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Some, according to the Chronicle, reportedly harassed neighbors with threatening messages on social media, accusing them of being anti-homeless and inhumane and resorting to cruel, passive-aggressive Band-Aid tactics, rather than working toward real solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All you had to do is come and say something to us. 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The boulder plan, they said, was a last resort, rolled out only after they had made repeated attempts to enlist the help of the city’s outreach services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more homelessness coverage\" tag=\"homelessness\"]“This is about people yelling and screaming at 3 in the morning and openly flashing weapons,” one woman \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/San-Francisco-OK-with-boulders-on-small-street-to-14465305.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told\u003c/a> the San Francisco Chronicle. “I’m not rich. I’m having a hard enough time making it myself. 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There are a lot of folks who see any effort to address any of the street behavior issues as a war on the homeless,” he said. “And then … I hear from my constituents who are not hostile to homeless people but are not willing to continue living in the conditions San Francisco is in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton Park neighbors told the San Francisco Examiner they’re still intent on cleaning up the street and are considering their next move — one that could involve another landscaping tactic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohammed Nuru, the city’s public works director, on Monday told the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/city-to-remove-anti-homeless-boulders-from-clinton-park/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Examiner\u003c/a> that he commended the group for banding together to find a creative “solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is they were not big enough,” Nuru said, suggesting a permanent fix could involve larger boulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon, a public works spokeswoman confirmed her department had supported the neighbors’ unconventional boulder initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We decided we’ll see what we could do to work with them to somehow sanction the boulders that were on the street,” she told Forum. “Obviously, that didn’t work out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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And we haven’t seen a single high-rise tower break ground in nearly two years,” Liccardo said. “So we’ve got a market that is telling us simply that it’s not viable to move forward unless we do something to reduce the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, several council members balked in the face of criticism from people like Louise Auerhahn, director of Economic and Workforce Policy with \u003ca href=\"https://www.wpusa.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Working Partnerships San Jose\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single time, we’re promised this is the last time. Well, now it’s 2019. We’ve had this temporary subsidy for well over a decade, and while we’ve been running this experiment, has this model worked to produce affordable housing? No!” Auerhahn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote followed the most contentious reassessment of the incentives in more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose officials first approved the Downtown High Rise Incentive Program before the Great Recession brought development to a screeching halt in late 2007. 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In the absence of it, the investor risk, the volatility of the markets, actually make it very difficult for these high-rises to pencil out,” said Eddie Truong, director of government and community relations for the\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesvo.com/team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Silicon Valley Organization\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truong added, “Most people think builders in general have a very large cash reserve to invest in residential high-rises. If you can’t demonstrate with a business plan that you can get a reasonable return on investment, you’re not going to get investor funding or lender financing from the capital markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction, land and labor costs have been rising in San Jose and sky high rents appear to have hit a ceiling, limiting that potential return on investment. 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In a statement released last week, he argued that “Exceedingly high construction costs will prevent any residential builder from getting the financing to build a high-rise in Downtown for several years—despite a housing crisis that screams for more housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement added, “Either reduce fees and get housing built, or we sit on our hands and hope for some miracle to solve this housing crisis for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11775797 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS15476_IMG_0887-qut-1920x1440.jpg\" alt=\"One South Market is one of the newest additions to San Jose's downtown skyline. 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"content": "\u003cp>The leaders of a local nonprofit that helped push a statewide rent cap through the Legislature this month are now focusing on building an African American housing union in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 100 black residents, city leaders and advocates gathered at the West Oakland Branch of the Oakland Public Library on Saturday to discuss ways to fight displacement. It was the second town hall this summer. The first was held in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775901\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11775901 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/MauriceHedgepeth-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Local Maurice Hedgepeth said he said he's here because he has a good job as a truck driver but can't see himself owning a home where he grew up.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maurice Hedgepeth said he said he’s here because he has a good job as a truck driver but can’t see himself owning a home where he grew up. \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Standing outside the door of the packed room, local resident Maurice Hedgepeth said he came because he has a good job as a truck driver but can’t see himself owning a home where he grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just hoping to hear that they were walking down the path of solutions that can help get a lot of us out of this problem,” said Hedgepeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting focused on educating people about housing rights, including a presentation from the city’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/rent-adjustment-program-guide-and-information-sheets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Rent Adjustment Board\u003c/a> about what sorts of rent hikes are allowable and how to arbitrate illegal increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775896\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11775896 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/ArthurTenette-800x533.jpg\" alt='Former Black panther Arthur Tenette expressed frustration that black displacement, something he remembers battling decades ago, is still an ongoing issue. \"These babies are gonna figure out rent control before we figure out how to keep Black people in Oakland!\" said Tenette.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Black Panther Arthur Tenette expressed frustration that black displacement, something he remembers battling decades ago, is still an ongoing issue. “These babies are gonna figure out climate change before we figure out how to keep black people in Oakland!” said Tenette. \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It also focused on the housing discrimination black folks have historically faced in Oakland — such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11648307/has-oaklands-fruitvale-neighborhood-recovered-from-redlining\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">redlining\u003c/a> — with the ultimate goal of mobilizing those who are impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included informing attendees about strategies that are already at play. For example, the \u003ca href=\"https://oakclt.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Community Land Trust \u003c/a>“removes land from the speculative market so that it serves low-income residents forever.” It is among the organizations that will benefit from \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/oaklands-bold-investment-to-address-displacement/Content?oid=26787512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$12 million\u003c/a> allocated in this year’s city budget to create a municipal fund supporting such trusts and limited equity housing cooperatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11775897 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/CarolFife-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Carole Fife directs the Oakland Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, the group behind the event.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carroll Fife directs the Oakland Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, the group behind the event. \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We want to see a group of people who are ready to activate around policy changes, and folks who are willing to put their bodies on the line to do direct action the way that we do it,” said Carroll Fife, director of the Oakland Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, which organized the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACCE Oakland said it already has an anti-displacement chapter that meets every Thursday, as well as East and West Oakland chapters that meet twice a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11775905\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RoQuelJohnson-800x533.jpg\" alt='\"The crisis has been going on for many years,\" said resident RoQuel Johnson, \"and how do we as a community start really doing some action?\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“The crisis has been going on for many years,” said resident RocQuel Johnson, “and how do we as a community start really doing some action?” \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was worth coming out,” said RocQuel Johnson, who still works downtown despite being pushed out of Oakland. “We need to get out and really start knocking on some doors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nascent Black Housing Union is a subcommittee that will look at how housing issues impact the black community and support homegrown solutions. A number of ACCE affiliates statewide are looking at expanding the Black Housing Union to other California cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775902\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11775902 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/IMG_7814-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A panel featuring Darleen Flynn of the City of Oakland’s Department of Race & Equity, Chanee Franklin Minor of the City of Oakland’s Rent Adjustment Program, and Zachary Murray of the Oakland Community Land Trust discuss housing affordability and community land ownership at a Black Tenants Union meeting put on by ACCE in September 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A panel — featuring Darlene Flynn of Oakland’s Department of Race & Equity, Chanee Franklin Minor of Oakland’s Rent Adjustment Program and Zachary Murray of the Oakland Community Land Trust — discusses housing affordability and community land ownership at a Black Housing Union meeting put on by ACCE in September 2019. \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11775898 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/KaiJohnson-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Laney College student Kai Johnson said he heard about the meeting from his political science teacher. "Not only will I get extra credit," said Johnson, "but I'm trying to stay in Oakland, I'm just trying not to move from the Bay Area, so I'm trying to figure out ways to keep black people in Oakland."\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laney College student Kai Johnson heard about the meeting from his political science teacher. “Not only will I get extra credit,” said Johnson, “but I’m trying to stay in Oakland, I’m just trying not to move from the Bay Area, so I’m trying to figure out ways to keep black people in Oakland.” \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11775899 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/IMG_7820-800x533.jpg\" alt='David Peters is a third generation West Oakland resident. \"The vacancy tax is running black people out of Oakland,\" said Peters, \"My family has historically housed black people; How do we create union between tenants rights and historical black multi-generation property owners so we are not pushed out by white techies who are using the rent rules to allow them with their high salaries to come into our properties? \"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Peters is a third-generation West Oakland resident. “The vacancy tax is running black people out of Oakland,” said Peters. “My family has historically housed black people. 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The first was held in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775901\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11775901 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/MauriceHedgepeth-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Local Maurice Hedgepeth said he said he's here because he has a good job as a truck driver but can't see himself owning a home where he grew up.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maurice Hedgepeth said he said he’s here because he has a good job as a truck driver but can’t see himself owning a home where he grew up. \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Standing outside the door of the packed room, local resident Maurice Hedgepeth said he came because he has a good job as a truck driver but can’t see himself owning a home where he grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just hoping to hear that they were walking down the path of solutions that can help get a lot of us out of this problem,” said Hedgepeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting focused on educating people about housing rights, including a presentation from the city’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/rent-adjustment-program-guide-and-information-sheets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Rent Adjustment Board\u003c/a> about what sorts of rent hikes are allowable and how to arbitrate illegal increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775896\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11775896 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/ArthurTenette-800x533.jpg\" alt='Former Black panther Arthur Tenette expressed frustration that black displacement, something he remembers battling decades ago, is still an ongoing issue. \"These babies are gonna figure out rent control before we figure out how to keep Black people in Oakland!\" said Tenette.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Black Panther Arthur Tenette expressed frustration that black displacement, something he remembers battling decades ago, is still an ongoing issue. “These babies are gonna figure out climate change before we figure out how to keep black people in Oakland!” said Tenette. \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It also focused on the housing discrimination black folks have historically faced in Oakland — such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11648307/has-oaklands-fruitvale-neighborhood-recovered-from-redlining\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">redlining\u003c/a> — with the ultimate goal of mobilizing those who are impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included informing attendees about strategies that are already at play. For example, the \u003ca href=\"https://oakclt.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Community Land Trust \u003c/a>“removes land from the speculative market so that it serves low-income residents forever.” It is among the organizations that will benefit from \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/oaklands-bold-investment-to-address-displacement/Content?oid=26787512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$12 million\u003c/a> allocated in this year’s city budget to create a municipal fund supporting such trusts and limited equity housing cooperatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11775897 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/CarolFife-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Carole Fife directs the Oakland Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, the group behind the event.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carroll Fife directs the Oakland Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, the group behind the event. \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We want to see a group of people who are ready to activate around policy changes, and folks who are willing to put their bodies on the line to do direct action the way that we do it,” said Carroll Fife, director of the Oakland Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, which organized the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACCE Oakland said it already has an anti-displacement chapter that meets every Thursday, as well as East and West Oakland chapters that meet twice a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11775905\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RoQuelJohnson-800x533.jpg\" alt='\"The crisis has been going on for many years,\" said resident RoQuel Johnson, \"and how do we as a community start really doing some action?\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“The crisis has been going on for many years,” said resident RocQuel Johnson, “and how do we as a community start really doing some action?” \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was worth coming out,” said RocQuel Johnson, who still works downtown despite being pushed out of Oakland. “We need to get out and really start knocking on some doors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nascent Black Housing Union is a subcommittee that will look at how housing issues impact the black community and support homegrown solutions. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story will be updated\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday asked President Trump to approve more housing vouchers, as the Trump administration weighs in on the state’s massive homelessness problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11773790/trump-officials-dispatched-to-survey-los-angeles-homeless-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visited Los Angeles\u003c/a> last week to view the city’s sprawling homeless encampments after Trump told his staff to develop policy options to address the national crisis of people living on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump is also planning to attend a fundraising event in the Bay Area on Tuesday, his first presidential visit to the area, in which he will \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/14/politics/ben-carson-visit-california-homelessness/index.html.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly\u003c/a> discuss the issue of homelessness, joined by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic governor and officials representing California cities and counties sent the Republican president a letter asserting that “shelter solves sleep, but only housing solves homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their letter asks Trump to provide 50,000 more housing vouchers through two existing programs and to increase the value of the vouchers to account for high rents. That would help “a significant proportion of our unsheltered population,” including thousands of military veterans, they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office could not immediately say how much more the voucher proposal would cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials also asked Trump to work with Congress to increase funding for 300,000 new housing vouchers nationwide and create a program to encourage landlords to work better with voucher holders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, a Democrat, invited Trump in July to tour the city’s streets. Garcetti estimated that 36,000 people in the city are homeless on any given night, while thousands more sleep on streets in other California cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pairing more vouchers with an increase in the fair market rent value of the vouchers, you have the ability to make a meaningful difference in the lives of so many who suffer on our streets,” the officials wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They defended California’s attempts to deal with poverty while contrasting the administration’s “significant cuts” to public housing and community grant programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delegation that Trump dispatched last week to survey Los Angeles’ homeless came about two months after the Republican president called the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles, San Francisco and other big cities disgraceful and faulted the “liberal establishment” for the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The final day of session for the California State Legislature was disrupted late Friday afternoon when a woman in the Senate gallery \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/0ff009de977741e0abdd8568d9d80a29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tossed\u003c/a> what the California Highway Patrol said was a substance that “appeared to be blood” onto the Senate floor while yelling “That’s for the dead babies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Bay Sen. Steve Glazer (D-Orinda) said the liquid landed on his head and splashed onto five other senators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman, identified as 43-year-old Rebecca Dalelio of Santa Cruz County, is linked to some of the anti-vaccine protesters demonstrating in recent weeks over the passage of Senate Bills 276 and 714 aimed at tightening up medical exemptions for children’s vaccines. She was arrested and charged with assault, vandalism and disrupting the business at hand in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP cordoned off the Senate, forcing lawmakers, media and others to move into a committee room to finish its business hours later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are some of the highlights from this legislative session, including bills that have already been signed into law, are awaiting signature or are in limbo until next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Children’s Issues\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 378:\u003c/strong> In-home child care providers would be allowed to unionize under this measure. Supporters said unionizing could give child care workers a voice and encourage them to stay in the industry. The bill has made it through the Legislature. Several similar bills have either died or been vetoed by governors in the past. But supporters are hoping this measure will be signed by Governor Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 337/AB 1092:\u003c/strong> Lawmakers sent Newsom two bills aimed at making sure more low-income kids in California benefit from child support payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, a quarter of a million California families only receive $50 a month in child support payments, even if the non-custodial parent is paying hundreds of dollars more each month in child support. This happens when a family is also receiving government assistance, like welfare or Medi-Cal. The government takes the rest of the money to repay the public for the cost of those safety net programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And parents that fail to pay their required child support on time see huge interest added to those debts — 10% a year. In addition to the crippling debt that racks up, parents can also lose their driver’s license, or go to jail if they fall too far behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two bills now on Newsom’s desk would change that: Oakland Sen. Nancy Skinner’s SB337 will increase the amount of child support paid to families on welfare assistance. Families with one child will get $100 a month under the bill; families with two or more kids will receive $200 a month. And AB 1092 will end the practice of adding interest to child support debt. Both bills, if signed by Newsom, will take effect in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Health\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 24:\u003c/strong> State lawmakers have passed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11772337/california-again-considers-making-abortion-pills-available-at-public-colleges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bill\u003c/a> that would require student health centers at all 34 state campuses to provide medication abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the measure becomes law, it will be the first of its kind in the U.S. The bill’s supporters say they want to remove the obstacles women face accessing medical abortion off campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a consortium of women’s groups that support abortion rights has promised to pay for all the required ultrasound equipment and upfront training costs of providing the abortion pill on campus, eventually universities would likely need to dip into tax dollars or student fees for ongoing costs — which abortion opponents object to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 276/SB 714:\u003c/strong> California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11773308/anti-vaccine-protesters-swarm-capitol-as-lawmakers-pass-bill-limiting-medical-exemptions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pair of bills\u003c/a> into law earlier this week to crack down on doctors who write fraudulent medical exemptions for schoolchildren’s vaccinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news laws would create state oversight of medical exemptions for vaccines required by most schools and day care centers in California. Under them, the state would begin collecting medical exemptions electronically by Jan. 1, 2021. But health department officials would review them only when a school’s immunization rate falls below 95% or when a doctor writes more than five medical exemptions per year (beginning in 2020).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The laws would also allow officials to revoke any medical exemptions written by doctors who have faced disciplinary action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since being introduced last year, hundreds of parents have protested the legislation, insisting it would disrupt confidential doctor-patient relationships and scare doctors from writing new exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 343:\u003c/strong> Under legislation signed into law last week, Kaiser Permanente will have to share more information — like other insurers do — on revenue and expenses at each of its facilities, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article234806097.html#storylink=cpy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> reported. The legislation was introduced on behalf of Kaiser’s largest union, the Service Employees International Union, which has been in contract negotiations for roughly a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 1482\u003c/strong> marks the biggest victory for California renter protections in decades. It would create a statewide limit on rent increases of 5% plus inflation, and requires that landlords provide a “just cause” when evicting tenants who have been renting for a year. The limits on rent hikes don’t go nearly as far as local rent control laws in places like San Francisco and Oakland, but it would cover millions of Californians whose units don’t already have such protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure exempts units under 15 years old, but it was opposed by real estate agents who argued that the legislation would discourage construction of rental housing. Newsom has committed to signing the bill, which will sunset after 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 1487\u003c/strong>, which has been sent to Newsom, would allow for a Bay Area regional ballot measure to raise money for affordable housing. Previous measures on ballots in the nine counties have raised taxes to pay for transportation and bay restoration. The executive board of the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) would decide what form a potential revenue-raising measure would take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 330\u003c/strong>, which has been sent to Newsom, would prohibit local governments from downzoning by either placing a moratorium on development or lowering the number of housing units permitted. It also would speed up the permitting process for development. The provision sunsets after five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Law Enforcement\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 22\u003c/strong> requires prompt testing of newly collected rape kits in Califonia. Under the bill, new rape kits must be submitted for testing within 20 days and actually tested with 120 days. The bill’s author, Senator Connie Leyva (D-Chino) says the measure would help solve crimes and prevent testing backlogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Survivors should never have to wait years or even decades for their rape kits to be tested and it is outrageous that collected evidence could ever sit on a shelf untested,” Leyva said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 230 \u003c/strong>is meant to reduce the use of force among law enforcement agencies. Governor Newsom has signed it into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law requires agencies to maintain a policy providing guidelines on the use of force. That policy must also include de-escalation techniques and other alternatives to force, and specific guidelines for when deadly force can be used. In addition, the agencies’ policies must include a way to evaluate and review all use- of-force incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 230\u003c/strong> is meant to be used in conjunction with \u003cstrong>AB 392\u003c/strong>, which Newsom signed into law in August. It states law enforcement can use deadly force only when “necessary,” rather than just “reasonable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 61\u003c/strong> would expand the scope of people able to request a gun violence restraining order against a person they believe is a danger to themselves or others. Currently, only immediate family members and police are allowed to make a request. This measure would allow employers, co-workers, schoolteachers and employees to request a restraining order as well. The legislation has been sent to Newsom for his signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 1215\u003c/strong> places a three-year ban on the use of facial recognition technology on body cameras by the state and local law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was supported by the ACLU, which said the technology is not ready for prime time. To prove its point, the ACLU entered photos of all 120 state legislators into a database of mugshots. The software incorrectly identified 26 of the lawmakers as criminals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and Oakland have already passed similar legislation. The bill has been sent to Newsom for his signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prisons\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 32\u003c/strong> would ban the use of private for-profit prisons and detention centers in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill author Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) said there’s no room for the facilities in the state. “California should not be home to companies that are profiteering from the tearing of innocent children from their families. This is inhumane and goes against who we are as Californians and Americans,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the measure would reduce the state’s options for dealing with prison overcrowding and put more pressure on local jails to hold dangerous inmates. The legislation has been sent to Newsom for his signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 132,\u003c/strong> which would allow transgender prisoners in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to be housed according to their gender identity, and not their sex assigned at birth, will be carried over to the next session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California would be the third state in the nation to pass such legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, said the coalition supporting the legislation had decided to make it a two-year bill so they could “come to a solution that works for” the community, CDCR and Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transgender people in our prison system are among the most marginalized people in society, and we must protect them,” he said Friday in a statement. “Over the fall recess, I will join community leaders to visit several state prisons to meet with transgender people who are incarcerated there. This listening tour will help us craft the best legislation possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 136\u003c/strong> is part of a larger push in California to roll back tough on crime laws that helped pack prisons and jails to the brim and resulted in ballooning corrections spending in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would end the practice of automatically adding an extra year to a defendant’s sentence if they had previously served time for a felony. Wiener said 11,000 people currently in prison have this extra year tacked on at a cost of $80,000 a year. State officials estimate that the change would save taxpayers $80 million a year. The legislation has passed the Legislature and is heading to the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Environment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 792\u003c/strong> would establish a minimum level of recycled content – 50% – in plastic bottles by 2035. On Monday, Assemblyman Phil Ting introduced another bill, \u003cstrong>AB 54\u003c/strong>, to bring temporary relief to cities feeling the bite from the sudden closure of recycling centers across the state. The bill provides $10 million for recycling centers and gives grocers a reprieve from paying some recycling fees. Both bills passed the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 1\u003c/strong> is aimed at blunting any weakening of federal environmental laws in California by the Trump Administration. It was sent to Gov. Newsom early Saturday morning with strong backing from environmental groups, despite vigorous objections from Sen. Dianne Feinstein and some water groups who warned against creating two sets of environmental standards. If signed by the governor (or allowed to take effect without his signature) it would replace any federal environmental regulation (Clean Power Plan, Endangered Species Act, etc.) with a state alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 1080 and SB 54:\u003c/strong> The legislative session ended without passage of the bills, which would have enacted the strongest plastic pollution rules in the U.S. The bills are eligible to be considered next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan required plastics manufacturers to take responsibility for the fate of their products — from coffee cup lids to takeout boxes to plastic packaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses would have had to ensure that plastic forks, for example, are recyclable or face a potential ban. If the bill had passed, all of the state’s single-use plastic utensils would need to be recyclable or compostable by 2030, and companies must reduce waste from plastic packaging by 75%.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Wildfires\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 160:\u003c/strong> This bill mandates that counties include “cultural competence” into emergency plans. It’s partially a response to elderly and non-English-speaking residents who missed emergency alerts during the state’s recent wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, which has been sent to Newsom for his signature, calls for local communities to hold public forums that represent residents of many backgrounds when counties plan their emergency protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 520\u003c/strong> would give utilities like PG&E the designation of “provider of last resort” in the areas they serve. Utilities already enjoy that privilege in practice, but the law sponsored by Sen. Robert Hertzberg would enshrine it in the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the bill could limit the options that cities and counties have to wrest control from utilities and run them municipally, and limit opportunities for community choice aggregation just as they are starting to thrive. The legislation has been sent to Newsom for his signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other Notable Bills\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 206:\u003c/strong> NBA icon LeBron James threw his weight behind SB 206, the “Fair Pay to Play” bill by East Bay Sen. Nancy Skinner that would allow student-athletes at all four-year colleges in California to sign endorsement deals and receive compensation for the use of their names, images or likenesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But NCAA President Mark Emmert wrote in a letter to Newsom that signing the legislation could make it “impossible to host fair national championships.” He also implied that if the bill became law, athletes at California schools could be barred from competing in NCAA national championships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, the Senate and the Assembly passed the bill without any opposition. Now — will LeBron be there for the bill signing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 44: \u003c/strong>Anti-fur advocates have long sought a ban on killing animals for their fur. And if Newsom signs this bill, which he said he will in a tweet, California will become the first state in the nation to ban the creation of new fur products. Republican critics said the state was once again telling Californians what they can and cannot do (the nanny state argument) and that it was disrespectful to Native Americans, whose cultures value fur. The mink, rabbit and coyote communities are no doubt pleased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 1505\u003c/strong> seeks to more closely regulate California’s 1,300 charter schools. It would allow school districts to consider the impact to the community and the neighborhood schools when reviewing applications for new or expanded charter schools. It would require charter school teachers to be credentialed and establishes a two-year moratorium on non-classroom based charter schools. The legislation has been sent to Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 313:\u003c/strong> Another victory for furry citizens of California, this bill would ban the use of wild animals in circus acts, including bears, elephants, tigers and monkeys. 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The bill has been sent to Newsom for his signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prisons\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 32\u003c/strong> would ban the use of private for-profit prisons and detention centers in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill author Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) said there’s no room for the facilities in the state. “California should not be home to companies that are profiteering from the tearing of innocent children from their families. This is inhumane and goes against who we are as Californians and Americans,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the measure would reduce the state’s options for dealing with prison overcrowding and put more pressure on local jails to hold dangerous inmates. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated Wednesday, Sept. 11, 5 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers on Wednesday moved to cap annual rent increases statewide for most tenants, a major victory for tenants as limited housing supply in the country’s most populous state continues to drive up the cost of living while pushing more people to the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day after its approval by the state Senate, members of the Assembly voted 46-22 in favor of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1482\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 1482\u003c/a> , which caps rent increases at 5% each year, plus inflation, for the next decade while banning landlords from evicting tenants without just cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he supports the measures and is expected to sign it into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s largest cities, including Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco, have some form of rent control that has been in place for decades, but a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2018/01/5-things-californian-know-now-rent-control/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state law\u003c/a> passed in 1995 has restricted any new municipal rent control laws since that year. In most places, landlords can raise rents at any time and for any reason as long as they give advance notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"affordable-housing\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California voters overwhelmingly rejected a statewide ballot initiative to overturn the 1995 law last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Pomona, about 30 miles east of Los Angeles, Yesenia Miranda Meza said her rent has jumped 20% in the past two years. On Monday, she marched with other tenants through the halls of the state Capitol chanting, “Once I’ve paid my rent, all my money’s spent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a rent increase away from eviction, and that’s with me having two jobs,” she said. “So if this (bill) doesn’t go through and I get another rent increase, I really don’t know what I’m going to do. I’m either going to be homeless or I’ll have to cram into a room with a whole bunch of other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents have likened the proposal to rent control — a more restrictive set of limitations on landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jared Martin, president of the California Association of Realtors, said the group’s 200,000 members strongly oppose the bill because it will “reduce the supply and quality of rental housing.” It’s an argument echoed by state Sen. Jeff Stone, R-Temecula, who said developers would have no reason to build new housing if they can’t make money off their investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll see even a greater housing crisis because of the low supply of housing,” Stone said. “Either this will force our constituents to join a 60,000 homeless population that we see in the LA area, or they will simply just move to another state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But supporters say the bill includes lots safeguards to prevent that from happening. The rent caps don’t apply to housing built within the last 15 years — a provision that prompted the California Building Industry Association to drop its opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DavidChiu/status/1171513633743851521\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, the caps don’t apply to single-family homes, except those owned by corporations or real estate investment trusts. And duplexes where owners live in one of the units are also exempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would sunset in 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all desperately want to build more housing. It was a very important aspect of this bill,” said Democratic Assemblyman David Chiu of San Francisco, who introduced the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Senate Leader Toni Atkins, a San Diego Democrat, said the high cost of rent is hurting working people throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where I grew up, if I had a career as a nurse or teacher, that would have been making it in life,” she said. So how do you have a good career and you’re making it and you can’t afford the rent?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even some Democrats who voted for the bill noted that they had serious reservations about it. Sen. 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They will each have a lofted bed, desk, windows and solar-powered electricity. The homes can also be easily moved around since they are built on top of two-wheeled trailers. A common kitchen, bathroom and living space for the village are also in the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth Spirit Artworks plans to provide social services to the young people at the village including job training, emotional and crisis support and educational opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley resident Molly Baskette and her 13-year-old daughter Carmen were among the volunteers that came out over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It seemed like a really meaningful way to spend my Saturday to do something concrete, to shelter some of our most vulnerable neighbors,” said Baskette. “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It feels so much better to be doing something than to be going into our houses and shutting our doors and living in our peaceful prosperity.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11773036\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11773036 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/IMG_3250-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/IMG_3250-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/IMG_3250-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/IMG_3250-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/IMG_3250-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/IMG_3250-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/IMG_3250-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/IMG_3250-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/IMG_3250-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/IMG_3250-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/IMG_3250-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/IMG_3250.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Molly Baskette and her daughter Carmen spent the day painting wood panels for the tiny homes. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Construction costs for the project total $760,000. 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"content": "\u003cp>Homeless advocates are raising concerns over the public nuisance lawsuit filed against seven people by the city of Sacramento earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While KQED could not independently confirm if all the men named in the action are homeless, according to a sworn declaration from Sacramento Police Sergeant Greg Galliano all the “named defendants are homeless or do not live in the Broadway Corridor,” a prominent business district in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the suit, the men are accused of crimes ranging from public lewdness to drug use to robbery to assault along the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.greaterbroadwaydistrict.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Broadway Corridor\u003c/a>. The injunction would, among other things, prevent the men from being within the “designated area” at any time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11742013\"]“This isn’t really a solution. It’s an expression of frustration, but it’s not going to lead to any resolution or better outcomes for the community,” said Natasha Minsker, a former ACLU lawyer and a volunteer at the Loaves and Fishes legal clinic in Sacramento. “We shouldn’t be in the business of banishing the neediest members of our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County also came under fire from homeless advocacy groups earlier this year for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11742013/advocates-eye-legal-options-as-homeless-are-ticketed-along-river-in-sacramento\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ticketing homeless residents\u003c/a> living along the American River Parkway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This legal action comes as the state’s new homeless commission — headed by Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg — is set to hold its first meeting on Sept. 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Steinberg, who has a history of championing causes related to homelessness — including the 2004 \u003ca href=\"https://www.mhsoac.ca.gov/about-us/prop63mhsa/act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mental Health Services Act\u003c/a> — the lawsuit isn’t criminalizing people for being homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, pictured in 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11770140\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg-1200x793.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, pictured in 2018. \u003ccite>(JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness is not a crime, period, ” Steinberg emphasized. But he said, “there is a distinction, I think, and a clear line between criminalizing homelessness — which is always inappropriate and wrong — and saying that people do not have the right to engage in anti-social and illegal behavior on a consistent basis and then just be able to go on without any type of sanction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, advocates say even if legal recourse is an option to address that behavior it should be a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not succeed at addressing problematic behavior by throwing lawyers and police at the situation,” said Minsker. “If we have people engaging in behavior that’s disruptive to the community, we recognize that there needs to be attention to that. And instead of paying for more lawyers and more police, we could be investing in social workers and treatment programs, rather than trying to banish them from one area of the city in particular.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Sacramento City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood said the city will seek “injunctive relief” whenever criminal activity in an area becomes excessive and other enforcement has not been successful. “It’s not appropriate in every case, but it is in some. In this case, the residents and businesses along the Broadway Corridor have been subjected to ongoing criminal activity from a relatively small group of people. The suit looks to address that issue head-on and protect the safety of everyone who lives in or visits the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcala Wood also said the city would only file this type of lawsuit with the support of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for whether or not the defendants named in the suit were put in contact with social workers or treatment programs? Steinberg said he’s looking into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our first obligation is to help people, including the people named in the lawsuit. And we should be assertive about it. At the same time, there should be standards of behavior and conduct on our streets and in our neighborhoods,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full lawsuit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6346285-Sac-Lawsuit.html\" responsive=true]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This isn’t really a solution. It’s an expression of frustration, but it’s not going to lead to any resolution or better outcomes for the community,” said Natasha Minsker, a former ACLU lawyer and a volunteer at the Loaves and Fishes legal clinic in Sacramento. “We shouldn’t be in the business of banishing the neediest members of our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County also came under fire from homeless advocacy groups earlier this year for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11742013/advocates-eye-legal-options-as-homeless-are-ticketed-along-river-in-sacramento\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ticketing homeless residents\u003c/a> living along the American River Parkway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This legal action comes as the state’s new homeless commission — headed by Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg — is set to hold its first meeting on Sept. 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Steinberg, who has a history of championing causes related to homelessness — including the 2004 \u003ca href=\"https://www.mhsoac.ca.gov/about-us/prop63mhsa/act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mental Health Services Act\u003c/a> — the lawsuit isn’t criminalizing people for being homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, pictured in 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11770140\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg-1200x793.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, pictured in 2018. \u003ccite>(JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness is not a crime, period, ” Steinberg emphasized. But he said, “there is a distinction, I think, and a clear line between criminalizing homelessness — which is always inappropriate and wrong — and saying that people do not have the right to engage in anti-social and illegal behavior on a consistent basis and then just be able to go on without any type of sanction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, advocates say even if legal recourse is an option to address that behavior it should be a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not succeed at addressing problematic behavior by throwing lawyers and police at the situation,” said Minsker. “If we have people engaging in behavior that’s disruptive to the community, we recognize that there needs to be attention to that. And instead of paying for more lawyers and more police, we could be investing in social workers and treatment programs, rather than trying to banish them from one area of the city in particular.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Sacramento City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood said the city will seek “injunctive relief” whenever criminal activity in an area becomes excessive and other enforcement has not been successful. “It’s not appropriate in every case, but it is in some. In this case, the residents and businesses along the Broadway Corridor have been subjected to ongoing criminal activity from a relatively small group of people. The suit looks to address that issue head-on and protect the safety of everyone who lives in or visits the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcala Wood also said the city would only file this type of lawsuit with the support of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for whether or not the defendants named in the suit were put in contact with social workers or treatment programs? Steinberg said he’s looking into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our first obligation is to help people, including the people named in the lawsuit. And we should be assertive about it. At the same time, there should be standards of behavior and conduct on our streets and in our neighborhoods,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full lawsuit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]J[/dropcap]ulieta Aquino strolls proudly through her gleaming new home, a modest split-level condo on a busy thoroughfare in Fremont. With her 14-year-old daughter in tow, she scans the still-sparsely furnished, open floor plan living room-kitchen, pointing out the glistening, stainless steel fixtures and laminate countertops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a pretty decent-sized kitchen, considering it’s just two of us,” said Aquino. “I’m going for a farmhouse style.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 31-year-old single mom with a limited income and no college degree, Aquino has done the seemingly impossible: become a homeowner in one of the most brutally expensive housing markets in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And all she had to do was help build it herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Julieta Aquino\"]‘It was never a thought in my mind to be a homeowner because that just seemed so far away.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, Aquino and her daughter, Alexys, were among 11 low-income families who received keys to their new homes in Central Commons, a small development they all helped build over the past two years as participants in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.habitatebsv.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Habitat for Humanity East Bay-Silicon Valley\u003c/a> project. Like all future homeowners in the Habitat program, each family was required to put in 500 hours of so-called sweat equity, pounding nails and pouring concrete alongside project managers and volunteer work crews on the construction site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was my first time using a hammer,” Aquino admitted, noting the steep learning curve, one that exposed her to everything from fundamental carpentry skills to a basic understanding of California’s building codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really neat because even while we were building, we were signing our names on the studs. [My daughter] would come around and just trace her hand, so she knew that behind the Sheetrock and the wall there was her imprint there. It’s cool to know that we left a little piece of us by building the home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aquino opens the sliding doors in the living room, stepping onto a small balcony with a table and gas grill. Below us, a construction crew is building a set of adjacent units, where 19 other families are expected to move within the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really excited about my grill,” she says, amid the screeching of circular saws and nail guns. “I look forward to summer cookouts, and having breakfast out here. Brunches with family and friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11767831\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/DSC0871-e1565915186695.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11767831\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/DSC0871-e1565915186695.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julieta Aquino in her bedroom at the new condo she owns in Fremont. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘Definitely Within My Budget’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Although Habitat still owns the property that the development sits on, Aquino and her new neighbors are the legal owners of their individual units. In addition to their sweat equity hours, each family pays a 30-year low-interest mortgage guaranteed to never exceed 35% of their monthly income. That, along with no down payment and minimal closing costs, puts the prospect of homeownership squarely within the realm of possibility for low-income families like Aquino’s, who make between 30-80% of the area median income, in a region where average home prices easily bubble over $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely within my budget,” she said, noting that the program requires every participant to be on a monitored savings plan from the minute they’re selected. “I can assure you there is no other place in the Bay Area that I would be able to afford for the amount of money that I’m paying for this monthly. And it’s new. I helped build it. I helped create it. So it’s definitely a unique situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 33-year-old local Habitat program, which annually serves more than 1,200 residents in Alameda, Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties, is by no means a panacea for the Bay Area’s formidable housing crisis. But it does offer a glimmer of hope in what can be a grim and daunting housing landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aquino steps back into her new living room, closing the double-paned glass doors, which impressively mask the noise outside. She heads up a flight of stairs to Alexys’ bedroom, explaining that it’s the first real personal space her daughter has ever had.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Personal Space\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For years after she and Alexys’ father split up, mother and daughter shared a room — and a bed — in her parents’ cramped two-bedroom house in San Jose, where Aquino’s brother, his girlfriend and their newborn son were also staying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, ‘Oh, I’ll be there for a year or two and then we’ll move back out.’ But that didn’t happen as quickly as I thought it would,” she said. “It got really crowded at times. And so I was desperate to find a place for Alexys and I to just move out and have some quiet, some space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stay at her parents’ house stretched to more than five years, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My initial thought was I want to go to the low-income housing areas for the rental market,” she added. “It was never a thought in my mind to be a homeowner because that just seemed so far away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexys also has asthma and the house in San Jose had a serious mold problem, one that resulted in multiple trips to the emergency room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though Aquino’s bedroom is now just a few feet down the hall from her daughter’s, she admits that sleeping in separate rooms for the first time in years has been a harder transition than she’d anticipated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so used to her just sleeping with me that it’s going to take some time for me to fully let go,” Aquino said. “But she’s really excited to have her own room and have her own space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a different experience,” said Alexys, a thoughtful and soft-spoken teen, of her new room. “It’s your own space, your own privacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite being only 30 miles north of San Jose, she added, she felt far away from her old life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cried last night because I don’t get to see my friends,” she said. “But I think Fremont will be a good fresh start.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11768701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"Julieta Aquino's daughter Alexys in her new room, the first personal space she's ever had.\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home-1200x783.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julieta Aquino’s daughter, Alexys, in her new room, the first personal space she’s ever had. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alexys had been too young to participate in the construction process but became a fixture on the work site over the last two years, decorating signs to place around the grounds while watching her mom help build their future home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was interesting because you pass by these buildings every day, and you never really know all the hard work that goes into them. So seeing it from behind the scenes, and how you have to put Sheetrock in certain areas and studs between the walls,” she said. “But it did take some time. It was a process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related stories\" tag=\"affordable-housing\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Long Waiting Game\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Aquino, who works full time in the accounting department of a medical device company, found out about the program roughly five years ago. She immediately applied, but was initially rejected because of her poor credit history. A Habitat financial counselor, she said, worked with her to improve her credit score, and when she reapplied a year later, she was approved and put on a housing waitlist with scores of other applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until 2½ years later that she received a call informing her that Habitat had secured a piece of land in Fremont, in partnership with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then another year passed by and I was anxious,” she said. “I was constantly emailing my rep at Habitat. It felt like it was just never gonna happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2017 — more than three years after she’d first applied — Aquino was told the project was finally ready to break ground. She entered a final elimination process, in which program staff visited her parents’ San Jose home to assess her current living conditions and confirm her need to move elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after that, Aquino found out that she and her daughter were one of the 11 families — out of the hundreds in the selection pool — chosen to move into the first set of still-to-be-built units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “I felt like it was a miracle, like I had just won the lottery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11768704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Julieta-Aquino-kitchen-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Julieta Aquino in her spotless new kitchen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Julieta-Aquino-kitchen-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Julieta-Aquino-kitchen-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Julieta-Aquino-kitchen-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Julieta-Aquino-kitchen-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Julieta-Aquino-kitchen.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julieta Aquino in her spotless new kitchen. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Sweat Equity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Homeownership, though, still seemed elusive, in no small part because there wasn’t any physical structure yet and she still needed to put in her sweat equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was overwhelming to think that I was going to have to do 500 community service hours alone, knowing that I’m a full-time mom and full-time employee and it was 30 miles away from where I lived at the time,” said Aquino. But the program offered some flexibility, allowing her friends and family to contribute up to 200 hours of the required time, and giving her the option to work some hours off the construction site, helping out with Habitat fundraising projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next year, Aquino slowly fulfilled her work requirements, putting in time on weekday evenings after picking up her daughter from school, and spending every weekend getting her hands dirty at the construction site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it was possible, but it was a lot,” she said. “I think as long as you really want it, you’ll find a way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Julieta Aquino\"]‘I think as long as you really want it, you’ll find a way.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she acknowledges that if she hadn’t had the option to stay with her parents, she might not have been able to swing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Blessed’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Aquino estimates that roughly 30% of the family and friends she grew up with in San Jose have now moved away. “Not just out of the Bay Area to go to Central Valley or to Sacramento,” she said. “No, it’s just moving completely out of state. … It’s completely impossible for them to own their own home in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The region’s skyrocketing land and construction costs have also placed significant strain on the Habitat’s ability to find affordable building opportunities. The group, which relies on land partnerships with the cities it operates in, recently decided to offer the additional 19 units under construction in the Central Commons complex to families with more moderate incomes, earning 80-120% of the area median income, rather than the low-income families, like Aquino’s, who moved into the first 11 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS37791__DSC0888-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11767898\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS37791__DSC0888-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS37791__DSC0888-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS37791__DSC0888-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS37791__DSC0888-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS37791__DSC0888-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS37791__DSC0888-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These homes are still affordable, being sold significantly below market rate with mortgages affordable for a moderate-income family,” Patti Wang Cross, a spokeswoman for Habitat for Humanity East Bay-Silicon Valley, said in an email, noting that the organization’s decision was furthered by a recent decline in funding sources. “It’s a population of families severely impacted by the housing crisis, too often priced out of the homeownership market but seldom served by affordable housing initiatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new higher-income requirement is yet another reason Aquino is so quick to acknowledge how fortunate she and her daughter are. “Blessed” is an adjective she uses frequently to describe the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had my daughter when I was 16 and it’s been quite a journey,” she said. “And being able to say that I’m a homeowner at the age of 31, and she’s 14, I feel like I’ve come a long way. I definitely feel blessed, but I feel like everything that I do, I do because I want to set a good example for her and show her that although we might make different choices, or in this case sometimes not the wisest choices, I feel like we can still turn things around and make our future different.”\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, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219.jpg\">\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/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Like all future homeowners in the Habitat program, each family was required to put in 500 hours of so-called sweat equity, pounding nails and pouring concrete alongside project managers and volunteer work crews on the construction site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was my first time using a hammer,” Aquino admitted, noting the steep learning curve, one that exposed her to everything from fundamental carpentry skills to a basic understanding of California’s building codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really neat because even while we were building, we were signing our names on the studs. [My daughter] would come around and just trace her hand, so she knew that behind the Sheetrock and the wall there was her imprint there. It’s cool to know that we left a little piece of us by building the home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aquino opens the sliding doors in the living room, stepping onto a small balcony with a table and gas grill. Below us, a construction crew is building a set of adjacent units, where 19 other families are expected to move within the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really excited about my grill,” she says, amid the screeching of circular saws and nail guns. “I look forward to summer cookouts, and having breakfast out here. Brunches with family and friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11767831\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/DSC0871-e1565915186695.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11767831\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/DSC0871-e1565915186695.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julieta Aquino in her bedroom at the new condo she owns in Fremont. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘Definitely Within My Budget’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Although Habitat still owns the property that the development sits on, Aquino and her new neighbors are the legal owners of their individual units. In addition to their sweat equity hours, each family pays a 30-year low-interest mortgage guaranteed to never exceed 35% of their monthly income. That, along with no down payment and minimal closing costs, puts the prospect of homeownership squarely within the realm of possibility for low-income families like Aquino’s, who make between 30-80% of the area median income, in a region where average home prices easily bubble over $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely within my budget,” she said, noting that the program requires every participant to be on a monitored savings plan from the minute they’re selected. “I can assure you there is no other place in the Bay Area that I would be able to afford for the amount of money that I’m paying for this monthly. And it’s new. I helped build it. I helped create it. So it’s definitely a unique situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 33-year-old local Habitat program, which annually serves more than 1,200 residents in Alameda, Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties, is by no means a panacea for the Bay Area’s formidable housing crisis. But it does offer a glimmer of hope in what can be a grim and daunting housing landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aquino steps back into her new living room, closing the double-paned glass doors, which impressively mask the noise outside. She heads up a flight of stairs to Alexys’ bedroom, explaining that it’s the first real personal space her daughter has ever had.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Personal Space\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For years after she and Alexys’ father split up, mother and daughter shared a room — and a bed — in her parents’ cramped two-bedroom house in San Jose, where Aquino’s brother, his girlfriend and their newborn son were also staying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, ‘Oh, I’ll be there for a year or two and then we’ll move back out.’ But that didn’t happen as quickly as I thought it would,” she said. “It got really crowded at times. And so I was desperate to find a place for Alexys and I to just move out and have some quiet, some space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stay at her parents’ house stretched to more than five years, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My initial thought was I want to go to the low-income housing areas for the rental market,” she added. “It was never a thought in my mind to be a homeowner because that just seemed so far away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexys also has asthma and the house in San Jose had a serious mold problem, one that resulted in multiple trips to the emergency room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though Aquino’s bedroom is now just a few feet down the hall from her daughter’s, she admits that sleeping in separate rooms for the first time in years has been a harder transition than she’d anticipated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so used to her just sleeping with me that it’s going to take some time for me to fully let go,” Aquino said. “But she’s really excited to have her own room and have her own space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a different experience,” said Alexys, a thoughtful and soft-spoken teen, of her new room. “It’s your own space, your own privacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite being only 30 miles north of San Jose, she added, she felt far away from her old life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cried last night because I don’t get to see my friends,” she said. “But I think Fremont will be a good fresh start.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11768701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"Julieta Aquino's daughter Alexys in her new room, the first personal space she's ever had.\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home-1200x783.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julieta Aquino’s daughter, Alexys, in her new room, the first personal space she’s ever had. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alexys had been too young to participate in the construction process but became a fixture on the work site over the last two years, decorating signs to place around the grounds while watching her mom help build their future home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was interesting because you pass by these buildings every day, and you never really know all the hard work that goes into them. 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