survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may be hard to remember, but our homelessness crisis was huge then even before COVID,” Polk said. “And, in light of COVID, it became even more imperative that people are able to stay in place, where they have a place that they’re comfortable in, a place where they have been able to keep their family together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lower-wage workers and people of color who were already more at risk of eviction and homelessness have only seen those risks grow as a result of the pandemic, said Mary Cunningham, head of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/metropolitan-housing-and-communities-policy-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center\u003c/a> at the Urban Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/research/publication/looming-eviction-cliff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published a study\u003c/a> showing that across the country, 9.5 million renters reported problems paying rent in September, including nearly 17% of Black and 23% of Latino renters, compared to 8% of white renters. Black and Latino renters were also four times more likely to have received an eviction notice from their landlords since the beginning of March last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mary Cunningham, vice president, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute\"]‘We know that Black and Latino households have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 … So we need to make sure that rental assistance is addressing past housing inequities, but is also trying to provide assistance in a targeted way so we can address racial inequities.’[/pullquote]In Oakland, Black residents make up 24% of the population but account for \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/2019-Oakland-Point-In-Time-Count-2-page-infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">70% of people experiencing homelessness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went into the pandemic with a pretty big, longstanding affordable housing crisis,” Cunningham said. “And now the pandemic has added additional stress and added more people to the pool of those who need help and who are at risk of eviction and homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3739576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">real public health concern\u003c/a> that housing instability can lead to higher coronavirus infections and deaths as people who lose their housing double up with friends or family or become homeless, Cunningham said. But even without the pandemic, homelessness is just expensive for taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Alliance to End Homelessness \u003ca href=\"http://naeh.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Cost-Savings-from-PSH.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">estimates\u003c/a> that a person who has experienced homelessness longer than a year costs taxpayers an average of $35,578 per year. Those costs include emergency shelter, visits to the emergency room and interactions with police. Comparatively, a year of housing with supportive services on-site costs an average of $12,800.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preventing someone from losing their housing is even more cost-effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep Oakland Housed provided each household it helped with an average of $2,149 in direct rental assistance in the latter half of 2019. That figure grew to an average of $3,309 between July and September of last year, according to The San Francisco Foundation, which administers the program on behalf of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11855383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Marquisse Moore smiles inside his home\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marquisse Moore at his home in Oakland on Jan. 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Polk says the third year of the pilot program will be pivotal in preventing an onslaught of evictions as moratoriums expire and months of back rent come due. The program still has $8 million available to assist residents this year. And Polk said that money will be crucial since the unemployment rate in California is still high at around 8%, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.ca.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the U.S. Department of Labor\u003c/a> – and many people remain out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very far away from universally people getting a vaccine,” Polk said. “So from our standpoint, Keep Oakland Housed has a lot of work to do in this next year making sure that we are not putting the cart before the horse in terms of trying to evict people while it’s still not safe to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='homelessness']The latest stimulus bill included $25 billion in federal rent relief, $2.6 billion of which was allocated to California. Gov. Gavin Newsom has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/01/06/governor-newsom-announces-golden-state-stimulus-a-budget-proposal-to-help-low-income-californians-through-600-rapid-cash-payments-and-calls-for-extension-of-eviction-moratorium/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expressed urgency\u003c/a> in distributing that money quickly to low-income renters, affordable housing providers and small property owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham said it’s critical that local governments target that money to the lowest-income residents who have also been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that Black and Latino households, because they’re essential workers, have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 both as a public health crisis and as an economic crisis,” she said. “So we need to make sure that rental assistance is addressing past housing inequities, but is also trying to provide assistance in a targeted way so we can address racial inequities moving forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Marquisse Moore, the opportunity to get into stable housing and get back on his feet has been humbling, he said. The past six months of moving between friends’ and family’s houses took a toll on his daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that she has her own place, she’s at peace,” Moore said. “She’s just enjoying being a kid and not having to worry about what’s going on around her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How to Get Help Via Keep Oakland Housed\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Keep Oakland Housed \u003ca href=\"https://www.keepoaklandhoused.org/howtogethelp\">advises Oakland residents\u003c/a> who have a household income at or below 50% of the area median income and are experiencing a housing crisis to contact any of the three collaborative organizations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://housing.bayareacs.org/\">Bay Area Community Services (BACS)\u003c/a>: For emergency financial assistance and supportive services: 510-899-9289\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ebclc.org/\">East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC)\u003c/a>: For legal representation: 510-548-4040 (ask for housing intake)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cceb.org/\">Catholic Charities East Bay (CCEB)\u003c/a>: For emergency financial assistance and supportive services: 510-768-3100\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In Oakland, Black residents make up 24% of the population but account for \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/2019-Oakland-Point-In-Time-Count-2-page-infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">70% of people experiencing homelessness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went into the pandemic with a pretty big, longstanding affordable housing crisis,” Cunningham said. “And now the pandemic has added additional stress and added more people to the pool of those who need help and who are at risk of eviction and homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3739576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">real public health concern\u003c/a> that housing instability can lead to higher coronavirus infections and deaths as people who lose their housing double up with friends or family or become homeless, Cunningham said. But even without the pandemic, homelessness is just expensive for taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Alliance to End Homelessness \u003ca href=\"http://naeh.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Cost-Savings-from-PSH.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">estimates\u003c/a> that a person who has experienced homelessness longer than a year costs taxpayers an average of $35,578 per year. Those costs include emergency shelter, visits to the emergency room and interactions with police. Comparatively, a year of housing with supportive services on-site costs an average of $12,800.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preventing someone from losing their housing is even more cost-effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep Oakland Housed provided each household it helped with an average of $2,149 in direct rental assistance in the latter half of 2019. That figure grew to an average of $3,309 between July and September of last year, according to The San Francisco Foundation, which administers the program on behalf of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11855383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Marquisse Moore smiles inside his home\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marquisse Moore at his home in Oakland on Jan. 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Polk says the third year of the pilot program will be pivotal in preventing an onslaught of evictions as moratoriums expire and months of back rent come due. The program still has $8 million available to assist residents this year. And Polk said that money will be crucial since the unemployment rate in California is still high at around 8%, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.ca.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the U.S. Department of Labor\u003c/a> – and many people remain out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very far away from universally people getting a vaccine,” Polk said. “So from our standpoint, Keep Oakland Housed has a lot of work to do in this next year making sure that we are not putting the cart before the horse in terms of trying to evict people while it’s still not safe to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Local resources available to some Bay Area tenants who need help paying rent:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Santa Clara County: Contact Sacred Heart Community Services at (408) 926-8885 or \u003ca href=\"mailto:housinginfo@sacredheartcs.org\">housinginfo@sacredheartcs.org\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>San Francisco: Contact the \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/update-covid-19-housing-stabilization-program\">Give2SF housing program \u003c/a>and the \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/update-covid-19-housing-stabilization-program\">Eviction Defense Collaborative\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>East Bay: Contact Catholic Charities at 510-768-3100; additional resources online \u003ca href=\"http://ebho.org/resources/covid19-get-support/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Efren Zavala and his wife, Maria Huerta, were high school sweethearts. When they were teens, the two lived in neighboring apartments in San Jose, and would catch glimpses of each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After finally meeting and falling in love, Zavala, now 26, moved into the three-bedroom apartment that Huerta, 24, had shared with her mom. The couple is now raising two young children there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jennifer Loving, CEO of Destination: Home\"]‘We had 32,000 families come to us for help in the first (few months) that we had this relief effort open. It was an avalanche like we have never seen before.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of 2020, they were on the cusp of the American dream: finally saving up enough money to buy a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that was before the pandemic. In March, Zavala’s employer, a catering company, told its workers to stay home. The company continued to pay him, but it was unclear how long that would last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple was forced to consider using their savings — which they had reserved as the down payment for their first home — to keep up with rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One night, in the early weeks of the pandemic, Zavala and Huerta sat alone in their living room and put on “World War Z,” an apropos Brad Pitt action flick about a lethal virus. Zavala paused the movie. They held hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta was nervous about using their savings, but Zavala said he had done the math and thought it was their best choice to stay housed through the end of the year if he was unable to find new work. Otherwise, they would likely have to leave California and move in with his family in Tijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We put the movie back on, and there was a silent moment there. We didn’t know it was going to get more rough, you know, than we expected,” Zavala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zavala’s employer laid him off in June, and their additional savings — the nest egg — ran out by October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the Silicon Valley Strong Fund came in to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fund, a public-private partnership run by the nonprofit groups Destination: Home and Sacred Heart Community Service, has covered rent and other survival funding for some 15,000 other tenants in Santa Clara County since the beginning of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fund paid 100% of every recipients’ back rent owed from March to August, and 60% from September to January. Zavala and Huerta, whose rent is $2,600 a month, received that crucial crutch when they needed it most — from November to January — as well as an additional $2,500 in direct financial assistance to cover food and other bills — enough to keep them housed in their apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855155\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11855155 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CEO Jennifer Loving, Chief Program Officer Chad Bojorquez and Community Engagement Specialist Ingrid Granados, of Destination: Home, at work in their San Jose office on Jan. 11, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fund has raised a staggering $43 million since March. About half of that is from the city of San Jose, Santa Clara County and the federal government’s first relief package. The other half comes from a small army of prominent Silicon Valley firms like Cisco, Google, Facebook and Qatalyst Partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, the fund has given out about $31 million in small grants, according to Destination: Home. But that just scratches the surface of the need in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had 32,000 families come to us for help in the first (few months) that we had this relief effort open. It was an avalanche like we have never seen before,” said Jennifer Loving, Destination: Home’s CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those are just the people who knew about the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, more than 750,000 people in California are “not current” on their rent or mortgage and face eviction or foreclosure “in the next two months,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/hhp/#/?measures=EVR&s_state=00006&mapAreaSelector=st&barChartAreaSelector=st&s_metro=\">according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau data.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help bridge that gap, a growing number of like-minded Bay Area funds have emerged during the pandemic, and most have been similarly inundated with requests. They include San Francisco’s Give2SF, which secured $30 million for small-business support, tenant rental assistance and food security — but has \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/update-covid-19-housing-stabilization-program\">already received more applications\u003c/a> than it has funding for. Other nonprofit groups, like the Eviction Defense Collaborative and Compass Family Services — both in San Francisco — have created their own smaller funds that have also been quickly depleted.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We May Never Be Able to Raise Enough’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Loving said many of the families getting help may not qualify for unemployment or government stimulus aid. These are the Black or brown families working under-the-table jobs, often for cash, or those who are undocumented and wary of government aid for fear of being identified, she said.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"evictions\"]One \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829952/eviction-time-bomb-over-40000-santa-clara-county-renters-could-soon-face-eviction-new-report-warns#:~:text='Eviction%20Time%20Bomb'%3A%20Over,Face%20Eviction%2C%20New%20Report%20Warns&text=More%20than%2040%2C000%20tenants%20in,expire%2C%20a%20new%20report%20warns.\">Santa Clara County \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829952/eviction-time-bomb-over-40000-santa-clara-county-renters-could-soon-face-eviction-new-report-warns#:~:text='Eviction%20Time%20Bomb'%3A%20Over,Face%20Eviction%2C%20New%20Report%20Warns&text=More%20than%2040%2C000%20tenants%20in,expire%2C%20a%20new%20report%20warns.\">report\u003c/a> from July warns that roughly 40,000 county residents could face eviction when protections expire, greatly increasing the homeless population in what it describes as a potential “eviction time bomb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We already knew why people were becoming homeless: not being able to pay the rent,” Loving said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the funding became available, San Jose \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-city-council-eviction-moratorium-extension/\">on March 17\u003c/a> passed city rental protections to keep tenants from being evicted. Mayor Sam Liccardo said the protections and funding work hand in hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jen came to me really before we saw much of this pandemic in the news, and we both agreed something very bad was going to be happening soon and we needed to do something to get in front of it,” Liccardo told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we know is we may never be able to raise enough money to address the need, but at least for, you know, a few hundred or thousand families, we could do something to help them stay afloat,” he said, noting that the city has contributed to the fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fund has gone into two pots: about two-thirds to direct cash assistance for people on the poverty line who have been hardest hit in the pandemic, and the other third to direct rental relief, paid to landlords of struggling tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That direct rent relief started as a response to Assembly Bill 3088, authored by Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, which now requires tenants to pay 25% of back rent through the end of January to be protected from eviction. To ensure that rent got paid, the fund compensated landlords directly and kept the receipts as proof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cash aid component of the fund, by contrast, was more open-ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t say we know that the money that we’re raising is actually going to pay back rent. It could be paying for any of lots of necessities,” Liccardo said, pointing to things like food or medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mobilizing a Nonprofit Army\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In order to reach the people who needed help most, and get money to them as quickly as possible, Destination: Home recruited an army of about 70 nonprofits with ties to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all of them had experience with housing, and that presented another challenge. Some, like Latinas Contra Cancer, which is geared toward medical care access, had to quickly get its small staff of five part timers up to speed on things they knew little about, like housing legalese and the strict regulations for disbursing rental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a steep learning curve,” said Darcie Green, the group’s CEO. “But when you see this need, it’s not even an option. Like, you’re just like, this is where we have to go. This is what our clients need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855149\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11855149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darcie Green, CEO of Latinas Contra Cancer, in San Jose on Jan. 11, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the learning curve was worth it, Loving said. Those groups know the people who are losing their jobs, they know what they need, and they have their trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinas Contra Cancer, which normally runs bilingual Spanish-English awareness campaigns for the Latino community and works to increase access to cancer treatment, usually serves about 1,500 people across Santa Clara County, often in its most impoverished areas. The group served far fewer clients in 2020, Green said, but devoted more hours of work per person. That’s partly because many people have needed more help for longer stretches of time due to difficulties brought on by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how they met Irma Rodriguez Garcia, a restaurant worker taking care of her children along with her brother, who has throat cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez Garcia, who was laid off from her job during the pandemic, is raising three of her four children on her own in Mountain View. She now commutes to San Jose for a new job with fewer hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group helped arrange to pay Rodriguez Garcia’s October and November rent, allowing her to save up for January’s rent, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the pandemic hit, I didn’t know how I was going to pay for rent and how was I going to keep my family together and secure in one place,” she said in Spanish, through a translator. “And with this program, I’m so grateful that at least I’m able to pay my rent, because whatever I was earning without this help was basically just for food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While eviction protections alone would have kept her family housed, she would still owe back rent when those protections expired, putting her family in a precarious financial situation.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nKQED first interviewed Rodriguez Garcia just before Christmas. In January, she tested positive for COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, her brother with cancer no longer has health insurance. And she’s also concerned that her 24-year-old son, who suffers from schizophrenia, will lose access to his medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am very sad and worried that I was positive for COVID-19,” she said. “I ask God to give me a lot of strength that all this happened and soon that we are well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia Rodriguez said she is able to quarantine at home thanks to the rental assistance from the fund, as well as local and state rental protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those protections, though, are set to expire in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Lessons for a Statewide Moratorium\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Chiu recently introduced two bills to renew those statewide protections for millions of tenants like Garcia Rodriguez who have lost full-time work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sliccardo/status/1336776264363864064\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Liccardo and Loving think the state should also consider pairing eviction protections with funding for renters and landlords, a proposition touched on by Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11854455/newsom-adds-billions-for-covid-19-relief-k-12-schools-in-new-budget\">budget proposal\u003c/a> would allow for one-time $600 payments to low-income Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“David Chiu’s bill is very important,” Liccardo said, “and needs to be extended beyond the point this pandemic will take us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the need may surpass the state’s ability to help, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to take a much larger solution, likely at the federal level,” Liccardo said. “And until we get that, we’re going to do everything we can just to help folks hang on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to clarify a statement by Destination: Home CEO Jennifer Loving — that 32,000 recipients reached out in a matter of months, not days. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of 2020, they were on the cusp of the American dream: finally saving up enough money to buy a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that was before the pandemic. In March, Zavala’s employer, a catering company, told its workers to stay home. The company continued to pay him, but it was unclear how long that would last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple was forced to consider using their savings — which they had reserved as the down payment for their first home — to keep up with rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One night, in the early weeks of the pandemic, Zavala and Huerta sat alone in their living room and put on “World War Z,” an apropos Brad Pitt action flick about a lethal virus. Zavala paused the movie. They held hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta was nervous about using their savings, but Zavala said he had done the math and thought it was their best choice to stay housed through the end of the year if he was unable to find new work. Otherwise, they would likely have to leave California and move in with his family in Tijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We put the movie back on, and there was a silent moment there. We didn’t know it was going to get more rough, you know, than we expected,” Zavala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zavala’s employer laid him off in June, and their additional savings — the nest egg — ran out by October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the Silicon Valley Strong Fund came in to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fund, a public-private partnership run by the nonprofit groups Destination: Home and Sacred Heart Community Service, has covered rent and other survival funding for some 15,000 other tenants in Santa Clara County since the beginning of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fund paid 100% of every recipients’ back rent owed from March to August, and 60% from September to January. Zavala and Huerta, whose rent is $2,600 a month, received that crucial crutch when they needed it most — from November to January — as well as an additional $2,500 in direct financial assistance to cover food and other bills — enough to keep them housed in their apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855155\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11855155 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CEO Jennifer Loving, Chief Program Officer Chad Bojorquez and Community Engagement Specialist Ingrid Granados, of Destination: Home, at work in their San Jose office on Jan. 11, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fund has raised a staggering $43 million since March. About half of that is from the city of San Jose, Santa Clara County and the federal government’s first relief package. The other half comes from a small army of prominent Silicon Valley firms like Cisco, Google, Facebook and Qatalyst Partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, the fund has given out about $31 million in small grants, according to Destination: Home. But that just scratches the surface of the need in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had 32,000 families come to us for help in the first (few months) that we had this relief effort open. It was an avalanche like we have never seen before,” said Jennifer Loving, Destination: Home’s CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those are just the people who knew about the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, more than 750,000 people in California are “not current” on their rent or mortgage and face eviction or foreclosure “in the next two months,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/hhp/#/?measures=EVR&s_state=00006&mapAreaSelector=st&barChartAreaSelector=st&s_metro=\">according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau data.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help bridge that gap, a growing number of like-minded Bay Area funds have emerged during the pandemic, and most have been similarly inundated with requests. They include San Francisco’s Give2SF, which secured $30 million for small-business support, tenant rental assistance and food security — but has \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/update-covid-19-housing-stabilization-program\">already received more applications\u003c/a> than it has funding for. Other nonprofit groups, like the Eviction Defense Collaborative and Compass Family Services — both in San Francisco — have created their own smaller funds that have also been quickly depleted.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We May Never Be Able to Raise Enough’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Loving said many of the families getting help may not qualify for unemployment or government stimulus aid. These are the Black or brown families working under-the-table jobs, often for cash, or those who are undocumented and wary of government aid for fear of being identified, she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829952/eviction-time-bomb-over-40000-santa-clara-county-renters-could-soon-face-eviction-new-report-warns#:~:text='Eviction%20Time%20Bomb'%3A%20Over,Face%20Eviction%2C%20New%20Report%20Warns&text=More%20than%2040%2C000%20tenants%20in,expire%2C%20a%20new%20report%20warns.\">Santa Clara County \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829952/eviction-time-bomb-over-40000-santa-clara-county-renters-could-soon-face-eviction-new-report-warns#:~:text='Eviction%20Time%20Bomb'%3A%20Over,Face%20Eviction%2C%20New%20Report%20Warns&text=More%20than%2040%2C000%20tenants%20in,expire%2C%20a%20new%20report%20warns.\">report\u003c/a> from July warns that roughly 40,000 county residents could face eviction when protections expire, greatly increasing the homeless population in what it describes as a potential “eviction time bomb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We already knew why people were becoming homeless: not being able to pay the rent,” Loving said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the funding became available, San Jose \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-city-council-eviction-moratorium-extension/\">on March 17\u003c/a> passed city rental protections to keep tenants from being evicted. Mayor Sam Liccardo said the protections and funding work hand in hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jen came to me really before we saw much of this pandemic in the news, and we both agreed something very bad was going to be happening soon and we needed to do something to get in front of it,” Liccardo told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we know is we may never be able to raise enough money to address the need, but at least for, you know, a few hundred or thousand families, we could do something to help them stay afloat,” he said, noting that the city has contributed to the fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fund has gone into two pots: about two-thirds to direct cash assistance for people on the poverty line who have been hardest hit in the pandemic, and the other third to direct rental relief, paid to landlords of struggling tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That direct rent relief started as a response to Assembly Bill 3088, authored by Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, which now requires tenants to pay 25% of back rent through the end of January to be protected from eviction. To ensure that rent got paid, the fund compensated landlords directly and kept the receipts as proof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cash aid component of the fund, by contrast, was more open-ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t say we know that the money that we’re raising is actually going to pay back rent. It could be paying for any of lots of necessities,” Liccardo said, pointing to things like food or medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mobilizing a Nonprofit Army\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In order to reach the people who needed help most, and get money to them as quickly as possible, Destination: Home recruited an army of about 70 nonprofits with ties to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all of them had experience with housing, and that presented another challenge. Some, like Latinas Contra Cancer, which is geared toward medical care access, had to quickly get its small staff of five part timers up to speed on things they knew little about, like housing legalese and the strict regulations for disbursing rental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a steep learning curve,” said Darcie Green, the group’s CEO. “But when you see this need, it’s not even an option. Like, you’re just like, this is where we have to go. This is what our clients need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855149\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11855149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darcie Green, CEO of Latinas Contra Cancer, in San Jose on Jan. 11, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the learning curve was worth it, Loving said. Those groups know the people who are losing their jobs, they know what they need, and they have their trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinas Contra Cancer, which normally runs bilingual Spanish-English awareness campaigns for the Latino community and works to increase access to cancer treatment, usually serves about 1,500 people across Santa Clara County, often in its most impoverished areas. The group served far fewer clients in 2020, Green said, but devoted more hours of work per person. That’s partly because many people have needed more help for longer stretches of time due to difficulties brought on by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how they met Irma Rodriguez Garcia, a restaurant worker taking care of her children along with her brother, who has throat cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez Garcia, who was laid off from her job during the pandemic, is raising three of her four children on her own in Mountain View. She now commutes to San Jose for a new job with fewer hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group helped arrange to pay Rodriguez Garcia’s October and November rent, allowing her to save up for January’s rent, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the pandemic hit, I didn’t know how I was going to pay for rent and how was I going to keep my family together and secure in one place,” she said in Spanish, through a translator. “And with this program, I’m so grateful that at least I’m able to pay my rent, because whatever I was earning without this help was basically just for food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While eviction protections alone would have kept her family housed, she would still owe back rent when those protections expired, putting her family in a precarious financial situation.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Jan. 26, 2021\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11851195/como-negociar-una-disminucion-de-renta-con-su-arrendatario-durante-la-pandemia\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Don’t have time to read the whole guide? Here’s a quick breakdown. Click on the links below to skip to a specific section:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#research\">Research the rent in your neighborhood to compare prices\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#negotiate\">Make sure to negotiate in writing (i.e., no “handshake” deals)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#consider\">Consider recruiting your fellow tenants to join you in asking for a rent decrease\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#offer\">Offer to pay a lump sum — or leave — if your landlord will forgive a portion of your back rent\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#petition\">If your landlord is breaking the lease, petition your local rent board or take it to court\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Rent was already \u003cem>too damn high\u003c/em>, and then the pandemic hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between layoffs, furloughs and a shrinking economy, scores of tenants in California have come to dread the first day of every month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Fred Sherburn-Zimmer, tenants' rights advocate\"]‘I think it would be foolish for any tenant not to ask for their rent to be lowered right now.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8% of adults in California are considered “housing insecure” right now, according to an ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/hhp/#/?measures=HIR&mapAreaSelector=msa&barChartAreaSelector=msa&s_state=00006&s_metro=41860\">U.S. Census survey\u003c/a>. That’s more than 1.1 million people who are “not current” on rent or mortgage payments. And roughly 126,000 of them live in San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While state and federal rules are temporarily protecting some tenants from being evicted – on Jan. 25, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11856932/california-plans-to-extend-eviction-protections-through-june\">announced an agreement\u003c/a> to extend California’s current eviction protections through the end of June, 2021 – many still face the question of how to pay rent now or in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With them in mind, KQED talked to seasoned\u003ca href=\"https://www.tobenerlaw.com/\"> tenants’ rights attorney Joseph Tobener\u003c/a>, longtime Los Angeles landlord Mike Werner and \u003ca href=\"http://hrcsf.org/\">Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco\u003c/a> Executive Director Fred Sherburn-Zimmer for their advice on how best to negotiate down rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it would be foolish for any tenant not to ask for their rent to be lowered right now,” Sherburn-Zimmer said.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"research\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Research Rent in Your Neighborhood\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When it comes to negotiating your rent, it’s important to do your homework about comparative rents in your area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there has been a lot of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-08/san-francisco-apartment-rents-drop-35-as-tech-embraces-remote-work-during-covid\">noise in the news about tech workers fleeing the Bay Area and causing rents to fall\u003c/a> — sometimes by as much as 35% — that data only tells half the story, Tobener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s the biggest misconception people have right now: that housing is scarce and rent is dropping,” he said. “That’s not universally true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he said, vacancies are often concentrated in “those sky-rise apartments” in places like downtown San Francisco. Plummeting rents in a city’s pricey urban cores can make it look like rent is dropping more than it is in, say, San Francisco’s more moderately priced Sunset District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Tobener recommends carefully surveying the local rental market when preparing to negotiate with your landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can look up local rents by ZIP codes \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca-94118/rentals/1-1_beds/1.0-_baths/?searchQueryState=%7B%22pagination%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22mapBounds%22%3A%7B%22west%22%3A-122.48343922206726%2C%22east%22%3A-122.43794895717468%2C%22south%22%3A37.765702637187104%2C%22north%22%3A37.79575453329095%7D%2C%22regionSelection%22%3A%5B%7B%22regionId%22%3A97572%2C%22regionType%22%3A7%7D%5D%2C%22isMapVisible%22%3Atrue%2C%22filterState%22%3A%7B%22fsba%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22fsbo%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22nc%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22fore%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22cmsn%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22auc%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22pmf%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22pf%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22fr%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Atrue%7D%2C%22ah%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Atrue%7D%2C%22beds%22%3A%7B%22min%22%3A1%2C%22max%22%3A1%7D%2C%22baths%22%3A%7B%22min%22%3A1%7D%7D%2C%22isListVisible%22%3Atrue%2C%22mapZoom%22%3A14%7D\">on Zillow,\u003c/a> among other online services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Werner, the Los Angeles landlord, said to make sure when looking up comparison prices to consider various factors. One of his tenants, for instance, lived in a luxury one-bedroom unit overlooking a beach, but “they compared it to an apartment blocks away that looked down onto an alley. Not all one-bedrooms, even on the same block, are created equal,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most tenants make the mistake of only mentioning their personal hardships, Tobener said. And that is rarely persuasive, at least at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tenant needs to be ready to talk from a landlord’s perspective,” Tobener said, which starts by knowing the cold, hard numbers.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"negotiate\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Negotiate in Writing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the most common mistakes Sherburn-Zimmer sees is for a tenant to accept a landlord’s rent-break offer verbally, only to have the landlord subsequently waffle on the specifics of the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Get everything in writing,” Sherburn-Zimmer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do make a deal verbally, it can help to send a follow-up email saying something like, ” ‘We talked on the phone yesterday. Thanks for agreeing to A, B and C!’ If you don’t do that afterward, it doesn’t matter what you agree to,” Sherburn-Zimmer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other frequent mistakes, too, like signing agreements that are too complicated to understand without a lawyer, feeling pressure to agree to something right away or simply packing up and leaving without exhausting all rental protection options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also good to start the negotiation process early, as it can take months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, Werner, the landlord, recommends keeping the negotiations cordial if possible, remembering that many landlords are facing mounting losses themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"housing\"]Werner, for instance, said as more people are staying at home during the day, his trash and water bills are rising. He’s also down roughly $100,000 in rent because of tenants who haven’t been able to pay since the pandemic started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a tenant really has a need and can say ‘I have a need, because …’ that’s really helpful versus ‘You have to do this for me,’ ” Werner said. “It opens it up to a partnership and trying to approach things, instead of this brinkmanship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though the potential legal challenges of negotiating a rent decrease may seem daunting, you may want to do the initial negotiating yourself before calling in a lawyer, said Tobener (who, yes, \u003cem>is a lawyer\u003c/em>). In fact, bringing in the legal big guns may sour talks with your landlord, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about the relationship. Getting an attorney right away erodes that relationship,” Tobener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once you have your deal all set, that’s when an attorney or tenants’ rights group may come in handy. “Any of the tenants’ groups can look over that final letter you make in your negotiations and make sure all the legal things have T’s crossed and I’s dotted,” Sherburn-Zimmer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find a long list of tenants’ rights organizations \u003ca href=\"https://www.tenantstogether.org/member-organizations-0\">here at Tenants Together\u003c/a>. Another group, \u003ca href=\"https://baylegal.org/what-we-do/stability/\">Bay Area Legal Aid\u003c/a>, has offices across the region.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"consider\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Don’t Go It Alone — Organize\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you live in a multi-unit building, organizing with your neighbors can be an effective path to successfully negotiating a rent decrease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even the wealthiest people in your building who moved in and pay $4,000 a month in rent may have lost work, too. It’s worth putting a note under everyone’s door,” Sherburn-Zimmer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think collective proposals work very well, everyone in the building asking for a 10% or a 20% reduction,” Sherburn-Zimmer said. That can mean organizing a building-wide rent payment postponement, or even a rent strike.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n“It’s like going into your boss’ office and asking for a raise versus forming a union and asking for a raise collectively,” Sherburn-Zimmer said. “You have so much more leverage and somewhat more protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shimmy Li shares a San Francisco apartment with two friends in the South of Market neighborhood. After the pandemic hit, both of his roommates were struggling to pay rent — one was unemployed, the other got hit with a significant pay cut and ended up moving out before the lease was up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After talking with other tenants in the building, Li learned his household wasn’t alone. Three neighbors in another unit had all been laid off because of the pandemic. “It was just a pretty dire situation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Li and his fellow tenants decided to collectively approach their landlord and ask for a rent reduction. They sent an email and explained their financial situation, and the landlord agreed to a 15% reduction for one year. That brought the monthly rent of Li’s three-bedroom apartment down to $3,400 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all felt really energized. All of us learned a lot about being able to ask collectively,” Li said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Werner cautioned that tenants should only consider attempting this a last resort, as it may make a landlord feel under attack and lawyer-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would escalate the crap out of it,” Werner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as Li experienced firsthand, sometimes it works.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"offer\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Promise to Pay, Promise to Leave\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You may not need to go as far as a rent strike, however, if you negotiate the right numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One tactic Sherburn-Zimmer has seen tenants successfully employ is paying lump sums in exchange for forgiving some rent debt. If you can save some money and pay thousands of dollars of owed rent in one fell swoop, Sherburn-Zimmer said, you may be able to convince the landlord to forgive part of your debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how do you save that money? “Sometimes those tenants do some rent withholding, due to COVID, until they settle some of the back debt,” Sherburn-Zimmer suggested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Werner, who owns four properties in West Hollywood, agreed. But he cautioned that proportionality matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a tenant asks to pay $1,000 on $10,000 in back rent and have the rest forgiven, “the answer is ‘no,’ ” Werner said. But if a tenant offers to pay $7,500 on $10,000 owed rent and have the rest forgiven, then, “we’ll move forward. 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Eviction protections have some landlords spooked that they’ll \u003cem>never\u003c/em> be able to collect back rent, even though the law says they’re entitled to do so.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Joseph Tobener, tenants' rights lawyer\"]‘The tenant needs to be ready to talk from a landlord’s perspective.’[/pullquote]I’d think what’s more important, or equally important, to a landlord is getting paid. It’s security,” Werner said.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"petition\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Play Hardball\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Now, should none of the above work, there are a handful of other tactics in the more confrontational realm that tenants can try. But, Tobener warns, doing so can lead to a rapid deterioration of the landlord-tenant relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those methods is threatening to demand a jury trial, should a landlord try to evict. Because the capacity of local courts has been significantly limited due to the pandemic, there is likely to be a “huge” backlog of cases, which can play in a tenant’s favor, Tobener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a tenant keeps demanding a jury trial, the landlord is still not going to see their day in court,” he said. “You can drag it out, drag it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since KQED interviewed Tobener, a recent state budget proposal \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2021-01-20/california-eviction-cases-slated-to-double-covid-19\">included additional funds\u003c/a> to help courts handle a potential wave of eviction cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landlords are well aware tenants can drag out eviction proceedings and other legal issues, Werner said. 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Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11856932/california-plans-to-extend-eviction-protections-through-june\">announced an agreement\u003c/a> to extend California’s current eviction protections through the end of June, 2021 – many still face the question of how to pay rent now or in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With them in mind, KQED talked to seasoned\u003ca href=\"https://www.tobenerlaw.com/\"> tenants’ rights attorney Joseph Tobener\u003c/a>, longtime Los Angeles landlord Mike Werner and \u003ca href=\"http://hrcsf.org/\">Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco\u003c/a> Executive Director Fred Sherburn-Zimmer for their advice on how best to negotiate down rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it would be foolish for any tenant not to ask for their rent to be lowered right now,” Sherburn-Zimmer said.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"research\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Research Rent in Your Neighborhood\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When it comes to negotiating your rent, it’s important to do your homework about comparative rents in your area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there has been a lot of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-08/san-francisco-apartment-rents-drop-35-as-tech-embraces-remote-work-during-covid\">noise in the news about tech workers fleeing the Bay Area and causing rents to fall\u003c/a> — sometimes by as much as 35% — that data only tells half the story, Tobener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s the biggest misconception people have right now: that housing is scarce and rent is dropping,” he said. “That’s not universally true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he said, vacancies are often concentrated in “those sky-rise apartments” in places like downtown San Francisco. Plummeting rents in a city’s pricey urban cores can make it look like rent is dropping more than it is in, say, San Francisco’s more moderately priced Sunset District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Tobener recommends carefully surveying the local rental market when preparing to negotiate with your landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can look up local rents by ZIP codes \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca-94118/rentals/1-1_beds/1.0-_baths/?searchQueryState=%7B%22pagination%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22mapBounds%22%3A%7B%22west%22%3A-122.48343922206726%2C%22east%22%3A-122.43794895717468%2C%22south%22%3A37.765702637187104%2C%22north%22%3A37.79575453329095%7D%2C%22regionSelection%22%3A%5B%7B%22regionId%22%3A97572%2C%22regionType%22%3A7%7D%5D%2C%22isMapVisible%22%3Atrue%2C%22filterState%22%3A%7B%22fsba%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22fsbo%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22nc%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22fore%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22cmsn%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22auc%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22pmf%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22pf%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22fr%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Atrue%7D%2C%22ah%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Atrue%7D%2C%22beds%22%3A%7B%22min%22%3A1%2C%22max%22%3A1%7D%2C%22baths%22%3A%7B%22min%22%3A1%7D%7D%2C%22isListVisible%22%3Atrue%2C%22mapZoom%22%3A14%7D\">on Zillow,\u003c/a> among other online services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Werner, the Los Angeles landlord, said to make sure when looking up comparison prices to consider various factors. One of his tenants, for instance, lived in a luxury one-bedroom unit overlooking a beach, but “they compared it to an apartment blocks away that looked down onto an alley. Not all one-bedrooms, even on the same block, are created equal,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most tenants make the mistake of only mentioning their personal hardships, Tobener said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Werner, for instance, said as more people are staying at home during the day, his trash and water bills are rising. He’s also down roughly $100,000 in rent because of tenants who haven’t been able to pay since the pandemic started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a tenant really has a need and can say ‘I have a need, because …’ that’s really helpful versus ‘You have to do this for me,’ ” Werner said. “It opens it up to a partnership and trying to approach things, instead of this brinkmanship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though the potential legal challenges of negotiating a rent decrease may seem daunting, you may want to do the initial negotiating yourself before calling in a lawyer, said Tobener (who, yes, \u003cem>is a lawyer\u003c/em>). In fact, bringing in the legal big guns may sour talks with your landlord, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about the relationship. Getting an attorney right away erodes that relationship,” Tobener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once you have your deal all set, that’s when an attorney or tenants’ rights group may come in handy. “Any of the tenants’ groups can look over that final letter you make in your negotiations and make sure all the legal things have T’s crossed and I’s dotted,” Sherburn-Zimmer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find a long list of tenants’ rights organizations \u003ca href=\"https://www.tenantstogether.org/member-organizations-0\">here at Tenants Together\u003c/a>. Another group, \u003ca href=\"https://baylegal.org/what-we-do/stability/\">Bay Area Legal Aid\u003c/a>, has offices across the region.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"consider\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Don’t Go It Alone — Organize\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you live in a multi-unit building, organizing with your neighbors can be an effective path to successfully negotiating a rent decrease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even the wealthiest people in your building who moved in and pay $4,000 a month in rent may have lost work, too. It’s worth putting a note under everyone’s door,” Sherburn-Zimmer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think collective proposals work very well, everyone in the building asking for a 10% or a 20% reduction,” Sherburn-Zimmer said. That can mean organizing a building-wide rent payment postponement, or even a rent strike.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Jan Stevens was born and raised in Mountain View. She raised her son in the city, too. She’s disabled, unemployed and has relied on child support to help pay the bills. But once her son turned 18, the child support stopped and she began to run out of options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t able to afford rent [in Mountain View] anymore, so the only choice I had was to get an RV and find someplace else to live,” Stevens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevens suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome. Shortly after buying her RV and dropping her son off at college, she was diagnosed with breast cancer as well. Now she sees many doctors, all of whom are in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='homelessness' label='More on Homelessness']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, I would have gladly gone somewhere else, but at this point, I can’t,” she said. “I have longtime friends that support me in many ways. If I ask for a ride to the hospital or to get me groceries, I have a tremendous amount of support here that, if I were to go somewhere else, I would be without.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past two years, she has parked her RV on a cul-de-sac called Continental Circle, along with about 70 other RV dwellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainview.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=32778\">Measure C\u003c/a>, which passed with just 56% of the vote in Mountain View, bans oversized vehicles — defined as any “which exceeds 22 feet in length or 7 feet in width of 7 feet in height” — from parking on streets that are 40 feet or narrower, unless the vehicle is parked for short duration activities like loading and unloading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainview.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=33419\">Mountain View officials spent six weeks measuring\u003c/a> the 140 miles of city streets to determine what streets would be subject to the rules of the new ordinance. They found that 110 miles, or 78.6% of streets, could potentially qualify as narrow streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will just drive around and park somewhere every night and then move, I guess,” Stevens said. “I really don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure C was originally an ordinance adopted by the City Council in October 2019. But after several organizations — including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley — sent a letter demanding the ordinance to be suspended and a petition was filed against the ordinance. It was suspended, and RV dwellers were still allowed to park their RVs on city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Trujillo, a staff attorney with the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, signed the original letter opposing the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This ban on oversized vehicle parking in Mountain View is cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment, and that comes from a decision called \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/04/01/15-35845.pdf\">\u003cem>Martin v. Boise\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which was decided in 2018,” Trujillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that because the city of Boise, Idaho, hadn’t provided people with an adequate alternative to sleeping outside, they couldn’t be punished for being homeless. Trujillo feels this same argument can be applied to the RV dwellers in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a majority of voters in Mountain View don’t agree with that argument. Arnold Leon, \u003ca href=\"https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/106043/web.264614/#/detail/103\">one of the 18,000 voters\u003c/a> who voted in favor of Measure C, has been a homeowner in the city for 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you truly can afford rent in Mountain View or elsewhere and that is an option, then I think people should consider that option,” Leon said. “Not all of those RV dwellers are really needy, truly needy people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jan Stevens, Mountain View RV dweller \"]‘I will just drive around and park somewhere every night and then move, I guess. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rawan Elhalaby, the report’s author, says stronger federal regulations are needed to compel traditional banks to serve Black and Latino communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody is telling them you have to lend to people of color, and until it makes more financial sense for them, they will not do it,” said Elhalaby, a program manager at the Greenlining Institute, a racial and economic justice policy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group used mortgage data collected under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, passed by Congress in 1975, to analyze lending patterns in six major metropolitan areas across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, in the Oakland-Berkeley-Livermore metropolitan area, encompassing 2.8 million people, the Black population makes up 9.4% of the population, but were awarded only 4% of all home purchase loans in 2019, it found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That disparity is even more extreme among Latinos in the same region, who represent 23.7% of the population, but were awarded only 10.8% of home-buying loans last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the bay, in the San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City metropolitan area of roughly 1.6 million people, Black people make up 3.6% of the population, but they netted just 78 home-purchasing loans in 2019, or 0.73% of all loans awarded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, white people, who make up over 39% of that region, were awarded about 4,200 home-buying loans in 2019, a rate roughly proportionate to their population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report recommends the following series of steps to improve equity in awarding home loans:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>For banks to create more loan products and extend access and outreach in lower-income and immigrant communities;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For banks to increase their branch presence in rural communities and communities of color;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For communities to better fund nonprofits led by people of color to support homeownership counseling;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And for federal reform to strengthen the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and other regulations to make more loans available to households in low- and moderate-income communities.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Elhalaby’s said her parents, who emigrated from Palestine to San Diego in 1989, benefited from working with culturally competent banks. There is a prevalence of Arabic-speaking bank tellers among Wells Fargo branches in that city, which Elhalaby said was key to her parents securing a home loan when she was a teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was kind of a game changer,” she said. “There was someone that [could] really explain the whole system, like anything that they signed. They felt confident that they knew what they were getting into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a similar dynamic playing out across the most recent loan data, Elhalaby said. Asian communities in California — and the Chinese community in particular — receive home loans at rates similar to those of white people, a factor due largely to bank access, Elhalaby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> That’s old news to Nikki Beasley, executive director of Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services, which largely serves Black communities in Oakland and Richmond. The organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.richmondnhs.org/programs#164\">hosts homebuyer workshops\u003c/a> and tries to clear up common misconceptions among many first-time homebuyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People tend to be comfortable in the community they live,” she said. But as a former banker herself, Beasley says there is sometimes “bias” in the lending process. “I will admit, as bankers, you tend to assess based on what people look like, how they dress,” she said, noting that those judgements can be made inadvertently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Placing more bank branches in traditionally underserved communities with employees from those communities can reduce that bias, Beasley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With scarce access to loans from traditional banks, Beasley worries Black homebuyers with less income may face dauntingly steep interest rates — sometimes as high as 30% — from fintech loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People still say yes to that raw deal because it’s their only option, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Typically, that, in my mind, is a predatory practice because they are targeting people that may not be able to get this particular loan or offer because of poor credit, overutilization of debt, or low income,” Beasley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To counter that, Beasley said her organization helped over 100 first-time homebuyers in her community in 2020 alone, putting her organization on track to secure about the same number of loans they closed in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We bring information to individuals, keep them encouraged and motivated,” Beasley said. “Because — there is a way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After three years of bouncing between shelters, relatives’ couches, a tent and other places, Gillette Christa and her 16-month-old dog, Shepherd, had finally gotten into stable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like taking a load off,” she said. “We were able to finally rest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now her future is uncertain as she waits to hear where she will go next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like some 22,300 people across California, Christa was placed in a hotel in San Francisco as part of a program called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838323/heres-how-california-is-turning-hotels-into-housing-for-formerly-homeless-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Roomkey\u003c/a> – an effort to temporarily house seniors, and people who were medically vulnerable, to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/03/at-newly-converted-motel-governor-newsom-launches-project-roomkey-a-first-in-the-nation-initiative-to-secure-hotel-motel-rooms-to-protect-homeless-individuals-from-covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced the program in April\u003c/a>, the focus was on providing places for people experiencing homelessness to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825653/california-found-hotels-for-10000-homeless-residents-what-next\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">safely shelter in place\u003c/a> during the pandemic. But, he also said it would be a jumping-off point for permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not just thinking short-term,” he said during an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/282059655808032/videos/198302828289931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 3 press conference\u003c/a> outside a motel in Sacramento. “We’re also beginning to process an orientation of focus and energy around long-term supports, so that we can get people off the streets in a permanent way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But data from seven Bay Area counties, which was analyzed by KQED, show that nearly 16% of the people who have already been discharged from the hotels have made it into permanent housing, or 345 people out of 2,196.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining 84% have gone on to emergency shelters, transitional housing, friends or family, other hotels paid for with private funds, drug rehab facilities, jail, or to tents, cars and encampments. At least 15 people have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data includes only people experiencing homelessness who stayed in hotels as part of a preventative measure to stop the spread of the coronavirus. It does not include hotel rooms set aside to isolate and quarantine people who had been exposed to the virus and whose stays were limited to 14 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"People Who Moved Into Permanent Housing in the Bay Area\" aria-label=\"Grouped Bars\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-i3X2l\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/i3X2l/9/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"714\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n[datawrapper]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This data does not include Solano County or San Francisco, which has placed more than 3,300 people in hotel rooms or trailers since the start of the pandemic. Officials in San Francisco said they couldn’t provide data on where people went after they left the hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a Nov. 2 letter to county supervisors, Abigail Stewart-Kahn, the interim director of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, said 49 households had been placed in permanent housing from the city’s shelter-in-place hotels, which she believes is an undercount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties across the state are beginning to close down some of those hotels. And advocates say the timing couldn’t be worse as temperatures drop, coronavirus infection rates surge and many congregate shelters remain closed or at reduced capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Newsom announced another $62 million in grants for counties to help them transition more people into permanent housing, including $35 million to pay for rental subsidies, case management, help finding housing, and landlord incentives, among other things.\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=KQINC3528388264\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has also doled out more than $800 million in grants for some of the hotels to be converted into permanent housing through a separate program, called Project Homekey. Newsom launched the program in June as a way to transition more people out of the temporary hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the state has awarded $305.3 million to the Bay Area’s nine counties for 21 projects. The projects will add more than 1,600 units of housing for formerly homeless people, according to an analysis of the awards by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s still a small fraction of the need. More than 8,500 people have gotten temporary housing in Project Roomkey hotels in the Bay Area to date. Heather Freinkel, a managing attorney for the Homeless Action Center, said there’s just not enough housing to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter how you look at it, the big picture is the big picture,” Freinkel said, adding that the Bay Area was facing a shortage of affordable housing before the pandemic. “There is not enough permanent housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Santa Clara County: Where People Went After Project Roomkey\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-zzOPJ\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/zzOPJ/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"306\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n[datawrapper]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the low percentage of people who’ve made it into housing so far, Freinkel still thinks Project Roomkey has been a success. Placing any number of people who have been homeless into permanent housing should be lauded, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point [of Project Roomkey] is an emergency intervention to prevent the most vulnerable people from being exposed to COVID-19,” she said. “Considering all the barriers and the lack of available housing, it’s a great accomplishment that even some people were able to obtain permanent housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Hotels Closing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>San Francisco had planned to close seven its Project Roomkey hotels by Dec. 21, though a city spokesperson said the new state funding would provide more flexibility to keep them open longer if needed. Officials have not given a timeline for how long those hotels might stay open, and have said they plan to move forward with moving people out of the hotels. Those hotels currently have about 500 people staying in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city plans to phase out its remaining 22 hotels by June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors on Thursday urged officials to keep all the hotels open for as long as possible and said they planned to introduce legislation to mandate that everyone in the hotels gets placed into permanent housing. The press conference followed a small demonstration earlier this week, when dozens of homeless advocates took to the streets to protest the hotel closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847951\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sylvia Viviana, an organizer with Hotels not Hospitals, speaks at a protest in the Mission District in San Francisco on Nov, 16, calling for shelter-in-place hotel rooms to remain available for unhoused residents. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",null]'>“The weather is getting colder, COVID cases are surging, and we need to get this right,” Supervisor Matt Haney said Thursday. “The hotels are a critical tool to keep people off the streets.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Stewart-Kahn told KQED the hotel program is not sustainable. Rooms cost roughly $260 per night, she said, compared to between $70 to $90 for other types of housing. The hotel rooms come with three meals a day, laundry service, wellness checks, security guards and case management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are extremely expensive compared to other solutions,” Stewart-Kahn said in an interview. “They were always intended to be temporary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart-Kahn said the city is committed to making sure everyone in the hotels would be transferred to “short, medium or long-term” placements when they leave and that she believes there is adequate capacity available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can try to wait until there is perfection, but we are never going to get there,” she said. “This is an opportunity to end homelessness for more people in San Francisco than anyone in our field has ever gotten the opportunity to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign in the Mission in San Francisco on Nov, 16, 2020, calling for shelter-in-place hotel rooms to remain available for unhoused residents. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Following the governor’s announcement of more funding this week, Deborah Bouck, a spokesperson for San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, said it wasn’t clear yet how much additional funding the city would get, or when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We look forward to incorporating these resources along with early learnings from the (rehousing) process to inform San Francisco’s rehousing plan,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christa said she expects to find out in the next week whether she will get a permanent home or temporary housing. She fractured her ankle in three places in August, she said, and it’s still healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s the fear that there may not be a match,” Christa said. “And my ankle won’t be close to well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she said, she’s already met with a housing coordinator who is working to get her a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hopeful, but I’m not counting chickens,” Christa said. “I’m waiting for them to hatch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Different Counties, Different Approaches\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While some counties are winding down their programs, others are keeping their hotels open. Officials in San Francisco, Alameda and Marin counties have all said they’re closing some hotels because they’re concerned the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would stop reimbursing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FEMA pays for 75% of the cost of running the hotels as part of the emergency response to the coronavirus. California counties have been relying on additional federal funding from the CARES Act, which is set to expire at the end of the year, as well as other state grants or local funding to make up the remaining 25%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Barker, a spokesman for FEMA, said the federal agency would continue providing reimbursement on a month-to-month basis for the emergency shelters as long as there is need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sonoma County: Where People Went After Project Roomkey\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-88Exl\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/88Exl/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"354\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n[datawrapper]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma and Contra Costa counties, which collectively have nine Project Roomkey sites, have both said they will keep those sites open indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as we have the resources and capability, we want to keep the hotels,” said Michael Gause, Sonoma County’s Ending Homelessness program manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda County, 1,121 people are currently sheltering at nine hotels. But county officials say they plan to wind down six of them between December and February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really looking to try to take advantage to make sure everyone can exit the hotels into housing,” said Kerry Abbott, director of Alameda County’s Office of Homeless Care and Coordination. “But that’s obviously a pretty huge feat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county plans to keep one hotel open through June for people who test positive for COVID-19 and need a place to safely quarantine. Unlike the other Project Roomkey hotels, which allow guests to stay as long as they need until they get placed into permanent housing, the quarantine facilities only allow guests to stay until they are no longer at risk of spreading the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also plans to convert two hotels into permanent housing, using the state’s Project Homekey funding. And, it’s working to recruit landlords to place people out of the hotels into private-market units paid for with rent subsidies, Abbott said. So far, they’ve signed up about three dozen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Getting those landlords to give us a call and identifying vacant units in the community is absolutely a priority right now,” Abbott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marin County: Where People Went After Project Roomkey\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-PS5yV\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/PS5yV/4/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"600\" height=\"323\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n[datawrapper]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marin County, all but seven people have transitioned out of its four Project Roomkey hotels. County officials said that 35 people have moved into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2020/10/01/san-rafael-board-approves-temporary-homeless-shelter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opened a new shelter\u003c/a> in San Rafael for people transitioning out of one of the hotels, said Ellen Hammerle, the vice president of client services for Catholic Charities, a nonprofit that managed two of the hotels in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='homelessness']Homeward Bound will manage the Kerner Boulevard location as a temporary shelter for 45 people through April, 2022, which will allow social service providers more time to find permanent housing for them, Hammerle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She credited the successful placements on a high level of coordination between the community organizations involved, county officials and the organizations managing the hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us know the clients individually by name and really care about making sure they get housed and stay safe and get the care, or employment or whatever it is they’re working on,” Hammerle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said it’s also been difficult to find placements for people who need mental health services or who have other special needs. That’s a barrier that officials in Sonoma and Solano counties said they faced, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have mental health clinicians on site [at the hotels],” said Dawn La Bar, chairwoman of Community Action Partnership for the Solano Joint Powers Authority. “I don’t think we realized the extent of that need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Place to Grow\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For those who have moved from Project Roomkey to more permanent housing, the program has been a lifeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Ellis and her 8-year-old son, King, lost their apartment in June. They were living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the landlord raised their rent, she said. The apartment had bug infestations, the air conditioning stopped working for seven days during a heat spell, and the heat had stopped working during the previous winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Ellis and her son King pose for a portrait on the back stairs of their apartment building on Nov. 15, 2020. (Photo by Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rather than fight the landlord over the rent increase, Ellis decided to leave. She wanted a fresh start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just didn’t feel like trying to get water out of a rock,” she said. “That’s why we had to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her son is autistic, and she heard about programs in the Bay Area that might help him. So, they put all their belongings in storage and packed up their car and hit the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I saw the ‘Welcome to California’ sign,” Ellis said, “I started crying. It was such a relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King was enrolled at a summer camp in San Francisco for the first week after they arrived. But soon, the money they budgeted for a hotel ran out. Ellis relied on friends to pitch in money for an Airbnb for a couple nights, but they also found themselves sleeping in their car, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 10 days without knowing where she would be able to find a place to live, Ellis got in touch with an intake worker at Catholic Charities who placed her and King at one of the Project Roomkey hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like, ‘Praise God,’” Ellis said. “For a single mom to know there were three meals a day I could come get, that was wonderful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847945\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847945\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check.jpg\" alt=\"King takes his mom's temperature\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Ellis has her temperature checked by her son King at their home in San Francisco. They regularly take their temperatures to monitor for COVID-19. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ellis and her son got keys to their new apartment in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood in September, which she pays for with a Section 8 subsidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in a little diamond in the rough,” she said. “It doesn’t have much of the things on my list … no garden, no bathtub, no parking spot … But, it’s secure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After moving every year for the past seven years, Ellis said they finally have a place where they know they can stay for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a place where hopefully, King can be longer than a year,” she said, “and grow into this wonderful little boy he’s growing into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>UPDATE: This story includes updated statistics from Alameda County. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Staff writer Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This data does not include Solano County or San Francisco, which has placed more than 3,300 people in hotel rooms or trailers since the start of the pandemic. Officials in San Francisco said they couldn’t provide data on where people went after they left the hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a Nov. 2 letter to county supervisors, Abigail Stewart-Kahn, the interim director of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, said 49 households had been placed in permanent housing from the city’s shelter-in-place hotels, which she believes is an undercount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties across the state are beginning to close down some of those hotels. And advocates say the timing couldn’t be worse as temperatures drop, coronavirus infection rates surge and many congregate shelters remain closed or at reduced capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Newsom announced another $62 million in grants for counties to help them transition more people into permanent housing, including $35 million to pay for rental subsidies, case management, help finding housing, and landlord incentives, among other things.\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=KQINC3528388264\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has also doled out more than $800 million in grants for some of the hotels to be converted into permanent housing through a separate program, called Project Homekey. Newsom launched the program in June as a way to transition more people out of the temporary hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the state has awarded $305.3 million to the Bay Area’s nine counties for 21 projects. The projects will add more than 1,600 units of housing for formerly homeless people, according to an analysis of the awards by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s still a small fraction of the need. More than 8,500 people have gotten temporary housing in Project Roomkey hotels in the Bay Area to date. Heather Freinkel, a managing attorney for the Homeless Action Center, said there’s just not enough housing to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter how you look at it, the big picture is the big picture,” Freinkel said, adding that the Bay Area was facing a shortage of affordable housing before the pandemic. “There is not enough permanent housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Santa Clara County: Where People Went After Project Roomkey\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-zzOPJ\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/zzOPJ/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"306\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Officials have not given a timeline for how long those hotels might stay open, and have said they plan to move forward with moving people out of the hotels. Those hotels currently have about 500 people staying in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city plans to phase out its remaining 22 hotels by June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors on Thursday urged officials to keep all the hotels open for as long as possible and said they planned to introduce legislation to mandate that everyone in the hotels gets placed into permanent housing. The press conference followed a small demonstration earlier this week, when dozens of homeless advocates took to the streets to protest the hotel closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847951\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sylvia Viviana, an organizer with Hotels not Hospitals, speaks at a protest in the Mission District in San Francisco on Nov, 16, calling for shelter-in-place hotel rooms to remain available for unhoused residents. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",null]'>“The weather is getting colder, COVID cases are surging, and we need to get this right,” Supervisor Matt Haney said Thursday. “The hotels are a critical tool to keep people off the streets.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Stewart-Kahn told KQED the hotel program is not sustainable. Rooms cost roughly $260 per night, she said, compared to between $70 to $90 for other types of housing. The hotel rooms come with three meals a day, laundry service, wellness checks, security guards and case management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are extremely expensive compared to other solutions,” Stewart-Kahn said in an interview. “They were always intended to be temporary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart-Kahn said the city is committed to making sure everyone in the hotels would be transferred to “short, medium or long-term” placements when they leave and that she believes there is adequate capacity available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can try to wait until there is perfection, but we are never going to get there,” she said. “This is an opportunity to end homelessness for more people in San Francisco than anyone in our field has ever gotten the opportunity to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign in the Mission in San Francisco on Nov, 16, 2020, calling for shelter-in-place hotel rooms to remain available for unhoused residents. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Following the governor’s announcement of more funding this week, Deborah Bouck, a spokesperson for San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, said it wasn’t clear yet how much additional funding the city would get, or when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We look forward to incorporating these resources along with early learnings from the (rehousing) process to inform San Francisco’s rehousing plan,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christa said she expects to find out in the next week whether she will get a permanent home or temporary housing. She fractured her ankle in three places in August, she said, and it’s still healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s the fear that there may not be a match,” Christa said. “And my ankle won’t be close to well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she said, she’s already met with a housing coordinator who is working to get her a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hopeful, but I’m not counting chickens,” Christa said. “I’m waiting for them to hatch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Different Counties, Different Approaches\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While some counties are winding down their programs, others are keeping their hotels open. Officials in San Francisco, Alameda and Marin counties have all said they’re closing some hotels because they’re concerned the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would stop reimbursing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FEMA pays for 75% of the cost of running the hotels as part of the emergency response to the coronavirus. 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That’s a barrier that officials in Sonoma and Solano counties said they faced, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have mental health clinicians on site [at the hotels],” said Dawn La Bar, chairwoman of Community Action Partnership for the Solano Joint Powers Authority. “I don’t think we realized the extent of that need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Place to Grow\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For those who have moved from Project Roomkey to more permanent housing, the program has been a lifeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Ellis and her 8-year-old son, King, lost their apartment in June. They were living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the landlord raised their rent, she said. The apartment had bug infestations, the air conditioning stopped working for seven days during a heat spell, and the heat had stopped working during the previous winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Ellis and her son King pose for a portrait on the back stairs of their apartment building on Nov. 15, 2020. (Photo by Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rather than fight the landlord over the rent increase, Ellis decided to leave. She wanted a fresh start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just didn’t feel like trying to get water out of a rock,” she said. “That’s why we had to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her son is autistic, and she heard about programs in the Bay Area that might help him. So, they put all their belongings in storage and packed up their car and hit the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I saw the ‘Welcome to California’ sign,” Ellis said, “I started crying. It was such a relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King was enrolled at a summer camp in San Francisco for the first week after they arrived. But soon, the money they budgeted for a hotel ran out. 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They regularly take their temperatures to monitor for COVID-19. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ellis and her son got keys to their new apartment in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood in September, which she pays for with a Section 8 subsidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in a little diamond in the rough,” she said. “It doesn’t have much of the things on my list … no garden, no bathtub, no parking spot … But, it’s secure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After moving every year for the past seven years, Ellis said they finally have a place where they know they can stay for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a place where hopefully, King can be longer than a year,” she said, “and grow into this wonderful little boy he’s growing into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>UPDATE: This story includes updated statistics from Alameda County. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Staff writer Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Voters approved Proposition 19, expanding property tax savings for older Californians who are looking to downsize to a new home — and bring their lower property tax rates with them. The measure’s passage also ends an inheritance tax loophole, potentially increasing state tax revenue by tens of millions of dollars, a large chunk of which is expected to go to a dedicated wildfire fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Firefighters across California are thankful to voters supporting Proposition 19,” said Brian Rice, California Professional Firefighters president, in a statement. “The wildfires California has experienced in the past few months make it abundantly clear that additional resources are needed. The funds from Prop. 19 will make a difference in fire protection and emergency response to safeguard millions of California homes and lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-laws-california-fires-property-taxes-eaabcbd7506c8cfbc1809216ca6b8ef6\">called the contest\u003c/a> Wednesday, after the measure received 51% of the more than 15.3 million votes cast. Its passage gives a big victory to the California Association of Realtors, which made major changes to a similar initiative in 2018 that voters rejected by 20 percentage points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Voters passed Proposition 19 because it is a win-win for California, providing needed housing and tax relief for seniors, wildfire victims, and generating much needed revenue for schools, fire districts, cities, and counties as they face budget shortfalls due to harmful economic impact of COVID-19,” said Jeanne Radsick, president of the California Association of Realtors in a news release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revamped proposal, which includes tax hikes for property heirs, passed the state Legislature with bipartisan support and got the endorsement of Gov. 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The exemption is expected to fuel home sales by encouraging empty nesters and other homeowners to downsize to smaller homes without incurring a huge tax increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More on Proposition 19\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/proposition-19-property-tax-break,Proposition 19: Should California seniors be allowed to transfer their low property taxes to new homes?' link2='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results#californiapropositions,Proposition 19: Live Election Results' hero=https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/KQED-Election-Updates.png]Proposition 19 would also expand those property tax benefits to homeowners who have lost property from natural disasters like wildfires or for those who have a severe disability. But those affected homeowners make up a tiny share, less than 1%, of the total number of households expected to benefit from Proposition 19, according to analysis from the \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/california-proposition-19-property-tax-scheme/\">California Budget & Policy Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally when people in California buy a new home, their property taxes go through the roof. That’s because California assesses property taxes based on the value of your home when you bought it — not its current market value — and those taxes can only go up a certain amount each year. So the longer Californians have owned their homes, the less they pay in property taxes. This is the legacy of Proposition 13, which voters approved in 1978. That landmark measure froze property taxes at 1.1% of the sales price and capped increases at 2% a year for inflation until a property is sold, a system that can create huge savings for people whose homes greatly appreciate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second piece of Proposition 19 would remove a tax break for people who inherit property, and opt to rent it out or keep it as a second home, instead of living in it. The nonpartisan \u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/19/analysis.htm\">Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/a> estimates it would bring in tens of millions of dollars a year to state and local governments. A big chunk of that revenue would go to wildfire protection and local schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josh Pulliam, consultant for the Yes on 19 campaign, said the 2020 version had “much broader appeal” than the defeated 2018 measure, and resulted from backers of that measure taking into account changes that other groups wanted to the 1978 tax-setting rules, which are enshrined in the state constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was about finding common ground, so you ultimately have a better result,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters raised $63.8 million, including $58.6 million from the California Association of Realtors and $4.9 million from the National Association of Realtors. Opponents raised less than $50,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advertising for the measure saturated airwaves leading up to the Election Day, with a message on how the money would aid in fighting wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters also said removing these restrictions would encourage more home sales and free up inventory in a state with a severe housing shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents, though, argued that Proposition 19 would serve the interests of the real estate industry, which would benefit from the increase in home sales expected from this measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the measure, like the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, also said it unfairly taxes heirs who receive property from their parents or grandparents. 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"content": "\u003cp>Mayor London Breed and San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors largely agree on the city’s most pernicious problems — the pandemic, the rental crisis, homelessness, the survival of small businesses — but find themselves disagreeing on how to solve them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These ideological logjams, however, may clear after this November’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed is considered a political moderate, generally in ideological opposition to the (for now) progressive-majority Board of Supervisors, and they’re particularly split on how to solve the rental housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moderates tend to favor market-rate housing production at any rental price, in a bid to bring down rents through abundant supply, whereas progressives tend to favor city- or developer-subsidized affordable housing with rents targeted at residents with specific income levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When disagreements over housing solutions or other proposed legislation arise, the 11-member board has an ace in the hole: Any vote backed by a supermajority can’t be vetoed by the mayor, an advantage a solid bloc of eight progressive allies have enjoyed over the last year. Marshaling those eight members on a particular issue gives progressives an open road to author their preferred laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That supermajority can be tenuous, however, said David Campos, chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party and a former supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the other side can split you off and siphon you off, your leverage is diminished,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while votes are still being counted, this November’s election may shift the balance of power. While no one is calling out “checkmate,” a few vital rooks may be knocked off the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one new ally to the mayor is on a firm path to the board after voting concluded Tuesday, while another of Breed’s allies is only dozens of votes away from winning, with some San Franciscans clicking the “refresh” button on the Department of Elections’ website repeatedly — and nervously — as officials continue to count mail-in ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myrna Melgar, a former Planning Commission president who is a progressive Democrat, declared herself winner after the latest ballot count showed her leading her closest opponent, Joel Engardio, by seven points. The latest count looks poised to clinch Melgar’s win, as of Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar will represent District 7 on the southwestern side of San Francisco, which includes Parkmerced. While she is ideologically progressive, she was appointed to the Planning Commission by Breed and is considered a close ally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar and Breed have known each other for years and enjoy a positive working relationship. That’s particularly key for Breed, whose history with the board has shown that she often values the ability to work with someone over how closely they align with her views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFyimby/status/1324184754900463618\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the city’s Richmond District, Breed’s former senior adviser, Marjan Philhour, a moderate Democrat, is locked in a tight race with progressive Democrat Connie Chan. In each day’s new count, the two jockey for the lead by mere dozens of votes, amounting to a toss-up that’s still too close to call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are 90,000 mail-in ballots left to count, according to the San Francisco Department of Elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philhour is considered a close ally of Breed’s and if elected, would take the seat of outgoing Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer, who, while friendly with the mayor, is considered particularly powerful among the progressive camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philhour did not return a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Meeting in the Middle\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Progressives and moderates play nice on some issues, but add a dash of housing discussion and you’ll often find a combustible mix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar can perhaps douse the powder keg by serving as a conduit between Breed and the progressive camp. As a candidate, Melgar uniquely obtained the backing of SF YIMBY Action, a pro-housing development group, and also of progressives and their allies who are normally opposed to YIMBY ideologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Affordable housing built on the West Side is my top priority,” Melgar told KQED, where she’s thinking of pushing for subsidized co-ops in partnership with progressive supervisor Gordon Mar, perhaps in a unique arrangement between government and labor groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept would rely on a funding mechanism favored by progressives and would see the construction of housing in a part of town that moderates have long complained hasn’t borne its fair share of housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And beyond housing proposals alone, boasting allies on both sides of the aisle may make it possible for Melgar to serve as a crucial swing vote on the Board of Supervisors more generally, a position once enjoyed by former supervisor David Chiu, who is now serving as a state Assembly member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Todd David, director of the SF Housing Action Coalition\"]‘I’d like to see the Board of Supervisors put their money where their mouth is, take their mandate, and change zoning in the city to allow for some geographic affordable housing equity.’[/pullquote]The calculation is simple: If you’re ideologically in two camps, both will negotiate with you for your vote. Melgar could use that power to unite Breed and the supervisors on thorny issues where they may not otherwise see eye to eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s possible, she certainly could do that,” Campos said. “But for this kind of unity to really work, there has to be a commitment on the part of everyone involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if she thought that dynamic could emerge on the board, Melgar simply answered, “I do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think if the board reaches out to the mayor there will be a good outcome in this city,” Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Franciscans “elected London Breed mayor and a progressive Board of Supervisors as a balance to one another. I think the hope is that they’ll work together and find a common ground that is needed,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Even More Leverage\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While Melgar’s win may give Breed a trusted ombudsman with the progressive-led board, an additional Philhour win would give Breed a far higher stack of chips at the poker table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would give Breed enough allies among the supervisors to break up the progressives’ veto-proof supermajority. It would also give the mayor a chance to stymie higher taxation in future ballot propositions from the board, for instance, or to argue for more affordable housing for middle-income San Franciscans versus low-income residents, two positions she has espoused in previous years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MarjanPhilhour/status/1313282016633266177\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philhour may carry another trump card: Her time in City Hall has shown she’s not afraid to get in scraps over ideas she backs. In the past, vocal critics of the board’s progressive wing have been successful at drawing public attention to policies they disagree with, and Philhour could fit that mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philhour is viewed skeptically by some progressives as perhaps too close to Breed, having served directly in her office. They’re particularly worried that super PAC-like campaign accounts, called independent expenditure committees, spent money to support Philhour’s election in the Richmond District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of that funding came from William Oberndorf, a wealthy investor who gave more than $1 million to help Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, in his senate race, \u003ca href=\"https://48hills.org/2020/10/the-big-gop-and-real-estate-money-moves-into-district-one/\">according to 48 Hills\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Favorable donations from Republican allies prompted some progressives to question local candidates’ proposals, but Philhour tweeted in October, “I am the only candidate in this race to denounce all Independent Expenditures and Super PACs. I’ve done so from the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanti Singh, a tenants organizer, hopes that Philhour, if elected, will show her independence and favor progressive affordable housing policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Marjan [Philhour] wins, it’s incumbent on her to think about that vision and not what the PAC, big business-backers want to do about housing,” Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results,Full Election Results\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/KQED-Election-Results-Hero-1020x574.jpg\"]That’s particularly important with the likely passages of San Francisco’s Propositions I and K, the former of which is a property transfer tax that would raise about $196 million annually for the city’s general fund, and the latter of which is a mandate for the city to build up to 10,000 affordable rental units, a proposal which still needs identified funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is buying what the progressives are putting on the ballot right now,” Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd David, director of the SF Housing Action Coalition, said progressives should strike while the iron is hot, as this week’s likely multiple ballot proposition wins would give progressives more tools to begin tackling the housing affordability crisis in a way he claims they have not yet done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many political moderates like David, who side with market-rate ideologies, agree that the progressives should aggressively pursue their housing proposals because building more affordable housing on the West Side, for example, would at least see the neighborhood become more housing-dense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d like to see the Board of Supervisors put their money where their mouth is,” David said. “Take their mandate, and change zoning in the city to allow for some geographic affordable housing equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David critiqued the progressive supervisors for failing to use their majority to add more housing on San Francisco’s West Side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have “all said they can do this,” but “last time I checked they haven’t added any new zoning locally,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any possible new cooperation between Breed’s camp and the progressives, if pursued, could transform the city, he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In returns Tuesday night, at around 11 p.m., Prop. 21 was called after trailing by a nearly \u003ca href=\"https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/ballot-measures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20-point margin\u003c/a>, with 59.4% votes opposed compared to 40.6% in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 10, which would have repealed the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&division=3.&title=5.&part=4.&chapter=2.7.&article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act\u003c/a>, was also soundly defeated in 2018 by a \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_10,_Local_Rent_Control_Initiative_(2018)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">similar margin\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a really sad day for the state of California,” said Ged \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kenslea, the communications director for the Yes on 21 campaign, as well as for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the proposition’s sponsor and main funder. “We’ll continue on with the fight.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 21 would have allowed cities to impose rent control on buildings 15 years or older, including some single-family homes and condos owned by people who have more than two houses or condos. And it would have brought back vacancy control, which limits how much a landlord can raise the rent when a tenant leaves their unit.\u003cbr>\n[aside label=\"More on Proposition 21\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/proposition-21-rent-control,Proposition 21: Should California cities be allowed to enact new rent control restrictions on almost all rental housing?' link2='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results#californiapropositions,Proposition 21: Live Election Results' hero=https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/10/KQED-Election-2020-Aside-Prop-21.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This just would have made it impossible to grow the housing stock in California,” said Sid Lakireddy, the president of the California Rental Housing Association, which opposed the measure. “\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It feels (like) a huge weight off the shoulders.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents vastly \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/campaign-lobbying/cal-access-resources/measure-contributions/2020-ballot-measure-contribution-totals/proposition-21-expands-local-governments-authority-enact-rent-control-residential-property-initiative-statute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outraised supporters \u003c/a>of the measure. As of Oct. 14, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fppc.ca.gov/transparency/top-contributors/nov-20-gen.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">five political action committees\u003c/a> had raised $59.4 million to defeat Prop. 21. They were backed by the California Apartment Association, the California Association of Realtors, the California Rental Housing Association, Essex Property Trust, Mosser Companies and other real estate developers or trusts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit dedicated to providing medical care for people living with AIDS, contributed $35.3 million of the Yes on 21 campaign’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.fppc.ca.gov/transparency/top-contributors/nov-20-gen.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$40.2 million war chest\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of Prop. 21 argued that rent control does not make cities more affordable on the whole. They pointed to a \u003ca href=\"https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/DMQ.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 Stanford study\u003c/a> of rent control in San Francisco, which found the policy decreased the available rental stock in the city by 15% and increased rents in non rent-controlled units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters said expanding rent control could have helped keep rents predictable and stable, so that fewer people would face unexpected dramatic rent increases. They pointed to the same Stanford study that found people who lived in rent-controlled apartments in San Francisco were 20% less likely to leave the city as a result of rising rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent state law has already put some limits on rent increases. \u003ca href=\"https://sfrb.org/article/summary-ab-1482-california-tenant-protection-act-2019#:~:text=Summary%20of%20AB%201482%20(the%20California%20Tenant%20Protection%20Act%20of%202019),-Monday%2C%20December%2023&text=General%20info%3A%20What%20does%20AB,order%20to%20terminate%20a%20tenancy.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 1482 by Assemblymember David Chiu, D-San Francisco\u003c/a>, went into effect in 2019 and prevents rents on any building 15 years or older from increasing more than 5% each year, plus the rate of inflation. The law includes rentals of single-family homes that are owned by corporations, and it provides renters in those buildings with protections against certain types of evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earliest rent control policies in California were adopted in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They typically capped rent increases at or close to the rate of inflation, with allowances for landlords who needed to make repairs. The policies also typically included protections against certain types of evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only five cities — Berkeley, Santa Monica, Cotati, East Palo Alto and West Hollywood — have adopted vacancy control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1995, lawmakers passed the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which outlawed vacancy control. That gave landlords the freedom to reset rent to market rate when a tenant moves out. It also froze the existing rent control ordinances in place so that no new buildings could be added. 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She’s working on installing a compostable toilet, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like [the van] is a little beach shack on wheels,” Masvalo said. “I have to make it a little comfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masvalo wants to find permanent housing, but can’t see how that’s going to happen, unless the price of housing drops substantially — or her wages rise substantially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her wages as a part-time yoga instructor and preschool teacher have never been enough to make it easy to keep a roof over her head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers in general don’t make great money, but early childhood educators are especially affected by low wages,” Masvalo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After moving several times between different apartments in the region, Masvalo decided to cash out her savings and buy the van.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, she’s watching a local measure on Mountain View’s November ballot. Measure C would ban oversized vehicles, or any vehicle “\u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainview.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=32778\">which exceeds 22 feet in length or 7 feet in width or 7 feet in height,\u003c/a>” from parking on streets that are 40 feet or narrower, unless the vehicle is parked for short duration activities like loading and unloading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As more and more people like Masvalo park along major thoroughfares and back roads, the Mountain View City Council has come under pressure from homeowners who complain that oversized vehicles block bike lanes and line of sight for drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of talking about a “safe parking” program, the city finally \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782096/after-mountain-view-approves-rv-ban-housing-advocates-vow-to-fight-it-at-ballot-box\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">created one in 2019\u003c/a>. People can park their RVs or oversized vans in sections of dedicated parking lots, as long as they agree to sign up for social services and support to find permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain View resident Prody Hazarika supports Measure C, because he thinks people should use the safe parking program instead of parking on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to encourage the right path,” he said on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101880303/election-2020-mountain-view-moves-to-keep-a-ban-on-rvs\">KQED Forum\u003c/a>. “That can only be accomplished where you have parking lots where you can get better in life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hazarika believes that Measure C gives homeowners a voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Homeowners] have a right to demand safe streets and good community living,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His sentiments are echoed by Mountain View Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga. She also doesn’t believe RVs are a permanent solution to housing and said Measure C would encourage people to find more stable housing or to use the city-funded safe parking program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’m really proud of is the safe lots that we’ve opened,” she said. “They are successful and I’m open to adding more spaces if we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainview.gov/depts/comdev/preservation/safe_parking_program.asp\">Mountain View’s Safe Parking program\u003c/a> is the largest of its kind in Santa Clara County, with 75 spots located across the city. But according to a Safe Parking report from September, the city’s homeless population has grown over the years, from 276 in 2015 to about 606 in 2019. \u003ca href=\"https://movemv.org/\">Move Mountain View\u003c/a>, a nonprofit which helps run the safe parking program, says safe parking lots are often filled, leaving many on the waitlist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"election-2020\" label=\"Election 2020 Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite evidence that most homeless individuals are local, many of Measure C’s supporters hold a widely held belief that those living in vehicles come from elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mountain View has become known for the services that we provide, so other cities are telling folks to come here,” said former mayor Lisa Matichak during a recent forum on housing hosted by the \u003ca href=\"https://mvmha.com/\">Mountain View Mobile Home Alliance\u003c/a>. Matichak is one of four former Mountain View mayors currently running for a city council seat this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Move Mountain View said participants of the program are asked whether they live in Mountain View before they can qualify for a parking spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need reciprocity,” said former mayor Lenny Siegel, who is also running for a city council seat. A long-time affordable housing advocate, he opposes Measure C because he feels it pushes people out before providing an alternative housing option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t throw people out until there’s a place to go,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masvalo’s van is eight feet tall, which means she’d be affected by Measure C if it passes. 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