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Under the regulation, work speeds must not be dangerous or prevent employees from using the bathroom or taking meal and rest breaks.[aside postID=news_11989975 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TacoBellWalkOutSanJose01-1020x765.jpg']New York, Oregon and Washington are among the states that have since adopted similar regulations. A federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4260/text?s=1&r=1&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22Warehouse+Worker+protection+Act%22%7D\">bill\u003c/a> introduced in Congress last month would extend the protections to warehouse workers nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators with the California Labor Commissioner found violations at the Amazon.com Services LLC facilities in Moreno Valley and Redlands, impacting nearly 3,000 workers between October 2023 and March 2024. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>New York, Oregon and Washington are among the states that have since adopted similar regulations. A federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4260/text?s=1&r=1&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22Warehouse+Worker+protection+Act%22%7D\">bill\u003c/a> introduced in Congress last month would extend the protections to warehouse workers nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators with the California Labor Commissioner found violations at the Amazon.com Services LLC facilities in Moreno Valley and Redlands, impacting nearly 3,000 workers between October 2023 and March 2024. The agency assessed penalties against the company in May for $4.7 million and $1.2 million for the two warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon has appealed the proposed penalties and is awaiting a hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is, we don’t have fixed quotas. At Amazon, individual performance is evaluated over a long period of time in relation to how the entire site’s team is performing,” Amazon spokesperson Maureen Lynch Vogel said in a statement. “Employees can — and are encouraged to — review their performance whenever they wish. They can always talk to a manager if they’re having trouble finding the information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>García-Brower countered that Amazon’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/workplace/amazon-fulfillment-centers-employee-safety-well-being\">peer-to-peer evaluation\u003c/a> system is “exactly the kind of system that the warehouse quotas law was put in place to prevent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, then-CEO Jeff Bezos announced Amazon would try to become the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/update-on-our-vision-to-be-earths-best-employer-and-earths-safest-place-to-work\">Earth’s Safest Place to Work\u003c/a>.” The latest California citations, however, signal the company is falling short of its goal, Mindy Acevedo, an attorney with the Warehouse Worker Resource Center, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They keep pushing for faster and faster delivery windows, and they have not actually addressed what’s causing such high injury rates,” said Acevedo, who helped workers alert state authorities about quota concerns. “If they’re not complying with just the notices, then what does that say about their compliance with the rest of the law? Like, can we really trust that their quotas are safe enough?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have shown that workers at Amazon, the largest warehouse employer nationwide, face more dangerous conditions than other companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, Amazon employed 35% of all U.S. warehouse workers but was responsible for 53% of all serious injuries in the industry, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://thesoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SOC_Same-Day-Injury-Report-May-2024.pdf\">analysis\u003c/a> by the Strategic Organizing Center. The union-backed center found that injury levels spiked during the company’s busiest periods, such as Prime Day and the holiday shopping season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the press conference on Tuesday, Amazon employees said they worked in fear of losing their jobs if they didn’t move fast enough but were often unaware of what production targets they were expected to meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are humans. Our safety is important to us. But they treat us like one of their robots,” said Nannette Plascencia, 46, who works at the Moreno Valley facility moving large amounts of freight. “These citations give me hope that it is possible to hold Amazon accountable to the people who make their corporation so successful.\u003cem>”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s a sunny spring morning in Riverside, and Jen Larratt-Smith is walking through a field of yellow and purple wildflowers behind the home she shares with her husband and two kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a place near and dear to us,” she said, recalling how her family used the space constantly during the COVID-19 shutdown in 2020. “I would do my ‘science class’ with my son out here. He’d get his mountain bike and we’d come out here, and he would have to draw pictures of flowers that he saw or animals that he saw, and he took pictures of wildlife tracks.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jen Larratt-Smith, Riverside resident\"]‘With all these corporations coming in from outside, buying these warehouses, basically they’re exploiting our land.’[/pullquote]But she’s worried it may not be an open space for long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Formerly part of the March Air Force Base, this 360-acre expanse is still dotted with bunkers that were used to house munitions before the base was closed in the early 1990s, and the military handed over control of the land to a local joint-power authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s now surrounded on three sides by suburban homes and a megachurch; to the east sits Interstate 215. On this morning, cyclists fly along the dirt trails and dog walkers meander among the blooming flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, though, nearly the entire open space could be paved over and developed into a commercial park that could include more than 4 million square feet of warehouses — about the size of 69 football fields — used by companies like Amazon as a repository for goods from across the globe that millions have come to depend on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, the six new warehouses would join the roughly 4,000 other warehouses that have already been built in the Inland Empire, this region east of Los Angeles spanning both Riverside and San Bernardino counties. All told, those warehouses already cover more than 1 billion square feet of land, with an estimated 170 million additional square feet of planned or proposed warehouse construction in the pipeline, including this project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947694\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man and a woman, with their backs to the camera, stand on a path looking out on a large expanse of grassland .\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael McCarthy and Jen Larratt-Smith surveying the open space near their homes they hope to preserve. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For neighbors like Larratt-Smith, whose house overlooks this field, it’s enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We’ve been here since my son was an infant, in 2011,” she said. “When I look out in my backyard, I look out on the fields and on the military bunkers that they’re planning to blast. So I’m right here on the edge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It really snuck up on us’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This region has long been known as a logistics hub — it’s close to the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports and for years had relatively cheap, open land to build on. But Larratt-Smith says the pace of construction over the past decade has been staggering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really snuck up on us,” she said. “Over time, we looked around and we were surrounded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot of support behind the proliferation of these giant industrial buildings — including from virtually every chamber of commerce in the Inland Empire and many labor unions. Most city councils and other local government agencies have been happy to welcome the developments, citing the influx of trucking and warehouse jobs they bring, and their proximity to the two largest ports in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947725\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947725\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A map showing the many warehouses scattered across the Inland Empire region.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-2048x1638.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-1920x1536.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are currently more than 3,800 warehouses in the Inland Empire, with more than 450 more proposed or approved for development, according to groups tracking the growth. \u003ccite>(Mike McCarthy/Radical Research/Pitzer Redford Conservancy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the pace of growth is causing a backlash among some residents, community groups and environmental organizations. They argue that the warehouses have not brought an economic boom, but rather low-paying, sometimes dangerous and often seasonal jobs. And they say the trucks bringing goods to and from the warehouses around the clock are emitting dangerous chemicals that are making people here sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all these corporations coming in from outside, buying these warehouses, basically they’re exploiting our land,” said Larratt-Smith, who has created a group called \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/rivnow/home?authuser=0&pli=1\">R-NOW\u003c/a>, or Riverside Neighbors Opposing Warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to pay the price of the traffic and the air quality and aesthetics and quality of life, but we don’t really reap any of the benefits,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some researchers agree. Susan Phillips, professor of environmental analysis at Pitzer College in the nearby city of Claremont, has been studying the impact of warehouses for over two decades.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"inland-empire\"]She points to the pollution caused by the estimated 200 million truck trips to and from warehouses each year, or about 600,000 trips a day. She said those trucks are clogging freeways and city streets as they move goods from the ports to these warehouses and “contributing to this legacy of environmental injustice and toxicity that already exists in largely low-income communities of color within the Inland Empire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody we know who lives close to warehouses, they have asthma, their children have asthma. Their kids get bloody noses when they play outside,” she said. “There’s a whole host of cognitive and behavioral health issues that also come out of it because of the way that diesel particulate matter comes into your bloodstream. … It is extremely, extremely scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also cites environmental concerns that go beyond truck emissions: the cost of covering open space with concrete that makes an already arid region even hotter and more prone to flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Moratoriums and buffer zones\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Phillips and Larratt-Smith are among the residents representing a coalition of groups that signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/622827611/Letter-to-Gov-Gavin-Newsom-Asking-for-an-Inland-Warehouse-Moratorium\">letter\u003c/a> earlier this year asking Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency in the region and impose a temporary moratorium on warehouse construction. The coalition is also supporting state \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1000\">legislation — AB 1000 —that would create a 1,000-foot buffer zone\u003c/a>, just shy of a quarter-mile, between new warehouses and homes and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947710\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947710\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of huge warehouses across a flat landscape.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huge warehouses dominate the landscape in the Inland Empire city of Rialto. \u003ccite>(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That bill, which has failed twice before, is up for a hearing Wednesday in an Assembly committee, along with \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1748\">a competing measure\u003c/a> — AB 1748 — that would require only a 300-foot buffer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips helped draft the letter to Newsom and supports the bigger buffer-zone proposal, arguing that just 300 feet of space wouldn’t be enough to adequately protect residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is that the approval process for these developments is happening piecemeal — one city council or county board of supervisors at a time, Phillips explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We can’t even keep track of what is happening,” said Phillips, who leads the Robert Redwood Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer, which helped develop \u003ca href=\"https://radicalresearch.shinyapps.io/WarehouseCITY/\">an interactive map\u003c/a> of the warehouses that shows estimates of related emissions from the warehouses and other negative impacts.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Susan Phillips, professor of environmental analysis, Pitzer College\"]‘There’s no effective tracking system to understand how many warehouses are under construction right now, how many are being approved, what are the newest ones coming up. It’s happening so rapidly we don’t even have time to think.’[/pullquote]“There’s no effective tracking system to understand how many warehouses are under construction right now, how many are being approved, what are the newest ones coming up,” she said. “It’s happening so rapidly we don’t even have time to think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the coalition in support of more development is large and powerful and is using its muscle to oppose the 1,000-foot buffer bill, which also would allow people to sue the government agency that approves a project in conflict with the bill’s requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Regele, vice president of advocacy and strategic partnerships at the California Chamber of Commerce, says the 1,000-foot buffer proposal is based on old science that fails to take into account that air quality regulators have required truck fleets to become cleaner in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The benefits and costs of ‘unprecedented’ growth\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Regele also notes the economic benefit to the region: 1.6 million union jobs in Southern California alone directly associated with the ports — and millions more connected to the warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says AB 1000 would discourage job creation, housing construction and the state’s ability to move goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if the Inland Empire doesn’t host these warehouses, Regele argues, they will simply be built further from coastal ports — and the trucks will still be using the same highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will drive through those communities, pass those jobs and keep going to where the warehouses are ultimately allowed to be permitted, only to then truck all those goods back in for retail distribution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips acknowledges that trucks have gotten cleaner in recent years, but says those improvements have been outweighed by the pace of growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947692\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947692\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man and woman are seen from afar, their backs to the camera, walking down a long dirt road alongside a fence topped with barbed wire.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael McCarthy and Jen Larratt-Smith walk down a path, alongside a fenced-off area, on the open space land they hope to preserve. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Individual warehouses are getting bigger and bigger and bigger to the point where they’re being constructed as megawarehouses,” she said. “Even though the fleet is greener than it was 20 years ago, the growth is unprecedented and the proximity to homes and schools is continuing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But she’s worried it may not be an open space for long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Formerly part of the March Air Force Base, this 360-acre expanse is still dotted with bunkers that were used to house munitions before the base was closed in the early 1990s, and the military handed over control of the land to a local joint-power authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s now surrounded on three sides by suburban homes and a megachurch; to the east sits Interstate 215. On this morning, cyclists fly along the dirt trails and dog walkers meander among the blooming flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, though, nearly the entire open space could be paved over and developed into a commercial park that could include more than 4 million square feet of warehouses — about the size of 69 football fields — used by companies like Amazon as a repository for goods from across the globe that millions have come to depend on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, the six new warehouses would join the roughly 4,000 other warehouses that have already been built in the Inland Empire, this region east of Los Angeles spanning both Riverside and San Bernardino counties. All told, those warehouses already cover more than 1 billion square feet of land, with an estimated 170 million additional square feet of planned or proposed warehouse construction in the pipeline, including this project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947694\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man and a woman, with their backs to the camera, stand on a path looking out on a large expanse of grassland .\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael McCarthy and Jen Larratt-Smith surveying the open space near their homes they hope to preserve. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For neighbors like Larratt-Smith, whose house overlooks this field, it’s enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We’ve been here since my son was an infant, in 2011,” she said. “When I look out in my backyard, I look out on the fields and on the military bunkers that they’re planning to blast. So I’m right here on the edge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It really snuck up on us’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This region has long been known as a logistics hub — it’s close to the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports and for years had relatively cheap, open land to build on. But Larratt-Smith says the pace of construction over the past decade has been staggering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really snuck up on us,” she said. “Over time, we looked around and we were surrounded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot of support behind the proliferation of these giant industrial buildings — including from virtually every chamber of commerce in the Inland Empire and many labor unions. Most city councils and other local government agencies have been happy to welcome the developments, citing the influx of trucking and warehouse jobs they bring, and their proximity to the two largest ports in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947725\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947725\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A map showing the many warehouses scattered across the Inland Empire region.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-2048x1638.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-1920x1536.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are currently more than 3,800 warehouses in the Inland Empire, with more than 450 more proposed or approved for development, according to groups tracking the growth. \u003ccite>(Mike McCarthy/Radical Research/Pitzer Redford Conservancy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the pace of growth is causing a backlash among some residents, community groups and environmental organizations. They argue that the warehouses have not brought an economic boom, but rather low-paying, sometimes dangerous and often seasonal jobs. And they say the trucks bringing goods to and from the warehouses around the clock are emitting dangerous chemicals that are making people here sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all these corporations coming in from outside, buying these warehouses, basically they’re exploiting our land,” said Larratt-Smith, who has created a group called \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/rivnow/home?authuser=0&pli=1\">R-NOW\u003c/a>, or Riverside Neighbors Opposing Warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to pay the price of the traffic and the air quality and aesthetics and quality of life, but we don’t really reap any of the benefits,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some researchers agree. Susan Phillips, professor of environmental analysis at Pitzer College in the nearby city of Claremont, has been studying the impact of warehouses for over two decades.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She points to the pollution caused by the estimated 200 million truck trips to and from warehouses each year, or about 600,000 trips a day. She said those trucks are clogging freeways and city streets as they move goods from the ports to these warehouses and “contributing to this legacy of environmental injustice and toxicity that already exists in largely low-income communities of color within the Inland Empire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody we know who lives close to warehouses, they have asthma, their children have asthma. Their kids get bloody noses when they play outside,” she said. “There’s a whole host of cognitive and behavioral health issues that also come out of it because of the way that diesel particulate matter comes into your bloodstream. … It is extremely, extremely scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also cites environmental concerns that go beyond truck emissions: the cost of covering open space with concrete that makes an already arid region even hotter and more prone to flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Moratoriums and buffer zones\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Phillips and Larratt-Smith are among the residents representing a coalition of groups that signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/622827611/Letter-to-Gov-Gavin-Newsom-Asking-for-an-Inland-Warehouse-Moratorium\">letter\u003c/a> earlier this year asking Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency in the region and impose a temporary moratorium on warehouse construction. The coalition is also supporting state \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1000\">legislation — AB 1000 —that would create a 1,000-foot buffer zone\u003c/a>, just shy of a quarter-mile, between new warehouses and homes and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947710\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947710\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of huge warehouses across a flat landscape.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huge warehouses dominate the landscape in the Inland Empire city of Rialto. \u003ccite>(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That bill, which has failed twice before, is up for a hearing Wednesday in an Assembly committee, along with \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1748\">a competing measure\u003c/a> — AB 1748 — that would require only a 300-foot buffer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips helped draft the letter to Newsom and supports the bigger buffer-zone proposal, arguing that just 300 feet of space wouldn’t be enough to adequately protect residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is that the approval process for these developments is happening piecemeal — one city council or county board of supervisors at a time, Phillips explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We can’t even keep track of what is happening,” said Phillips, who leads the Robert Redwood Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer, which helped develop \u003ca href=\"https://radicalresearch.shinyapps.io/WarehouseCITY/\">an interactive map\u003c/a> of the warehouses that shows estimates of related emissions from the warehouses and other negative impacts.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There’s no effective tracking system to understand how many warehouses are under construction right now, how many are being approved, what are the newest ones coming up,” she said. “It’s happening so rapidly we don’t even have time to think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the coalition in support of more development is large and powerful and is using its muscle to oppose the 1,000-foot buffer bill, which also would allow people to sue the government agency that approves a project in conflict with the bill’s requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Regele, vice president of advocacy and strategic partnerships at the California Chamber of Commerce, says the 1,000-foot buffer proposal is based on old science that fails to take into account that air quality regulators have required truck fleets to become cleaner in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The benefits and costs of ‘unprecedented’ growth\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Regele also notes the economic benefit to the region: 1.6 million union jobs in Southern California alone directly associated with the ports — and millions more connected to the warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says AB 1000 would discourage job creation, housing construction and the state’s ability to move goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if the Inland Empire doesn’t host these warehouses, Regele argues, they will simply be built further from coastal ports — and the trucks will still be using the same highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will drive through those communities, pass those jobs and keep going to where the warehouses are ultimately allowed to be permitted, only to then truck all those goods back in for retail distribution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips acknowledges that trucks have gotten cleaner in recent years, but says those improvements have been outweighed by the pace of growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947692\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947692\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man and woman are seen from afar, their backs to the camera, walking down a long dirt road alongside a fence topped with barbed wire.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael McCarthy and Jen Larratt-Smith walk down a path, alongside a fenced-off area, on the open space land they hope to preserve. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Individual warehouses are getting bigger and bigger and bigger to the point where they’re being constructed as megawarehouses,” she said. “Even though the fleet is greener than it was 20 years ago, the growth is unprecedented and the proximity to homes and schools is continuing. And so … whereas people should be benefiting from cleaner air because the fleet is cleaner, our communities aren’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some neighbors, like Larratt-Smith, argue that many of the economic benefits that come from these warehouses are flowing to company executives and workers who live and work elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are the junk store of the U.S. Basically, we are storing the goods for them so that we can send it out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I don’t think we need more warehouse land in this area, given how oversaturated we already are,” Larratt-Smith added, acknowledging that her goal of having a complete moratorium is a long shot. “But at least put some guardrails on it. Like at least if you’re going to be building, consider the community and the impacts before you do it.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has become the first state to implement a law that addresses working conditions for warehouse workers, like those working for Amazon, Walmart and other major retailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/09/22/governor-newsom-signs-nation-leading-legislation-expanding-protections-for-warehouse-workers/\">Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 701\u003c/a>, which takes effect in the new year, into law on Wednesday. The law aims to address the impact of quotas on worker injuries and health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It establishes new standards for companies to make clear to warehouse staff what their production quotas are. The legislation ensures workers cannot be fired or retaliated against for failing to meet an unsafe quota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot allow corporations to put profit over people. The hardworking warehouse employees who have helped sustain us during these unprecedented times should not have to risk injury or face punishment as a result of exploitative quotas that violate basic health and safety,” Newsom said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m proud to sign this legislation giving them the dignity, respect and safety they deserve and advancing California’s leadership at the forefront of workplace safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law gives the state Labor Commissioner the authority to issue citations to companies in violation of the new rules. The department is also allowed to access workers’ compensation data to find facilities where there are high rates of injury and investigate whether they are due to unsafe quotas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law also bars the use of algorithms that track rests and bathroom breaks, and specifically prohibits the firing of workers for failing to meet unsafe quotas because they are taking breaks in compliance with health and safety laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation would also bar companies from retaliating against workers who raise concerns about warehouse conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though not explicitly stated, the new rules are widely considered to be targeted toward Amazon. The Seattle-based behemoth runs more than 60 warehouses across the state, and is known for its demanding productivity requirements.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sheheryar Kaoosji, head of the Warehouse Worker Resource Center\"]‘It’s not that those companies can’t afford to do the right thing. It’s what those companies can get away with. And if they’re not held accountable, that’s what they’ll continue to do.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon relies on its thousands of workers to fill its massive warehouses, which it calls “fulfillment centers.” During the pandemic, Americans have relied heavily on online shopping for their goods. In turn, the company, the second-largest employer in the U.S. behind Walmart, hired thousands of workers \u003ca href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-to-hire-125000-full--and-part-time-logistics-employees-2021-09-14?mod=article_inline\">and plans to hire an additional 100,000 workers \u003c/a>this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers and labor organizations argue that Amazon’s warehouse rules create an unsafe work environment. \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/amazon-injury-rates/\">Investigations \u003c/a>by various \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/06/01/amazon-osha-injury-rate/\">news organizations\u003c/a>, in addition to the labor-backed \u003ca href=\"https://thesoc.org/amazon-primed-for-pain/\">Strategic Organizing Center\u003c/a>, have found that \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/how-amazon-hid-its-safety-crisis/\">the rate of serious injuries at Amazon warehouses has been nearly double the industry average\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracked by algorithms, Amazon warehouse workers rush to pack and ship nonstop shopping orders that often must be delivered in a matter of hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While workers are on the job, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/08/1034776936/amazon-warehouse-workers-speed-quotas-california-bill\">Amazon watches their “time off task,”\u003c/a> which the company says is to monitor for “issues with the tools that people use.” But it also serves to identify underperforming workers. And that, critics say, essentially pressures workers to forgo their state-mandated breaks, or to wait until the end of their shifts to use the bathroom — creating unsafe and unfair working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bill, authored by Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, is intended more generally to help state regulators get a better handle on how a growing number of employers are using tech in the workplace to control the productivity of their workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were about 206,700 workers in the warehousing and storage industry in California as of June. That figure, however, doesn’t include temporary workers, like the many likely to take on warehouse work in the run-up to the holiday shopping season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A significant portion of that workforce is employed by Amazon. Behind the big yellow “Place your order” button on the company’s site is a vast network of warehouses, filled with nearly 1 million non-union logistics employees across the country — 40,000 in the Inland Empire alone, according to Amazon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/12/01/367703789/amazon-unleashes-robot-army-to-send-your-holiday-packages-faster\">the tech-obsessed retailer is famous for using robots\u003c/a>, sensors and software to maximize productivity, it’s also infamous for burning out its workers, many of whom head to the exit doors suffering from repetitive stress injuries and, well, stress overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How did you come up with this rate? Was it based on what your understanding of what a human body can do? Or was it based on what you think you need to get through in order to make a profit this quarter?” said Sheheryar Kaoosji, executive director of the Warehouse Worker Resource Center in Ontario, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the clock, an army of trucks and trains transport cargo from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to vast warehouses in the Inland Empire counties of San Bernardino and Riverside. There, imported goods are sorted and redistributed onto long-haul trucks, which move them to distribution centers across the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon’s rivals, like Walmart and Home Depot, are nipping at the tech titan’s heels, eager to adopt the algorithm-driven productivity tracking tools employed by the company, which logistics experts widely agree is the industry leader in this practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not that those companies can’t afford to do the right thing,” said Kaoosji, who has pushed for them to institute humane working conditions that follow labor laws in spirit, as well as practice. “It’s what those companies can get away with. And if they’re not held accountable, that’s what they’ll continue to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]In \u003ca href=\"https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/5f/e6/725042574e2da4440c3844f7b40c/senate-judiciary-analysis-ab-7-1.pdf\">a letter this summer to the state Senate Judiciary Committee in support of her legislation\u003c/a>, Gonzalez wrote, “The demand for speed in these warehouses has led to the increasing use of workplace performance metrics and the imposition of work quotas that employees must meet or suffer adverse consequences, including potentially losing their jobs altogether. 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She’s talked to more than 100 Californians living and working where it gets too hot, to chart some of the ways this unwanted visitor affects the most vulnerable people — laborers, elders and those with high blood pressure and respiratory ailments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To illuminate how high temperatures affect indoor workers’ ability to function, think and stay healthy, Peterson sent small heat index sensors into places a journalist couldn’t go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who clean office buildings after the air conditioning shuts off, or attach security tags on fast-fashion apparel draped in plastic hanger bags carried those sensors to their workplaces, where they routinely recorded indoor temperatures in the 90s, even at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also described how hard it is to cool down, take breaks or get other relief on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No federal or state laws regulate heat exposure for people who work indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heat also lurks where people least expect it, defying the old adage that the coldest winter can be a summer in San Francisco. 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Then a heat wave brought 100-degree temperatures to the city for two straight days in 2017. Loughman was an enthusiastic godmother to Claudia Hernandez and Hernandez’s children. \u003ccite>(Molly Peterson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The average age of the victims was 78, and some succumbed in homes without air conditioning. 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"content": "\u003cp>Author Susan Straight's new memoir, \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43835294-in-the-country-of-women\">\"In the Country of Women\"\u003c/a> — her first foray into nonfiction — celebrates the orange groves, tumbleweeds and driveway barbecues of Riverside and the Inland Empire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Susan Straight, author and UC Riverside professor of creative writing\"]'In the crucible of our family, race is lesser than family loyalty and survival.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Straight's memoir honors six generations of women in her multi-racial family, offering a history lesson about the violence they endured, and their tenacious pursuit of the California dream. A professor of \u003ca href=\"https://creativewriting.ucr.edu/people/straight/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">creative writing at UC Riverside\u003c/a>, Straight was born and raised in Riverside — her family's “promised land.\" She joined \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a> host Sasha Khokha to discuss her literary love letter to her three daughters, and to the place she still calls home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s an excerpt of that conversation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769404\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11769404 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut-1020x625.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut-1200x736.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut.jpg 1840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A torn photo of Susan Straight's mother-in law, Alberta Sims (R), and her sister, Rosie Morris, (L). This fragment inspired Straight to write \"In The County of Women.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On writing about violence:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fiction, you’re taking things that might frighten you, but you’re writing about them in a fictional lens through imagination. I wrote this memoir about real women like Fine, my father-in-law’s grandmother, and the violence she endured from the time she was orphaned at five years old. She was being beaten every day, [after she was] given away just post-slavery to a white family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770493\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 334px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11770493\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-800x1055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-800x1055.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-160x211.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-1020x1346.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-910x1200.jpg 910w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-1920x2533.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut.jpg 1552w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fine Ely Hoffard Rawlings Kemp, Tulsa, Oklahoma. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Daisy Carter was my daughters' great-grandmother. When Daisy was five years old, she was walking with her mother on a dirt road in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Her mother saw a car speeding toward them and she knew what was going to happen. She threw Daisy up into the ditch, and was hit and killed as the car left. Daisy, at five, was left orphaned. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daisy, who was very beautiful, went on the road as a dancing girl. Each man she met must have been extremely frightening and violent. She had four daughters with four different men. She was married and each time she fled. Eventually she arrived in Calexico, California in 1936 with four beautiful daughters and she never told anyone who their fathers were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[I also wrote] about my own grandmother, who I never met. She died at 50 and I wasn't born yet. She endured a lot of violence at the hands of my grandfather. I think about what violence means now, and looking at the way young women are still treated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it’s different for girls my daughters' age; you have online harassment and bullying. We had people leaning out of the window of a car and yelling at us, trying to grab us and throw us into a car. But it feels very fraught. It’s all the same thing, considering the danger of what it means to be a woman in this world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770502\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11770502\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut-1020x660.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut-1200x777.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francois Triboulet, Genevieve Triboulet, Amanda Baldon Triboulet, Emma Triboulet, Carl Triboulet, Ruby Triboulet (Straight's paternal grandmother); in front, Helen Triboulet. Hancock County, Illinois, around 1920; Ruby and Emma are going west. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On her mother:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mother came here from the Alps of Switzerland and worked in the fields on a farm when she was 15 years old. When her father and stepmother decided they were going to go to Florida, my mom ran away. She went to work for a family as a babysitter, and at night she worked in a diner that served the Oshawa GM Plant. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Book reviews for 'In the Country of Women'\" link1=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/books/review/in-the-country-of-women-susan-straight.html,All in the Family:A Multicultural Memoir\" link2=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/08/07/748132560/in-the-country-of-women-honors-the-strength-and-resilience-of-six-generations,'In the Country of Women' Honors the Strength and Resilience of 6 Generations\" link3=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/susan-straights-memoir-is-a-letter-to-her-daughters--and-a-reckoning-with-americas-past/2019/08/22/e9aa45a6-c358-11e9-b72f-b31dfaa77212_story.html,'In the Country of Women' by Susan Straight book review\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, my mother ended up living on her own in Riverside. She taught herself perfect English by listening to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcyN2CvnJf4\">Vin Scully\u003c/a> do Dodgers broadcasts; today I listen to Dodgers games on the radio and think about my mom wanting her enunciation to be perfect. My mom went back to junior college when she was 40 and I was 12. It was a big deal watching her get her A.A. degree. I was really appreciative of the fact that she was very tenacious as a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769401\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Straight (second from right) with the women in her extended family. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On writing about race:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At our family reunion, there were 100 people and I was the only white person. People always tell jokes about white people around me. They say, “We forgot about you.” I think for my kids, the most important thing is that we have this giant family on both sides. In the crucible of our family, race is lesser than family loyalty and survival. I wrote [the book] as a letter to my three daughters because I wanted them to know how proud I am of their heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11769348 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut-800x1214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut-800x1214.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut-160x243.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut-1020x1547.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut-791x1200.jpg 791w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\">\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An excerpt of Straight's memoir:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“In the country of women, we have maps and threads of kin some people find hard to believe. The women could not have dreamed that in this promised land we would still have bullets and fear and murder. Fracture and derision and assault, sharp and revived. I was born here, and I am still here, and I didn’t leave, which doesn’t feel very heroic. You three, my daughters, have laughed at me for looking out the kitchen window of our house toward the hospital where I was born, where your father was born, where you were born. My daily life is a five-mile radius of memory and work and family. You three daughters know this in your genes: You love only orange-blossom honey, because you grew up with that scent and those flowers, that fruit and those bees. You long for Santa Ana winds and sunflowers, tumbleweeds and the laughter of people eating at long unfolded tables in a driveway. We bury descendants of the women, and we serve funeral repasts in church halls built by some of California’s black pioneers. The women in our family are everything: African-American, Mexican-American, Cherokee and Creek, Swiss, Irish and English, French and Filipino, Samoan and Haitian. Some of their heritage remains a mystery.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769400\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769400\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38636_16-Gaila-Delphine-Rosette-p281-CROP-wmc-qut-800x648.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38636_16-Gaila-Delphine-Rosette-p281-CROP-wmc-qut-800x648.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38636_16-Gaila-Delphine-Rosette-p281-CROP-wmc-qut-160x130.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38636_16-Gaila-Delphine-Rosette-p281-CROP-wmc-qut-1020x826.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38636_16-Gaila-Delphine-Rosette-p281-CROP-wmc-qut-1200x972.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38636_16-Gaila-Delphine-Rosette-p281-CROP-wmc-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Straight's three daughters, Gaila, Delphine, and Rosette Sims. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what she learned from having James Baldwin as a teacher:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I got [to The University of Massachusetts] Amherst, \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/238093263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Baldwin was a writer in residence\u003c/a> teaching a workshop. I was stunned because his was one of the first books I ever read at the Riverside Public Library. The first day in class, James Baldwin was so profound, but I was afraid to talk to him. Afterwards his driver and his secretary — they were probably 27 or so and both 6'2\"— saw Dwayne, my husband, who was 6'4\". They said, “Who’s this? We want to play basketball with him.” After that, the three of them would play basketball, and James Baldwin and I would sit in his rental house and talk about fiction. He talked to me about secondary characters saying, “This is the main part and the heart of your story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One night we invited him over for dinner. At the end of the evening he said, “You have to write about home. You must write about this place where you come from.” That changed everything for me. Who we are — and what it means to grow up in a place like \u003ca href=\"https://www.riversideca.gov/visiting-aboutriv.asp\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Riverside\u003c/a>, what it means to be a Californian — was always intrinsically a part of what I wanted to write about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769403\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769403\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut-1200x838.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut.jpg 1915w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Straight and her ex-husband Dwayne, her high school sweetheart. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On staying in Riverside:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a comfort in being someone who can say, “I look out the back window and see the hospital where I was born.” But as a writer who travels around the world, there’s an odd sense that you become a famous writer by leaving home. Over the last five years while I was working on this book, I went to Turkey, Sicily, Salzburg, New York, and San Francisco, and what people wanted to talk to me about was home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11747923,news_11759939,news_11746863 label='Chasing the California Dream']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I went home after some of those trips, walked around, and looked at the wonder of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/the-santa-ana-river-how-it-shaped-orange-county\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Ana River\u003c/a>. Sometimes I run into women who are indigenous; they have a pocket knife and a Tupperware and their grandsons are cutting a specific sage and a specific buckwheat that their great-grandmothers told them help fight diabetes. I can’t think of anywhere I'd rather be than where people have been harvesting the same plants for 20 generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On California:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fascinating thing about Southern California is how many different cities, towns, villages, and communities we have. People think of it as a monolithic place, but if you grow up in El Monte, Ontario, Chino, Riverside, Pico-Union, and Westlake Village, all of it is different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is my tenth book, and I have driven to almost every county in California over the last 30 years talking to women, children, people who were homeless, migrant workers in Greenfield working the lettuce fields. All over my state, I find people who are fiercely protective and loyal to the place they’re from, whether it’s Salinas, Buttonwillow, Riverside, Ontario, Pomona, or Chino. I find that no one really understands just how loyal Californians are to their state, but also to their actual homelands inside this large state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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A professor of \u003ca href=\"https://creativewriting.ucr.edu/people/straight/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">creative writing at UC Riverside\u003c/a>, Straight was born and raised in Riverside — her family's “promised land.\" She joined \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a> host Sasha Khokha to discuss her literary love letter to her three daughters, and to the place she still calls home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s an excerpt of that conversation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769404\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11769404 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut-1020x625.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut-1200x736.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut.jpg 1840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A torn photo of Susan Straight's mother-in law, Alberta Sims (R), and her sister, Rosie Morris, (L). This fragment inspired Straight to write \"In The County of Women.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On writing about violence:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fiction, you’re taking things that might frighten you, but you’re writing about them in a fictional lens through imagination. I wrote this memoir about real women like Fine, my father-in-law’s grandmother, and the violence she endured from the time she was orphaned at five years old. She was being beaten every day, [after she was] given away just post-slavery to a white family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770493\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 334px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11770493\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-800x1055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-800x1055.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-160x211.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-1020x1346.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-910x1200.jpg 910w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-1920x2533.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut.jpg 1552w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fine Ely Hoffard Rawlings Kemp, Tulsa, Oklahoma. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Daisy Carter was my daughters' great-grandmother. When Daisy was five years old, she was walking with her mother on a dirt road in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Her mother saw a car speeding toward them and she knew what was going to happen. She threw Daisy up into the ditch, and was hit and killed as the car left. Daisy, at five, was left orphaned. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daisy, who was very beautiful, went on the road as a dancing girl. Each man she met must have been extremely frightening and violent. She had four daughters with four different men. She was married and each time she fled. Eventually she arrived in Calexico, California in 1936 with four beautiful daughters and she never told anyone who their fathers were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[I also wrote] about my own grandmother, who I never met. She died at 50 and I wasn't born yet. She endured a lot of violence at the hands of my grandfather. I think about what violence means now, and looking at the way young women are still treated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it’s different for girls my daughters' age; you have online harassment and bullying. We had people leaning out of the window of a car and yelling at us, trying to grab us and throw us into a car. But it feels very fraught. It’s all the same thing, considering the danger of what it means to be a woman in this world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770502\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11770502\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut-1020x660.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut-1200x777.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francois Triboulet, Genevieve Triboulet, Amanda Baldon Triboulet, Emma Triboulet, Carl Triboulet, Ruby Triboulet (Straight's paternal grandmother); in front, Helen Triboulet. Hancock County, Illinois, around 1920; Ruby and Emma are going west. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On her mother:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mother came here from the Alps of Switzerland and worked in the fields on a farm when she was 15 years old. When her father and stepmother decided they were going to go to Florida, my mom ran away. She went to work for a family as a babysitter, and at night she worked in a diner that served the Oshawa GM Plant. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, my mother ended up living on her own in Riverside. She taught herself perfect English by listening to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcyN2CvnJf4\">Vin Scully\u003c/a> do Dodgers broadcasts; today I listen to Dodgers games on the radio and think about my mom wanting her enunciation to be perfect. My mom went back to junior college when she was 40 and I was 12. It was a big deal watching her get her A.A. degree. I was really appreciative of the fact that she was very tenacious as a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769401\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Straight (second from right) with the women in her extended family. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On writing about race:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At our family reunion, there were 100 people and I was the only white person. People always tell jokes about white people around me. They say, “We forgot about you.” I think for my kids, the most important thing is that we have this giant family on both sides. In the crucible of our family, race is lesser than family loyalty and survival. I wrote [the book] as a letter to my three daughters because I wanted them to know how proud I am of their heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11769348 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut-800x1214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut-800x1214.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut-160x243.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut-1020x1547.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut-791x1200.jpg 791w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\">\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An excerpt of Straight's memoir:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“In the country of women, we have maps and threads of kin some people find hard to believe. The women could not have dreamed that in this promised land we would still have bullets and fear and murder. Fracture and derision and assault, sharp and revived. I was born here, and I am still here, and I didn’t leave, which doesn’t feel very heroic. You three, my daughters, have laughed at me for looking out the kitchen window of our house toward the hospital where I was born, where your father was born, where you were born. My daily life is a five-mile radius of memory and work and family. You three daughters know this in your genes: You love only orange-blossom honey, because you grew up with that scent and those flowers, that fruit and those bees. You long for Santa Ana winds and sunflowers, tumbleweeds and the laughter of people eating at long unfolded tables in a driveway. We bury descendants of the women, and we serve funeral repasts in church halls built by some of California’s black pioneers. The women in our family are everything: African-American, Mexican-American, Cherokee and Creek, Swiss, Irish and English, French and Filipino, Samoan and Haitian. Some of their heritage remains a mystery.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769400\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769400\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38636_16-Gaila-Delphine-Rosette-p281-CROP-wmc-qut-800x648.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38636_16-Gaila-Delphine-Rosette-p281-CROP-wmc-qut-800x648.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38636_16-Gaila-Delphine-Rosette-p281-CROP-wmc-qut-160x130.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38636_16-Gaila-Delphine-Rosette-p281-CROP-wmc-qut-1020x826.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38636_16-Gaila-Delphine-Rosette-p281-CROP-wmc-qut-1200x972.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38636_16-Gaila-Delphine-Rosette-p281-CROP-wmc-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Straight's three daughters, Gaila, Delphine, and Rosette Sims. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what she learned from having James Baldwin as a teacher:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I got [to The University of Massachusetts] Amherst, \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/238093263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Baldwin was a writer in residence\u003c/a> teaching a workshop. I was stunned because his was one of the first books I ever read at the Riverside Public Library. The first day in class, James Baldwin was so profound, but I was afraid to talk to him. Afterwards his driver and his secretary — they were probably 27 or so and both 6'2\"— saw Dwayne, my husband, who was 6'4\". They said, “Who’s this? We want to play basketball with him.” After that, the three of them would play basketball, and James Baldwin and I would sit in his rental house and talk about fiction. He talked to me about secondary characters saying, “This is the main part and the heart of your story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One night we invited him over for dinner. At the end of the evening he said, “You have to write about home. You must write about this place where you come from.” That changed everything for me. Who we are — and what it means to grow up in a place like \u003ca href=\"https://www.riversideca.gov/visiting-aboutriv.asp\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Riverside\u003c/a>, what it means to be a Californian — was always intrinsically a part of what I wanted to write about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769403\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769403\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut-1200x838.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut.jpg 1915w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Straight and her ex-husband Dwayne, her high school sweetheart. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On staying in Riverside:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a comfort in being someone who can say, “I look out the back window and see the hospital where I was born.” But as a writer who travels around the world, there’s an odd sense that you become a famous writer by leaving home. Over the last five years while I was working on this book, I went to Turkey, Sicily, Salzburg, New York, and San Francisco, and what people wanted to talk to me about was home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\"Buy a Home, 1% Down, Free Recorded Message,\" reads a sign at the edge of a vacant lot in the scrappy working-class town of Bloomington near Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a tempting pitch. But it sounds a little suspicious to those who remember subprime lenders and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/subprime_mortgage_crisis\" target=\"_blank\">mortgage meltdown.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inland Southern California became something of a poster child for the housing crisis that sunk scores of homeowners, wiped out a booming construction sector, shredded city and county budgets, and contributed to a spectacular \u003ca href=\"http://www.cacb.uscourts.gov/case-of-interest/city-san-bernardino\" target=\"_blank\">municipal bankruptcy\u003c/a> in San Bernardino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I called the phone number on the sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hi, this is Emily your friendly real estate professional,” chirps a pre-recorded message. “Buying a home has never been easier. Here's how it works. You put down 1 percent and your lender 2 percent toward your down payment, which puts you on your way to home ownership.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t leave a message. But somehow I get a call back anyway from a broker based in L.A. who says he’s authorized to sell these new 1 percent down home loans through \u003ca href=\"https://www.uwm.com/mortgage-products/conventional-loans/1-percent-down\" target=\"_blank\">United Wholesale Mortgage.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a licensed private lender in Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I tell him I'm just fishing for information and not looking for a new mortgage, he’s reluctant to say much more. So I pay a visit to the storefront mortgage company of veteran broker \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/tims.teresa/\" target=\"_blank\">Theresa Tims\u003c/a> in the leafy business district of Upland, about 30 minutes outside L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social media-savvy Tims has produced video explainers about 1 percent down and other loan programs \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2fXzz9yozD3LK2Secfa9Zg\" target=\"_blank\">on her YouTube channel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBGpZeqnpoY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I specialize in these low down loan type of programs and they fit our area perfectly,\" Tims tells me during an interview her assistant simultaneously webcasts on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tims does a lot of business in the Riverside-San Bernardino area, the Inland Empire, where median home prices are still comparatively cheap: about $300,000 for a basic three- or even four-bedroom home. That's less than half the \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/orange-county-ca/home-values/\" target=\"_blank\">median price\u003c/a> in neighboring Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now one of the only feasible programs is the 1 percent down with equity boost,\" says Tims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been offering 1 percent down conventional loans since late last year, when they first became available through \u003ca href=\"https://www.uwm.com/\" target=\"_blank\">United Wholesale Mortgage\u003c/a> and its Detroit-based rival \u003ca href=\"https://www.quickenloans.com/blog/quicken-loans-offers-1-down-payment-option\" target=\"_blank\">Quicken Loans.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11425240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Inland Southern California’s foreclosure crisis has led cities like San Bernardino to become largely a city of renters. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-1180x886.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-960x721.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inland Southern California’s foreclosure crisis has led cities like San Bernardino to become largely a city of renters. \u003ccite>(Leslie Berestein Rojas/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The basic arithmetic is pretty straightforward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Say you’re buying a $400,000 house in Riverside. You put down $4,000 -- that’s the 1 percent. The lender kicks in $8,000 -- that’s the 2 percent \"grant.' And that gets you to the 3 percent threshold required to qualify for federally backed mortgage insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loans are typically marketed to mid-income borrowers without a lot of cash on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's very common for somebody to be able to come up with $4,000 or $5,000 [for a down payment]... $8,000 to $10,000 is a little bit of a push,” says Tims. “Unless they get some kind of inheritance or they've been saving since like age 13.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Now we’re not just throwing the money up in the air.'\u003ccite>Abraham Bustillos, new homeowner\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Right around Christmas, Abraham Bustillos moved his wife and three kids into a 1,300-square-foot home in Riverside with one of these 1 percent down conventional loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were thinking we were going to need at least $15,000 to $20,000,” Bustillos tells me. \"So to go from that to just $6,000 [down payment], we were able to move into the home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The balance on Bustillos’ loan is around $350,000 stretched over a 30-year fixed mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, it is a little bit more than we were paying as renters,” says Bustillos, a FedEx delivery driver. \"But at the same time, now we’re not just throwing the money up in the air or paying the owner’s mortgage for him. You know, money is going into us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One advantage to these 1 percent down loans is that traditional bank lenders may require heftier minimum down payments, higher minimum incomes and flawless credit scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big non-bank lenders like United Wholesale and Quicken are filling the vacuum and scooping up customers who may not have cash for the more traditional 20 percent down payment -- or maybe just have good but not golden credit scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Wholesale Mortgage declined to comment for this story over concerns it might make 1 percent down loans look risky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But housing finance expert \u003ca href=\"https://www.aei.org/scholar/edward-j-pinto/\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Pinto\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aei.org/policy/economics/housing-finance/\" target=\"_blank\">American Enterprise Institute\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C., says they can be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unless you have reliable house price increases, you're going to be in trouble for many years,\" says Pinto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trouble as in your monthly payments will be pretty steep and it’ll take awhile to build up equity in your property.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'If anything happens like they lose their job, they have no cushion to fall back on.'\u003ccite>Edward Pinto, housing finance expert\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Within California, the most volatile metropolitan area for housing is Riverside-San Bernardino,\" Pinto explains. \"And so if you're buying a home in one of these areas with a very low down payment and then other risk factors are present, if anything happens like they lose their job, they have no cushion to fall back on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinto says a bigger appetite for risk has led to problems for some non-bank lenders dealing in low down payment loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, the U.S. Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-files-lawsuit-alleging-quicken-loans-improperly-originated-and-underwrote\" target=\"_blank\">sued both Quicken Loans \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mortgage-settlement-20170410-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">United Shore Financial Services\u003c/a>, the parent company of United Wholesale Mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors say between 2006 and 2012, the companies wrongly certified hundreds of low down payment loan applications insured through a Federal Housing Administration program (different from the 1 percent down conventional loans Quicken and United began offering last year). The government alleges that when the loans went bad, taxpayers were on the hook for millions of dollars in losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-shore-financial-services-llc-agrees-pay-48-million-resolve-alleged-false-claims-act\" target=\"_blank\">settled\u003c/a> its case last year after paying a $48 million penalty. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mortgageorb.com/quicken-loans-small-victory-might-not-small\" target=\"_blank\">Quicken is fighting\u003c/a> the charges in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the lawsuits were filed, then-\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7QbXrCWf4g\" target=\"_blank\">Quicken CEO Bill Emerson told Fox Business\u003c/a> the government actions would stifle affordable loan programs targeting mid- and low-income borrowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11425179\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"For sale signs dot neighborhoods across San Bernardino. Despite comparatively low prices, home ownership remains out of reach for many locals. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For-sale signs dot neighborhoods across San Bernardino. Despite comparatively low prices, home ownership remains out of reach for many locals. \u003ccite>(Leslie Berestein Rojas/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It's absolutely driven a lot of financial institutions away from the FHA program for sure,” said Emerson. \"And you know who suffers from that. It’s the American consumer, the middle class who depend on the FHA program.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing risk expert Ed Pinto says these days, the majority of people buying a home for the first time in the U.S. are using FHA, 1 percent down and other types of low down payment programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And this group of low down payment loans is growing very rapidly,” says Pinto. “Seventy percent of all first-time homebuyers today have down payments of \u003ca href=\"https://themortgagereports.com/22592/ellie-mae-report-home-buyers-making-smaller-mortgage-down-payments\" target=\"_blank\">less than 5 percent\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the potential drawbacks, these loans remain the last best option in places like San Bernardino, a city still clawing its way back from a crushing foreclosure crisis and that municipal bankruptcy. It’s also a city where home ownership remains far below the national average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Instead of being in a mobile home park, we said let's go and be homeowners,\" says Isabel Montanez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met her with her two young sons outside her modest two-bedroom San Bernardino home abutting a pair of auto repair shops. The single mom just purchased the home after qualifying for a low down payment FHA loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I signed the documents April 5, and before June I’ll be in,\" she says proudly, before explaining how she plans to expand the home and move in a couple of relatives to help offset mortgage payments and other costs associated with home ownership.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\"Buy a Home, 1% Down, Free Recorded Message,\" reads a sign at the edge of a vacant lot in the scrappy working-class town of Bloomington near Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a tempting pitch. But it sounds a little suspicious to those who remember subprime lenders and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/subprime_mortgage_crisis\" target=\"_blank\">mortgage meltdown.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inland Southern California became something of a poster child for the housing crisis that sunk scores of homeowners, wiped out a booming construction sector, shredded city and county budgets, and contributed to a spectacular \u003ca href=\"http://www.cacb.uscourts.gov/case-of-interest/city-san-bernardino\" target=\"_blank\">municipal bankruptcy\u003c/a> in San Bernardino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I called the phone number on the sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hi, this is Emily your friendly real estate professional,” chirps a pre-recorded message. “Buying a home has never been easier. Here's how it works. You put down 1 percent and your lender 2 percent toward your down payment, which puts you on your way to home ownership.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t leave a message. But somehow I get a call back anyway from a broker based in L.A. who says he’s authorized to sell these new 1 percent down home loans through \u003ca href=\"https://www.uwm.com/mortgage-products/conventional-loans/1-percent-down\" target=\"_blank\">United Wholesale Mortgage.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a licensed private lender in Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I tell him I'm just fishing for information and not looking for a new mortgage, he’s reluctant to say much more. So I pay a visit to the storefront mortgage company of veteran broker \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/tims.teresa/\" target=\"_blank\">Theresa Tims\u003c/a> in the leafy business district of Upland, about 30 minutes outside L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social media-savvy Tims has produced video explainers about 1 percent down and other loan programs \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2fXzz9yozD3LK2Secfa9Zg\" target=\"_blank\">on her YouTube channel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/wBGpZeqnpoY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/wBGpZeqnpoY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\"I specialize in these low down loan type of programs and they fit our area perfectly,\" Tims tells me during an interview her assistant simultaneously webcasts on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tims does a lot of business in the Riverside-San Bernardino area, the Inland Empire, where median home prices are still comparatively cheap: about $300,000 for a basic three- or even four-bedroom home. That's less than half the \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/orange-county-ca/home-values/\" target=\"_blank\">median price\u003c/a> in neighboring Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now one of the only feasible programs is the 1 percent down with equity boost,\" says Tims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been offering 1 percent down conventional loans since late last year, when they first became available through \u003ca href=\"https://www.uwm.com/\" target=\"_blank\">United Wholesale Mortgage\u003c/a> and its Detroit-based rival \u003ca href=\"https://www.quickenloans.com/blog/quicken-loans-offers-1-down-payment-option\" target=\"_blank\">Quicken Loans.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11425240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Inland Southern California’s foreclosure crisis has led cities like San Bernardino to become largely a city of renters. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-1180x886.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-960x721.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inland Southern California’s foreclosure crisis has led cities like San Bernardino to become largely a city of renters. \u003ccite>(Leslie Berestein Rojas/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The basic arithmetic is pretty straightforward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Say you’re buying a $400,000 house in Riverside. You put down $4,000 -- that’s the 1 percent. The lender kicks in $8,000 -- that’s the 2 percent \"grant.' And that gets you to the 3 percent threshold required to qualify for federally backed mortgage insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loans are typically marketed to mid-income borrowers without a lot of cash on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's very common for somebody to be able to come up with $4,000 or $5,000 [for a down payment]... $8,000 to $10,000 is a little bit of a push,” says Tims. “Unless they get some kind of inheritance or they've been saving since like age 13.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Now we’re not just throwing the money up in the air.'\u003ccite>Abraham Bustillos, new homeowner\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Right around Christmas, Abraham Bustillos moved his wife and three kids into a 1,300-square-foot home in Riverside with one of these 1 percent down conventional loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were thinking we were going to need at least $15,000 to $20,000,” Bustillos tells me. \"So to go from that to just $6,000 [down payment], we were able to move into the home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The balance on Bustillos’ loan is around $350,000 stretched over a 30-year fixed mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, it is a little bit more than we were paying as renters,” says Bustillos, a FedEx delivery driver. \"But at the same time, now we’re not just throwing the money up in the air or paying the owner’s mortgage for him. You know, money is going into us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One advantage to these 1 percent down loans is that traditional bank lenders may require heftier minimum down payments, higher minimum incomes and flawless credit scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big non-bank lenders like United Wholesale and Quicken are filling the vacuum and scooping up customers who may not have cash for the more traditional 20 percent down payment -- or maybe just have good but not golden credit scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Wholesale Mortgage declined to comment for this story over concerns it might make 1 percent down loans look risky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But housing finance expert \u003ca href=\"https://www.aei.org/scholar/edward-j-pinto/\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Pinto\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aei.org/policy/economics/housing-finance/\" target=\"_blank\">American Enterprise Institute\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C., says they can be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unless you have reliable house price increases, you're going to be in trouble for many years,\" says Pinto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trouble as in your monthly payments will be pretty steep and it’ll take awhile to build up equity in your property.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'If anything happens like they lose their job, they have no cushion to fall back on.'\u003ccite>Edward Pinto, housing finance expert\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Within California, the most volatile metropolitan area for housing is Riverside-San Bernardino,\" Pinto explains. \"And so if you're buying a home in one of these areas with a very low down payment and then other risk factors are present, if anything happens like they lose their job, they have no cushion to fall back on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinto says a bigger appetite for risk has led to problems for some non-bank lenders dealing in low down payment loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, the U.S. Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-files-lawsuit-alleging-quicken-loans-improperly-originated-and-underwrote\" target=\"_blank\">sued both Quicken Loans \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mortgage-settlement-20170410-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">United Shore Financial Services\u003c/a>, the parent company of United Wholesale Mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors say between 2006 and 2012, the companies wrongly certified hundreds of low down payment loan applications insured through a Federal Housing Administration program (different from the 1 percent down conventional loans Quicken and United began offering last year). The government alleges that when the loans went bad, taxpayers were on the hook for millions of dollars in losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-shore-financial-services-llc-agrees-pay-48-million-resolve-alleged-false-claims-act\" target=\"_blank\">settled\u003c/a> its case last year after paying a $48 million penalty. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mortgageorb.com/quicken-loans-small-victory-might-not-small\" target=\"_blank\">Quicken is fighting\u003c/a> the charges in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the lawsuits were filed, then-\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7QbXrCWf4g\" target=\"_blank\">Quicken CEO Bill Emerson told Fox Business\u003c/a> the government actions would stifle affordable loan programs targeting mid- and low-income borrowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11425179\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"For sale signs dot neighborhoods across San Bernardino. Despite comparatively low prices, home ownership remains out of reach for many locals. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For-sale signs dot neighborhoods across San Bernardino. 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It’s the American consumer, the middle class who depend on the FHA program.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing risk expert Ed Pinto says these days, the majority of people buying a home for the first time in the U.S. are using FHA, 1 percent down and other types of low down payment programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And this group of low down payment loans is growing very rapidly,” says Pinto. “Seventy percent of all first-time homebuyers today have down payments of \u003ca href=\"https://themortgagereports.com/22592/ellie-mae-report-home-buyers-making-smaller-mortgage-down-payments\" target=\"_blank\">less than 5 percent\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the potential drawbacks, these loans remain the last best option in places like San Bernardino, a city still clawing its way back from a crushing foreclosure crisis and that municipal bankruptcy. 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"content": "\u003cp>At Bee Sweet Citrus in the Central Valley town of Fowler, forklifts beep as workers load and pack oranges, lemons and mandarins that will be shipped all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Watkins runs farm operations here, and says most of his employees make above minimum wage right now. But he thinks a jump to $15 an hour will mean farmers have to pass that cost onto consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Really, all we’re doing is causing the cost of food to go up, which makes less money in your take-home check at the end of the month, just cuz you’ve got to pay more for food,” Watkins says. “So to me, it’s just a revolving circle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movement to raise the minimum wage has largely come from cities, where restaurant and service workers have been pushing for an increase. 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At $10 an hour right now, she’s barely making it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be challenging for industry in the Central Valley to cope with it, but it’s also a place that deals with the negative aspects of poverty and low-paying jobs,” Jeff Michael says. He directs the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacific.edu/Academics/Schools-and-Colleges/Eberhardt-School-of-Business/Centers-and-Institutes/Center-for-Business-and-Policy-Research.html\">Center for Business and Policy Research \u003c/a>at the University of the Pacific in Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacific.edu/About-Pacific/Newsroom/2016/March-2016/Impacts-of-a-15-per-hour-minimum-wage-on-the-Northern-California-megaregion.html#.Vvr1Qfi1t4w.twitter\">analysis \u003c/a>shows the minimum wage hike could impact nearly 60 percent of the jobs in some Central Valley counties, where agriculture is king. It also shows that most of the workers who will benefit from a wage hike are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s big positives that come with this and big negatives that come with this and both the positives will be larger and the negatives will be larger in the Central Valley,” Michael says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same is true in areas like the Inland Empire, just East of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a disproportionately large number of marginally educated, lower-income workers,” says economist John Husing, who consults for local governments and private business in urban Riverside and San Bernadino County. Otherwise known as the Inland Empire, it’s a traditionally lower-income region with a blue-collar job market, home to a number of companies that pay less than $30,000 a year to most workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Husing supports the wage hike proposal, but says it’s a good thing it would phase in over 6 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”OzqnjgE64T9bt6sY5o6ddSf9TGAobmEY”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bringing it up at a moderate pace really works for the workforce. But it also will not cause the dislocations that will would normally occur if you moved it too fast,” Husing says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s talking about the dislocation of jobs: bosses cutting staff, shutting down operations, even leaving the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Husing believes the Inland Empire region is overdue for a hike in the minimum wage. But he also didn’t have much faith that it would happen locally, because local governments in the region are much more conservative on labor issues than neighboring Los Angeles, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-minimum-wage-hike-20150518-story.html\">passed its own $15 minimum wage\u003c/a>, set to phase in by 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But David Neumark, who teaches economics at UC Irvine, says the state should have taken a wait-and-see approach, examine the effects of local minimum wage hikes in cities like L.A. before imposing a one-size-fits-all approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually think it’s kind of reckless to just go ahead and do that everywhere else before we learn something about the consequences in these cities,” Neumark says. “A more sober view would say, ‘OK some cities have done this, let’s get some serious research done, let’s learn more about what happens before we say that we know for sure that $15 in Fresno is not gonna do a lot of damage.'”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>MORENO VALLEY, Calif. -- Jennifer Vargas’ path toward becoming a doctor took her from Westwood to Guadalajara before it ultimately led back home, to California’s vast Inland Empire east of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Chino Hills, Calif. native graduated from medical school in Mexico, her first choice for residency training was Riverside County’s public medical center, which serves among the fastest growing and most medically deprived parts of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was just what she wanted: To serve a vulnerable patient population facing high barriers to care, particularly immigrant patients from Mexico who would benefit from a Spanish-speaking physician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It offered the best fit for me,” said Vargas, 32, a second-year resident in family medicine at Riverside County Regional Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Inland Empire – a region roughly the size of Maine, including both Riverside and San Bernardino counties -- needs hundreds more like her. Officials have launched a muscular effort to educate physicians locally and entice doctors from the outside to settle in Southern California’s interior, miles from the famously alluring coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re trying to do more than fix a doctor shortage. They’re attempting to train and attract the right kind of physicians -- mainly primary care providers who relate to disadvantaged patients and want to treat them in their communities, before they become critically or chronically ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some see it as an experiment with lessons for other underserved regions of the country – a way to spread out and diversify the next generation of doctors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, our country is largely training the sons and daughters of wealthy people to be physicians,\" said G. Richard Olds, dean of the University of California, Riverside, School of Medicine. “You wonder why we have a problem with people not serving in underserved communities; it’s because they don’t know what an underserved community looks like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s looking for students who grew up in the Inland Empire and want to stay. He also wants people who speak English as a second language, or who were the first in their families to attend college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Inland Empire has for decades been short of physicians as newcomers poured in. Its population swelled from 1.6 million in 1980 to 4.4 million today. In 2011, it had 43 primary care physicians per 100,000 population, a supply roughly half the level recommended by experts, according to a study published last year by the California Healthcare Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with the expansion of health insurance and Medi-Cal through the Affordable Care Act, many more new patients have spilled into the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flow of patients seeking primary care services at the 12 family care clinics run by Riverside County rose 8 percent to 161,000 during the year ended last June 30, said Dr. Geoffrey Leung, the system’s chief of family medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volume has continued to rise since then and now is only limited by the system’s capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we had more providers, we would have more patients,” Leung said.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nA Bagful Of Drugs, A Long List of Ailments \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Friday morning, Maria Avelino Ibarra arrived at Riverside County main campus in Moreno Valley after an hour-long bus ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibarra, a 50-year-old Corona resident with diabetes, had come to renew her insulin prescription and get treatment for pain in her right knee, which she injured in a fall last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Dr. Bakr Khalifa Al Omrani, a second-year medical resident, quizzed her about her recent medical history, she added more ailments to the list, including chronic headaches, stomach problems and high cholesterol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she spoke, Ibarra pulled out a square-foot size zip-lock bag with 15 medication bottles and set them on a small counter in the exam room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Okay, I will not be able to deal with all of the problems today,” Khalifa told her through a Spanish translator listening in by phone. “Is your knee the most urgent problem?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was. Khalifa tried to flex her knee, which bent only to about 90 degrees before causing sharp pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appointment lasted 35 minutes, about twice as long as primary care visits usually do. It’s a common problem: Because patients have gone without care so long, doctors have to spend more time sorting out their problems. That, in turn, lengthens wait times for other patients seeking appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thinking Creatively\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shortage of doctors, and the pent-up demand for care, is a problem with deep roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, the region has not cultivated young physicians. The Inland Empire is below the state average in producing high school graduates who go to college. And until the UC Riverside program was founded in 2013, the region had only one medical school, at Loma Linda University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To top it off, Olds said, there aren’t enough slots to train medical residents in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33167\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/06/riverside-1-e1433354732551.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-33167\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/06/riverside-1-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"The Riverside County Regional Medical Center is a public teaching hospital in Moreno Valley. \" width=\"400\" height=\"267\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Riverside County Regional Medical Center is a public teaching hospital in Moreno Valley. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of these obstacles narrow the pipeline of available doctors. “Where you come from is about 40 percent of the decision” of where to practice, the dean said. “And another 40 percent is where you completed residency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the Inland Empire has hardly been an attractive destination for doctors from the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reimbursement from public and private payers isn’t as high as in coastal areas, said Leigh Hutchins, CEO of North American Medical Management California Inc., an Ontario-based firm that develops and manages provider networks and helps physicians coordinate care and conduct business. .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even existing doctor groups have trouble covering the start-up costs of bringing on a new doctor, whose practice may take three years to become self-sustaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a good $250,000 to $300,000 a year to support a new doctor, by the time you do salary and benefits and other payments,” Hutchins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctor shortage has hit hard at the Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP), the Medi-Cal managed care organization serving the two counties. Membership passed 1 million in February, up 60 percent from the 623,000 it had in December 2013, according to state figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had to think creatively about how to get more doctors in our plan,” said Dr. Bradley Gilbert, the nonprofit’s CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way is to provide grants -- to private physician groups, hospitals and even the county health systems to defray new doctors’ startup costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, the plan set aside $8 million from its reserves for that purpose, $5 million for primary care doctors and $3 million for specialists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>IEHP received applications for some 199 doctors for the grants, which will cover up to $100,000 of a primary physician’s annual costs and up to $150,000 of a specialist’s. As of last month, the health plan had approved grants for 123 physicians, 71 of them in primary care. Hiring has already begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To boost the long-term supply, UC Riverside is recruiting medical students through “mission-based scholarships.” These cover the entire cost of medical school if students commit to practicing in a needed primary care discipline in the region for five years after residency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a growing movement,” Leung said. “Young physicians are looking for work that feels meaningful and purposeful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I Need You A Lot’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas knew from age 7 that she wanted to be a doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33169\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/06/riverside-5-e1433354869110.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-33169\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/06/riverside-5-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Patient Maria Sanchez, 54, shares a light moment with her doctor, second year resident, Jennifer Vargas. \" width=\"400\" height=\"267\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patient Maria Sanchez, 54, shares a light moment with her doctor, second year resident, Jennifer Vargas. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of four children of Mexican immigrant parents, she volunteered at a cancer hospital near her home when she was in high school and continued to volunteer at local hospitals while studying biology and Spanish literature at UCLA. Later, while in Mexico, she and fellow medical students made house calls in small cities and villages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, her connection with her patients is obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Sanchez, 54, will see only Dr. Vargas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand English, but it’s better when I can express myself in Spanish,” Sanchez said. “It’s easier to understand the advice they give you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez, a permanent U.S. resident originally from Nayarit, Mexico, has diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re trying to do more than fix a doctor shortage. They’re attempting to train and attract the right kind of physicians -- mainly primary care providers who relate to disadvantaged patients and want to treat them in their communities, before they become critically or chronically ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some see it as an experiment with lessons for other underserved regions of the country – a way to spread out and diversify the next generation of doctors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, our country is largely training the sons and daughters of wealthy people to be physicians,\" said G. Richard Olds, dean of the University of California, Riverside, School of Medicine. “You wonder why we have a problem with people not serving in underserved communities; it’s because they don’t know what an underserved community looks like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s looking for students who grew up in the Inland Empire and want to stay. He also wants people who speak English as a second language, or who were the first in their families to attend college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Inland Empire has for decades been short of physicians as newcomers poured in. Its population swelled from 1.6 million in 1980 to 4.4 million today. 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Khalifa tried to flex her knee, which bent only to about 90 degrees before causing sharp pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appointment lasted 35 minutes, about twice as long as primary care visits usually do. It’s a common problem: Because patients have gone without care so long, doctors have to spend more time sorting out their problems. That, in turn, lengthens wait times for other patients seeking appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thinking Creatively\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shortage of doctors, and the pent-up demand for care, is a problem with deep roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, the region has not cultivated young physicians. The Inland Empire is below the state average in producing high school graduates who go to college. And until the UC Riverside program was founded in 2013, the region had only one medical school, at Loma Linda University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To top it off, Olds said, there aren’t enough slots to train medical residents in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33167\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/06/riverside-1-e1433354732551.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-33167\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/06/riverside-1-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"The Riverside County Regional Medical Center is a public teaching hospital in Moreno Valley. \" width=\"400\" height=\"267\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Riverside County Regional Medical Center is a public teaching hospital in Moreno Valley. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of these obstacles narrow the pipeline of available doctors. “Where you come from is about 40 percent of the decision” of where to practice, the dean said. “And another 40 percent is where you completed residency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the Inland Empire has hardly been an attractive destination for doctors from the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reimbursement from public and private payers isn’t as high as in coastal areas, said Leigh Hutchins, CEO of North American Medical Management California Inc., an Ontario-based firm that develops and manages provider networks and helps physicians coordinate care and conduct business. .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even existing doctor groups have trouble covering the start-up costs of bringing on a new doctor, whose practice may take three years to become self-sustaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a good $250,000 to $300,000 a year to support a new doctor, by the time you do salary and benefits and other payments,” Hutchins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctor shortage has hit hard at the Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP), the Medi-Cal managed care organization serving the two counties. Membership passed 1 million in February, up 60 percent from the 623,000 it had in December 2013, according to state figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had to think creatively about how to get more doctors in our plan,” said Dr. Bradley Gilbert, the nonprofit’s CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way is to provide grants -- to private physician groups, hospitals and even the county health systems to defray new doctors’ startup costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, the plan set aside $8 million from its reserves for that purpose, $5 million for primary care doctors and $3 million for specialists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>IEHP received applications for some 199 doctors for the grants, which will cover up to $100,000 of a primary physician’s annual costs and up to $150,000 of a specialist’s. As of last month, the health plan had approved grants for 123 physicians, 71 of them in primary care. 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Later, while in Mexico, she and fellow medical students made house calls in small cities and villages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, her connection with her patients is obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Sanchez, 54, will see only Dr. Vargas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand English, but it’s better when I can express myself in Spanish,” Sanchez said. “It’s easier to understand the advice they give you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez, a permanent U.S. resident originally from Nayarit, Mexico, has diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. 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