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This category also includes \u003ca href=\"https://sfpublicpress.org/most-homeless-families-helped-by-city-rent-programs-move-out-of-s-f/\">the city’s Rapid Rehousing program\u003c/a>, which provides housing to people who have recently been evicted.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Shelter and hygiene ($39.4 million): \u003c/strong>Funding for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/safe-parking-site-for-homelesss-who-live-in-their-vehicles-proposed-near-balboa-park-bart/\">vehicle triage centers\u003c/a>” — essentially parking sites for homeless people living in RV’s and cars, with wraparound social services; “safe sleeping sites,” which are outdoor tent encampments with city-provided social services; and new emergency shelters.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Mental health ($98.4 million): \u003c/strong>Funding for the newly formed Street Crisis Response Team pilot program — with teams responding to 311 and 911 calls instead of police; the city’s Behavioral Health Access Center; new beds for those with mental health needs and additional funding for the \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mental-health-sf-legislation-approved-unanimously-board-supervisors\">Mental Health SF\u003c/a> program.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“This will allow us to move forward quickly to implement units for people on the streets,” said Jeff Cretan, the mayor’s spokesperson. “It’s really about providing more housing and shelter, and mental health support for those who badly need it. This court decision really frees up the money to implement the programs more quickly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SF_Interfaith/status/1293256387468963840\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Homelessness Meets COVID-19\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Although Breed and the Board of Supervisors have largely hammered out plans for the Proposition C funding, the oversight committee mandated by the measure hasn’t even met yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s a problem, says Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness, the measure’s author. She’s also an appointee to the oversight committee, which has four seats nominated by the Board of Supervisors, four seats nominated by the mayor and one seat nominated by the city controller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, what (Breed’s) got in there, she’s paying back expenditures that already happened that had no community oversight,” Friedenbach said. “It’s a total setup. Because it creates a hole in the budget if you don’t use that funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach argues that some of the programs Breed wants to fund with Proposition C money already have other dedicated funding sources, ones that homeless advocates have fought hard for. That includes rental subsidies, which were a “budget battle we found the revenue for, got the funding for,” Friedenbach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s office pushed back on those claims, and said the budget process was public, with open negotiations between the mayor’s office and the Board of Supervisors allowing plenty of time for input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while much of the money from the measure has already been earmarked, Friedenbach argues that the realities of COVID-19 have re-shifted priorities for homeless providers. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Victor Moreno strapped on his backpack and walked half a mile from his apartment to a food pantry in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weekly trek to pick up fresh produce and prepared meals has become part of Moreno’s routine in recent months. The 55-year-old, who proudly describes himself as a hardworking man, said he hasn’t been able to find a steady job since March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the beginning, it wasn’t so easy for me to stand in line to get food because I was able to provide for myself in the past,” said Moreno, who shares a studio apartment with a roommate. “But now, that’s the only way that we can stretch the money, pay the rent and eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreno used to bake pastries and prepare organic salads at a restaurant frequented by tech employees working in offices in downtown San Francisco. But after shelter-in-place orders were issued, most of those office workers stayed home and the restaurant abruptly closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreno said his last paycheck went to cover rent. He had hardly any savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ended up with probably less than $20 in my pocket,” said Moreno, an immigrant from Mexico who has worked in the U.S. for nearly two decades. “I started thinking, how am I going to survive next month?” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Victor Moreno\"]‘You have the hope that everything is going to be OK. But now, after seven months, we are running out of money, we are running out of food, we are running out of patience.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant industry has suffered greatly during the pandemic. Between February and July, the state lost nearly 350,000 food service jobs, about a quarter of the positions in the industry, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/employment-by-industry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">estimates\u003c/a> by the California Employment Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates and industry insiders believe job losses may be much higher, in part because many workers are undocumented and are paid off the books. The California Restaurant Association, for instance, estimates that up to 1 million workers have been furloughed or laid off since March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some California counties with lower risk for COVID-19, restaurants may now reopen for limited indoor dining, after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/operations/california-starts-reopening-restaurant-dining-rooms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announcement\u003c/a> by Gov. Gavin Newsom last month. As of Tuesday, restaurants in San Francisco, Santa Clara and Napa counties could \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/#reopening-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open indoors\u003c/a> for up to 25% of their capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But restaurants in the rest of the Bay Area and most of the state must continue surviving on takeout, delivery and outdoor dining for those establishments that can manage it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When scarce restaurant jobs are posted, competition can be fierce. One manager in San Francisco reported that more than 100 applicants replied within hours for a newly advertised server position, said Amy Cleary, a spokeswoman with the Golden Gate Restaurant Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Moreno said he has applied for more than 10 openings in restaurant kitchens and delis since being laid off. Some employers told him dozens of people applied for the same positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have the hope that everything is going to be OK. But now, after seven months, we are running out of money, we are running out of food, we are running out of patience,” Moreno said. “It’s just terrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11837234 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Pablo Perez helps Victor Moreno check in at a food pantry that Street Level Health Project opened up during the pandemic in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria Moreno, a community organizer for Restaurant Opportunities Center of the Bay Area (who’s no relation to Victor Moreno), said unemployment remains severe since restaurants that have reopened or stayed open are not operating at full capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tons of people who were laid off don’t have a big pool of employment to tap into,” she said. “We’ve had some of our workers apply to other industries like construction … but a lot of them have been unemployed for months on end, with not a lot of choices for jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an asylee who has received work authorization, Victor Moreno is eligible for unemployment insurance. But he has not applied because he fears the Trump administration’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/archive/public-charge-fact-sheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public charge\u003c/a>” rule could hurt his ability to become a permanent resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rule, which was finalized earlier this year, penalizes green card applicants if they use certain public benefits. But it wouldn’t affect Moreno as asylees are exempt and unemployment insurance is \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationimpact.com/2020/04/06/unemployment-for-immigrants-public-charge/#.X1lPiWdKjR0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not considered\u003c/a>, because workers pay into it from their paychecks. The rule is currently being challenged in the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To earn his share of the $1,000 rent he splits with his roommate, Moreno said he has found occasional odd jobs. He even spent a couple of days traveling 60 miles by bus each way to Napa to fertilize and irrigate vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But without a stable job, he worries constantly about paying the rent, especially as his roommate is moving away soon, he said. Moreno is one of about a third of California renters — nearly 4 million adults — who report low or no confidence they will make next month’s rent, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2020/demo/hhp/hhp12.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">household survey\u003c/a> on the pandemic’s impact by the U.S. Census Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11837237\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman looks through a box of fresh produce and groceries at a food pantry that opened up during the pandemic in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the midst of this crisis, Moreno has found unexpected support from people in his neighborhood, a place where many struggle financially and which has one of the highest \u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/data.page?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 case rates\u003c/a> in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps it shouldn’t have been a surprise. Moreno is well known at local nonprofits for donating his time and effort over the years, said Gabriela Galicia, executive director at Street Level Health Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he has provided a lot to the community,” said Galicia, who first met Moreno when he volunteered his restaurant skills to cook nutritious lunches for day laborers and others who sought services from the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s always been socially justice oriented. And I feel like that also just comes from his own experiences as an immigrant,” Galicia added. “Victor knows how to talk to community members in a way where they feel heard and understood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Street Level Health Project now offers the weekly food pantry that Moreno has relied on since April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11837236\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victor Moreno holds up prepared meals he received at a food pantry. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moreno has also received help from a friend he met while volunteering at Peralta Hacienda, a nearby historical park and museum. He used to prepare meals for fundraisers and community events at Peralta, said Shadé Cortez, a staffer there at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We became really good friends,” said Cortez, 27, who now does administrative work for an artisanal bread shop in Oakland. “He’s a person that I really trust and I’m really thankful for his friendship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they heard Moreno was struggling financially, Cortez and her mother decided to drop several bags of groceries by his door. The pair also tucked $100 in a carton of eggs, so Moreno would find the money only after they had left. [aside tag=\"restaurant, jobs\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew that if I gave him the money in his hand, he wouldn’t take it. So my mom and I came up with the idea of hiding it in the groceries,” Cortez said. “If we can come together as a community and help one another, then I think we can make things at least a little better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreno said Cortez has repeated the generous gesture at least four more times in the past months. His eyes teared up as he spoke about his friend’s kindness, which he compared to a flickering light in the darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My faith in humanity was renewed,” said Moreno, his voice trembling. “I’ve never had anybody bring me food to my house.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant industry has suffered greatly during the pandemic. Between February and July, the state lost nearly 350,000 food service jobs, about a quarter of the positions in the industry, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/employment-by-industry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">estimates\u003c/a> by the California Employment Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates and industry insiders believe job losses may be much higher, in part because many workers are undocumented and are paid off the books. The California Restaurant Association, for instance, estimates that up to 1 million workers have been furloughed or laid off since March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some California counties with lower risk for COVID-19, restaurants may now reopen for limited indoor dining, after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/operations/california-starts-reopening-restaurant-dining-rooms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announcement\u003c/a> by Gov. Gavin Newsom last month. As of Tuesday, restaurants in San Francisco, Santa Clara and Napa counties could \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/#reopening-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open indoors\u003c/a> for up to 25% of their capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But restaurants in the rest of the Bay Area and most of the state must continue surviving on takeout, delivery and outdoor dining for those establishments that can manage it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When scarce restaurant jobs are posted, competition can be fierce. One manager in San Francisco reported that more than 100 applicants replied within hours for a newly advertised server position, said Amy Cleary, a spokeswoman with the Golden Gate Restaurant Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Moreno said he has applied for more than 10 openings in restaurant kitchens and delis since being laid off. Some employers told him dozens of people applied for the same positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have the hope that everything is going to be OK. But now, after seven months, we are running out of money, we are running out of food, we are running out of patience,” Moreno said. “It’s just terrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11837234 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Pablo Perez helps Victor Moreno check in at a food pantry that Street Level Health Project opened up during the pandemic in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria Moreno, a community organizer for Restaurant Opportunities Center of the Bay Area (who’s no relation to Victor Moreno), said unemployment remains severe since restaurants that have reopened or stayed open are not operating at full capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tons of people who were laid off don’t have a big pool of employment to tap into,” she said. “We’ve had some of our workers apply to other industries like construction … but a lot of them have been unemployed for months on end, with not a lot of choices for jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an asylee who has received work authorization, Victor Moreno is eligible for unemployment insurance. But he has not applied because he fears the Trump administration’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/archive/public-charge-fact-sheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public charge\u003c/a>” rule could hurt his ability to become a permanent resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rule, which was finalized earlier this year, penalizes green card applicants if they use certain public benefits. But it wouldn’t affect Moreno as asylees are exempt and unemployment insurance is \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationimpact.com/2020/04/06/unemployment-for-immigrants-public-charge/#.X1lPiWdKjR0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not considered\u003c/a>, because workers pay into it from their paychecks. The rule is currently being challenged in the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To earn his share of the $1,000 rent he splits with his roommate, Moreno said he has found occasional odd jobs. He even spent a couple of days traveling 60 miles by bus each way to Napa to fertilize and irrigate vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But without a stable job, he worries constantly about paying the rent, especially as his roommate is moving away soon, he said. Moreno is one of about a third of California renters — nearly 4 million adults — who report low or no confidence they will make next month’s rent, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2020/demo/hhp/hhp12.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">household survey\u003c/a> on the pandemic’s impact by the U.S. Census Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11837237\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman looks through a box of fresh produce and groceries at a food pantry that opened up during the pandemic in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the midst of this crisis, Moreno has found unexpected support from people in his neighborhood, a place where many struggle financially and which has one of the highest \u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/data.page?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 case rates\u003c/a> in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps it shouldn’t have been a surprise. Moreno is well known at local nonprofits for donating his time and effort over the years, said Gabriela Galicia, executive director at Street Level Health Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he has provided a lot to the community,” said Galicia, who first met Moreno when he volunteered his restaurant skills to cook nutritious lunches for day laborers and others who sought services from the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s always been socially justice oriented. And I feel like that also just comes from his own experiences as an immigrant,” Galicia added. “Victor knows how to talk to community members in a way where they feel heard and understood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Street Level Health Project now offers the weekly food pantry that Moreno has relied on since April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11837236\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victor Moreno holds up prepared meals he received at a food pantry. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moreno has also received help from a friend he met while volunteering at Peralta Hacienda, a nearby historical park and museum. He used to prepare meals for fundraisers and community events at Peralta, said Shadé Cortez, a staffer there at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We became really good friends,” said Cortez, 27, who now does administrative work for an artisanal bread shop in Oakland. “He’s a person that I really trust and I’m really thankful for his friendship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they heard Moreno was struggling financially, Cortez and her mother decided to drop several bags of groceries by his door. The pair also tucked $100 in a carton of eggs, so Moreno would find the money only after they had left. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Unhoused people in San Francisco say the city’s system for helping them creates a “revolving door,” shuffling homeless people into shelters and right back out again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire homeless system needs to change, they say. Throw it out. Reinvent it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make something new that centers the needs of those suffering addiction, those who are undocumented, transgender people and other key demographics in San Francisco’s population of unhoused people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take police out of the homelessness response entirely, replace overcrowded shelters with service-oriented tent encampments and provide rental subsidies to tenants on the verge of eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are the top-level findings of \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1thWoIG4PXe36QoInR-QiOwEKi4RIccer/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“Stop the Revolving Door,” a study conducted of homeless people, by homeless people\u003c/a>, who were trained by academics from universities across the Bay Area, including UC Berkeley, Santa Clara University and San Francisco State University. The report was organized by the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report comes as San Francisco’s homeless response system, long-overstretched, could be on the precipice of a major cash infusion. A legal battle over a tax to fund homeless services may be resolved in the next two years, which could free up roughly $300 million in tax revenue to help those on the streets. [pullquote size=\"small\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dilara Yarbrough, assistant professor at San Francisco State University\"]‘The crucial transformation our research and report is pointing to is we need to shift from this churning in and out of large congregate shelters to preventing homelessness in the first place.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracey Mixon is one of the peer researchers. She was unhoused when she began working on the survey, she said at a Thursday press briefing. That helped her better connect to the people she was surveying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a person knows I’ve been in this struggle, and I’m going through this struggle right along with you, you can always find common ground,” Mixon said. “Some of the stories I heard are touching me now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 580 people living on the streets, in shelters and other precarious places were surveyed in a study conducted between June 3 and Aug. 30 this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If all these recommendations were put together as a whole, we’d see an incredibly transformative effect on the system,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness. “We probably wouldn’t get to zero homelessness, but we’d get to a point where homelessness is much more brief and rare. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing did not immediately respond for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Stop Homelessness Before It Happens\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While much of the report concentrates on flipping the script in San Francisco’s homeless efforts, a series of questions also focused on prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How did people fall into homelessness? For most of those surveyed, it was a job loss or reduced income that led to an eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quarter of respondents had only become homeless in the past year, and 9% had become homeless only within three months prior to the survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those who lost housing, 43% said it was because they were unable to pay rent. And of those who could not pay rent, 37% said it was due to a job loss, with 36% saying they were still working, but their income was too low. [aside tag=\"housing\" label=\"More Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The crucial transformation our research and report is pointing to is we need to shift from this churning in and out of large congregate shelters to preventing homelessness in the first place,” said Dilara Yarbrough, an assistant professor from San Francisco State University who worked as a researcher on the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When, in a multiple-choice question, surveyors asked what would’ve kept people housed, people overwhelmingly said rental assistance could have helped while they stabilized their income. Four in five study participants said they would have needed rental assistance for one year or less to stay housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those who lived on the street were evicted from some form of housing meant to help the poor or homeless. About 6% lived in public housing, 10% in a below-market-rate unit and 13% in city-supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proposition C’s New Investment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Proposition C, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702831/voters-show-heavy-support-for-new-bay-area-business-taxes-including-s-f-measure-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a gross receipts tax measure on wealthy San Francisco businesses\u003c/a>, passed in 2018 and was expected to infuse $300 million into the city’s coffers, marked for homeless services. But a lawsuit by the Howard Jarvis Tax Association and the California Association of Realtors tied that funding up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coalition on Homelessness said their report is in anticipation of a decision to allow, or not, the appeal of the case by the Supreme Court, at which point the funds may become available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Improvements to shelters are needed, the report’s authors concluded, because 81% of those they surveyed had used, or tried to access, shelters in the past. The survey’s authors said this shows the shelter wasn’t a pathway to housing in the first place, returning those survey respondents largely to the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some new investments recommended by the report include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Expanding permanent supportive housing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Providing new kinds of shelter, including “wet” shelters where alcohol is permitted, and safe consumption spaces for drug users trying to ditch their habits\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Providing separate “clean and sober” shelters for those who are successful in recovery\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Increasing the maintenance budget of shelters\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Increasing the number of drop-in shelters, which have decreased by 50% in the last 15 years\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Increasing individualized intensive-care management for drug users in recovery\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Providing trauma-informed care that acknowledges people’s experiences with childhood sexual and physical traumas that exacerbate homelessness\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Expanding the availability of voluntary mental health services instead of only offering such help when people are in crisis\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Creating more neighborhood-based services instead of concentrating services only in the downtown/Tenderloin/South of Market areas\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Perhaps one positive nod to San Francisco’s current efforts were favorable views of organized outdoor tent encampments, called “Safe Sleep Sites,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11816648/sf-used-to-trash-homeless-tents-now-the-city-will-sanction-these-safe-sleeping-sites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which the city piloted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in a few locations\u003c/a>, including the Haight-Ashbury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 44% of those staying in shelters said they preferred an organized, outdoor camp. Friedenbach, executive director of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness, said, “I think it doesn’t speak well of our shelters. People really value their privacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Herring, a Harvard fellow who worked as a researcher on the project, said the favorable feeling toward tent encampments stood out to him, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not people wanting to stay outside on the streets. This is in an organized setting, with some sort of security and amenities such as showers, bathrooms,” he said. “I think with the opening of some ‘safe sleep sites’ there was a real opportunity there. I’d think we should learn to expand that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herring also said the high level of people researchers talked to who were now on the streets, but had actually been in shelters previously, “goes against this thing we hear often of people ‘resisting services.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Service resistance, he said, is a myth.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Aleyda Rebelo hasn’t slept well since the pandemic began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many nights, she tosses and turns in bed, anxious about how she’ll pay the $1,200 monthly rent on the house she shares with her family in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so worried because my family depends on me. If I don’t make money, it’s very difficult,” said Rebelo, 35, in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mother of four became the main breadwinner in her household about five years ago, she said, after her husband was disabled at his last job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebelo cleans homes in San Francisco and the Oakland hills but, since March, she has lost several clients and more than half of her earnings, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebelo is one of hundreds of thousands of Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/covid-19-and-vulnerable-renters-california\">renters who saw their incomes drop\u003c/a> during the pandemic, as shelter-in-place and social distancing measures became the norm. The economic slowdown has compounded the stress on families for whom the regional housing market was already unaffordable — and the strain is felt especially in lower-income areas like Fruitvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the health of people in the neighborhood has been battered by the coronavirus. A cluster of three ZIP codes there, including 94601 — where Rebelo lives — has the highest case rates of COVID-19 in Alameda County, according to its\u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/data.page?\"> public health department\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835785\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835785\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44635_013_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44635_013_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44635_013_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44635_013_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44635_013_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44635_013_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aleyda Rebelo at her home in Oakland on Aug. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Aleyda Rebelo\"]‘I’m so worried because my family depends on me.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebelo said her 2-year-old niece, whose family lives in the neighborhood, tested positive for COVID-19 this month. And Rebelo worries about bringing the virus home to her husband, who she said suffered lung damage by inhaling chemicals used to treat wood floors at his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If my husband gets the virus he could die, because he already has a more delicate health condition,” said Rebelo, an immigrant from El Salvador. “So, it’s a huge stress having to go out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Rebelo, most of the residents in ZIP code 94601 work in jobs that can’t be done from home, so they are at higher risk for contracting the virus. And wages for Rebelo and her neighbors tend to be low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a consequence, more than 28% of people in the ZIP code live in poverty — twice the state average, \u003ca href=\"https://censusreporter.org/profiles/86000US94601-94601/\">according to census figures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We’ve Just Seen the Need Intensify’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even before the pandemic, many in Fruitvale and adjacent parts of East Oakland were already spending a big share of their paychecks on rent and had no financial cushion to cope with lost income, said Carolina Reid, an assistant professor in city and regional planning at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to come up with the words that are sufficient to describe what a crisis this must be for some households in terms of concerns over their health … concerns over paying rent,” said Reid, a researcher at UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu\">Terner Center for Housing Innovation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835784\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835784\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44627_005_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44627_005_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44627_005_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44627_005_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44627_005_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44627_005_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raphael, 3, Jessalyn, 2, and Genesis 7, play outside of the home of Aleyda Rebelo in Oakland on Aug. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For now, local and state eviction moratoriums have been a lifeline for renters like Rebelo. But once those policies end, tenants may still have to pay landlords the full amount of their back rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reid and others worry that could lead to an unprecedented wave of evictions, especially hitting low-income renters of color. As many as 5.4 million people in California are at risk of eviction, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/the-covid-19-eviction-crisis-an-estimated-30-40-million-people-in-america-are-at-risk/\">estimates by the Aspen Institute\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Carolina Reid, UC Berkeley.\"]‘It’s hard to come up with the words that are sufficient to describe what a crisis this must be for some households.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to increase homelessness and it’s also going to have an impact on our ability to have economic recovery,” Reid said. “We are in for a prolonged recession, if not worse, if we can’t get people back on their feet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid massive evictions, Reid said, the federal government must continue to provide cash assistance to people who’ve been financially hurt by the pandemic, so they can pay for rent, groceries and other basic needs — and help keep the larger economy afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835565/newsom-announces-new-statewide-eviction-moratorium-but-major-concessions-may-threaten-tenants\">announced a plan for a new eviction moratorium\u003c/a> that could protect millions of renters in the state, if the Legislature approves it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11812172\" label=\"Pandemic finance resources\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the bill, Assembly Bill 3088, does not go as far as tenants’ groups had hoped, it would prevent landlords from evicting tenants for missing rent between March 1 and Aug. 31. Unpaid rent from that period would be converted to civil debt, meaning landlords could take tenants to small claims court to try to recover the amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For rents missed between Sept. 1 and Jan. 31, tenants would have to pay at least 25% of what they owe or face eviction. The remaining amount would be converted to civil debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835786\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835786\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44624_002_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44624_002_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44624_002_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44624_002_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44624_002_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44624_002_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher, 12, and Raphael, 3, the children of Aleyda Rebelo, play basketball outside of their home in Oakland on Aug. 26, 2020.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in Oakland, a program called \u003ca href=\"https://www.keepoaklandhoused.org\">Keep Oakland Housed\u003c/a> has been channeling private donations to provide emergency assistance to people in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program has been around for two years, but since the pandemic started it has received hundreds more calls for help, said Jonathan Russell, who directs housing strategy for Bay Area Community Services, one the nonprofits that run it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve just seen the need intensify,” Russell said. “What was already an extremely difficult and expensive market … we’ve just seen that exacerbated and worsened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“What Am I Going to Do?”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Keep Oakland Housed program helped Aleyda Rebelo pay a PG&E bill, car repairs and more than $4,000 in rent payments on her family’s Fruitvale home that she had missed from May to August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is, it doesn’t fix September,” Russell said of the aid Rebelo received. “But it puts September in a context where the burden of rent — that would otherwise compound in the future — is gone. And the car is working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835804\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44636_014_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44636_014_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44636_014_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44636_014_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44636_014_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44636_014_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aleyda Rebelo and her son Raphael Roque, 3, at their home in Oakland on Aug. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rebelo said the financial help was a huge relief that gave her and her family an emotional and financial break during the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many others she knows who have lost jobs, like her sister, haven’t been able to find help, she said. And Rebelo is still anxious, because she doesn’t know when she’ll be able to work full time again to cover her rent and bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still don’t have all my work, the way I had it before the pandemic,” she said. “And it’s like, what am I going to do?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Wildfires are choking the air across the Bay Area. But while people fearing blackened skies are rushing to buy masks and air filtration systems, low-income communities and communities of color suffer unhealthy air year-round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An effort led by the California Air Resources Board to improve air in those communities is now expanding into San Francisco, accelerated in response to the worsening air from the lightning-sparked wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brightline Defense, an environmental nonprofit, is leading the San Francisco effort to install air-quality sensors near single-room occupancy hotels and to survey residents on their health in collaboration with SRO hotel tenants, themselves. [aside tag=\"air-quality\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gail Seagraves lives in one of those SRO hotels in the Tenderloin, on Turk Street. She says tenants there live on the margins and are often “invisible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to fight for every single thing,” Seagraves said. “This is really exciting for us that tenants are involved, and someone wants to listen to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just makes us feel like somebody cares,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/capp/about\">The Community Air Protection Program\u003c/a> is an effort to measure and improve poor air quality in disadvantaged communities statewide, ranging from East Lost Angeles to South Central Fresno, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11573588/california-lawmakers-approve-plan-to-extend-cap-and-trade-system\">established by Assembly Bill 617 in 2017. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the program is also in Richmond and West Oakland, the latter of which resulted in an October 2019 “action plan” that identified diesel from the Port of Oakland and particulates from nearby waste treatment facilities as sources of air pollution in disadvantaged communities. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District provides technical assistance to those efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those communities suffer higher rates of asthma and bad cardiovascular health, \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/ab617-community-health/west-oakland/100219-files/owning-our-air-plan-summary-pdf.pdf?la=en\">the report noted\u003c/a>. Air quality data collected in West Oakland led to recommendations like moving the Port of Oakland’s truck operations to zero-emissions by 2035 and to fund cleaner tugboat engines. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that effort is expanding into low-income San Francisco communities. On Thursday, Brightline Defense Executive Director Eddie Ahn climbed ladders and clambered onto rooftops in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, Mid-Market and South of Market neighborhoods, working to install more than a dozen air-quality sensors near SRO hotels, and some parks — like Boedekker Park in the Tenderloin — where SRO tenants frequent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834523\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11834523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AQ-device2.JPG-800x491.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AQ-device2.JPG-800x491.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AQ-device2.JPG-1020x625.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AQ-device2.JPG-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AQ-device2.JPG-1536x942.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AQ-device2.JPG.jpg 1900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brightline Defense Executive Director Eddie Ahn installs an air-quality sensor in San Francisco, Thursday. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy Brightline Defense)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The device is rectangular and white, about half the size of a shoebox but similar in shape, with antennae and a solar panel attached to it. Ahn zip ties the device to nearby poles, and links it via the internet to a web page that shows refreshed air-quality readings once every hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measuring the air near SRO hotels is especially important, Ahn said, because they can be so densely populated. San Francisco has hundreds of SRO hotels, which each can have as many as 200 living units, many with families packing into a single room. These impoverished communities are located very close to congested traffic, which chokes their air far more regularly than wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With wildfire smoke, “you can even feel it inside your apartment building, you don’t even have to step out into the street. 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Now, a 315-unit apartment development in Lafayette that became a statewide rallying cry for the Yes In My Back Yard movement will spin its wheels a little longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote to approve The Terraces development was delayed by the Lafayette City Council after a seven-hour marathon meeting that stretched from Monday night into early Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lafayette City Council said they needed more time to fully discuss concerns aired by neighbors, many of whom claimed the proposed apartments would bring crippling traffic congestion, increase the risk of wildfire, and imperil the movement of emergency vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jeremy Levine, a Lafayette resident and co-founder of the group Inclusive Lafayette, said those concerns have been proven untrue by Lafayette city staff, and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Lafayette City Council pushed their decision down the road, public commenters and city staff warned Lafayette would be open to lawsuit under the Housing Accountability Act – and $15 million in possible fines – should they fail to approve the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victoria Fierce of housing advocacy group California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund, or CaRLA said, “Lafayette may no longer choose between housing or no housing. You may decide between housing and consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lafayette City Council will continue its discussion of The Terraces development August 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 1:00 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBefore a single brick has even been laid, \u003ca href=\"https://www.terracesoflafayette.com\">The Terraces\u003c/a>, a proposed 315-unit apartment development in Lafayette, became a flash point for discussion around the housing crisis in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2015 legal battle over the project helped define the “Yes In My Backyard,” or YIMBY, movement. The movement, and the activists behind it, have made a name for themselves by “suing the suburbs” like Lafayette, in a bid to push California to “build, build, build” its way out of the housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, nearly a decade after the project first entered the public sphere, The Terraces finally faces approval Monday night from the Lafayette City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Cameron Burks appealed the project after it was approved July 1 by the Lafayette Planning Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lafayette City Councilmember Cameron Burks\"]“I felt that this particular project was such profound importance to the city that really the community deserved to have their elected officials make the final decision.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burks, who recently announced his reelection campaign, said he brought it to the City Council so the body could put itself on record about The Terraces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt that this particular project was such profound importance to the city that really the community deserved to have their elected officials make the final decision,” Burks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Terraces has drawn rebuke from some neighbors, particularly a group called \u003ca href=\"http://savelafayette.org\">Save Lafayette\u003c/a>, who publicly say the dense housing project will clog local roads with traffic congestion, ruin the city’s “semi-rural” character and is out of touch with Lafayette writ-large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town is home to roughly 26,000 people, according to the Census Bureau, and is often touted as an idyllic refuge for people who don’t wish to live the urban life of nearby Oakland or San Francisco, which are only a BART ride away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the project has its detractors, neighbors have come to its defense in recent years, as well. Inclusive Lafayette’s co-founder, Jeremy Levine, said his group’s more than 450 members believe The Terraces project won’t add to the city’s traffic congestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, because the project is less than a mile from BART, Levine says that many living in The Terraces won’t need a car at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832820\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/20190327091526171_Page_1-e1597087659178-800x498.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/20190327091526171_Page_1-e1597087659178-800x498.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/20190327091526171_Page_1-e1597087659178-1020x634.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/20190327091526171_Page_1-e1597087659178-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/20190327091526171_Page_1-e1597087659178.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A project rendering of The Terraces, a proposed 315-unit apartment development project in Lafayette. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Terraces of Lafayette)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Compared to almost anywhere else in Lafayette, it’s almost as close as you can get for walkability purposes,” Levine said. “The rest of the community is built on winding roads, squeezed into the hills. And you kind of have to drive if you plan to get anywhere. The Terraces are not that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project has had a tumultuous ride. After developer O’Brien Land Company sought to change a sloping open space into apartments, and it drew community resistance, Lafayette officials sought to turn the project into 44 single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a group called called SF BARF, which was a precursor to the California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund, sued the city for abandoning the apartment development in 2015. Save Lafayette then sued the city, which led to a June 2018 ballot measure. That was defeated by Lafayette voters, leading to the return of The Terraces and the proposal for over 300 apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, the turmoil over the project also led to the high-profile resignation of former Lafayette City Manager Steven Falk. In a public letter to the City Council in 2018, he drew attention to the connection between the need for all communities to build denser housing and preventing climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victoria Fierce is director of operations at the California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund, or CaRLA, which brought suit to compel The Terraces project to move forward. That legal challenge depended on the state’s Housing Accountability Act of 1982 — which in theory, protects certain types of housing developments from being challenged by local governments across California, but in reality, was rarely enforced previous to CaRLA’s challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Lafayette legal wrangling began, various efforts at the state level led by state Sens. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, and Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and others have strengthened the Housing Accountability Act and other related laws to compel cities to build more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of that lawsuit, the original lawsuit, it brought about a bunch of changes to the Housing Accountability Act,” Fierce said, including increasing the burden on jurisdictions that reject housing, changing standards projects must comply with to favor developers and making attorney fees more available. “Not only did it change the law, but it really drove it home that now people are starting to fight it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11825550,news_11801176,news_11731580\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s harder for cities to fight these things,” Fierce added, because now “pretty much anybody can file a lawsuit against the city for unlawful denial of the housing project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that strengthened California cities’ incentive to build more housing statewide, it also means that for its final go-round in city planning processes, Lafayette officials may face potential legal challenges should they say \u003cem>no \u003c/em>to The Terraces project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While councilmember Burks said he is neutral on The Terraces project, he said the state’s ability to roll back local control over land-use decisions rankles him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not believe that Sacramento should manage a city’s planning process or planning function using what I’ve called the ’70-mile-screwdriver,’ ” Burks told KQED. 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The couple and other tenants in their 39-unit building say they plan to try to negotiate rent forgiveness with their landlord, San Francisco-based Mosser Companies. They say the only thing keeping them housed now is Oakland’s eviction moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite the relief, there’s no way we would be able to afford rent right now,” Hodson said recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But federal pandemic assistance came through in a big way for their landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government records show Mosser Companies received a loan of between $2 million and $5 million under the Paycheck Protection Program, passed by Congress in March to help small businesses avoid layoffs during the pandemic. The data, posted last month by the federal Small Business Administration, shows loan amounts in broad ranges, not specific amounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s property management arm, Mosser Living, offers rental units in 55 properties across San Francisco, 20 properties in Oakland and eight properties in Los Angeles, promising a “blend” of “vintage with modern upgrades in all the right places, striking the perfect balance between authentic and awesome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call this Mosser Living. You’ll call it ‘home,’ ” the company’s website says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furtkamp says the thought that federal assistance has been unable to help him and his wife meet their rent while Mosser got millions in federal support makes him furious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For them to take advantage of a program like this that’s intended for small business — that doesn’t have access to capital in the way that they do — it’s just kind of insulting that they would abuse the program in that way,” Furtkamp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mosser Companies did not respond to repeated requests for comment on its loan and its response to tenants in Furtkamp’s building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mosser is just one of several large Bay Area property and development firms that scored PPP loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among companies identified for KQED by tenant advocates and industry sources are some of the region’s biggest landlords. 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San Francisco’s biggest landlord, the company owns and operates more than 250 apartment buildings in the city and has $3 billion in assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loans have received negative attention in part because of some companies’ poor reputations with tenants and community groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some firms on the list, such as Veritas, have been criticized in the past for allegedly trying to push tenants out of rent-controlled buildings. Others, such as Maximus, have been the target of community anger \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10984844/the-monster-is-back-updated-proposal-for-project-at-16th-and-mission\">for proposing projects that could gentrify neighborhoods and displace longtime residents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians, pundits, housing rights activists and those renting from these corporate landlords also argue that the loan recipients are too big and too wealthy to need government help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/3374695/embed\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%!;margin-top: 4px!important;text-align: right!important\">\u003ca class=\"flourish-credit\" style=\"text-decoration: none!important\" href=\"https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/3374695/?utm_source=embed&utm_campaign=visualisation/3374695\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 105px!important;height: 16px!important;border: none!important;margin: 0!important\" src=\"https://public.flourish.studio/resources/made_with_flourish.svg\" alt=\"Made with Flourish\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Mosser Companies, for instance, includes Mosser Capital, which offers real estate investment opportunities and boasts $1.3 billion in assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other local firms that got PPP loans illustrate the massive amounts of capital that property firms are dealing in as they buy, sell and invest in Bay Area real estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starcity Properties, which received a loan of between $1 and $2 million, owns seven buildings in San Francisco and two in Oakland. It has offered properties on the market for as much as $30 million and sold properties for $11 million and $16 million, according to filings with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballast Investments, which received a PPP loan between $1 and $2 million, manages $97 million in assets, according to its SEC filings, with custody of $38 million across 78 clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Tough Borrowing Environment for Property Managers?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But those working in the real estate industry say some of these wealthy-looking firms may need the short-term help the PPP loans can provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander Quinn, director of research for Northern California at real estate services firm JLL, says big property owners typically have access to what’s often called “dry powder” — buildings in their portfolio that can be refinanced to raise cash reserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, some of them pulled some of that out, put it into cash, but a lot of them didn’t,” Quinn said. 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Those with older properties are less likely to be cash-strapped, whereas those with new developments may face a harder road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Housing Coverage' tag='affordable-housing']Starcity Properties CEO Jon Dishotsky said that the availability of capital, including cash to meet payroll, has changed dramatically since the pandemic began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Out of a hundred people I normally talk to for capital … 30 write a term sheet in a normal environment, and I get down to three or five (funders) at the end of the day,” he said. “Now, out of a hundred people, five pick up the phone. And one writes a term sheet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, which builds “co-living” apartment units meant to appeal to younger tenants, took out a $1.2 million PPP loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That amount pales in comparison to the hundreds of millions it needs to build its projects, but Dishotsky says it’s helped the company get through the past few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our corporate entity certainly could have run into a lot of trouble” without the PPP loan, which he said was used to hire back about six furloughed staffers out of a total of roughly 50. According to Small Business Administration data, Starcity said it retained 42 jobs with its loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While his company may be able to raise some capital, Dishotsky said, PPP loans had another favorable feature: speed. Investments may take time to raise, but the PPP loan let them pay employees right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd David, director of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition, said “it makes sense to me” why property management firms and housing developers would need PPP loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a huge dislocation in the lending market,” David said. “Projects they were counting on to bring in revenue got delayed and may have been delayed indefinitely, and they still have expenses to pay with employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to complaints that firms like Veritas with its massive property portfolio don’t need government help, David said “just because they manage assets of $3 billion doesn’t mean those assets are on their balance sheet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who Deserves a PPP Loan?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Should big Bay Area property owners and developers have benefited from PPP loans? Debbie Nunez, a San Francisco native and Lowell High School graduate doesn’t think so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last three decades she’s lived in a Sutter Street apartment building that Veritas bought about five years ago. She hasn’t had a particularly happy relationship with her new landlord, which launched what she’s certain was unnecessary construction inside her building. She filed an administrative appeal with the city to stop the construction, which Veritas critics say the company has used as a tactic to oust tenants from rent-controlled units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than a dozen Veritas tenant activists, Nunez trooped to the Russian Hill home of Veritas CEO Yat-Pang Au one Sunday last month to read a letter demanding that the company distribute at least some of its $3.6 million PPP loan to small businesses that are struggling through the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Veritas does not qualify as a small business in need,” Nunez said. One sign of that, his tenants say: Au’s own personal wealth, estimated by Bloomberg \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-25/landlord-who-built-3-billion-san-francisco-empire-draws-fire#:~:text=He%20got%20the%20first%20taste,million%2C%20according%20to%20Bloomberg%20estimates.\">at more than $100 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Paycheck Protection Program was initially aimed at companies with 500 employees or fewer and later adjusted to include companies with more workers who met the federal definition of a “small business.” PPP loans can be forgiven if the recipients can prove the funds were used to keep employees on payrolls or for a limited set of other business needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832140\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832140\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut-800x632.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut-800x632.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut-1020x806.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut-1536x1214.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44228_002_KQED_IMG_4556-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Nunez is fighting Veritas over construction in her multifamily apartment building. She claims the work is unnecessary. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because many property management firms operate under “a very unique circumstance” — they have outsize assets and revenues but relatively few employees — they could easily meet that basic PPP requirement, despite the program being touted publicly as being aimed at small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JLL’s Alexander Quinn notes that the program’s primary goal was to get a lot of cash into the economy quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the PPP was mostly a shotgun approach. It wasn’t really about, you know, who is deserving, or who isn’t,” Quinn said. “Setting the rules was not as important as just the urgency of delivering the funds to private companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There really is no referee,” Quinn added. “So as a result, a lot of people were opportunistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Limited Offer of Help, Then ‘Total Silence’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As to how property firms that got PPP loans are behaving toward tenants, Quinn says some California companies have provided rental relief to tenants during the pandemic. Notably, on Thursday, San Francisco’s largest landlord – Veritas – offered 50% rent forgiveness for tenants between April and July, if they enter a repayment plan for the remaining rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Quinn noted, “others have not” offered rent relief, and what little has been offered has been extremely limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Brianne Hodson\"]‘Every month we have this terrified waiting period of seeing whether the City Council and the Board of Supervisors will extend the [eviction] protections that are in place.’[/pullquote]Oakland tenants Ryan Furtkamp and Brianne Hodson say that their PPP recipient landlord, Mosser Companies, has offered some help — but not nearly enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furtkamp and Hodson have organized with fellow tenants with the help of housing advocacy group Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, or ACCE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Mosser offered to give tenants up to six months to repay their back rent — an offer Furtkamp said is simply unaffordable for him and most of his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since then, total silence in terms of willingness to work with tenants who haven’t been able to pay rent. What they have been doing though, is harassing tenants who haven’t been able to pay rent,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notices began appearing outside apartments declaring them “abandoned” and warning that they would soon be entered by Mosser employees. Tours would be given for prospective new tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Furtkamp said the apartments have not been abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those neighbors simply stopped paying rent, he says. They can’t be evicted at this point because Oakland, Alameda County and the state of California all have eviction moratoriums in place. In Furtkamp’s view, Mosser’s declaration of abandonment is sinister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832143\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44064_007_KQED_Oakland_MosserPropertyManagement_07232020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for Mosser, a property management company, at an apartment building in Oakland on July 23, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had to email Mosser and be like, ‘Hey, this is a violation of the county health code that is ordering the shelter in place. Have you attempted to even make contact with this person to see if they’re still here?’ ” Furtkamp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email response from Mosser to Furtkamp and Hodson, the company said it was canceling the threatened property tours “due to resident concerns regarding visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furtkamp says Mosser’s PPP loan could be a help — to neighborhood businesses that are struggling because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our neighborhood alone, we’re seeing some bars and restaurants that just aren’t going to be able to survive, that have closed already,” Furtkamp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And soon, Furtkamp and Hodson say, they may have to leave the neighborhood, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know we’re renters,” Hodson said. “We don’t have assets. The eviction moratorium has been really essential to us staying afloat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every month we have this terrified waiting period of seeing whether the City Council and the Board of Supervisors will extend the protections that are in place,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the eviction moratoriums end, she said, they will have to make “very hard” decisions. Should they be ousted from their apartment, she said she doesn’t have answers on what they would do next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think about it every day,” Hodson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Editor’s note: KQED is among the local businesses and media organizations that have received a PPP loan. This helps us continue to provide essential information and service to our audiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correction: This story originally reported that San Francisco’s Grosvenor Properties, which received a Paycheck Protection Program loan, owns buildings in Japan, France and China. In fact, it’s a separate company, Grosvenor Americas, which did not receive a PPP loan, that owns those overseas properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government records show Mosser Companies received a loan of between $2 million and $5 million under the Paycheck Protection Program, passed by Congress in March to help small businesses avoid layoffs during the pandemic. The data, posted last month by the federal Small Business Administration, shows loan amounts in broad ranges, not specific amounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s property management arm, Mosser Living, offers rental units in 55 properties across San Francisco, 20 properties in Oakland and eight properties in Los Angeles, promising a “blend” of “vintage with modern upgrades in all the right places, striking the perfect balance between authentic and awesome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call this Mosser Living. You’ll call it ‘home,’ ” the company’s website says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furtkamp says the thought that federal assistance has been unable to help him and his wife meet their rent while Mosser got millions in federal support makes him furious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For them to take advantage of a program like this that’s intended for small business — that doesn’t have access to capital in the way that they do — it’s just kind of insulting that they would abuse the program in that way,” Furtkamp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mosser Companies did not respond to repeated requests for comment on its loan and its response to tenants in Furtkamp’s building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mosser is just one of several large Bay Area property and development firms that scored PPP loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among companies identified for KQED by tenant advocates and industry sources are some of the region’s biggest landlords. They include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Emerald Fund, developer of 37 projects with more than 5,000 housing units, received a loan of between $1 and $3.5 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Maximus Real Estate Partners, which manages San Francisco’s Parkmerced, got a loan of $2 million to $5 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reliant Group Management, which manages 23 properties in the Bay Area and more than 70 in the United States, received between $1 million and $3.5 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grosvenor Properties, which manages four properties in San Francisco, got between $1 million and $3.5 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Woodmont Real Estate Services, which owns roughly 80 multifamily properties across California, received between $5 million and $10 million\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Deep Pockets — and Big Loans\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The news comes on the heels of public outcry over a $3.6 million PPP loan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11818912/after-pelosi-pressure-sf-biggest-landlord-veritas-says-they-will-repay-loan\">granted to Veritas Investments\u003c/a>. San Francisco’s biggest landlord, the company owns and operates more than 250 apartment buildings in the city and has $3 billion in assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loans have received negative attention in part because of some companies’ poor reputations with tenants and community groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some firms on the list, such as Veritas, have been criticized in the past for allegedly trying to push tenants out of rent-controlled buildings. Others, such as Maximus, have been the target of community anger \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10984844/the-monster-is-back-updated-proposal-for-project-at-16th-and-mission\">for proposing projects that could gentrify neighborhoods and displace longtime residents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians, pundits, housing rights activists and those renting from these corporate landlords also argue that the loan recipients are too big and too wealthy to need government help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/3374695/embed\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%!;margin-top: 4px!important;text-align: right!important\">\u003ca class=\"flourish-credit\" style=\"text-decoration: none!important\" href=\"https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/3374695/?utm_source=embed&utm_campaign=visualisation/3374695\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 105px!important;height: 16px!important;border: none!important;margin: 0!important\" src=\"https://public.flourish.studio/resources/made_with_flourish.svg\" alt=\"Made with Flourish\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Mosser Companies, for instance, includes Mosser Capital, which offers real estate investment opportunities and boasts $1.3 billion in assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other local firms that got PPP loans illustrate the massive amounts of capital that property firms are dealing in as they buy, sell and invest in Bay Area real estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starcity Properties, which received a loan of between $1 and $2 million, owns seven buildings in San Francisco and two in Oakland. It has offered properties on the market for as much as $30 million and sold properties for $11 million and $16 million, according to filings with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballast Investments, which received a PPP loan between $1 and $2 million, manages $97 million in assets, according to its SEC filings, with custody of $38 million across 78 clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Tough Borrowing Environment for Property Managers?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But those working in the real estate industry say some of these wealthy-looking firms may need the short-term help the PPP loans can provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander Quinn, director of research for Northern California at real estate services firm JLL, says big property owners typically have access to what’s often called “dry powder” — buildings in their portfolio that can be refinanced to raise cash reserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, some of them pulled some of that out, put it into cash, but a lot of them didn’t,” Quinn said. But if they didn’t, borrowing has become more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you were, say, saying, ‘Oh, I need to pull out cash to shore up my cash flow for the next six months,’ it’d be a very difficult thing to do right now,” he said. That’s because it is “really hard to refinance in this market,” Quinn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason banks would be reluctant to refinance is that borrowers might not have a reliable flow of rent payments because so many tenants have lost income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Quinn said that the vast majority of tenants have kept up with rent payments so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rent payments, rent collections have been pretty good until July,” Quinn said. “We saw roughly over 95% of all renters paying their rent” nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Quinn added, who is vulnerable depends on when you bought your properties. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Starcity Properties CEO Jon Dishotsky said that the availability of capital, including cash to meet payroll, has changed dramatically since the pandemic began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Out of a hundred people I normally talk to for capital … 30 write a term sheet in a normal environment, and I get down to three or five (funders) at the end of the day,” he said. “Now, out of a hundred people, five pick up the phone. And one writes a term sheet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, which builds “co-living” apartment units meant to appeal to younger tenants, took out a $1.2 million PPP loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That amount pales in comparison to the hundreds of millions it needs to build its projects, but Dishotsky says it’s helped the company get through the past few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our corporate entity certainly could have run into a lot of trouble” without the PPP loan, which he said was used to hire back about six furloughed staffers out of a total of roughly 50. According to Small Business Administration data, Starcity said it retained 42 jobs with its loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While his company may be able to raise some capital, Dishotsky said, PPP loans had another favorable feature: speed. Investments may take time to raise, but the PPP loan let them pay employees right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd David, director of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition, said “it makes sense to me” why property management firms and housing developers would need PPP loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a huge dislocation in the lending market,” David said. “Projects they were counting on to bring in revenue got delayed and may have been delayed indefinitely, and they still have expenses to pay with employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to complaints that firms like Veritas with its massive property portfolio don’t need government help, David said “just because they manage assets of $3 billion doesn’t mean those assets are on their balance sheet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who Deserves a PPP Loan?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Should big Bay Area property owners and developers have benefited from PPP loans? Debbie Nunez, a San Francisco native and Lowell High School graduate doesn’t think so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last three decades she’s lived in a Sutter Street apartment building that Veritas bought about five years ago. She hasn’t had a particularly happy relationship with her new landlord, which launched what she’s certain was unnecessary construction inside her building. She filed an administrative appeal with the city to stop the construction, which Veritas critics say the company has used as a tactic to oust tenants from rent-controlled units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than a dozen Veritas tenant activists, Nunez trooped to the Russian Hill home of Veritas CEO Yat-Pang Au one Sunday last month to read a letter demanding that the company distribute at least some of its $3.6 million PPP loan to small businesses that are struggling through the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Veritas does not qualify as a small business in need,” Nunez said. 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"content": "\u003cp>From Tiger Woods to Brooks Koepka, world-class golfers by the cartload have begun rolling into San Francisco in advance of next week’s PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park, at the foot of Lake Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to make room for their caddies and camera crews, San Francisco officials this weekend issued new parking restrictions to disperse more than 50 recreational vehicles, home to dozens of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It probably was to keep the rich and famous golfers that are coming out here from being able to view such things as people living in RVs,” said Michael, a man living in one of those vehicles, who asked that his last name not be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the first time the championship, which runs Aug. 3-9, has come to San Francisco, according to \u003ca href=\"https://tpc.com/hardingpark/pga-championship/\">the event’s website\u003c/a>, which touts it as the “strongest and deepest international lineup of any major championship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PGA Championship Director Barry Deach did not return a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11830650\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11830650\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44081_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44081_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44081_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44081_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44081_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44081_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael sweeps the sidewalk where his RV is parked on Lake Merced Boulevard in San Francisco on July 27, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The spate of “no stopping” signs suddenly posted along Lake Merced Boulevard near Winston Street caught many RV residents off guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been quiet all this time and then suddenly, no notice, no nothing — just the signs. Move again, just like usual,” said Jean Pierre Kale, 61, a longtime RV resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally from Paris, but a San Franciscan for more than three decades, Kale has lived in an RV since he and his wife split up years ago. He’s familiar with the usual shuffle: Park in any San Francisco neighborhood, and neighbors will eventually complain and have you kicked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"RV resident Jean Pierre Kale\"]‘It’s been quiet all this time and then suddenly, no notice, no nothing — just the signs. Move again, just like usual.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the Bayview to the Excelsior, Kale has long been shuffled around the city in a real-world game of whack-a-mole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what makes this latest displacement particularly sting, RV residents here say. Lake Merced was a last refuge far away from neighbors who complain and from dangerous areas where vehicles are often vandalized or broken into at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had people chase me down,” said Mana Dream, 31, a software engineer and video game designer, who lives in an RV along Lake Merced Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dream, who is transgender and nonbinary, said they are unable to afford rent elsewhere in the city, noting that as an RV resident, interactions with police can be particularly fraught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s scary to interact with the cops because I just can’t afford to have problems with them. I really need them to just let me be,” Dream said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has more than 46 miles of oversize vehicle restrictions, often added street by street, corridor by corridor, as residents complain of homeless people parking near them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11830651\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11830651 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44084_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44084_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44084_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44084_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44084_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44084_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recently posted ‘no parking’ sign on Lake Merced Boulevard on July 27, 2020 that was later removed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city has struggled to offer broader solutions, although after some complained about the piecemeal approach, officials launched a pilot “Vehicle Triage Center” earlier this year. It allows 30 vehicles with people living in them to park safely on San Jose Avenue, with on-site services offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"homelessness\"]On Monday, two days after vehicles began leaving the area, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department offered a plan to help RV dwellers move to an Ocean Beach parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The offer to relocate the RVs was also announced one day after Supervisor Norman Yee, who represents the area, called the department personally to “inquire” about the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is hosting a major golf tournament under COVID-19 restrictions. The event’s operations team requires access to the west side of Lake Merced Boulevard,” SF Recreation and Park Department spokeswoman Tamara Barak Aparton said in a statement. “To minimize inconvenience to those who park RVs in the area, we have granted the RV owners temporary overnight parking permits in the Ocean Beach parking lot from July 27 to August 11.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aparton added that Homeless Outreach Team members would be on-site to “facilitate the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But RV dwellers told KQED that no city staff — including the HOT team — had offered them relocation information over the weekend, prompting many to drive off in search of their own solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, no stopping signs on one side of Lake Merced Boulevard that had just been posted Saturday had already been torn down by Public Works staff by Monday morning. It was not immediately clear why the signs were initially posted, only to be removed so quickly. And in the absence of the restrictions, some RV owners had already started returning to the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11830727\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44072_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11830727\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44072_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44072_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44072_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44072_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44072_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44072_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_RVsMercedBlvd_07272020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An RV drives away from Lake Merced Boulevard past the TPC Harding Park golf course in San Francisco on July 27, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several sources told KQED that no one directly involved with relocating RV dwellers, from members of HOT to city staff, had any clue about this specific relocation plan. Yee’s office wasn’t even aware of the displacement until KQED called Saturday to ask about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After leaving the area, some RV owners drove to nearby Winston Street, which they feared would provoke conflict with neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My experience has been that property owners have more rights than people who don’t own property,” Dream, the RV resident, said. “I can’t be there — even if it’s legal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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