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"content": "\u003cp>Charles Gibson pushes a shopping cart towards his soggy tent on a tenuous patch of a grassy drainage ditch along a bike trail in Santa Rosa. He’s one of nearly 200 people living in a sprawling camp here that has sprung up along a popular recreation corridor. It’s a community, Gibson says, that often feels caught between opposing forces who aren’t always listening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, they [local officials] want us to be able to govern ourselves, but they are not giving us the tools we need,” Gibson says. “They don’t want you hiding, but they don’t want you in their face, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sonoma County Supervisor Lynda Hopkins\"]‘I never thought that I would drive past a mile-long shantytown on my way to work. And yet, that’s the reality that we’re facing right now in Sonoma County.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California and other parts of the country, these growing homeless encampments evoke shantytown “Hoovervilles,” where hundreds of thousands of destitute Americans lived during the Great Depression. The encampments are frustrating residents, raising health and safety fears and fueling a debate over poverty and inequality in one of the nation’s wealthiest states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fight over the encampment in Sonoma County’s Santa Rosa underscores the challenges of finding a lasting solution to the growing crisis. Amid a growing chorus of outrage at filthy, unsanitary conditions and the presence of rats and used drug needles, the camp has divided locals and even prompted an effort to recall a local politician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought that I would drive past a mile-long shantytown on my way to work. And yet, that’s the reality that we’re facing right now in Sonoma County\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong>” said county \u003ca href=\"http://lyndaforsupervisor.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supervisor Lynda Hopkins\u003c/a>, whose district includes the encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, makeshift tarp, tent and pallet “homes” have filled a stretch of the paved Joe Rodota bike trail that sides right next to Highway 12, a major commuter artery into Santa Rosa, the county seat. Now, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors is considering purchasing three homes to house some of the people who live on the trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incredibly challenging,” Hopkins said, noting she gets scores of emails each day from frustrated, alarmed and angry constituents. “I also get emails of people who are just heartbroken at seeing the level of suffering — people freezing cold, living in a tent in the rain with no access to running water or electricity or sewer services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11794599 label='expanded statewide efforts' hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/newsom-1020x681.jpg\"]\u003cbr>\nWhile homelessness is a hard-to-fix national problem, it is particularly severe in California. The state’s homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792743/hud-report-2-7-uptick-in-nations-homeless-population-due-to-california-spike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jumped 16% in the last year\u003c/a>. California has the \u003ca href=\"https://nlchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Tent_City_USA_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest number of tent cities\u003c/a>, according to a report by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty. And according to a \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2019-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new report \u003c/a>by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, California’s homeless population accounts for 53% of all unsheltered people in the country. Overall, the state has more than 150,000 people experiencing homelessness, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the growing crisis, Gov. Gavin Newsom recently proposed more than $1.4 billion in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795344/newsom-zeroes-in-on-education-gaps-homelessness-and-wildfires-in-state-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new budget \u003c/a>for expanded state and local efforts on immediate housing and services. Some $750 million of that would be placed in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/08/794687084/california-governor-pushes-1-4-billion-plan-to-tackle-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special fund\u003c/a> to pay the rent of people facing homelessness and to jump-start the construction of more affordable housing. The first-term Democrat has also ordered state agencies to do more to help find temporary sites — including decommissioned hospitals or unused land — for the state’s expanding homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, residents are demanding robust coordinated action on what has now become a public health crisis. There are rising concerns about health and safety problems inside the encampments, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Immunization/2016-18CAOutbreakAssociatedDrugUseHomelessness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disease\u003c/a>, open drug use, violence, crime and fire risks. In Los Angeles County alone, the death rate for homeless has risen steadily for years and\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/30/homeless-deaths-los-angeles-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> in 2018 topped 1,000\u003c/a> — about three deaths a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795792\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11795792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/img_0429_wide-8877d569f0e7e253f13298d445a54627274c2c58-e1578950118769.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Gibson, who goes by the nickname “Cowboy,” lives at the tent city in Santa Rosa. “It’s a struggle for anybody to keep warm and keep your heart and head light and strong,” he says. “I’m doing the best I can.” \u003ccite>(Eric Westervelt/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Living on the Trail\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Wiry, frenzied and with a ready smile through some missing teeth, Gibson says he prefers the nickname “Cowboy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, they call me cowboy,” Gibson says, “I always ‘cowboy up’ for other people because I take care of others when I have nothing and stretch myself thin. It’s very hard,” he says of life among broken pallets and ripped tarps. “It’s a struggle for anybody to keep warm and keep your heart and head light and strong. I’m doing the best I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gibson, who has lived here for nearly a year, says the camp has a haphazard sense of community. People watch out for each other. But he concedes the camp has serious problems with garbage, vermin, inadequate toilets and some drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County and city agencies have tried to offer some services, including adding portable toilets and trash control. But camp residents say it’s not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t have someone taking out the trash, it’s gonna pile up,” Gibson says. “Some people are elderly and can’t really do a lot on their own. Some are young people that are very inexperienced with life. I try to a be a guiding light.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a nearby tent, an older woman pops her head out shouting obscenities at no one in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People need to open up their eyes and realize they could end up like this,” Gibson says. “A lot of people are one [pay]check away. Show some humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon a pickup truck pulls up with donations. Time to “cowboy up,” Gibson says, as he moves to help unload used warm clothes from a local resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I drive by every morning and today I was just heartbroken,” says commuter Vania Supulveda. “My daughter complains, ‘Oh, it’s so cold out today’ when we see this. And we go back home to a nice warm home. It’s depressing. I grew up in Brazil, in a Third World country, and I’ve never seen something like this so close to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Exploring Solutions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday on the purchase of three large homes — two in central Santa Rosa and one in Cotati — that would provide housing for some of the people living on the trail. If approved, Hopkins told KQED’s Forum that the homes could be operational as early as next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/nplh.shtml\">“No Place Like Home” program \u003c/a>would fund the purchase of the three homes. Hopkins hopes an additional two homes will be purchased eventually, totaling a cost of $6 million that includes furnishings and supportive services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is actually a model that … already is actually working in a lot of areas in Sonoma County,” Hopkins told Forum. “They have been very, very successful at getting people off the street and into housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents in similar models have even transitioned into renting their own apartments, Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s always the goal, right? Is to get people back fully on their feet and able to be supporting themselves in a type of housing that is acceptable. What’s happening right now on the Joe Rodota Trail, we know is completely unacceptable,” Hopkins told Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, Hopkins is exploring an outdoor shelter option that would still allow people to camp, but would provide a navigation trailer with supportive services. It would equip people with “fundamental human needs,” such as restrooms, electricity, water and, ideally, shower and laundry facilities, Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you talk about the encampment along the Joe Rodota Trail, it is actually very difficult to service because it’s actually spread out over about a mile and a half of linear trail,” Hopkins said. “So it’s tough for service workers to actually go out there … and actually provide people with a plan to get them off the trail and into housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Public Backlash in Sonoma County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“It just showcases the failure of government at all levels to meaningfully have a safety net for human beings,” Hopkins said. “There’s just no room for error now, there’s no safety net.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Sonoma County’s chief homelessness official, Geoffrey Ross, announced his resignation. The Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday to confirm Barbie Robinson, the county health services director, as interim executive director of the Community Development Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson has drawn praise from supervisors, including Hopkins, for stepping into a leadership position and working alongside Ross to craft a plan to allocate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792903/sonoma-county-approves-12-million-urgent-plan-for-homeless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$12 million in emergency funds\u003c/a> for the encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins has also helped lead efforts to find solutions for the camp, including working on the emergency funding plan and setting up an emergency \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/society/sonoma-co-opens-eoc-for-first-time-in-response-to-homeless-crisis/5823059/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">operations center\u003c/a> to better coordinate responses to a complex problem with no easy fixes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the first-term politician is facing blowback over the camp. A handful of angry constituents started \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10539186-181/recall-effort-targets-sonoma-county?sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an effort to recall Hopkins\u003c/a>, even though she faces an election in March. Their petition accuses Hopkins of failing to act — “her watch, her failure” — and calls the homeless encampment a “public cesspool” that’s undermining businesses, homes and quality of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem cuts across complex issues, including rising housing costs and skyrocketing rents, stagnant wages, poverty, addiction and mental health treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complicating attempts to find a solution in Sonoma is \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/CAO/Agreement-with-Homeless-Advocates-on-Preliminary-Injunction/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a local injunction\u003c/a> that says the county can’t arrest or fine its way out of the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/13/787861253/how-boises-fight-over-homelessness-is-rippling-across-the-west-coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A federal court ruling\u003c/a> carries even more weight. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that homeless people essentially have a Constitutional right to camp on public property if local governments can’t provide enough shelter beds and services. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in that case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Marcos Ramirez, co-founder of the Squeaky Wheel Bicycle Coalition\"]‘We know how to do this; we know how to take care of people. We’ve just seen it recently with the Kincade fire.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are services Hopkins said the county simply can’t afford now on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can we provide alternatives when we don’t have enough money from the state or federal government to actually provide adequate mental health services, to actually provide adequate housing and shelter for these human beings?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has repeatedly criticized the state response \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-State-of-Homelessness-in-America.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to its homeless crisis\u003c/a>, painting it as a result of failed Democratic leadership. He has threatened federal intervention. “It’s a shame. The world is looking at it,” Trump said \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/11/759899416/los-angeles-has-a-homeless-problem-now-the-trump-administration-is-weighing-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in September\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins and other politicians have also promised to relocate the camp within weeks – most likely to a parking lot area near the airport while they design a more permanent housing strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they conceded that a lasting fix could take at least two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Volunteers Begin to Organize\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, a new group of concerned citizens have said that the current situation is simply unacceptable. They’re asking: If the community can pull together during a wildfire crisis, why not a homeless crisis?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how to do this; we know how to take care of people. We’ve just seen it recently with the Kincade Fire,” said artist and engineer Marcos Ramirez, one of the founders of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SWBCSonoma/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Squeaky Wheel Bicycle Coalition.\u003c/a> The volunteer group is trying to break the familiar pattern of political outrage, hand wringing, wrangling and inaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can organize shelter support, huge amounts of response, emergency services and these kinds of things,” Ramirez said of the wildfires where thousands were temporarily displaced, “there’s no reason why we can’t do this for our unhoused neighbors. It’s the middle of winter and things are only getting colder. There’s no excuse for this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The size of the trail encampment decreased during the Kincade Fire, Hopkins told Forum, but residents of the trail returned once the fire was out and temporary shelters closed. The camp has continued to grow since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"forum_2010101875281,news_11792903,news_11679471\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition has drawn up a detailed proposal to retrofit an unused section of Sonoma County’s fairgrounds into a more permanent camp with onsite support, counseling and job services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One key, coalition members said, has been spending time at the encampment to better understand the community living there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A friend of mind said, ‘You don’t know what’s going on down there.’ And I said, ‘You’re right,’ ” Ramirez said. “And so I went down. And so we’ve spent months down there on the trail and actually getting to know our neighbors. It should seem like a no-brainer that you would need to go talk to the people and ask them what they would like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These concerned bicyclists for social change hope their ideas gain more traction. And they hope to inspire the formation of more “squeaky wheel coalitions” in cities across California — and other states — facing the same kind of homeless camp crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like to use the term that we are trying to humanize these people because they’re people and we shouldn’t have to humanize them,” said another Squeaky Wheel activist, Miles Sarvis-Wilburn. “And yet, we’re in a position where that kind of feels like what we have to do now. It seems like that should be more normalized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Forum contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nWhile homelessness is a hard-to-fix national problem, it is particularly severe in California. The state’s homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792743/hud-report-2-7-uptick-in-nations-homeless-population-due-to-california-spike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jumped 16% in the last year\u003c/a>. California has the \u003ca href=\"https://nlchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Tent_City_USA_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest number of tent cities\u003c/a>, according to a report by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty. And according to a \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2019-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new report \u003c/a>by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, California’s homeless population accounts for 53% of all unsheltered people in the country. Overall, the state has more than 150,000 people experiencing homelessness, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the growing crisis, Gov. Gavin Newsom recently proposed more than $1.4 billion in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795344/newsom-zeroes-in-on-education-gaps-homelessness-and-wildfires-in-state-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new budget \u003c/a>for expanded state and local efforts on immediate housing and services. Some $750 million of that would be placed in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/08/794687084/california-governor-pushes-1-4-billion-plan-to-tackle-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special fund\u003c/a> to pay the rent of people facing homelessness and to jump-start the construction of more affordable housing. The first-term Democrat has also ordered state agencies to do more to help find temporary sites — including decommissioned hospitals or unused land — for the state’s expanding homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, residents are demanding robust coordinated action on what has now become a public health crisis. There are rising concerns about health and safety problems inside the encampments, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Immunization/2016-18CAOutbreakAssociatedDrugUseHomelessness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disease\u003c/a>, open drug use, violence, crime and fire risks. In Los Angeles County alone, the death rate for homeless has risen steadily for years and\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/30/homeless-deaths-los-angeles-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> in 2018 topped 1,000\u003c/a> — about three deaths a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795792\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11795792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/img_0429_wide-8877d569f0e7e253f13298d445a54627274c2c58-e1578950118769.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Gibson, who goes by the nickname “Cowboy,” lives at the tent city in Santa Rosa. “It’s a struggle for anybody to keep warm and keep your heart and head light and strong,” he says. “I’m doing the best I can.” \u003ccite>(Eric Westervelt/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Living on the Trail\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Wiry, frenzied and with a ready smile through some missing teeth, Gibson says he prefers the nickname “Cowboy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, they call me cowboy,” Gibson says, “I always ‘cowboy up’ for other people because I take care of others when I have nothing and stretch myself thin. It’s very hard,” he says of life among broken pallets and ripped tarps. “It’s a struggle for anybody to keep warm and keep your heart and head light and strong. I’m doing the best I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gibson, who has lived here for nearly a year, says the camp has a haphazard sense of community. People watch out for each other. But he concedes the camp has serious problems with garbage, vermin, inadequate toilets and some drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County and city agencies have tried to offer some services, including adding portable toilets and trash control. But camp residents say it’s not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t have someone taking out the trash, it’s gonna pile up,” Gibson says. “Some people are elderly and can’t really do a lot on their own. Some are young people that are very inexperienced with life. I try to a be a guiding light.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a nearby tent, an older woman pops her head out shouting obscenities at no one in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People need to open up their eyes and realize they could end up like this,” Gibson says. “A lot of people are one [pay]check away. Show some humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon a pickup truck pulls up with donations. Time to “cowboy up,” Gibson says, as he moves to help unload used warm clothes from a local resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I drive by every morning and today I was just heartbroken,” says commuter Vania Supulveda. “My daughter complains, ‘Oh, it’s so cold out today’ when we see this. And we go back home to a nice warm home. It’s depressing. I grew up in Brazil, in a Third World country, and I’ve never seen something like this so close to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Exploring Solutions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday on the purchase of three large homes — two in central Santa Rosa and one in Cotati — that would provide housing for some of the people living on the trail. If approved, Hopkins told KQED’s Forum that the homes could be operational as early as next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/nplh.shtml\">“No Place Like Home” program \u003c/a>would fund the purchase of the three homes. Hopkins hopes an additional two homes will be purchased eventually, totaling a cost of $6 million that includes furnishings and supportive services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is actually a model that … already is actually working in a lot of areas in Sonoma County,” Hopkins told Forum. “They have been very, very successful at getting people off the street and into housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents in similar models have even transitioned into renting their own apartments, Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s always the goal, right? Is to get people back fully on their feet and able to be supporting themselves in a type of housing that is acceptable. What’s happening right now on the Joe Rodota Trail, we know is completely unacceptable,” Hopkins told Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, Hopkins is exploring an outdoor shelter option that would still allow people to camp, but would provide a navigation trailer with supportive services. It would equip people with “fundamental human needs,” such as restrooms, electricity, water and, ideally, shower and laundry facilities, Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you talk about the encampment along the Joe Rodota Trail, it is actually very difficult to service because it’s actually spread out over about a mile and a half of linear trail,” Hopkins said. “So it’s tough for service workers to actually go out there … and actually provide people with a plan to get them off the trail and into housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Public Backlash in Sonoma County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“It just showcases the failure of government at all levels to meaningfully have a safety net for human beings,” Hopkins said. “There’s just no room for error now, there’s no safety net.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Sonoma County’s chief homelessness official, Geoffrey Ross, announced his resignation. The Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday to confirm Barbie Robinson, the county health services director, as interim executive director of the Community Development Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson has drawn praise from supervisors, including Hopkins, for stepping into a leadership position and working alongside Ross to craft a plan to allocate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792903/sonoma-county-approves-12-million-urgent-plan-for-homeless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$12 million in emergency funds\u003c/a> for the encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins has also helped lead efforts to find solutions for the camp, including working on the emergency funding plan and setting up an emergency \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/society/sonoma-co-opens-eoc-for-first-time-in-response-to-homeless-crisis/5823059/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">operations center\u003c/a> to better coordinate responses to a complex problem with no easy fixes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the first-term politician is facing blowback over the camp. A handful of angry constituents started \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10539186-181/recall-effort-targets-sonoma-county?sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an effort to recall Hopkins\u003c/a>, even though she faces an election in March. Their petition accuses Hopkins of failing to act — “her watch, her failure” — and calls the homeless encampment a “public cesspool” that’s undermining businesses, homes and quality of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem cuts across complex issues, including rising housing costs and skyrocketing rents, stagnant wages, poverty, addiction and mental health treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complicating attempts to find a solution in Sonoma is \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/CAO/Agreement-with-Homeless-Advocates-on-Preliminary-Injunction/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a local injunction\u003c/a> that says the county can’t arrest or fine its way out of the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/13/787861253/how-boises-fight-over-homelessness-is-rippling-across-the-west-coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A federal court ruling\u003c/a> carries even more weight. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that homeless people essentially have a Constitutional right to camp on public property if local governments can’t provide enough shelter beds and services. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in that case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are services Hopkins said the county simply can’t afford now on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can we provide alternatives when we don’t have enough money from the state or federal government to actually provide adequate mental health services, to actually provide adequate housing and shelter for these human beings?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has repeatedly criticized the state response \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-State-of-Homelessness-in-America.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to its homeless crisis\u003c/a>, painting it as a result of failed Democratic leadership. He has threatened federal intervention. “It’s a shame. The world is looking at it,” Trump said \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/11/759899416/los-angeles-has-a-homeless-problem-now-the-trump-administration-is-weighing-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in September\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins and other politicians have also promised to relocate the camp within weeks – most likely to a parking lot area near the airport while they design a more permanent housing strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they conceded that a lasting fix could take at least two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Volunteers Begin to Organize\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, a new group of concerned citizens have said that the current situation is simply unacceptable. They’re asking: If the community can pull together during a wildfire crisis, why not a homeless crisis?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how to do this; we know how to take care of people. We’ve just seen it recently with the Kincade Fire,” said artist and engineer Marcos Ramirez, one of the founders of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SWBCSonoma/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Squeaky Wheel Bicycle Coalition.\u003c/a> The volunteer group is trying to break the familiar pattern of political outrage, hand wringing, wrangling and inaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can organize shelter support, huge amounts of response, emergency services and these kinds of things,” Ramirez said of the wildfires where thousands were temporarily displaced, “there’s no reason why we can’t do this for our unhoused neighbors. It’s the middle of winter and things are only getting colder. There’s no excuse for this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The size of the trail encampment decreased during the Kincade Fire, Hopkins told Forum, but residents of the trail returned once the fire was out and temporary shelters closed. The camp has continued to grow since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And that’s not how it turned out,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/cost-burden-2019/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study by Apartment List\u003c/a> found nearly 60% of people living in Santa Cruz are cost-burdened, meaning they spend more than 30% of their paycheck on rent. That’s a higher rate than in San Francisco and in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UCSC needs to pay its workers a living wage. And there’s a ton of workers on campus who need this and who aren’t getting the deal that they need,” Boardman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/bayareabrrn/status/1215366397028519936\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TAs across the UC system are all paid the same rate, regardless of their community’s cost of living. They make roughly $2,400 a month before taxes. Their 20-hour workweek includes instructing labs, holding office hours and grading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 9, just before finals week of the fall quarter, hundreds of UC Santa Cruz graduate students went on strike — a grading strike. They decided not to submit grades for undergraduate courses until the university provides a $1,400 cost of living adjustment for all graduate students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t like holding the grades hostage or something like that. It’s saying that we can’t do the labor that we’re expected to do if the university won’t pay us the money that we need to live and work here,” said Boardman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_1069-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Boardman, a PhD student in literature, speaks with Veronica Hamilton, a PhD student in psychology. Both are TAs at UCSC.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11795359\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Boardman, a PhD student in literature, speaks with Veronica Hamilton, a PhD student in psychology. Both are TAs at UCSC. \u003ccite>(Erika Mahoney/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly 9,000 undergraduate students were impacted, according to Boardman. As the new quarter gets underway, TAs have reached out to students and submitted grades for those who urgently need them. According to the university, about 80% of all grades are in, but that includes grades not handled by TAs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undergraduate student Sara Valenzuela was still missing one grade during the first week back at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, it’s been very, I don’t want to say stressful but at the same time a little. Just because over the winter break, it’s kind of like nerve wracking not knowing what you got for the class and you know how that builds anxiety,” Valenzuela said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\" Veronica Hamilton, UC Santa Cruz teaching assistant and unit chair for UAW 2865\"]‘People can’t pay their rent now. People are dropping out of their graduate programs now. And it is too long to wait until the next contract campaign.’[/pullquote]The union that represents over 19,000 student employees at UC schools hasn’t authorized the action, making it a wildcat strike. The union, UAW 2865, is currently under a four-year contract. The agreement, which took effect in 2018, includes a wage increase of 3% each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Veronica Hamilton, the Santa Cruz unit chair for UAW 2865 and a UC Santa Cruz TA, said graduate students were never satisfied with the agreement and can’t wait two more years for further negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People can’t pay their rent now. People are dropping out of their graduate programs now. And it is too long to wait until the next contract campaign,” Hamilton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Santa Cruz Spokesperson Scott Hernandez-Jason said the administration is willing to meet with students if they call off the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So this strike goes against their contract and the very nature of it makes it impossible for us to sit down and discuss ways to support them as employees,” Hernandez-Jason said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes the long-term solution is more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The high cost of housing is something that impacts everyone in our campus community, the Santa Cruz community and really the large swaths of California,” Hernandez-Jason said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not only graduate students who feel they deserve more. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, UC Santa Cruz skilled craft workers, who the university said make roughly between $80,000 and $100,000 a year, also began an open-ended strike over pay and staffing. These workers, including electricians, carpenters and plumbers, have been without a contract for a couple of years. They’re part of the union AFSCME Local 3299.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_1075_1_1920x-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Some skilled craft workers at UCSC are also on strike. 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They’re calling for more pay and more staffing. \u003ccite>(Erika Mahoney/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Joe Baxter, an electrician, gathered with about a dozen other workers in front of the entrance to UC Santa Cruz. He’s been with the school for 15 years and lives in a mobile home with his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re striking because we’re understaffed and we’re trying to get more staffing. They don’t replace people who retire,” Baxter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solidarity rallies in support of the graduate students have also taken place at UC Davis, UC Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In 2017, Susanna Cardenas-Lopez left her home in Salinas to visit her brother in Idaho. Three days into her trip, she called her husband and told him they needed to move there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Susanna Cardenas-Lopez\"]‘I love California, but it’s just not the Golden State in my eyes anymore.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Salinas, Cardenas-Lopez and her husband were left out in the cold after their landlord decided to stop renting the home they lived in. They couldn’t afford anything else, so they had to move in with a family member, which was stressful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now in Idaho, she and her husband have free time and money left over at the end of each month. Plus, their new neighborhood is significantly safer than the one they left behind in Salinas, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like it’s a dream with the quality of life we now have,” Cardenas-Lopez said. “Yes, the pay is less, but that just doesn’t even seem to matter to me. At least we have enough to pay our rent and bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of her family members face the same situation. Five months ago, her 35-year-old daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren left Salinas after their rent increased from $1,300 to $2,000 in just three years, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love California, but it’s just not the Golden State in my eyes anymore,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cardenas-Lopez isn’t alone. U.S. Census Bureau numbers show that the middle- and lower-classes are leaving California at a higher rate than the wealthy. Many who have left in recent years say they simply couldn’t afford to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Cost of Living: The Defining Issue\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the second quarter of 2019, the San Francisco Bay Area topped Los Angeles, Washington and Chicago when it came to people leaving major U.S. cities. It was second only to New York City. More than 28,190 people departed the Bay Area during those three months, close to double 2017’s rate, according to a regular migration report from\u003ca href=\"https://www.redfin.com/blog/q2-2019-housing-migration-report/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> real estate brokerage Redfin\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, for the second year in a row, 38,000 more people left the Golden State than moved there, according to census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of people leaving reported an annual income of less than $100,000, while the state has seen an influx of those making $100,000 and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a\u003ca href=\"https://www.unitedwaysca.org/images/RealCostMeasure2018/Struggling-to-Stay-Afloat-Full-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> 2018 United Way Cost of Living report\u003c/a>, Latino and African American households experience financial hardship at the highest rates in California, citing housing as their biggest burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, state demographers said a mix of factors are likely playing into the flight of low-income and elderly residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related content\" tag=\"affordability\"]“Moves relate to relative employment situation and they do relate to costs and amenities,” said Eddie Hunsinger, a demographer with the state Department of Finance. “They also, too, move at different stages of life. It’s generally a mix of factors going into migration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunsinger added that even when people are leaving the state in droves, there is still a steady flow of people moving into California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randa Moore, who used to live in Santa Rosa, said the number one reason she left for Florida was the cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were working 10-16 hours a day, seven days a week, every holiday, and were still struggling to buy groceries,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Moore rents a three-bedroom home with a pool for $1,400 a month and has money to spare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The difference is in the thousands of dollars and hours working,” she said. “We don’t make California money anymore, but we actually have more money at the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do I miss it?” she asked. “I miss what it used to be. Before the industries were destroyed as well as the middle class. It seems it’s become a two-class system; the haves and the have-nots. The poor have no chance to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Housing Crisis\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has committed $1.75 billion to fund new building projects to tackle California’s housing crisis. In October, he signed various housing bills, including one that capped rent increases and stifled evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re living in the wealthiest as well as the poorest state in America,” Newsom said when he signed the bills. “Cost of living. It is the issue that defines more issues than any other issue in this state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2010 and 2017, the median cost of a home in California doubled; in the Bay Area, it tripled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About 32% of households in California can afford to buy a median-priced home, which is around $600,000,” said Oscar Wei, a senior economist at the California Association of Realtors. “Compared to 2012, we were at 52% (across the state). In San Francisco and San Mateo only 12% or 13% of residents can afford to buy a median-priced home there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, a median-priced home costs around $1.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wei said states with a low cost of living or no income tax can tempt people by offering wages that aren’t quite middle class in California, but would put them above average elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In California, to buy a median price home it requires an income of $100,000,” he said. “In Arizona, you can buy a median-priced home with an income of $50-$60,000.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Wei does not expect housing prices to drop the way they did at the end of the last decade, when the housing bubble burst, he does anticipate price drops in the next five to 10 years if the housing crisis isn’t addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been seeing some companies leaving So Cal and the Bay Area,” said Wei. “Toyota and Nissan left Southern California, and home prices might have slowed down but they haven’t dropped really significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the housing affordability issue isn’t addressed in the next five to 10 years, we will see companies starting to move out,” he said. However, he didn’t think enough companies would move out over a short enough period to truly tumble housing prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After all,” he said, “California is a good place to live. It’s the cost that is an issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘The State Pushed Us Out’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pat Tollefson, who said her great-great-grandfather, Joseph Fredrick Snyder, was an early settler of Salinas in the 1860s, moved to Washington state with her husband three years ago, after spending her first 60 years in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love California, but the state pushed us out,” she wrote on Facebook in a message to The Salinas Californian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first year [we were in Washington], our Prius California renewal registration was due at a cost of $290, but we transferred the registration to Washington state at a cost of $63,” she said. “That was just one surprise benefit!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tollefson said they found the cost of purchasing a home, as well as utilities, were lower than they had paid in California. The lower cost of living combined with their access to nature has helped lower their stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salinas realtor Chris Barrera has worked for Windermere Valley Properties for five years. In the last few years, he has seen more and more clients cite cost of living as a main reason for leaving California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He estimated about a quarter of the roughly 20 clients he works with each month felt they could no longer afford California. Most are in the service industry or live on a fixed income, and many are leaving for Texas and Idaho, states with low or no income tax, and a low cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are being priced out,” Barrera said. “I have a lot of clients who are selling and they’re just tired of California politics. Monterey County is one of the most expensive places to live in the U.S., and the only other option is to have numerous families living at one property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘A Lot of Anger’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Those who leave California don’t always leave it behind altogether, though. Communities that sometimes double as support groups have sprung up online for former Californians. Here, they can complain about their former state, or even their new one, while still maintaining that they’re glad they left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some also say politics, not just taxes, play a role in their decision to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In “CA Exodus and Ex-CAers,” a Facebook group for ex-Californians and those planning to leave, the banner photo is an altered “Now leaving California” sign. It reads: “Was it something we taxed?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Randa Moore, formerly of Santa Rosa\"]‘We were working 10-16 hours a day, seven days a week, every holiday, and were still struggling to buy groceries.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, a couple hundred members bring up California laws and regulations they find ridiculous or costly, affirming their decision to leave. Mostly, though, they share stories of the exodus taking place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I joined this group so I would at least have others to commiserate with,” said group member Melinda Temblador, who said she left “Commiefornia” because of “the high cost of everything, extreme moral decay and [being] pretty sick of bearing the cost of freeloaders for their free medical, free college, free free free stuff while I slave away staying awake at night wondering how I’m going to pay for my daughter’s college but the illegal next door gets it for free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, “If you sense a lot of anger on my part you would be correct. We absolutely made the best decision to flee. Have no regrets and are actively helping several family members to leave ASAP as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other group members echoed Temblador’s sentiments, adding that the state’s liberal bent left them feeling frustrated and isolated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess maybe it helps to solidify the fact we are not alone,” said Jonathan English Olmstead, who plans to leave California. “In this state, being a devoted Christian and Republican you feel as though you are the only one with these views.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone is taking off for cheaper or greener pastures. Some have instead resorted to subletting or moving in with family to meet increased rental prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raycheal Jarvis, a native of Marina, in Monterey County, said she and her family, including four children, are living with her in-laws. Jarvis wanted to stay in Marina “where neighbors still look out for one another,” but, she said, commuters to San Jose are snapping up properties at sky-high prices. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Salinas, Cardenas-Lopez and her husband were left out in the cold after their landlord decided to stop renting the home they lived in. They couldn’t afford anything else, so they had to move in with a family member, which was stressful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now in Idaho, she and her husband have free time and money left over at the end of each month. Plus, their new neighborhood is significantly safer than the one they left behind in Salinas, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like it’s a dream with the quality of life we now have,” Cardenas-Lopez said. “Yes, the pay is less, but that just doesn’t even seem to matter to me. At least we have enough to pay our rent and bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of her family members face the same situation. Five months ago, her 35-year-old daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren left Salinas after their rent increased from $1,300 to $2,000 in just three years, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love California, but it’s just not the Golden State in my eyes anymore,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cardenas-Lopez isn’t alone. U.S. Census Bureau numbers show that the middle- and lower-classes are leaving California at a higher rate than the wealthy. Many who have left in recent years say they simply couldn’t afford to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Cost of Living: The Defining Issue\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the second quarter of 2019, the San Francisco Bay Area topped Los Angeles, Washington and Chicago when it came to people leaving major U.S. cities. It was second only to New York City. More than 28,190 people departed the Bay Area during those three months, close to double 2017’s rate, according to a regular migration report from\u003ca href=\"https://www.redfin.com/blog/q2-2019-housing-migration-report/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> real estate brokerage Redfin\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, for the second year in a row, 38,000 more people left the Golden State than moved there, according to census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of people leaving reported an annual income of less than $100,000, while the state has seen an influx of those making $100,000 and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a\u003ca href=\"https://www.unitedwaysca.org/images/RealCostMeasure2018/Struggling-to-Stay-Afloat-Full-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> 2018 United Way Cost of Living report\u003c/a>, Latino and African American households experience financial hardship at the highest rates in California, citing housing as their biggest burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, state demographers said a mix of factors are likely playing into the flight of low-income and elderly residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Moves relate to relative employment situation and they do relate to costs and amenities,” said Eddie Hunsinger, a demographer with the state Department of Finance. “They also, too, move at different stages of life. It’s generally a mix of factors going into migration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunsinger added that even when people are leaving the state in droves, there is still a steady flow of people moving into California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randa Moore, who used to live in Santa Rosa, said the number one reason she left for Florida was the cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were working 10-16 hours a day, seven days a week, every holiday, and were still struggling to buy groceries,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Moore rents a three-bedroom home with a pool for $1,400 a month and has money to spare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The difference is in the thousands of dollars and hours working,” she said. “We don’t make California money anymore, but we actually have more money at the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do I miss it?” she asked. “I miss what it used to be. Before the industries were destroyed as well as the middle class. It seems it’s become a two-class system; the haves and the have-nots. The poor have no chance to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Housing Crisis\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has committed $1.75 billion to fund new building projects to tackle California’s housing crisis. In October, he signed various housing bills, including one that capped rent increases and stifled evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re living in the wealthiest as well as the poorest state in America,” Newsom said when he signed the bills. “Cost of living. It is the issue that defines more issues than any other issue in this state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2010 and 2017, the median cost of a home in California doubled; in the Bay Area, it tripled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About 32% of households in California can afford to buy a median-priced home, which is around $600,000,” said Oscar Wei, a senior economist at the California Association of Realtors. “Compared to 2012, we were at 52% (across the state). In San Francisco and San Mateo only 12% or 13% of residents can afford to buy a median-priced home there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, a median-priced home costs around $1.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wei said states with a low cost of living or no income tax can tempt people by offering wages that aren’t quite middle class in California, but would put them above average elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In California, to buy a median price home it requires an income of $100,000,” he said. “In Arizona, you can buy a median-priced home with an income of $50-$60,000.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Wei does not expect housing prices to drop the way they did at the end of the last decade, when the housing bubble burst, he does anticipate price drops in the next five to 10 years if the housing crisis isn’t addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been seeing some companies leaving So Cal and the Bay Area,” said Wei. “Toyota and Nissan left Southern California, and home prices might have slowed down but they haven’t dropped really significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the housing affordability issue isn’t addressed in the next five to 10 years, we will see companies starting to move out,” he said. However, he didn’t think enough companies would move out over a short enough period to truly tumble housing prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After all,” he said, “California is a good place to live. It’s the cost that is an issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘The State Pushed Us Out’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pat Tollefson, who said her great-great-grandfather, Joseph Fredrick Snyder, was an early settler of Salinas in the 1860s, moved to Washington state with her husband three years ago, after spending her first 60 years in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love California, but the state pushed us out,” she wrote on Facebook in a message to The Salinas Californian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first year [we were in Washington], our Prius California renewal registration was due at a cost of $290, but we transferred the registration to Washington state at a cost of $63,” she said. “That was just one surprise benefit!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tollefson said they found the cost of purchasing a home, as well as utilities, were lower than they had paid in California. The lower cost of living combined with their access to nature has helped lower their stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salinas realtor Chris Barrera has worked for Windermere Valley Properties for five years. In the last few years, he has seen more and more clients cite cost of living as a main reason for leaving California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s 5 a.m., and the thermostat reads 44 degrees F. Cars round the bend of an off-ramp of state Route 24 in northern Oakland, spraying bands of light across Norm Ciha and his neighbors. They wear headlamps so they can see in the dark as they gather their belongings: tents, clothes, cooking gear, carts piled with blankets, children’s shoes and, in one case, a set of golf clubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shredder, Ciha’s dog, takes a treat, then lets it fall from his mouth. He whines as Ciha walks away with a camping mattress. “I can leave him all day in the tent and he’s fine, but he freaks out every time we have to move,” Ciha says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every other week, the residents of this thin slice of state-owned land just off the freeway pack up their possessions and move to another empty lot nearby; they aren’t quite sure who owns it. They move in anticipation of the routine sweeps of homeless encampments ordered by the California Department of Transportation, which has jurisdiction over the state’s highways and exit ramps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The highway crews check that the area is clear of people and their belongings, throwing away any items that remain. Once the trucks leave, the residents move back in. Ciha and his neighbors call it “the Caltrans Shuffle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Eric Tars, legal director of the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty\"]‘If cities spent half the energy on trying to provide access to sanitation as they did on trying to find constitutional ways to take people’s belongings, they could address homelessness.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their makeshift neighborhood of tarps and tents is built on one of thousands of public spaces across California where people have set up camp. The state’s homeless population has ballooned in recent years; in 2019, there were more than 150,000 homeless people in California, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and 72% of them did not have shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A range of health concerns has spread among homeless communities. A few years ago, hepatitis A, spread primarily through feces, infected more than 700 people in California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Immunization/2016-18CAOutbreakAssociatedDrugUseHomelessness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most of them homeless,\u003c/a> according to state officials. Ancient diseases, such as typhus,\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/03/typhus-tuberculosis-medieval-diseases-spreading-homeless/584380/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> have resurged\u003c/a>. Homeless people are\u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/the-homeless-are-dying-in-record-numbers-on-the-streets-of-l-a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> dying in record numbers\u003c/a> on the streets of Los Angeles, according to data from the county coroner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Communities up and down California, increasingly frustrated with the growing number of homeless people living on public property, have tasked police and sanitation workers with dismantling encampments that they say pollute public areas and pose serious risk of fire, violence and disease. The rousting and cleanups have become a daily occurrence around the state, involving an array of state and local agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the response from officials has prompted a public health crisis all its own, according to interviews with dozens of homeless people and their advocates. Personal possessions, including medicines and necessary medical devices, are routinely thrown away. It’s a quotidian event that Leilani Farha, the United Nations special rapporteur on adequate housing, described as a “cruelty” that she hasn’t seen in other impoverished corners of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ciha, who is 57, learned the hard way that living on the street means his belongings can be taken in an instant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2018, when he was camping by an Ikea in nearby Emeryville, the California Highway Patrol and Caltrans employees showed up unannounced. He was out buying a tent when they arrived, and the crew designated his belongings as garbage. His fellow campers protested and grabbed what they could. Ciha returned and asked for time to gather his things. But everything, he says, was just thrown into a trash compactor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with his bedding and clothes, he lost three weeks of an eight-week supply of the medication he’d been prescribed to treat hepatitis C. He’d gotten the medicine through Medi-Cal. Though the drugs were almost certainly purchased at a discount, Ciha’s course of treatment retails for around $40,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, a federal court case involving a camping ban in Boise, Idaho, determined that cities can’t cite people for sleeping on public property when there’s nowhere else to go. It doesn’t, however, determine rules about their possessions. That question has been argued for decades, with\u003ca href=\"https://nlchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Tent_City_USA_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> multiple courts\u003c/a> determining that destroying or confiscating property without notice is a violation of the constitutional right to personal property. Cities rarely, if ever, fight those decisions, which means there’s been no precedent set by a higher court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha5_custom-38b7938a8f652e77b86c1896bd7ea675ccf7ee52-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"The California Department of Transportation is required to post notices of cleanups before clearing out homeless encampments on state property. But housing advocates, who say the agency doesn't always comply with the rules, are suing the state over seized belongings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11795326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha5_custom-38b7938a8f652e77b86c1896bd7ea675ccf7ee52-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha5_custom-38b7938a8f652e77b86c1896bd7ea675ccf7ee52-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha5_custom-38b7938a8f652e77b86c1896bd7ea675ccf7ee52-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha5_custom-38b7938a8f652e77b86c1896bd7ea675ccf7ee52-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha5_custom-38b7938a8f652e77b86c1896bd7ea675ccf7ee52.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California Department of Transportation is required to post notices of cleanups before clearing out homeless encampments on state property. But housing advocates, who say the agency doesn’t always comply with the rules, are suing the state over seized belongings. \u003ccite>(Anna Maria Barry-Jester/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lawsuits in California have made the issue more visible in the state than in other places, even though this is a nationwide problem, says \u003ca href=\"https://nlchp.org/about/our-staff/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Tars\u003c/a>, legal director of the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty. Today, many California cities have policies that either prevent seizing belongings or require storage, but public health and safety exceptions often allow for things to be thrown away without notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If cities spent half the energy on trying to provide access to sanitation as they did on trying to find constitutional ways to take people’s belongings, they could address homelessness,” Tars says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Francisco contends that it stores people’s belongings when they are seized — a policy that resulted from a settlement of an earlier lawsuit. But advocates for the homeless, including \u003ca href=\"https://sociology.berkeley.edu/graduate-student/chris-herring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Herring\u003c/a>, a doctoral student in sociology at University of California, Berkeley, say that doesn’t always happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"small\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Chris Herring, a doctoral student in sociology at University of California, Berkeley,\"]‘[The city will] say we’re just asking people to move, but if you’re being asked that over and over and you have nowhere to go, and people are acting like you’re worthless or they’re scared of you, that affects you fast.’[/pullquote]Herring has been embedding himself in San Francisco’s homeless community off and on for years. He spent nine months in 2014 and 2015 living on the street, for example, and another year studying the police, public health and sanitation workers tasked with cleaning encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herring says he has witnessed people refusing medical help because they didn’t want to leave their things behind, and says he knows others who lost jobs after missing shifts to salvage personal items. An elderly man, so ill he lay paralyzed on the sidewalk, once called Herring and asked him to look after his stuff before he called 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles has limited the amount of personal property people can carry with them or store on public property, saying it must fit inside a 60-gallon container — the equivalent of a medium-sized outdoor trash bin. Several homeless residents\u003ca href=\"https://la.curbed.com/2019/7/18/20699345/homeless-camps-seizures-lawsuit-constitutional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> are suing\u003c/a> the city over the rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, up the hill from where Ciha camps, Caltrans posts advisories about scheduled cleanups, notifying people when they will come through. Caltrans policy requires the postings, but an ongoing \u003ca href=\"http://sanchezlawsuit.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> against Caltrans claims that policy isn’t always followed, and that the sweeps are a violation of people’s constitutional right to private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ciha has joined the suit. Another defendant says Caltrans took her walker, which she was using because an infected wound made it difficult for her to get around. Others have lost ID cards and prescriptions, a setback for making appointments or receiving benefits, according to one of the lawyers on the case, Osha Neumann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans workers say they hate doing the cleanups. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like 100 times worse than it was just a few years ago,” says Steve Crouch, director of public employees for Local 39 of the International Union of Operating Engineers, which represents Caltrans workers. “One of the biggest gripes they have is having to clean up the homeless encampments. It’s a nasty job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sweeps also cause psychological pain. Ciha and his neighbors talk about how horrible it is when people driving by throw garbage at them. Herring says the trauma of living on the streets is so intense he hasn’t yet figured out how to write about it in his academic work. “[The city will] say we’re just asking people to move, but if you’re being asked that over and over and you have nowhere to go, and people are acting like you’re worthless or they’re scared of you, that affects you fast,” Herring says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ciha got tested for hep C after a friend went from healthy to sick in a matter of months. When Ciha was prescribed the treatment, the doctor told him he shouldn’t miss a dose. After his things were discarded, he wandered around Oakland for a week, he says, sleeping in random places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795336\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha1_custom-122cb834abf574021801eda809eff8866345a8c7-s800-c85-800x532.jpg\" alt='Every other week, Norm Ciha and his homeless neighbors temporarily relocate their camp from land alongside a freeway offramp in Oakland, to a nearby vacant lot — until state cleanup crews have come and gone. They call it \"the Caltrans Shuffle.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11795336\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha1_custom-122cb834abf574021801eda809eff8866345a8c7-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha1_custom-122cb834abf574021801eda809eff8866345a8c7-s800-c85-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every other week, Norm Ciha and his homeless neighbors temporarily relocate their camp from land alongside a freeway offramp in Oakland, to a nearby vacant lot — until state cleanup crews have come and gone. They call it “the Caltrans Shuffle.” \u003ccite>(Anna Maria Barry-Jester/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He eventually stumbled across the encampment he now calls home; he likes it because it has only a few people and, for the most part, everyone keeps their area clean and drama-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"homelessness\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]Ciha went back to the doctor after he moved in and was able to get a refill of his prescription. But he’d gone a week without treatment and hasn’t been back since, to see if his hep C is cured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has since grown accustomed to the Caltrans Shuffle. In the hours before last month’s sweep, he first lugged his cot to the nearby lot. Then his camping mattress and a plastic bin with pots, pans and utensils. Shredder’s food bowl. A cart holding a suitcase filled with bright-white teddy bears that remind him of his mom, a badminton racket, a comforter and a small landscape painting. Things he’ll use, he says, when he gets a place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’d moved his belongings and was standing on the sidewalk by the time the Caltrans crew arrived, with two police escorts and five trucks. One of Ciha’s neighbors threw garbage into the back of one of the trucks, while workers checked the property. As the cleanup crew packed up, Ciha stood in the lot next door eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The sun was now above the horizon pushing out the morning cold. 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Ancient diseases, such as typhus,\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/03/typhus-tuberculosis-medieval-diseases-spreading-homeless/584380/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> have resurged\u003c/a>. Homeless people are\u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/the-homeless-are-dying-in-record-numbers-on-the-streets-of-l-a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> dying in record numbers\u003c/a> on the streets of Los Angeles, according to data from the county coroner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Communities up and down California, increasingly frustrated with the growing number of homeless people living on public property, have tasked police and sanitation workers with dismantling encampments that they say pollute public areas and pose serious risk of fire, violence and disease. The rousting and cleanups have become a daily occurrence around the state, involving an array of state and local agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the response from officials has prompted a public health crisis all its own, according to interviews with dozens of homeless people and their advocates. Personal possessions, including medicines and necessary medical devices, are routinely thrown away. It’s a quotidian event that Leilani Farha, the United Nations special rapporteur on adequate housing, described as a “cruelty” that she hasn’t seen in other impoverished corners of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ciha, who is 57, learned the hard way that living on the street means his belongings can be taken in an instant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2018, when he was camping by an Ikea in nearby Emeryville, the California Highway Patrol and Caltrans employees showed up unannounced. He was out buying a tent when they arrived, and the crew designated his belongings as garbage. His fellow campers protested and grabbed what they could. Ciha returned and asked for time to gather his things. But everything, he says, was just thrown into a trash compactor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with his bedding and clothes, he lost three weeks of an eight-week supply of the medication he’d been prescribed to treat hepatitis C. He’d gotten the medicine through Medi-Cal. Though the drugs were almost certainly purchased at a discount, Ciha’s course of treatment retails for around $40,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, a federal court case involving a camping ban in Boise, Idaho, determined that cities can’t cite people for sleeping on public property when there’s nowhere else to go. It doesn’t, however, determine rules about their possessions. That question has been argued for decades, with\u003ca href=\"https://nlchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Tent_City_USA_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> multiple courts\u003c/a> determining that destroying or confiscating property without notice is a violation of the constitutional right to personal property. Cities rarely, if ever, fight those decisions, which means there’s been no precedent set by a higher court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ciha5_custom-38b7938a8f652e77b86c1896bd7ea675ccf7ee52-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"The California Department of Transportation is required to post notices of cleanups before clearing out homeless encampments on state property. 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The project also includes a food hall, a public park and connections to a nearby trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The developer has promised 20% of the project, or 158 units, will be set aside at affordable housing rates for at least 55 years. 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Mattas cautioned that under two other state laws, the Surplus Land Act and Senate Bill 35, the developer could come back to the council with new plans to build to the maximum height with little discretion and an expedited track, if the council voted down the current proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Legislature and their actions have really stacked the deck against cities,” City Councilman Rich Garbarino said. “We don’t have a choice in a lot of this. It’s not right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a noticeable generational divide between those who spoke in favor and those against the housing project. Many millennials talked about being squeezed out of South San Francisco because of high rents and long waitlists for early childhood education programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron Adriano, an El Camino High School student and member of the city’s Youth Advisory Council, said he was concerned that he wouldn’t be able to return to South San Francisco after he left for college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of like, what’s the point when the city would be keeping out generations of people who grew up here,” Adriano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others took turns reading hundreds of names of residents who signed a petition against the development. Opponents of the plan said traffic would get worse and new residents would clog neighborhood streets by parking vehicles along the side of the road. 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"content": "\u003cp>Larry Pace is giving a tour of a construction site … kind of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s near the entrance of a 258,000-square-foot factory in Vallejo. The Navy \u003ca href=\"https://www.bracpmo.navy.mil/brac_bases/california/former_shipyard_mare_island.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">built submarines here\u003c/a> during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picture one of those gigantic General Motors plants in Detroit, where a car is put together in an assembly line. Instead of a Buick and a conveyor belt, construction workers in hard hats and goggles are assembling a 156-unit apartment building for a development near Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They build one floor approximately every two and a half hours,” said Pace, standing astride Station 1, where construction workers piece together the bottom floors of two adjoining apartments. “It’s fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Larry Pace, co-founder of Factory OS\"]‘We have become very proficient at what we do, and it will revolutionize the construction industry from what we’ve seen in the past. It already has.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pace is the co-founder of Factory OS, a modular housing manufacturer that opened this plant last year. It’s one of several companies in California and across the country trying to reinvigorate factory-made housing as a solution to the state’s housing affordability woes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further inside the massive Vallejo plant, there’s a station for cabinets, a station for roofing and a station for plumbing and electrical wiring. Station 33 looks like a furniture showroom not quite ready for the floor — washer, dryer and microwave included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there the apartment pieces are wrapped and trucked to the construction site, where they’re assembled in a matter of days, not months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It literally becomes a plug-and-play,” said Pace. “We have become very proficient at what we do, and it will revolutionize the construction industry from what we’ve seen in the past. It already has.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11782107\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_0417-e1571865870228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the 258,000 square foot Factory OS plant in Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Matt Levin/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Part of the reason California rents are so astronomical — the state now has \u003ca href=\"https://www.zumper.com/blog/2019/03/zumper-national-rent-report-april-2019/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">five of the top 10 priciest rental markets\u003c/a> in the country, according to real estate data firm Zumper — is because it’s really expensive to build new apartments here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While estimates of average construction costs vary, \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/offsite-construction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a recent UC Berkeley study\u003c/a> found that it takes $315,000 in labor and materials to build a 900-square-foot apartment in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/14/gov-newsoms-ambitious-housing-goals-threatened-by-construction-worker-shortage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A shortage of skilled contractors\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article234699897.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Donald Trump’s trade policies\u003c/a> have contributed to rising “hard costs” for homebuilders, who argue that the more expensive it is to build, the more new developments skew away from middle-class housing and toward luxury condos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pace has worked in the construction industry for 40 years. He used to do what’s called “stick” construction — the conventional method, where you prep the foundation, and then wait for the carpenters, and then the plumbers, and then the electricians. A rainy week can set you back thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"modular-housing\" label=\"More on modular hosuing\"]With so-called modular housing, units can be assembled offsite while the foundation is being prepared, no matter the weather. Pace says that and other efficiencies will translate into three- to five-story apartment buildings completed 40% quicker and 20% cheaper than the average project constructed the old-fashioned way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just Pace who believes modular housing is the future. Large corporations such as Citibank have poured millions into Factory OS. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bisnow.com/oakland/news/multifamily/modular-firm-rad-urban-secures-28m-in-financing-to-grow-company-93500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Other pre-fab housing companies\u003c/a> have sprouted in recent years, attracting tech-savvy investors with the lure of innovating an industry that builds housing mostly in the same way it did decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the dream of mass-produced, factory-built housing has been around for over a century, with a pretty checkered history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went in this dragging my heels,” said Pace. “I had heard all the war stories of failed modular experiences in the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>When Nixon Tried to Build Houses in Factories\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Manufactured, modular, or pre-fab housing has always played at the margins of the American construction industry. Arguably the most successful example dates back to the early 20th century when the retail giant Sears offered single-family homes through its \u003ca href=\"https://www.curbed.com/2018/10/16/17984616/sears-catalog-home-kit-mail-order-prefab-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mail-order catalog\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After prohibitively high transportation costs caused Sears to pull the plug in 1940, the term “manufactured housing” gradually became associated with the lower rung of the housing market: mobile homes and shoddy factory-built dwellings with poor craftsmanship and small profit margins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last century of experiments hasn’t yielded a whole lot of good results,” said Alex Anderson, associate professor of architecture at the University of Washington. “There’s been all kinds of interesting experiments, but not a whole lot of economic successes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the siren song of mass-produced housing continued to lure private capital and public officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvhsYm1b4DY]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1969, President Richard Nixon was confronting housing challenges that might sound eerily familiar to 21st century Californians: Population growth was outstripping new home construction, and rents and home prices were escalating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing and Urban Development Secretary George Romney — future GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s father — launched “Project Breakthrough” in 1969, aiming to solve the country’s housing shortage by jumpstarting the pre-fab industry with a little help from Uncle Sam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress poured $190 million in inflation-adjusted dollars to coax major blue-chip manufacturers such as Alcoa and Boeing into participating. HUD identified nine sites across the country, including one in Sacramento, on which both single family and multifamily pre-fabricated housing could be assembled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Uninspiring Results\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Operation Breakthrough was really a big and pretty expensive failure and really quite an embarrassment for the Nixon administration,” said Anderson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the housing ended up being uninhabitable after a few years, adding to the public perception that factory-built housing was at best shabby, and at worst dangerous. Congress pulled the plug shortly after the prototype sites were completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The technology deployed by Factory OS and other modern pre-fab companies is leaps and bounds ahead of what Operation Breakthrough was working with in the early 1970s. But Anderson says many of the issues that confounded the Nixon administration still haunt the industry today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organized construction labor opposed Operation Breakthrough, fearing lower wages and reduced hours. Factory OS, while employing members of a regional carpenters union, has faced similar hostility from other building unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Operation Breakthrough also failed to achieve the economies of scale the federal government dreamed would materialize. Anderson says the finances of mass-produced housing work only if it is truly mass-produced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jessica Goldbach, project manager Factory OS's West Oakland project\"]‘I think what’s different about this is we can make a whole building erect in 10 days.’[/pullquote]“You need to produce a lot of units in order for the savings to accrue,” said Anderon. “Because setting up a factory is not cheap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Factory OS isn’t profitable yet, but co-founding partner Rick Holliday predicts the company to turn the corner in the next two years. He says the company has $200 million in projects in the pipeline, including orders from Google for workforce housing and from nonprofit developers for housing for people who are now homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like to pretend we’ve made it because we’re only a two-year-old company,” said Holliday. “But I can tell you with absolute clarity that we’ve started a company that’s an industry leader.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem with Operation Breakthrough was the federal government’s focus on building single family homes. Proponents of modern modular housing can take solace in one positive development from the initiative — still standing in east Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cynthia Sarthou, a 60-year-old resident of the Greenfair Apartments, had no idea the nine-story apartment building she calls home was built in a factory and erected in 23 days. The complex now serves as subsidized housing for low-income seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Good restaurants are around, it’s very safe inside,” said Sarthou, who said she has no complaints about the apartment. “It’s cozy and we’re happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782120\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11782120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_0442-e1571867388135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Factory OS construction workers assemble an apartment building piece by piece inside a factory in Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Matt Levin/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Building in 10 Days\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the Greenfair Apartments are still functional, aesthetically they’re reminiscent of those towering public housing projects synonymous with 20th century low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Factory OS only constructs mid-rise apartment buildings no taller than seven stories. It isn’t in the single-family home market, which means economies of scale should be easier to achieve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And its first project in West Oakland will look pretty indistinguishable from other apartment buildings nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what’s different about this is we can make a whole building erect in 10 days,” said Jessica Goldbach, project manager at the West Oakland project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten days is how long it took cranes to stack the 110 units at the “The Union” project last month. She says it’s about time the construction industry embraced technological changes that have transformed other parts of the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"affordable-housing\" label=\"More on affordable housing\"]“Why are we still looking at paper drawings?” said Goldbach. “I just think unfortunately building and the way that we build is so far behind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldbach’s crew is doing touch up work on “The Union” now, connecting modular units together, adding insulation. The project should open its doors early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Factory OS has projects in its pipeline that will serve lower-income households — including permanent supportive housing for homeless people — the Union project isn’t one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A two-bedroom unit will rent for $3,700. That’s comparable to other new market-rate housing opening up in the region, and certainly isn’t a bargain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until the market really changes and the producers are producing more units and there are more producers of those units, there won’t be really enough competition for consumers to recoup those savings,” said Anderson, the University of Washington professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holliday, whose development company separate from Factory OS will own and dictate rents in the new building, says the expensive price tag was necessary to satisfy investors in the new development. But he stresses that without the cost savings that came with modular construction, the new housing wouldn’t have been built in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we had tried to stick-build that project, it wouldn’t get built,” said Holliday, citing rising labor and materials costs in the Bay Area. “That’s the reality of the market we’re in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond market-rate housing, Holliday sees the future of Factory OS in projects subsidized by the state for housing low-income families and people experiencing homelessness. He says Factory OS has 10 different supportive housing projects in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles in the pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, one new apartment for homeless tenants costs about \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/2019/10/08/prop_hhh_homeless_housing_audit.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$500,000\u003c/a> to build — nearly twice what the median single-family home sells for in the rest of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11768052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219-160x44.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Dream series is a statewide media collaboration of CalMatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the James Irvine Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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So, it’s no big surprise that voters are being asked to decide on the largest affordable housing bond in the city’s history this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Affordable Housing\" tag=\"affordable-housing\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco voters face two big, but separate measures that could provide $600 million for affordable housing, and help build housing for teachers and other educators that work for San Francisco schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help you prepare, here are the basics for those measures, Proposition A and Proposition E.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proposition A\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Proposition A is a $600 million bond that would pay for the acquisition, rehabilitation and production of approximately 2,800 affordable housing units over the next five years. The money would be \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/Nov2019_AffordableHousingBond_Legislative%20Digest.pdf\">committed in these ways\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>$220 million to buy, rehabilitate and build low-income housing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$150 million for repairing and rebuilding public housing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$150 million to buy and build senior housing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$60 million to buy, rehabilitate and preserve middle-income housing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$20 million to support educator housing\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>This bond is nearly double the size of the 2015 low-and-middle income housing bond measure backed by then-Mayor Ed Lee. \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.org/results/20151103/\">Voters green-lit\u003c/a> that $310 million bond, which has created about 1,500 units, according to Malcom Yeung, campaign committee co-chair for this year’s Proposition A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before that, San Francisco hadn’t passed an affordable housing bond since 1996, when former mayor Willie Brown pushed for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/publications/spur-report/2002-08-02/san-francisco-s-affordable-housing-bond\">$100 million measure\u003c/a>. Out of that money, $15 million was earmarked for down payment assistance loans for first-time home buyers; the rest was for the renovation and construction of very-low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For years, the city never really considered affordable housing to be infrastructure and as a result never regularly programmed it into the capital planning cycle,” Yeung said. “Hopefully by having a housing bond every five years or so, we are going to be regularly addressing the affordability needs, as opposed to waiting 20 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition A has support from Mayor London Breed and the Board of Supervisors as well as some state politicians. Salesforce and the Facebook-affiliated Chan Zuckerberg Initiative have helped financed the bond campaign. 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If Proposition A passes, the city would chip in $20 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11768639,news_11740509 label='Hanging on to Teachers']Susan Solomon, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, said teachers here face unprecedented affordability challenges that make it hard to stay in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many of them, especially newer teachers, they are also paying off their student loans,” she said. “So, what it means for them is that they are living with many roommates, or tiny apartments or commuting from very far away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The profession has a national attrition rate of about 8 percent annually, \u003ca href=\"https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/product-files/Teacher_Turnover_REPORT.pdf\">according to 2017 study by the Learning Policy Institute\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Unified has a 10 percent attrition rate, \u003ca href=\"https://archive.sfusd.edu/en/assets/sfusd-staff/RFQ%20Educator%20Housing%20Development%20Final%203.1.2019.pdf\">according to a school district memo\u003c/a> from April that sought pitches from developers for potential housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school district has identified a few lots that would be eligible for Proposition E development if it passes: One in the Inner Sunset, another in Laurel Heights and one in the Bayview neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has already started working with the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development on \u003ca href=\"https://sfmohcd.org/francis-scott-key-annex\">a housing project planned for the Francis Scott Key Annex\u003c/a> in the Outer Sunset. 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