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"content": "\u003cp>Driving over the Bay Bridge into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, the vast, mostly barren compound that’s home to the Treasure Island Job Corps Center doesn’t look like much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But students gaining certifications in culinary arts, construction, hospitality and other blue-collar careers at the trade school say it has been a lifeline for more than 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1999, thousands of low-income youth and young adults have gotten high school diplomas and trade certifications while living and working at the federally funded site. 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It’s just really heartbreaking and horrifying and inhumane,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez and other students at Treasure Island found out last week that they would need to leave the island after the Department of Labor announced it would indefinitely pause operations at the end of June at the vast majority of its 131 trade schools that offer free schooling, housing and healthcare to low-income 16 to 24 year olds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said in a statement that the department had reviewed the program and determined that it was “no longer achieving the intended outcomes that students deserve,” based on a review of serious incident reports at Job Corps sites and the financial impact of the program, which operated with a $140 million deficit in 2024.[aside postID=news_12042125 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250529-JOBCORPSCENTER-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']About 250 of the 375 students who resided on Treasure Island prior to the DOL’s announcement have already left, and more are preparing to leave by the end of the week, according to Lacy Barnes, a representative for the Union of Teachers and Classified Professionals, which represents the center’s employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042125/trump-pauses-job-corps-leaving-san-jose-trade-students-in-turmoil\">similar exodus\u003c/a> has happened at the San José Job Corps site, where another 350 students found out last Thursday that their program would be shut down, and some were told to pack their bags within days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other students, including Lopez, plan to stay on campus until they’re forced to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order to a trade group representing Job Corps center operators suing the Department of Labor over its abrupt announcement, ordering the department not to pause work or terminate agreements with contractors until a further ruling. The order lasts through June 17, when a hearing is scheduled in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter grants the contractors an injunction that would extend until the case could be decided in court, Barnes worries that the chaos over the last week cannot be rectified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042992\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Lara, executive vice president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a rally outside the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco on June 5, 2025, protesting the facility’s upcoming closure, which they say could leave at-risk youth homeless. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The damage that’s incurred — we can’t recoup that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the students who come to job corps centers escaped difficult home situations or were previously unhoused, and are at heightened risk if they are forced to return to those circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isaiah Moncrease, who recently completed the culinary program at Treasure Island, said without it, he isn’t sure he would see a future where he has a legal job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got into gang life, I sold drugs, and I almost ended up in jail multiple times,” he said. “This program not only saved my life, but saved the lives of countless other students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before coming to Job Corps, Moncrease said he and his siblings had been moved around nine states and more than 50 counties by his mother, who was struggling with drug addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She went wherever the drugs were, and we went with her,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042990\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleen Jeffers, president of the Council of Classified Employees (CFT), listens to speakers during a rally outside the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco on June 5, 2025, protesting the facility’s upcoming closure, which they say could leave at-risk youth homeless. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, he landed in Antioch with his father, where he said he was abused. 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The order lasts through June 17, when a hearing is scheduled in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter grants the contractors an injunction that would extend until the case could be decided in court, Barnes worries that the chaos over the last week cannot be rectified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042992\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Lara, executive vice president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a rally outside the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco on June 5, 2025, protesting the facility’s upcoming closure, which they say could leave at-risk youth homeless. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The damage that’s incurred — we can’t recoup that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the students who come to job corps centers escaped difficult home situations or were previously unhoused, and are at heightened risk if they are forced to return to those circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isaiah Moncrease, who recently completed the culinary program at Treasure Island, said without it, he isn’t sure he would see a future where he has a legal job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got into gang life, I sold drugs, and I almost ended up in jail multiple times,” he said. “This program not only saved my life, but saved the lives of countless other students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before coming to Job Corps, Moncrease said he and his siblings had been moved around nine states and more than 50 counties by his mother, who was struggling with drug addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She went wherever the drugs were, and we went with her,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042990\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleen Jeffers, president of the Council of Classified Employees (CFT), listens to speakers during a rally outside the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco on June 5, 2025, protesting the facility’s upcoming closure, which they say could leave at-risk youth homeless. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, he landed in Antioch with his father, where he said he was abused. Job Corps gave him an escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the last eight months, I have completed my culinary trade, I have got my managers and my food handler certificates, and I’ve been taught how to stand strong and proud and be who I am,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center also provided a second chance for the Pierson-Jurik family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Annette Pierson and Kathryn Jurik gave their daughter Eren a choice last year: go to Job Corps, or find a place to live on her own, without their help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were having family difficulties, and we were trying to help our daughter launch,” Jurik said. “Things were getting really rough, and we gave her the choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Eren’s been at the center, they’ve been able to repair their family relationship. 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"content": "\u003cp>Immigrant-serving groups across the Bay Area condemned \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032046/as-anxiety-mounts-possible-new-trump-travel-ban-community-leaders-speak-out\">a new Trump administration travel ban\u003c/a> that — with a handful of exceptions — will bar most citizens of nineteen countries from entering the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ban, announced in a proclamation by\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/restricting-the-entry-of-foreign-nationals-to-protect-the-united-states-from-foreign-terrorists-and-other-national-security-and-public-safety-threats/\"> President Donald Trump\u003c/a> on Wednesday night, will “fully restrict and limit the entry” of nationals from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It will partially restrict entry of nationals of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela. People who hold a U.S. green card and immediate family members of U.S. citizens are among those exempted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aarti Kohli, executive director of San Francisco’s Asian Law Caucus, called the ban “draconian” and said it echoed other episodes of discriminatory profiling, from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the surveillance of Muslim Americans after the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center bombing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For most of us, there is nothing we wouldn’t do to make sure our families are safe and together … This policy will tear families apart worldwide,” Kohli said. “This sweeping travel ban is just one tool in a broader strategy to consolidate power by scapegoating communities and manufacturing fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘We don’t want them’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The president’s proclamation revives, in altered form, a travel ban Trump imposed in his first term. And it comes as part of a broader crackdown on immigrants, including arrests at immigration courts and routine immigration check-ins, an attempt to revoke thousands of international student visas, suspension of the nation’s refugee program and a shutdown of asylum consideration at the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12042887 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/008_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1470_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said he relied on guidance from advisers, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller, a homeland security adviser, to compile a list of countries with deficient security vetting, “a significant terrorist presence” and a high rate of nationals who overstay U.S. visas, among other factors. He said countries could be added to or removed from the list, based on whether they comply with U.S. security requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the proclamation, Trump reiterated part of a Jan. 20 executive order, saying “it is the policy of the United States to protect its citizens from aliens who intend to commit terrorist attacks, threaten our national security, espouse hateful ideology, or otherwise exploit the immigration laws for malevolent purposes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUHm8XZ0Nvo\">a video message\u003c/a>, Trump tied the ban to the recent attack by an Egyptian man on a group of people holding a vigil in Boulder, Colorado, for Israeli hostages held by Hamas. Egypt is not on the travel ban list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack “has underscored the extreme dangers posed to our country by the entry of foreign nationals who are not properly vetted,” he said. “We don’t want them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ban is set to take effect Monday, June 9, at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Our country is better than this’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla called the plan discriminatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This senseless, prejudicial policy is an abuse of power that also threatens U.S. citizen relatives from the targeted countries,” he said in a statement. “Our country is better than this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many advocates said that — while the list of banned countries is broader than the one announced in the early days of Trump’s first term, which focused on predominantly Muslim countries — this ban targets countries with “Black and Brown” inhabitants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the same administration that deports Black immigrants only to import White refugees from South Africa under the false claim of genocide,’’ said Guerline Jozef, executive director of the San Diego-based Haitian Bridge Alliance. “Once again, U.S. immigration policy is being weaponized to deny entry, dignity and basic human rights to people from countries that have long borne the brunt of colonialism, Western intervention and economic extraction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The libertarian Cato Institute said the annual chance of being murdered by a terrorist from one of the banned countries from 1975 to the end of 2024 was vanishingly small — about 1 in 13.9 billion per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cato analyst Alex Nowrasteh called the ban ineffective and a waste of resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The United States government has a responsibility to keep terrorists and criminals out of the country and to remove those who make it through,” he said. “However, the government should pursue a rational and evidence-based approach when evaluating the threat posed by foreign nationals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, immigrant advocates and resettlement organizations were especially concerned about the impact of the ban on the tens of thousands of Afghans the U.S. admitted on temporary parole after airlifting them out of Kabul as the Taliban took over in 2021. Some have received asylum, which provides a path to legal permanent residence, but many others are still in the process of applying. And most are still desperately trying to bring their spouses and children to join them in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The travel ban will break our country’s promise for a safe future in the United States for all Afghans who worked alongside and kept safe United States military personnel in Afghanistan,” said Robin Mencher, executive director of Jewish Family and Community Services of the East Bay, which has resettled more than 2,300 Afghans since 2021, with many applications still in the pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paris Etemadi Scott, legal director with the Pars Equality Center in San Jose, said she is hearing from many Afghan asylees by email and phone, anxious to know how the travel ban will affect their relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our immediate biggest fear right now is for families of Afghans who are still stuck in Afghanistan,” she said. \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I have families who, finally, after three or four years’ wait, just got their interview to be processed to come and join their spouse here. I have a family of seven, a spouse and six children, who don’t know whether they fall within this ban or not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Legal challenges\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first travel ban, which Trump implemented by executive order in January 2017 with no advance notice, caused chaos at airports, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/us/politics/homeland-security-travel-ban-inspector-general.html\">border officials were caught off guard\u003c/a> and travelers with valid visas were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11301672/girl-12-caught-in-trump-ban-to-reunite-with-california-family\">stuck in transit\u003c/a>, turned back or stranded inside airports. By the time a federal judge stayed the order on Feb. 3,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/03/513306413/state-department-says-fewer-than-60-000-visas-revoked-under-travel-order\"> 60,000 visas\u003c/a> had been provisionally revoked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of court challenges led\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11459169/9th-circuit-focuses-on-trumps-muslim-statements-in-travel-ban-hearing\"> the Trump administration\u003c/a> to revise the order twice before the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/26/606481548/supreme-court-upholds-trump-travel-ban\">U.S. Supreme Court\u003c/a> upheld a third version in June 2018. That version applied to individuals from Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, plus government officials from Venezuela. It was supposed to include a mechanism for citizens from banned countries to request a waiver permitting them to travel to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11763562/federal-judge-in-s-f-allows-challenge-to-travel-ban-visa-waiver-program-to-proceed\">the process was unclear, and most applications were denied\u003c/a>. Pars Equality Center sued and won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former President Joe Biden \u003ca href=\"https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-ending-discriminatory-bans-on-entry-to-the-united-states/\">rescinded the ban o\u003c/a>n his first day in office in 2021, calling it “a stain on our national conscience.” But it wasn’t until last May that \u003ca href=\"https://parsequalitycenter.org/2024/05/15/travel-ban-victims-reach-landmark-agreement-for-redress/\">a federal judge cleared the way\u003c/a> for 25,000 people from affected countries to submit new visa applications, with fees waived, as a result of the Pars lawsuit. 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Alex Padilla called the plan discriminatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This senseless, prejudicial policy is an abuse of power that also threatens U.S. citizen relatives from the targeted countries,” he said in a statement. “Our country is better than this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many advocates said that — while the list of banned countries is broader than the one announced in the early days of Trump’s first term, which focused on predominantly Muslim countries — this ban targets countries with “Black and Brown” inhabitants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the same administration that deports Black immigrants only to import White refugees from South Africa under the false claim of genocide,’’ said Guerline Jozef, executive director of the San Diego-based Haitian Bridge Alliance. “Once again, U.S. immigration policy is being weaponized to deny entry, dignity and basic human rights to people from countries that have long borne the brunt of colonialism, Western intervention and economic extraction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The libertarian Cato Institute said the annual chance of being murdered by a terrorist from one of the banned countries from 1975 to the end of 2024 was vanishingly small — about 1 in 13.9 billion per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cato analyst Alex Nowrasteh called the ban ineffective and a waste of resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The United States government has a responsibility to keep terrorists and criminals out of the country and to remove those who make it through,” he said. “However, the government should pursue a rational and evidence-based approach when evaluating the threat posed by foreign nationals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, immigrant advocates and resettlement organizations were especially concerned about the impact of the ban on the tens of thousands of Afghans the U.S. admitted on temporary parole after airlifting them out of Kabul as the Taliban took over in 2021. 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By the time a federal judge stayed the order on Feb. 3,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/03/513306413/state-department-says-fewer-than-60-000-visas-revoked-under-travel-order\"> 60,000 visas\u003c/a> had been provisionally revoked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of court challenges led\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11459169/9th-circuit-focuses-on-trumps-muslim-statements-in-travel-ban-hearing\"> the Trump administration\u003c/a> to revise the order twice before the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/26/606481548/supreme-court-upholds-trump-travel-ban\">U.S. Supreme Court\u003c/a> upheld a third version in June 2018. That version applied to individuals from Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, plus government officials from Venezuela. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a warm May afternoon, Butch Larson and David Garcia leaned intently over a makeshift workbench outside Larson’s tent, one of a dozen lining the Guadalupe River Trail in South \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Above them, cars roared along an overpass on Highway 85, enveloping the encampment in an unceasing din, but providing the pair a break from the midday sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larson tinkered with the underside of a small skateboard. He worked slowly, still recovering mobility in his right arm after suffering a stroke last year. Larson has been unhoused since 2012, living for the last four years in this encampment off Cherry Avenue. Garcia arrived a year or two later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a hundred yards away, a construction crew worked on what San José officials hope will be future homes for Larson and Garcia: a 128-unit tiny home village set to open this fall. People experiencing homelessness in the immediate area will be offered first preference for a private room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Larson and Garcia aren’t interested, at least not right now. Both said the facilities have too many rules and too little space for their tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want those,” Garcia said. “They should give us a hotel room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butch Larson repairs a bicycle near the place he lives along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Larson doesn’t want that either. He lived briefly in a former downtown motel that was converted into a temporary housing unit, and said it felt “like a jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t smoke no marijuana or drink alcohol there,” he said. “I couldn’t have my tools, I couldn’t have my electric bike, I couldn’t have my motorbike, I couldn’t have my electric skateboard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Larson, Garcia and others living in encampments near interim housing sites could soon face new pressure to move indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San José City Council will vote next week on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031813/san-jose-council-gives-initial-approval-mayors-controversial-homelessness-pay-plans\">controversial plan\u003c/a> authored by Mayor Matt Mahan to arrest unhoused people who refuse multiple offers of shelter. The proposal, called Responsibility to Shelter, is aimed at getting unhoused people into temporary housing or a court-ordered behavioral health treatment program.[aside postID=news_12029843 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-10-BL_qed-1-1020x680.jpg']Mahan is leading a call echoed by mayors across California, and recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039730/newsom-pushes-cities-ban-homeless-encampments-across-california\">by Gov. Gavin Newsom:\u003c/a> if shelter space is available, living in often unsafe and unsanitary encampments cannot be an acceptable alternative. If encampments persist after the city has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\"> spent millions\u003c/a> of taxpayer dollars on temporary housing, Mahan argued, winning support for future shelter in San José will prove impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to our moral responsibility to intervene in cycles of addiction and mental illness and get people indoors into treatment, we have a duty and really a political necessity to bring the whole community along,” Mahan told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the mayor’s plan argue that such enforcement is premature. City data shows most unhoused people in San José accept shelter when offered. And even if every person living outdoors wanted a bed, the city is still far from being able to offer one: while there are more than 3,000 city and county-run shelter units in San José, an estimated 5,477 people are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026630/san-jose-has-an-idea-to-bring-street-homelessness-to-functional-zero-can-it-work\">living without shelter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County officials, whose collaboration would be required once an arrest is made, are deeply skeptical. Without additional treatment beds, they warn, the plan could push more people through a revolving door between the courthouse, the jailhouse and the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the encampment near Cherry Avenue, Larson and Garcia said the threat of arrest would do little to change their mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been telling everybody out here, I’ll probably be the first person to go to jail over this s–t,” Larson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New police and outreach units\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both supporters and opponents of the plan agree that unhoused people who are arrested won’t be spending nights in jail, at least not initially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan before the council on Tuesday would add an expectation to accept shelter to the city’s encampment code of conduct. That code of conduct also prohibits camping in a “no encampment zone,” which includes the two-block radius around existing temporary housing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042510 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign in front of the Via del Oro interim housing site in San José on May 29, 2025, announces a no-encampment zone. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the code of conduct is not enforceable by arrest, San José Chief of Police Paul Joseph told the city council last month. Instead, violations would be used “to prioritize which campsites are in need of abatement and which can wait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means encampments near the city’s interim housing communities, such as the Cherry Avenue site, will be prioritized for enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riley, who declined to share his last name, has lived there for two and a half years. He flashed a bright smile underneath a pair of black Ray-Ban sunglasses, but said frankly, “It’s hard out here.”[aside postID=news_12031813 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240409-SJEncampmentBan-045-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']“I mean, with no air conditioning and your stuff gets stolen,” he said. “That’s the biggest thing, actually, because I like nice clothes, but it gets stolen. It gets stolen a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the mayor’s enforcement plan, Riley said it didn’t sound too extreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I feel like if you don’t want to be homeless, then you should accept the resources, even if it’s not a mansion,” he added, gesturing at the nearby tiny homes under construction behind a chain-link fence. “If they gave me a chance right now, once they’re done, I would do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, that offer will come from a new seven-person team of housing and parks workers, who will spend time building relationships with people in encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These offers of housing distinguish Responsibility to Shelter from encampment laws being rolled out in other California cities. After the Supreme Court ruled last year in the Grants Pass decision that jurisdictions\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\"> could legally clear tents\u003c/a> without offering shelter, cities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026580/this-bay-area-city-just-passed-the-most-extreme-encampment-ban-in-california\">such as Fremont\u003c/a> and Fresno \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019944/in-fresno-one-of-californias-toughest-new-camping-bans-comes-into-focus\">have passed \u003c/a>outright bans on camping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the housing team has made several offers of shelter (originally proposed by Mahan as three offers but revised to give discretion to outreach workers), a new “Neighborhood Quality of Life” police unit could be dispatched. That unit, made up of one sergeant and six officers, would make arrests for any misdemeanor violations at the site, such as trespassing or illegal dumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026470 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan speaks at a press conference in San Francisco on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mahan sees the arrests as a pathway to services that only the county can provide — a forcing function for judges to order participation in mental health or substance use programs, and to pressure the county to fund more housing for people enrolled in such treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those individuals who are a subset of the population, but our most vulnerable neighbors and, frankly, the most impactful on the rest of society, success is getting into treatment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jamie Chang, associate professor of social welfare at UC Berkeley, said there’s little evidence that arrests will make a positive difference in the life of someone experiencing homelessness. She questions the premise that people who are resisting shelter are necessarily in need of mental health or substance use treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very concerned about people who are not accepting shelter for various reasons, because they have disabilities, because they have too much stuff,” she said. “I think it’s very clear that people experiencing homelessness have many, and oftentimes very valid reasons for refusing shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>County says plan is ‘unnecessary and ineffective’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For people who are arrested under the Responsibility to Shelter plan, the path to treatment is not straightforward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José officials want police to bring arrestees to a county facility where people under the influence of drugs or alcohol or those experiencing a mental health crisis can stay up to 24 hours — but they haven’t reached an agreement with the county to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of a deal, San José police will bring the unhoused person they arrest to the county jail, where they will be immediately released with a citation to appear in court, a sheriff’s office spokesperson said, citing a state law that prohibits jailings for most misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs posted in the Santa Teresa neighborhood of San José on May 29, 2025, announce that video surveillance is in use. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Damon Silver, Santa Clara County’s acting public defender, said it’s unlikely at that point for the person experiencing homelessness — just released from county jail and likely separated from their belongings — to navigate the path to treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re struggling to survive,” Silver said. “And for us to expect that they’re likely going to be able to manage both the transportation, the monitoring of when their court date is and then arrive successfully at court? I think we’re going to anticipate a large failure-to-appear rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That failure to appear could lead a judge to issue a bench warrant, which raises the chances that the unhoused person would have to spend time in jail until their next court appearance.[aside postID=news_12026437 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']If the person experiencing homelessness does appear for their arraignment, San José’s city attorney will ask that the case be referred to the county behavioral health court. The public defender might push back on the terms of a proposed treatment plan or ask that the judge dismiss the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If placed in a diversion program, the unhoused person could be connected to therapy, treatment or counseling. But judges, lawyers and service providers who work in the county’s diversion system all agreed: without housing, treatment will fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have enough housing beds for people in this county,” Silver said. “We don’t frankly have enough mental health beds for people in this county, and we don’t have enough substance abuse beds and treatment for people in this county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public defender’s skepticism has been echoed by top Santa Clara County brass. In a \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Letter-to-CSJ-re-Arrests-of-Unhoused-Individuals-for-Nonviolent-Misdemeanors-5.12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 12 letter\u003c/a> addressed to San José leaders, Board of Supervisors President Otto Lee, District Attorney Jeff Rosen, Sheriff Robert Jonsen and County Executive James R. Williams called the potential homeless arrests “unnecessary and ineffective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time of tremendous budgetary challenges, City policies should not divert limited public safety resources to address what is ultimately a problem caused by the lack of affordable housing in our cities,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mayor: Encampments ‘undermine’ support for housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two days after the letter was sent, newly elected District 10 Councilmember George Casey fired back against county leadership during a hearing on the city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is members of the city council, Casey argued, not the county government, who field the brunt of complaints from residents about persistent street homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people don’t know who their county supervisor is or what the county is responsible for, and we’re the ones that catch hell,” Casey said. “So they get to sit back in the cuts and do nothing, and they’ve done nothing. And so the idea that we’re going to let that letter or whatever they are willing to do or not do dictate what we do is ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An interim housing site is built near an unhoused community along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Casey is intimately familiar with the politics of homeless housing. Five of the city’s 13 interim housing communities lie along a stretch of Monterey Road that straddles District 10 and District 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the council has approved more temporary housing projects in South San José, they have layered on incentives to ameliorate concerns from residents living near the sites: the no encampment zones within a two-block radius, first preference for beds to people experiencing homelessness in the immediate area and a Community Advisory Committee to solicit feedback from nearby residents after the housing opens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issa Ajlouny leads the Community Advisory Committee for the recently opened Via del Oro interim housing complex. The site has been open for less than two months, but Ajlouny said he has already fielded complaints from neighbors about lingering encampments, fires and reported thefts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Issa Ajlouny, founder and president of SAFER San José (Safety Advocate For Empowering Residents), sits at his home in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I’m the mediator,” he said. “I’m trying to be the person that says, ‘Hey, neighborhood, we need to be good neighbors to [the unhoused] and try to help them, our tax dollars are going towards it, we might as well do that.’ But in turn, we needed to be treated as good neighbors … and that actually is not happening right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ajlouny wants to see tougher enforcement and larger no-encampment zones — and he supports the Responsibility to Shelter plan, which would be enforced primarily in neighborhoods like his, near interim housing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message from the city when Via del Oro was approved was “We’ll throw you a bone,” Ajlouny said. “And the bone hasn’t landed yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José is operating more than 1,200 temporary units with on-site services — including private rooms and prefabricated apartments in tiny home villages, converted motel rooms and parking spaces for RVs. More than 500 additional shelter spaces are expected to open later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">KQED analysis\u003c/a> found that neighborhood fears about the city’s first five interim housing sites never came to pass. But Mahan believes that the future of homeless housing in San José is predicated on residents like Ajlouny seeing meaningful improvements in their neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t do that if 10%, 20%, 30% of people are saying, ‘No thanks, I want to stay right here, continuing with my lifestyle in my tent,’” Mahan said. “It completely undermines the rationale for the work and the political support that the community is willing to give to these efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We haven’t necessarily solved the problem’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In early March, a parking lot for RV-dwellers opened on Berryessa Road in north San José, with on-site bathrooms and showers, along with case managers and hot meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opening was preceded by months of messaging, both to people staying in their vehicles nearby and people living in the neighborhood, that RVs would be cleared from the area once the safe parking lot launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember David Cohen said there were about 20 RVs on nearby streets when the site opened. A month later, about half remained. Now, the streets are clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042509\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line Vía Del Oro Drive in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People who moved in early went back, and spoke to some of the people they knew on the [streets] and said ‘Actually it’s a pretty nice place,’” Cohen said. “As we build more of these sites and people see how they work, I believe more and more people will be accepting of the service and fewer will be service-resistant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the story didn’t end with the cleared streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now we have another street a couple blocks away that has RVs on it that didn’t before,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen said he’ll wait for any amendments to the Responsibility to Shelter plan on Tuesday before making a final decision on his vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He agrees with the mayor that the city can’t wait until there is a bed available for every unhoused person in San José before clearing tents or lived-in vehicles — that there’s value in showing neighborhoods that new shelter sites will come with clean streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we have to understand that when we don’t have enough beds for everybody, we haven’t necessarily solved the problem,” he said. “We’ve just moved the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a hundred yards away, a construction crew worked on what San José officials hope will be future homes for Larson and Garcia: a 128-unit tiny home village set to open this fall. People experiencing homelessness in the immediate area will be offered first preference for a private room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Larson and Garcia aren’t interested, at least not right now. Both said the facilities have too many rules and too little space for their tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want those,” Garcia said. “They should give us a hotel room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butch Larson repairs a bicycle near the place he lives along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Larson doesn’t want that either. He lived briefly in a former downtown motel that was converted into a temporary housing unit, and said it felt “like a jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t smoke no marijuana or drink alcohol there,” he said. “I couldn’t have my tools, I couldn’t have my electric bike, I couldn’t have my motorbike, I couldn’t have my electric skateboard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Larson, Garcia and others living in encampments near interim housing sites could soon face new pressure to move indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San José City Council will vote next week on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031813/san-jose-council-gives-initial-approval-mayors-controversial-homelessness-pay-plans\">controversial plan\u003c/a> authored by Mayor Matt Mahan to arrest unhoused people who refuse multiple offers of shelter. The proposal, called Responsibility to Shelter, is aimed at getting unhoused people into temporary housing or a court-ordered behavioral health treatment program.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mahan is leading a call echoed by mayors across California, and recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039730/newsom-pushes-cities-ban-homeless-encampments-across-california\">by Gov. Gavin Newsom:\u003c/a> if shelter space is available, living in often unsafe and unsanitary encampments cannot be an acceptable alternative. If encampments persist after the city has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\"> spent millions\u003c/a> of taxpayer dollars on temporary housing, Mahan argued, winning support for future shelter in San José will prove impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to our moral responsibility to intervene in cycles of addiction and mental illness and get people indoors into treatment, we have a duty and really a political necessity to bring the whole community along,” Mahan told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the mayor’s plan argue that such enforcement is premature. City data shows most unhoused people in San José accept shelter when offered. And even if every person living outdoors wanted a bed, the city is still far from being able to offer one: while there are more than 3,000 city and county-run shelter units in San José, an estimated 5,477 people are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026630/san-jose-has-an-idea-to-bring-street-homelessness-to-functional-zero-can-it-work\">living without shelter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County officials, whose collaboration would be required once an arrest is made, are deeply skeptical. Without additional treatment beds, they warn, the plan could push more people through a revolving door between the courthouse, the jailhouse and the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the encampment near Cherry Avenue, Larson and Garcia said the threat of arrest would do little to change their mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been telling everybody out here, I’ll probably be the first person to go to jail over this s–t,” Larson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New police and outreach units\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both supporters and opponents of the plan agree that unhoused people who are arrested won’t be spending nights in jail, at least not initially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan before the council on Tuesday would add an expectation to accept shelter to the city’s encampment code of conduct. That code of conduct also prohibits camping in a “no encampment zone,” which includes the two-block radius around existing temporary housing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042510 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign in front of the Via del Oro interim housing site in San José on May 29, 2025, announces a no-encampment zone. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the code of conduct is not enforceable by arrest, San José Chief of Police Paul Joseph told the city council last month. Instead, violations would be used “to prioritize which campsites are in need of abatement and which can wait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means encampments near the city’s interim housing communities, such as the Cherry Avenue site, will be prioritized for enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riley, who declined to share his last name, has lived there for two and a half years. He flashed a bright smile underneath a pair of black Ray-Ban sunglasses, but said frankly, “It’s hard out here.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I mean, with no air conditioning and your stuff gets stolen,” he said. “That’s the biggest thing, actually, because I like nice clothes, but it gets stolen. It gets stolen a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the mayor’s enforcement plan, Riley said it didn’t sound too extreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I feel like if you don’t want to be homeless, then you should accept the resources, even if it’s not a mansion,” he added, gesturing at the nearby tiny homes under construction behind a chain-link fence. “If they gave me a chance right now, once they’re done, I would do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, that offer will come from a new seven-person team of housing and parks workers, who will spend time building relationships with people in encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These offers of housing distinguish Responsibility to Shelter from encampment laws being rolled out in other California cities. After the Supreme Court ruled last year in the Grants Pass decision that jurisdictions\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\"> could legally clear tents\u003c/a> without offering shelter, cities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026580/this-bay-area-city-just-passed-the-most-extreme-encampment-ban-in-california\">such as Fremont\u003c/a> and Fresno \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019944/in-fresno-one-of-californias-toughest-new-camping-bans-comes-into-focus\">have passed \u003c/a>outright bans on camping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the housing team has made several offers of shelter (originally proposed by Mahan as three offers but revised to give discretion to outreach workers), a new “Neighborhood Quality of Life” police unit could be dispatched. That unit, made up of one sergeant and six officers, would make arrests for any misdemeanor violations at the site, such as trespassing or illegal dumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026470 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan speaks at a press conference in San Francisco on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mahan sees the arrests as a pathway to services that only the county can provide — a forcing function for judges to order participation in mental health or substance use programs, and to pressure the county to fund more housing for people enrolled in such treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those individuals who are a subset of the population, but our most vulnerable neighbors and, frankly, the most impactful on the rest of society, success is getting into treatment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jamie Chang, associate professor of social welfare at UC Berkeley, said there’s little evidence that arrests will make a positive difference in the life of someone experiencing homelessness. She questions the premise that people who are resisting shelter are necessarily in need of mental health or substance use treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very concerned about people who are not accepting shelter for various reasons, because they have disabilities, because they have too much stuff,” she said. “I think it’s very clear that people experiencing homelessness have many, and oftentimes very valid reasons for refusing shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>County says plan is ‘unnecessary and ineffective’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For people who are arrested under the Responsibility to Shelter plan, the path to treatment is not straightforward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José officials want police to bring arrestees to a county facility where people under the influence of drugs or alcohol or those experiencing a mental health crisis can stay up to 24 hours — but they haven’t reached an agreement with the county to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of a deal, San José police will bring the unhoused person they arrest to the county jail, where they will be immediately released with a citation to appear in court, a sheriff’s office spokesperson said, citing a state law that prohibits jailings for most misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs posted in the Santa Teresa neighborhood of San José on May 29, 2025, announce that video surveillance is in use. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Damon Silver, Santa Clara County’s acting public defender, said it’s unlikely at that point for the person experiencing homelessness — just released from county jail and likely separated from their belongings — to navigate the path to treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re struggling to survive,” Silver said. “And for us to expect that they’re likely going to be able to manage both the transportation, the monitoring of when their court date is and then arrive successfully at court? I think we’re going to anticipate a large failure-to-appear rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That failure to appear could lead a judge to issue a bench warrant, which raises the chances that the unhoused person would have to spend time in jail until their next court appearance.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>If the person experiencing homelessness does appear for their arraignment, San José’s city attorney will ask that the case be referred to the county behavioral health court. The public defender might push back on the terms of a proposed treatment plan or ask that the judge dismiss the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If placed in a diversion program, the unhoused person could be connected to therapy, treatment or counseling. But judges, lawyers and service providers who work in the county’s diversion system all agreed: without housing, treatment will fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have enough housing beds for people in this county,” Silver said. “We don’t frankly have enough mental health beds for people in this county, and we don’t have enough substance abuse beds and treatment for people in this county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public defender’s skepticism has been echoed by top Santa Clara County brass. In a \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Letter-to-CSJ-re-Arrests-of-Unhoused-Individuals-for-Nonviolent-Misdemeanors-5.12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 12 letter\u003c/a> addressed to San José leaders, Board of Supervisors President Otto Lee, District Attorney Jeff Rosen, Sheriff Robert Jonsen and County Executive James R. Williams called the potential homeless arrests “unnecessary and ineffective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time of tremendous budgetary challenges, City policies should not divert limited public safety resources to address what is ultimately a problem caused by the lack of affordable housing in our cities,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mayor: Encampments ‘undermine’ support for housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two days after the letter was sent, newly elected District 10 Councilmember George Casey fired back against county leadership during a hearing on the city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is members of the city council, Casey argued, not the county government, who field the brunt of complaints from residents about persistent street homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people don’t know who their county supervisor is or what the county is responsible for, and we’re the ones that catch hell,” Casey said. “So they get to sit back in the cuts and do nothing, and they’ve done nothing. And so the idea that we’re going to let that letter or whatever they are willing to do or not do dictate what we do is ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An interim housing site is built near an unhoused community along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Casey is intimately familiar with the politics of homeless housing. Five of the city’s 13 interim housing communities lie along a stretch of Monterey Road that straddles District 10 and District 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the council has approved more temporary housing projects in South San José, they have layered on incentives to ameliorate concerns from residents living near the sites: the no encampment zones within a two-block radius, first preference for beds to people experiencing homelessness in the immediate area and a Community Advisory Committee to solicit feedback from nearby residents after the housing opens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issa Ajlouny leads the Community Advisory Committee for the recently opened Via del Oro interim housing complex. The site has been open for less than two months, but Ajlouny said he has already fielded complaints from neighbors about lingering encampments, fires and reported thefts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Issa Ajlouny, founder and president of SAFER San José (Safety Advocate For Empowering Residents), sits at his home in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I’m the mediator,” he said. “I’m trying to be the person that says, ‘Hey, neighborhood, we need to be good neighbors to [the unhoused] and try to help them, our tax dollars are going towards it, we might as well do that.’ But in turn, we needed to be treated as good neighbors … and that actually is not happening right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ajlouny wants to see tougher enforcement and larger no-encampment zones — and he supports the Responsibility to Shelter plan, which would be enforced primarily in neighborhoods like his, near interim housing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message from the city when Via del Oro was approved was “We’ll throw you a bone,” Ajlouny said. “And the bone hasn’t landed yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José is operating more than 1,200 temporary units with on-site services — including private rooms and prefabricated apartments in tiny home villages, converted motel rooms and parking spaces for RVs. More than 500 additional shelter spaces are expected to open later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">KQED analysis\u003c/a> found that neighborhood fears about the city’s first five interim housing sites never came to pass. But Mahan believes that the future of homeless housing in San José is predicated on residents like Ajlouny seeing meaningful improvements in their neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t do that if 10%, 20%, 30% of people are saying, ‘No thanks, I want to stay right here, continuing with my lifestyle in my tent,’” Mahan said. “It completely undermines the rationale for the work and the political support that the community is willing to give to these efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We haven’t necessarily solved the problem’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In early March, a parking lot for RV-dwellers opened on Berryessa Road in north San José, with on-site bathrooms and showers, along with case managers and hot meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opening was preceded by months of messaging, both to people staying in their vehicles nearby and people living in the neighborhood, that RVs would be cleared from the area once the safe parking lot launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember David Cohen said there were about 20 RVs on nearby streets when the site opened. A month later, about half remained. Now, the streets are clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042509\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line Vía Del Oro Drive in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People who moved in early went back, and spoke to some of the people they knew on the [streets] and said ‘Actually it’s a pretty nice place,’” Cohen said. “As we build more of these sites and people see how they work, I believe more and more people will be accepting of the service and fewer will be service-resistant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the story didn’t end with the cleared streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now we have another street a couple blocks away that has RVs on it that didn’t before,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen said he’ll wait for any amendments to the Responsibility to Shelter plan on Tuesday before making a final decision on his vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He agrees with the mayor that the city can’t wait until there is a bed available for every unhoused person in San José before clearing tents or lived-in vehicles — that there’s value in showing neighborhoods that new shelter sites will come with clean streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we have to understand that when we don’t have enough beds for everybody, we haven’t necessarily solved the problem,” he said. “We’ve just moved the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Several Stanford University students have been on a hunger strike for more than a week, pledging not to eat until the university agrees to divest from companies that they say are supporting Israel’s war in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to making Stanford’s investments public and divesting from companies that provide surveillance technology and weapons to Israel, the hunger strikers also called for the school to roll back strict protest regulations put in place last fall, to urge the Santa Clara County district attorney to drop charges against a dozen people linked to a protest on campus last June and to denounce the Trump administration’s targeting of pro-Palestinian student activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike took place in waves, with about a dozen protesters at a time refusing food for about a week in solidarity. Some participated for at least 10 days, Helal said. Others had to end their protest early due to severe health impacts, according to a health professional supporting the strikers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout, “the administration has refused to talk to us at all,” Helal said. “Their students are literally at their doorsteps, two minutes away from the president’s office, starving, suffering … It’s very shameful.”[aside postID=news_12040753 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05192025_STANFORDHUNGERSTRIKE_EG044-KQED-1020x680.jpg']In a statement last month, Stanford spokesperson Luisa Rapport said the university respects the rights of students to express their views in ways “within the limits of the university’s viewpoint-neutral time, place, and manner rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have urged them to consider forms of expression that do not jeopardize their health and well-being,” she said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The end of the strike reflects a year of growing hostility between pro-Palestinian protesters and administrators on Stanford’s campus, strikers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford was among more than 130 schools across the country whose students spent weeks \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984203/pro-palestinian-protests-sweep-california-college-campuses-amid-israel-hamas-war\">camped out on their campuses last spring\u003c/a>, bringing attention to U.S. support for Israel and pressuring their universities to pull financial investments from companies that supply weapons or surveillance technology to the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a group of protesters\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989050/pro-palestinian-stanford-protesters-detained-after-occupying-presidents-office\"> occupied the university president’s office\u003c/a> in June and refused to leave until they were arrested, administrators shut down Stanford’s encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twelve of the protesters face\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035346/santa-clara-da-charges-12-pro-palestinian-protesters-took-over-stanford-university-presidents-office\"> felony vandalism and trespassing charges\u003c/a>. (In March, the Santa Clara County district attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030271/stanford-journalist-can-finally-breathe-after-avoiding-charges-for-reporting-on-protest\">declined to charge a student journalist\u003c/a> who was also arrested while covering the demonstration.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042884\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG008_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG008_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG008_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG008_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Allen Cu, 21, a third-year student at Stanford University, stands for a portrait at White Memorial Plaza in Stanford, California, on Monday, May 19, 2025. Cu is one of the several Stanford University students participating in a hunger strike, pledging not to eat until the university agrees to divest from companies that they say are supporting Israel’s war in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just before the current academic year began, the university announced updated “freedom of expression” policies, including a new requirement that demonstrators remove face coverings when asked and a clarification of their camping policy, requiring that tents and structures be removed overnight regardless of whether people are present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had one major rally where we marched here from White Plaza around the main quad and back, and within five minutes, you saw administrators swarming, asking us to disperse, threatening to send the police to come and disperse us,” first-year Owen Martin told KQED in May. He said the relationship between the protesters and the school had changed since the previous spring, when he visited the encampment during a campus tour.[aside postID=news_12042393 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/BoulderColoradoAttackGetty-1020x680.jpg']Other students said they felt like the protests were held to a “double standard” by the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the fall, the university also declined to take action on students’ requests to make its investments public and divest from companies protesters have said were benefiting Israel’s war in Gaza, citing their interest that the school’s massive endowment remain unpolitical and confidential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just as the University does not take positions on partisan or political issues, the Trustees maintain a strong presumption against using the endowment as an instrument to advance any particular social or political agenda,” the Board of Trustees’ Special Committee on Investment Responsibility said in a statement in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helal said Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine plans to find new ways to put pressure on the administration next fall. 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"content": "\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan on Wednesday unveiled his final city budget plan, setting up a handful of contentious votes next week on city spending, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031266/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahans-aggressive-plan-to-tackle-homelessness\">homelessness \u003c/a>and council pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his June Budget Message, the mayor asked the council to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026437/san-jose-mayor-proposes-permanent-shift-homeless-funding-from-housing-shelter\">shift city funds\u003c/a> toward interim housing and shelter, in order to fill a $35.6 million budget shortfall in the fiscal year beginning July 1. The council will vote on that idea on Tuesday, along with a pair of ambitious Mahan proposals: one to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031813/san-jose-council-gives-initial-approval-mayors-controversial-homelessness-pay-plans\">potentially arrest\u003c/a> unhoused people who refuse multiple offers of shelter and another that would tie the pay of city leaders to a series of performance metrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This budget message is all about focusing on the basics and increasing accountability for results,” Mahan told KQED. “I think accountability for the leadership at city hall is important, I’m calling on the city and county to be accountable for expanding shelter … and I’m saying that individuals in our community should be held accountable for coming indoors when there’s an appropriate shelter or treatment placement that is repeatedly offered to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José’s budget is in relatively good shape compared to the large deficits faced by city leaders in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038739/oakland-budget-keeps-fire-stations-closed-police-cuts-in-place-despite-new-sales-tax\">Oakland\u003c/a>. As a result, Mahan wrote that the balancing plan “avoids virtually all layoffs,” and adds five new positions to the city workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget plan also sets aside $27 million in reserves, in anticipation of a larger $52.9 million deficit in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The balanced budget this year was largely achieved by using revenue raised from a tax on property sales of $2 million or more — approved by voters through Measure E in 2020 — to pay for the interim housing the city uses to shelter people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An interim housing site is built near an unhoused community along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By default, three-quarters of the money raised through Measure E goes to build new permanently affordable housing. Mahan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">successfully\u003c/a> pushed to shift more of that money toward temporary housing in his first two budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, he proposed to spend up to 90% of Measure E revenue on shelter — a nearly $40 million shift that will cover the ongoing costs of the city’s interim housing units and erase the deficit — and to make that change permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move has drawn criticism from affordable housing advocates and some council members who argue a permanent funding shift will make it harder for new affordable apartments to get off the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we create opportunities for folks to come indoors through shelter, we need a place for folks who have stability to then transition and move forward,” Councilmember Pamela Campos told KQED. She called for investments “both in creating shelter opportunities and creating the outflow of affordable housing that allows people to continue on their journey to improving their lives.”[aside postID=news_12031813 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240409-SJEncampmentBan-045-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Campos also said the city should be spending more on programs that prevent homelessness (which receive 10% of Measure E funds ), such as rental assistance. She said that revenue would be a targeted investment to reduce the “hidden homelessness” experienced by 2,200 students in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our prevention dollars are one of the most impactful ways that we can stop the inflow of individuals, families, young adults and seniors on a limited income who are becoming homeless,” Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council will also vote Tuesday on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029843/san-jose-mayor-pushes-to-arrest-unhoused-who-refuse-shelter\">Mahan’s plan\u003c/a> to arrest people experiencing homelessness who have turned down multiple offers of shelter. The mayor has said the plan would open pathways for unhoused people into court-ordered treatment and encourage people experiencing homelessness near shelters to come indoors. County leaders have come out against the idea, arguing it will lead to a revolving door of citations and releases given the local shortage of shelter, affordable housing and treatment beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan is also asking the council to withhold 5% of the mayor and council members’ salaries, to be paid or proportionally reduced based on whether the city meets a series of council-approved goals, such as reducing homelessness or crime. Mahan has billed the idea as building a greater level of accountability into city leadership, while some council members say it will restrict their flexibility and incentive to respond to emerging issues such as a wildfire or earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Measure E allocation and Mahan’s Responsibility to Shelter and Pay for Performance initiatives will each be voted on separately from the overall budget at Tuesday’s meeting. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Campos also said the city should be spending more on programs that prevent homelessness (which receive 10% of Measure E funds ), such as rental assistance. She said that revenue would be a targeted investment to reduce the “hidden homelessness” experienced by 2,200 students in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our prevention dollars are one of the most impactful ways that we can stop the inflow of individuals, families, young adults and seniors on a limited income who are becoming homeless,” Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council will also vote Tuesday on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029843/san-jose-mayor-pushes-to-arrest-unhoused-who-refuse-shelter\">Mahan’s plan\u003c/a> to arrest people experiencing homelessness who have turned down multiple offers of shelter. The mayor has said the plan would open pathways for unhoused people into court-ordered treatment and encourage people experiencing homelessness near shelters to come indoors. County leaders have come out against the idea, arguing it will lead to a revolving door of citations and releases given the local shortage of shelter, affordable housing and treatment beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan is also asking the council to withhold 5% of the mayor and council members’ salaries, to be paid or proportionally reduced based on whether the city meets a series of council-approved goals, such as reducing homelessness or crime. Mahan has billed the idea as building a greater level of accountability into city leadership, while some council members say it will restrict their flexibility and incentive to respond to emerging issues such as a wildfire or earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Measure E allocation and Mahan’s Responsibility to Shelter and Pay for Performance initiatives will each be voted on separately from the overall budget at Tuesday’s meeting. On Monday, the council will hold a hearing to solicit public comment on the city’s spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>One of the Bay Area’s leading proponents of oil refinery oversight is pushing back against the Trump administration’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014622/trump-tried-cut-agency-investigates-oil-gas-accidents-will-he-do-it-again\"> latest effort to scrap the federal agency\u003c/a> that investigates chemical disasters, including fires and explosions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mark-desaulnier\">Democratic Rep. Mark DeSaulnier\u003c/a>, whose Contra Costa County district includes three major refineries, said the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board — known as CSB — serves a critical role in protecting the public health and safety of communities that live and work near refineries and chemical plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent oversight board “has people who are dedicated to understanding these very complex facilities, and go in and provide the best information to make sure that they’re safe,” DeSaulnier told KQED. “This is a small but mighty agency that we have helped create in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under easily overlooked language in the partial budget proposal the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/30/trump-administration-budget-proposal/\">released Friday\u003c/a>, the agency would be shuttered by October 2026, as “part of the Administration’s plans to move the Nation towards fiscal responsibility and to redefine the proper role of the Federal Government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration, which has staunchly advocated for unfettered oil and gas production, has consistently sought to reduce or outright eliminate oversight of fossil fuel and chemical industries, arguing they can adequately police themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier, a former member of California’s Air Resources Board, said that notion flies in the face of basic human nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-CA, speaks during a House Rules Committee hearing on the impeachment against President Donald Trump on Dec. 17, 2019, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Patrick Semansky-Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you have a vested interest in [something], there’s a conflict of interest when it comes to the greater good,” he said. “We’ve had instances in the Bay Area where refineries were self-regulating, and we had explosions and people died, and the economy and the price of gasoline changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desaulnier noted that the board was targeted for elimination during the first Trump administration as well, but was saved after lawmakers on both sides of the aisle supported an amendment he authored to preserve its funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to Republican colleagues and to the industry, and we actually not only saved it, but we put more money back into it,” he said. “So I’m hopeful that will happen again.”[aside postID=news_12014622 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/TrumpOilGasRegulationsAP-1020x680.jpg']But in contrast with his first term, Trump is now attempting to establish greater control over independent agencies, a move the Supreme Court appears to at least partially accept. Last month, a divided Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/22/supreme-court-commissioners-independent-officials/\">declined to\u003c/a> immediately reinstate two independent regulators who were fired by the administration, arguing that doing so may be within the president’s authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier said he’s confident the agency can once again be rescued from Trump’s hatchet, and expects some of his Republican colleagues to again stand up for it. But he also acknowledged that it’s “a very, very strange time here in D.C. with this administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are doing damage to lots of institutions,” he said. “Everybody can always be looked at for greater efficiencies, and Republicans and Democrats should do this together, and I endeavor to do that. But just eliminating organizations without analyzing them is a horrible, horrible practice. And unfortunately, that’s the atmosphere right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Established by Congress in 1990, the board has no regulatory authority, and last year operated on only a modest budget of just over \u003ca href=\"https://www.csb.gov/assets/1/6/final_-_fy25_csb_congressional_budget_justification.pdf\">$14 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marathon Petroleum Corporation’s refinery in Martinez. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it has nonetheless played a key role in investigating the root causes of some of the nation’s most catastrophic chemical accidents, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/climate/deepwater-horizon-anniversary.html\">the Deepwater Horizon\u003c/a> offshore drilling explosion in 2010 and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csb.gov/bio-lab-inc-conyers-fire-and-chemical-release-/\">Bio-Lab explosion\u003c/a> in Georgia last year that forced thousands of residents to shelter in place for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the CSB investigated the explosion and fire at\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665999/chevron-richmond-move-to-settle-lawsuit-over-2012-refinery-fire-that-sickened-thousands\"> Chevron’s Richmond refinery in 2012\u003c/a> that sent 15,000 people to hospitals, most of them with respiratory problems. More recently, it investigated safety violations that resulted in a fire that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988025/marathons-martinez-refinery-hit-with-state-fines-over-fire-that-burned-worker\">injured a worker last year at Marathon Petroleum’s\u003c/a> Martinez Renewable Fuels refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board’s safety recommendations have also prompted new federal environmental and workforce safety regulations that have prevented countless disasters, DeSaulnier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the actual operators [of the facilities] understand that there’s value to having these people come in and make sure that they are not missing anything,” he said. “So just eliminating [the agency] will be detrimental to everyone, including the people who are in the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">\u003cem>Brian Krans\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than 1,000 labor and community organizers flooded the steps of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s City Hall on Wednesday to protest Mayor Daniel Lurie’s proposed budget, which city workers and activists have said insufficiently protects public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This proposed budget completely misses the mark,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, the executive director of the city’s Coalition on Homelessness. “It’s really a politics-first budget that really deprioritizes the poorest and most vulnerable San Franciscans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest was described as “the biggest budget rally in about 20 years in San Francisco history” by Anya Worley-Ziegmann of the People’s Budget Coalition, a collective of nonprofits and activists that organized the rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie proposed steep cuts to address the looming $782 million budget shortfall, as well as to bolster the city against the Trump administration’s threat to gut federal funding. That includes eliminating 1,400 city jobs — the vast majority of which currently sit vacant — and around $100 million in grants and other contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While dozens of union members with SEIU Local 1021 and IFPTE Local 21 received layoff notices, not all city departments will see job cuts. Advocates noted that the proposal maintained funding for the city’s police, sheriff, fire, district attorney, public defender and emergency management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042747\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An individual holds a sign reading “protect public services, no cuts no layoffs” at a rally in front of City Hall, where thousands of labor unions and community organizations are demanding an alternative to Mayor Lurie’s proposed budget cuts, on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Some departments are getting increases, those are the SFPD and the sheriff’s office,” Worley-Ziegmann said. “Daniel Lurie has marked them out as essential services, completely ignoring the fact that people need to eat, people need housing, they do not need mass arrests and jails.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy Sorros is a member of SEIU Local 1021 and has spent more than 19 years working for the city. But she was among those who received a layoff notice as a result of Lurie’s budget proposal, just weeks after she celebrated 20 years of the CityBuild program with the mayor and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the mayor: please, you celebrated us, please continue celebrating us by not cutting our program,” Sorros said. “In fact, we could probably use a little boost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other organizers say the cuts could have “devastating” impacts on programs that address food and housing security, such as\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026600/sfs-black-social-equity-program-mired-in-scandal-being-revived-rebranded\"> All My Usos\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that provides community resources to San Francisco’s Pacific Islander community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Program coordinator Jessica Ponce sits in the office of All My Usos in San Francisco on Feb. 14, 2025. Ponce keeps stuffed animals in her office to help create a welcoming space, especially for the children in the community. All My Usos supports marginalized communities, especially Pacific Islander families in the Bay Area, through programs that build relationships and foster leadership. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You’re cutting the lifeline of many community members,” said Jessica Ponce, a program coordinator with All My Usos. “With these budget cuts, you’re cutting essential services and direct services, especially to families, and limiting their access to a better life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Lurie’s proposed budget includes an additional $2.2 million to the Citywide Food Access Team, organizers say cuts elsewhere will trickle down and impact community-based organizations that partner with the city.[aside postID=news_12042515 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']The budget also proposes a restructuring of funding from Proposition C, a ballot measure that voters passed in 2018 to fund housing and homelessness services. The existing language specifies which funding can be used where, leaving millions of dollars unspent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s proposal would reallocate that unused funding to plug holes elsewhere in the budget, sparking fierce opposition from homelessness advocacy groups for prioritizing adult shelter beds over housing for children and families. Friedenbach described the move as a way to create a “big slush fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the most part, it would be moving [the money] from kids to grown-ups and from housing to shelter. That is something that we are vehemently opposed to,” she said. “We specifically structured Prop. C because we wanted to see efficient use of resources and that’s what the voters supported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s office, however, describes the reallocation as a way to unlock funding that may otherwise never be used to address homelessness in the city. In his proposal, that amounts to $90 million over the next three years from the proposition’s revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042748\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bianca Polovina, President of IFPTE Local 21, speaks to thousands of labor, community and human rights advocates rallying in front of City Hall, demanding an alternative to Mayor Lurie’s proposed budget cuts, on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rally organizers also pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">an ongoing lawsuit filed by Airbnb\u003c/a> against the city: the company is seeking $120 million from San Francisco, claiming they were forced to overpay taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California democrats have called on Lurie to take a stand against Airbnb and other companies seeking to claw back money on business taxes, Lurie has instead tried to play ball with big business, to lure their tax base back to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This hasn’t sat well with organizers, who accused Lurie’s proposal of capitulating to “the billionaires and well-connected corporations refusing to pay their fair taxes and suing the City for half of its projected deficit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of protesters filled a budget hearing later in the afternoon with chants and public comments opposing the cuts. The Board of Supervisors has until the end of the month to approve the budget and can request amendments in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The budget also proposes a restructuring of funding from Proposition C, a ballot measure that voters passed in 2018 to fund housing and homelessness services. The existing language specifies which funding can be used where, leaving millions of dollars unspent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s proposal would reallocate that unused funding to plug holes elsewhere in the budget, sparking fierce opposition from homelessness advocacy groups for prioritizing adult shelter beds over housing for children and families. Friedenbach described the move as a way to create a “big slush fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the most part, it would be moving [the money] from kids to grown-ups and from housing to shelter. That is something that we are vehemently opposed to,” she said. “We specifically structured Prop. C because we wanted to see efficient use of resources and that’s what the voters supported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s office, however, describes the reallocation as a way to unlock funding that may otherwise never be used to address homelessness in the city. In his proposal, that amounts to $90 million over the next three years from the proposition’s revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042748\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bianca Polovina, President of IFPTE Local 21, speaks to thousands of labor, community and human rights advocates rallying in front of City Hall, demanding an alternative to Mayor Lurie’s proposed budget cuts, on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rally organizers also pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">an ongoing lawsuit filed by Airbnb\u003c/a> against the city: the company is seeking $120 million from San Francisco, claiming they were forced to overpay taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California democrats have called on Lurie to take a stand against Airbnb and other companies seeking to claw back money on business taxes, Lurie has instead tried to play ball with big business, to lure their tax base back to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This hasn’t sat well with organizers, who accused Lurie’s proposal of capitulating to “the billionaires and well-connected corporations refusing to pay their fair taxes and suing the City for half of its projected deficit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of protesters filled a budget hearing later in the afternoon with chants and public comments opposing the cuts. The Board of Supervisors has until the end of the month to approve the budget and can request amendments in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-high-speed-rail\">high-speed rail project\u003c/a> is a “story of broken promises,” a “waste of Federal taxpayer dollars” and a “Sisyphean endeavor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or so the Trump administration’s Transportation Department said, which on Wednesday announced it was pulling $4 billion in federal funding from the woefully protracted, over-budget project that the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10400360/brown-history-will-affirm-wisdom-of-building-bullet-train\">first broke ground on\u003c/a> more than a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What started as a proposed 800-mile system was first reduced to 500 miles, then became a 171-mile segment, and is now very likely ended as a 119-mile track to nowhere,” Drew Feeley, acting administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, wrote in his scathing \u003ca href=\"https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2025-06/FRA%20Letter%20%20Enclosure%20to%20Mr.%20Ian%20Choudri%206.4.25.pdf\">report\u003c/a> to the state’s high-speed rail authority. “In essence, [the project] has conned the taxpayer out of its $4 billion investment, with no viable plan to deliver even that partial segment on time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clawback of high-speed rail funding, originally granted by the Biden administration, should come as little surprise to state officials. Republicans have excoriated the massive infrastructure project almost since its inception in 1996, casting it as the epitome of government waste and inefficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After unsuccessfully attempting to cut its funding during his first term, President Trump in February vowed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/high-speed-rail-trump-20148959.php\">personally investigate the project\u003c/a>, directing transportation officials to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028135/the-future-for-california-high-speed-rail-just-got-even-more-uncertain\">conduct a compliance review\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As expected, the subsequent report didn’t pull any punches, concluding that the California High-Speed Rail Authority has failed to comply with the terms of the federal grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034292\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/AP25092726973833-scaled-e1745005220186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington. \u003ccite>(Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There is no viable path,” it asserted, for the state to complete the first 171-mile segment of the project, between Merced and Bakersfield, by the 2033 deadline — let alone to ever realize its original goal of an 800-mile system transporting riders from San Francisco to Los Angeles and San Diego at speeds of up to 220 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This 2025 compliance review demonstrates that CHSRA has not learned from its mistakes and mismanagement and has therefore failed to create an organization capable of effectively and efficiently managing project delivery,” the report stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Wednesday said he supports the concept of high-speed rail, but stressed that the administration doesn’t want to “invest in boondoggles.”[aside postID=news_12028135 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/2024_01-Fresno-1020x680.jpg']“I want to see high-speed rail in America,” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/atrupar/status/1930270198675689949\">he told Fox News\u003c/a>. “Why it can’t be built in America and why it can’t be built within time frames that work for the people that invest in these projects makes no sense to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the administration can terminate the funding, California has 30 days to take any corrective action and make the case that it has complied with the terms of the grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHSRA on Wednesday said the report’s conclusions were “misguided and do not reflect the substantial progress made to deliver high-speed rail in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We remain firmly committed to completing the nation’s first true high-speed rail system connecting the major population centers in the state,” CHSRA spokesperson Daniela Contreras said in a statement to KQED. She noted that while ongoing federal support is important, the majority of the project’s funding has come from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To that end, the Governor’s budget proposal, which is currently before the Legislature, extends at least $1 billion per year in funding for the next 20 years, providing the necessary resources to complete the project’s initial operating segment,” Contreras said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When California voters \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/who-said-building-a-railroad-was-easy-1/\">approved a $10 billion high-speed rail bond measure\u003c/a> in 2008, the project’s promoters suggested the entire system could be completed in just over a decade, for under $40 billion. But those timelines have been repeatedly extended, and costs have skyrocketed — with CHSRA’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsr.ca.gov/about/high-speed-rail-business-plans/2024-business-plan/chapter-3/\">estimates\u003c/a> now ranging from $89 billion to $128 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom stands in front of a state flag during a press conference about President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at an almond farm in Ceres, California. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Democrats have continued to fund the project in previous budgets, and are expected to do so again this year, even as the state now faces a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040637/newsoms-plan-to-balance-budget-could-face-tough-going-in-sacramento\">$12 billion shortfall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor, who is already challenging multiple other threats by the administration to withhold health care and education funding from the state, has also vowed to fight any effort to revoke rail funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if the $4 billion in federal funding is preserved, the state would still need to come up with as much as $6.5 billion more to finish the Central Valley segment, prompting the inspector general for CHSRA to \u003ca href=\"https://hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Funding-Review-24-R-01-A11Y.pdf\">recently cast doubt\u003c/a> on whether the agency can line up all the necessary funding to meet its 2033 service launch date.[aside postID=news_12041824 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/006_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020_qed-1020x680.jpg']State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, a staunch advocate for the bullet train, conceded that the state “struggles with project delivery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be very clear that we have work to do in California to turn this project around, and we do have self-inflicted wounds,” he said, noting that sluggish, prohibitively costly transit development is a national problem, not just one in California. “It takes too long. It’s too expensive. The permitting is too difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said the state is working to streamline those permitting and development processes, and has recently hired new leaders to steer the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We absolutely need to do better,” he said. “But that doesn’t mean we should give up on projects that will make people’s lives better and more affordable. And that’s what the high-speed rail will do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A statewide rail network would transform California’s economy, connect its many disparate regions, and dramatically reduce traffic congestion and carbon emissions, Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump and his minions are hostile to rail, and to public transportation,” he said. “They want to get everyone in a car and maximize traffic congestion. And it’s really tragic that he’s politicizing this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/danbrekke\">\u003cem>Dan Brekke\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I want to see high-speed rail in America,” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/atrupar/status/1930270198675689949\">he told Fox News\u003c/a>. “Why it can’t be built in America and why it can’t be built within time frames that work for the people that invest in these projects makes no sense to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the administration can terminate the funding, California has 30 days to take any corrective action and make the case that it has complied with the terms of the grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHSRA on Wednesday said the report’s conclusions were “misguided and do not reflect the substantial progress made to deliver high-speed rail in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We remain firmly committed to completing the nation’s first true high-speed rail system connecting the major population centers in the state,” CHSRA spokesperson Daniela Contreras said in a statement to KQED. She noted that while ongoing federal support is important, the majority of the project’s funding has come from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To that end, the Governor’s budget proposal, which is currently before the Legislature, extends at least $1 billion per year in funding for the next 20 years, providing the necessary resources to complete the project’s initial operating segment,” Contreras said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When California voters \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/who-said-building-a-railroad-was-easy-1/\">approved a $10 billion high-speed rail bond measure\u003c/a> in 2008, the project’s promoters suggested the entire system could be completed in just over a decade, for under $40 billion. But those timelines have been repeatedly extended, and costs have skyrocketed — with CHSRA’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsr.ca.gov/about/high-speed-rail-business-plans/2024-business-plan/chapter-3/\">estimates\u003c/a> now ranging from $89 billion to $128 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom stands in front of a state flag during a press conference about President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at an almond farm in Ceres, California. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Democrats have continued to fund the project in previous budgets, and are expected to do so again this year, even as the state now faces a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040637/newsoms-plan-to-balance-budget-could-face-tough-going-in-sacramento\">$12 billion shortfall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor, who is already challenging multiple other threats by the administration to withhold health care and education funding from the state, has also vowed to fight any effort to revoke rail funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if the $4 billion in federal funding is preserved, the state would still need to come up with as much as $6.5 billion more to finish the Central Valley segment, prompting the inspector general for CHSRA to \u003ca href=\"https://hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Funding-Review-24-R-01-A11Y.pdf\">recently cast doubt\u003c/a> on whether the agency can line up all the necessary funding to meet its 2033 service launch date.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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