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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-permit-homelessness-impacts/\">\u003cem>published\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> by El Tecolote.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/rvs\">San Francisco’s RV permit\u003c/a> promised stability. For Miguel Mercado, it delivered the opposite. Last week, after the RV was turned over to the city, Mercado started sleeping on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For almost three years, the 58-year-old Nicaraguan immigrant had lived inside a friend’s RV without paying rent. In exchange, he helped with repairs, kept it clean and pushed it down the block at midnight each Sunday to avoid street-sweeping tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fragile arrangement has now unraveled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/rv-permit-large-vehicles-san-francisco/\">imposed\u003c/a> a two-hour parking limit citywide for oversized vehicles in an effort to reduce the number of RVs used as shelters. Residents who could prove they had been living in the city in May 2025 were granted temporary exemptions through the Large Vehicle Refuge Permit Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077851\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077851 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_5.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Mercado hangs the keys to his home on a key holder inside his RV in the Mission District on Feb. 12, 2026. He has lived here for two years, but now faces eviction after his housemate enrolled their RV in the city’s vehicle buyback program, meaning it will be sold and destroyed. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/strategy-to-address-vehicular-homelessness-and-restore-public-spaces\">City officials said\u003c/a> the program would stabilize vehicle residents while restoring public space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie claims it is producing results. 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He moved into the RV after finding no other refuge as an immigrant with an asylum case. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Months into enforcement, residents say that while the program offers relief to some, it is pushing others into deeper instability through denials, displacement and mounting fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Collateral displacement\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Without the RV, Mercado said, he has nowhere left to sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The RV’s owner, who lives in the vehicle with him, qualified for housing through the LVRP permit and opted into the city’s large vehicle buyback program. Mercado said outreach workers communicated only with the registered owner during the permit rollout, and they never contacted him or offered him housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result: his friend got a studio apartment with his wife. Mercado got the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077853\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_13.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_13-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Mercado packs his belongings before city staff arrives to tow his RV on March 9, 2026. Not knowing where he will sleep next, he gets rid of most of his things, even giving his bed to a neighbor who sleeps in a van. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what I can do. That’s the concern of the immigrant,” Mercado said. “I’ll figure it out. I do wish him the best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The permit system is largely tied to vehicle registration, meaning assistance often goes to the person who appears on the title, not necessarily the person sleeping inside the RV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Applicants were required to provide documents such as vehicle registration in their name, insurance, towing records and vehicle purchase, requirements that can exclude secondary occupants like Mercado.[aside postID=news_12043940 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-22-KQED.jpg']A city official, speaking on background, said permits are intended for the people living in the RV but acknowledged that assistance depends on outreach teams knowing those occupants exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re not known to city outreach teams… that is going to have an effect on them,” the official said. Mercado’s case illustrates this program gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official added that the purpose of the buyback program is to buy RVs that people are living in, “not to buy back RVs from owners who are not living in them.” But without a system to track who actually sleeps inside, that distinction can be lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Emergency Management did not provide data on how many people may be living in vehicles they do not own, nor did they clarify what options exist for secondary occupants once a registered owner exits the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Mercado, the consequence is immediate: he has no roof over his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the RV, he said, memories of his early days in the U.S. resurface: standing in the rain with only his passport after his belongings were confiscated at the border and sleeping on the streets after exiting the immigration detention center, while battling pneumonia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077854\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_12.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Mercado helps his housemate, Armando, clear out the RV they shared for years on March 9, 2026. Armando qualified for housing through the city’s LVRP program. Mercado did not. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, as the program has ended for him, he fears reliving it all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They make it difficult, even when one wants to better oneself and not be a burden,” Mercado said. “The immigrant doesn’t want to be a burden. But they become a burden. Why?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, he sleeps in a broken-down car borrowed from a friend in El Sobrante — in another city and county, another life he didn’t choose.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A promise of housing, a return to temporary shelter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Katia S., who recently gave birth to her first child, believed the permit program would provide her family with a lasting housing opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After repeatedly being \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-permit-denied/\">denied\u003c/a> a Large Vehicle Refuge Permit despite submitting documentation, she and her husband were later placed in a hotel for 90 days in December, after\u003cem> El Tecolote\u003c/em>’s reporting on allegations that a Homeless Outreach Team worker sold \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/rv-permit-cash-scam/\">permits for cash\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077856\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077856\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/2025-2026-RVMIGUELMERCADO-ET-PU-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/2025-2026-RVMIGUELMERCADO-ET-PU-01.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/2025-2026-RVMIGUELMERCADO-ET-PU-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/2025-2026-RVMIGUELMERCADO-ET-PU-01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Mercado, 58, holds his Nicaraguan passport, one of the few things that he carried throughout his migration journey, in San Francisco, Calif., on Dec. 8, 2025. Mercado, who has lived in a friend’s RV, will once again be out on the street with very few resources available to him. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Katia said an outreach worker named Alejandra made her a clear promise: stay at the hotel, and then you will qualify for an apartment. “When two or three months pass, we’re going to place you in a permanent place,” she recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katia said she was also told that giving up the RV would help her qualify for permanent housing through the LVRP program and its buyback option. Instead, the same day they moved into the hotel — Dec. 19 — the vehicle was towed. The family has since been unable to locate it and retrieve all their personal belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days later, on Dec. 23, Katia gave birth to her son via emergency C-section. “The baby was tangled in the cord,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1973px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077858\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/112025-UNPERMITTEDRVS-ET-PU-14-BW-scaled-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1973\" height=\"1316\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/112025-UNPERMITTEDRVS-ET-PU-14-BW-scaled-1.jpeg 1973w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/112025-UNPERMITTEDRVS-ET-PU-14-BW-scaled-1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/112025-UNPERMITTEDRVS-ET-PU-14-BW-scaled-1-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1973px) 100vw, 1973px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathia Z., 30, who was eight months pregnant, holds Yerservi M.’s hand on her belly outside their RV in San Francisco’s Bayview–Hunters Point neighborhood on Nov. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 19, Katia, her husband and their newborn were moved into another shelter run by Compass, where they could remain for another 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Katia recently asked her social worker about transitioning to permanent housing, the answer was bleak. She was told that permanent placements are now largely reserved for people with disabilities, serious illnesses, or addictions. For her family, a permanent home was “very unlikely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contrast with other RV families is stark. Katia said she knows of another family who, through the program, had their RV paid off and were placed in a home for two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why not us?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer, she was told, lies in the scam she never asked to be part of. When Katia pressed for more help from the city, her outreach worker told her they no longer qualified for certain programs because they had obtained an “illegal sticker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1987px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077879\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/121725-UNPERMITTEDRVS-ET-PU-12-BW-1-scaled-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1987\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/121725-UNPERMITTEDRVS-ET-PU-12-BW-1-scaled-1.jpeg 1987w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/121725-UNPERMITTEDRVS-ET-PU-12-BW-1-scaled-1-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/121725-UNPERMITTEDRVS-ET-PU-12-BW-1-scaled-1-1536x1022.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1987px) 100vw, 1987px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa Millsaps, an investigator with the City Attorney’s Office, and Eric Karsseboom, an inspector with the District Attorney’s Office, speak with Yerservi M. about a Homeless Outreach Team worker accused of illegally selling him a Large Vehicle Refuge Permit in San Francisco on Dec. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And the scams continue. The Coalition on Homelessness said it recently received another call from an RV resident, reporting that a permit was offered to him for cash. While the Homeless Outreach Team worker was fired, it appears concerns about fraud persist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing acknowledged the allegation against the HOT outreach worker and said it is “committed to maintaining the utmost integrity” of the permitting process. However, the department did not respond to questions about the most recent scam report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Katia’s family, reporting the fraud changed nothing. They remain in limbo, caught in the fallout of the alleged scam, still waiting for the stability that they were promised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked to at least return the RV, or help me find something stable,” Katia said to her outreach worker. “I’m thinking, ‘do we have to leave San Francisco?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family’s case highlights one of the key tensions in the rollout: while the permit program is designed to transition residents out of vehicular homelessness, some families say they have instead cycled through temporary placements without securing long-term stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077883 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_1.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Mercado walks out of the United States Appraisers Building at 630 Sansome Street, after his annual immigration check-in on Jan. 27, 2026. Fearful that he was going to be detained, Mercado becomes emotional and wipes away his tears after walking out of his appointment. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City officials stress that the permit program is not the only gateway to assistance. “The permit is not a prerequisite to receive services,” said Jackie Thornhill, communications manager for the Department of Emergency Management. Anyone experiencing homelessness is “still eligible to engage with city outreach workers,” receive problem-solving assistance, and potentially shelter or housing placement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as \u003cem>El Tecolote’s\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-housing-homeless-families/\">reporting\u003c/a> has documented, eligibility is far from a guarantee. According to city data, from July 2024 to May 2025, 1,826 families were assessed for rental support. Only 30 — less than 1.6% — were placed into housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Katia’s family, that math means the promise of stability remains just out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mounting fines and towing push residents to the brink\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For residents who remain outside the permit system, the two-hour rule has translated into mounting fines and repeated towing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Kauffman, 70, vividly remembers a parking control officer telling him, “We’re going to come get you tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077862\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1317\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-03.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-03-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-03-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Kauffman, 70, keeps his belongings in his van where he sleeps, in San Francisco, Calif., on Jan. 21, 2026. Kauffman has been towed three times since the city’s Large Vehicle Refuge Permit Program, and has been navigating new parking restrictions that aim to eliminate RVs in the city. Since his RV is inoperable, he’s had to pay $700 to tow it out of the city’s tow-yard and pay $107 in San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority fees. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The next day, his RV was towed, requiring two trucks to haul it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kauffman has three vehicles: two RVs and a shuttle bus. All have mechanical issues except the bus, but all are registered under his name and paid off, he said. Thieves have repeatedly tried breaking into the vehicles, damaging ignition systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since enforcement began, Kauffman said he spent roughly $4,000 on impound and towing fees. Even with a low-income waiver, he pays just over $100 per impound, plus approximately $700 to transport the vehicle back to its parking spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citywide, the two-hour ordinance has generated 599 citations at $108 each, which is worth $64,692, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/large--vehicle--program--outcomes\">public dashboard.\u003c/a> But that figure captures only one slice of enforcement.[aside postID=news_12062202 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RV1-scaled.jpg']From November to Feb. 12, San Francisco towed 194 RVs for expired registration and violation of the 72-hour rule. Nearly 40% of all tows were for registration issues alone, paving another way for the city to clear RVs from its streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kauffman said he was only able to secure one permit sticker. Because the city issues one permit per vehicle and does not allow multiple permits for one person, his friend, an 80-year-old mechanic with memory issues, was displaced from one of the unpermitted RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s sleeping in his car now,” Kauffman said. “He’s old — very old.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, DEM’s Jackie Thornhill said, ”One individual cannot occupy multiple vehicles, and therefore should not be issued multiple permits.” Thornhill did not comment on how the city addresses situations where vehicles are used as shared shelter among friends or relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the 70-year-old has adapted to enforcement by changing his strategy on where he parks his other RV. In early February, someone smashed the windows and ransacked the RV. He then had it towed across the city line to Daly City, hoping to avoid more problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He implores the city to reform the LVRP rules so more people can be met where they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How has anything changed since that program? We’re just paying the costs,” Kauffman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kauffman is not the only one. The Coalition on Homelessness often hears from people getting towed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Friedenbach, the coalition’s director, described one recent case: an in-home care worker who was at his job — caring for someone else’s home — when his own home was towed away. His dog was inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077868\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-01.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-01-1536x1029.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Kauffman, 70, who’s been towed three times since the city’s Large Vehicle Refuge Permit Program, rests inside his van where he sleeps in San Francisco, Calif., on Jan. 20, 2026. Kauffman has been navigating new parking restrictions that aim to eliminate RVs in the city. Since his RV is inoperable, he’s had to pay $700 to tow it out of the city’s tow-yard and pay $107 in San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority fees. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The dog didn’t get hurt, but that’s very dangerous because all the stuff falls down,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, who had $60 to his name, needed $107 to get his RV back. He asked the Coalition about shelter options, but with shelter waitlists stretching months long, there was nothing they could offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>José Arámbula, 48, experienced a similar loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 18, the trailer he had been sleeping in was towed in the Mission District. He had been visiting a friend nearby when neighbors called to warn him that a tow truck had arrived. Arámbula said he rushed over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got there, it was gone,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/EBC_9799.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/EBC_9799.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/EBC_9799-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/EBC_9799-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">José Arámbula smiles at his pitbull, Kira, who sleeps in the car with him on March 6, 2026. Days earlier, the RV he had been living in was towed from the Mission District with Kira still inside. He retrieved his dog, but lost his IDs, clothes and everything he owned. \u003ccite>(Erika Carlos/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His beloved pitbull, Kira, had been inside the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time they take one, they take everything,” Arámbula said. “They give you a phone number to recover your things, but nobody ever answers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said losing documents during previous tows has made it difficult to replace his identification or recover his belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My IDs were in there. My clothes. Everything,” he said. “You lose it all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arámbula said he was able to retrieve Kira, but not his belongings. He now has only the clothes he was wearing and is sleeping in his small car with his dog. He said he plans to sell the vehicle in hopes of saving enough money to buy another RV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They promise help when everything is happening,” he said. “But once things calm down, they forget about the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/EBC_9825.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/EBC_9825.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/EBC_9825-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/EBC_9825-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">José Arámbula drives through the Mission District looking for a place to safely park and sleep for the night on March 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Erika Carlos/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach also noted that despite the program budgeting funds for parking signage, many warning signs have yet to appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/o0122-25.pdf\">ordinance\u003c/a> states the city intended to install 400 signs warning drivers of the new enforcement zones. But parking control officers no longer chalk tires to warn residents of time limits, she said, meaning many people don’t know they’re at risk of being towed until it’s too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This idea that they needed to hammer people and scare them in order to push them into housing is silly,” she said. “There’s nothing positive about the rest of the program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Gap to widen as permits begin to expire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>LVRP permits are set to expire by April, but could be extended for up to six additional months for eligible residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is currently making arrangements for extensions for those vehicles and will work directly with permitted occupants on the process,” wrote DEM’s Jackie Thornhill in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say that’s not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_3.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Mercado charges his LED lamp inside his RV in the Mission District on Feb. 12, 2026. The solar system in the RV barely holds enough power to get through the night, just enough for his phone and lights. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Coalition on Homelessness is calling on the city to follow the Large Vehicle legislation’s requirement for “automatic renewal” without a new application process — and to keep renewing permits every six months until residents secure housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also want the city to reopen the permit process for people who were left out and people who have become homeless after the qualifying date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our affordability crisis is going nowhere,” Friedenbach said. “We’re going to continue having folks who rely on RVs to shelter themselves. The city needs to plan for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Latino residents, she said, additional barriers compounded the problem: few Spanish-speaking outreach workers, schedules that conflicted with work, and heightened fear of Immigration Customs Enforcement after recent federal raids. “Folks are nervous about answering their doors,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077876\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1317\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-14.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-14-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-14-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Kauffman, 70, inspects his RV on the side of the road after retrieving it from the City & County of San Francisco Impound in Daly City, Calif., on Jan. 21, 2026. Kauffman has been towed three times since the city’s Large Vehicle Refuge Permit Program, and has been navigating new parking restrictions that aim to eliminate RVs in the city. Since his RV is inoperable, he’s had to pay $700 to tow it out of the city’s tow-yard and pay $107 in San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority fees. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As permits begin to expire this spring, the uneven outcomes of the rollout are likely to become more visible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Mercado, the stakes could not be higher. His asylum case hangs in the balance. He is required to check in with ICE in June, but with no stable place to live and no money for a lawyer, he doesn’t know how he will manage it. One misstep could mean deportation to a country he fled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no one who advocates for the immigrants who are on the streets, who are surviving — not at the government’s expense,” he said. “But through their own survival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Erika Carlos 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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fragile arrangement has now unraveled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/rv-permit-large-vehicles-san-francisco/\">imposed\u003c/a> a two-hour parking limit citywide for oversized vehicles in an effort to reduce the number of RVs used as shelters. Residents who could prove they had been living in the city in May 2025 were granted temporary exemptions through the Large Vehicle Refuge Permit Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077851\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077851 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_5.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Mercado hangs the keys to his home on a key holder inside his RV in the Mission District on Feb. 12, 2026. He has lived here for two years, but now faces eviction after his housemate enrolled their RV in the city’s vehicle buyback program, meaning it will be sold and destroyed. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/strategy-to-address-vehicular-homelessness-and-restore-public-spaces\">City officials said\u003c/a> the program would stabilize vehicle residents while restoring public space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie claims it is producing results. He recently \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/post/san-franciscos-quarterly-homelessness-data-shows-record-lows-3rd-time-daniel-lurie-took-office/18675815/\">announced\u003c/a> that the number of RVs in San Francisco has dropped about 20% since December, falling from 462 vehicles to 374 in February, while 67 vehicle households have moved from RVs into housing or shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But early results show a stark imbalance: since enforcement began in November 2025, the city has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/large--vehicle--program--outcomes\">towed 159 RVs\u003c/a> under the ordinance and another 194 for other reasons — more than five times the number of households placed into housing through the permit program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077852\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_15.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_15-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Mercado poses for a portrait in front of the RV he called home for nearly three years, moments before city staff arrived to tow and destroy it on March 9, 2026. He moved into the RV after finding no other refuge as an immigrant with an asylum case. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Months into enforcement, residents say that while the program offers relief to some, it is pushing others into deeper instability through denials, displacement and mounting fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Collateral displacement\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Without the RV, Mercado said, he has nowhere left to sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The RV’s owner, who lives in the vehicle with him, qualified for housing through the LVRP permit and opted into the city’s large vehicle buyback program. Mercado said outreach workers communicated only with the registered owner during the permit rollout, and they never contacted him or offered him housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result: his friend got a studio apartment with his wife. Mercado got the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077853\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_13.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_13-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Mercado packs his belongings before city staff arrives to tow his RV on March 9, 2026. Not knowing where he will sleep next, he gets rid of most of his things, even giving his bed to a neighbor who sleeps in a van. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what I can do. That’s the concern of the immigrant,” Mercado said. “I’ll figure it out. I do wish him the best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The permit system is largely tied to vehicle registration, meaning assistance often goes to the person who appears on the title, not necessarily the person sleeping inside the RV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Applicants were required to provide documents such as vehicle registration in their name, insurance, towing records and vehicle purchase, requirements that can exclude secondary occupants like Mercado.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A city official, speaking on background, said permits are intended for the people living in the RV but acknowledged that assistance depends on outreach teams knowing those occupants exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re not known to city outreach teams… that is going to have an effect on them,” the official said. Mercado’s case illustrates this program gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official added that the purpose of the buyback program is to buy RVs that people are living in, “not to buy back RVs from owners who are not living in them.” But without a system to track who actually sleeps inside, that distinction can be lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Emergency Management did not provide data on how many people may be living in vehicles they do not own, nor did they clarify what options exist for secondary occupants once a registered owner exits the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Mercado, the consequence is immediate: he has no roof over his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the RV, he said, memories of his early days in the U.S. resurface: standing in the rain with only his passport after his belongings were confiscated at the border and sleeping on the streets after exiting the immigration detention center, while battling pneumonia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077854\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_12.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Mercado helps his housemate, Armando, clear out the RV they shared for years on March 9, 2026. Armando qualified for housing through the city’s LVRP program. Mercado did not. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, as the program has ended for him, he fears reliving it all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They make it difficult, even when one wants to better oneself and not be a burden,” Mercado said. “The immigrant doesn’t want to be a burden. But they become a burden. Why?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, he sleeps in a broken-down car borrowed from a friend in El Sobrante — in another city and county, another life he didn’t choose.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A promise of housing, a return to temporary shelter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Katia S., who recently gave birth to her first child, believed the permit program would provide her family with a lasting housing opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After repeatedly being \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-permit-denied/\">denied\u003c/a> a Large Vehicle Refuge Permit despite submitting documentation, she and her husband were later placed in a hotel for 90 days in December, after\u003cem> El Tecolote\u003c/em>’s reporting on allegations that a Homeless Outreach Team worker sold \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/rv-permit-cash-scam/\">permits for cash\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077856\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077856\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/2025-2026-RVMIGUELMERCADO-ET-PU-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/2025-2026-RVMIGUELMERCADO-ET-PU-01.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/2025-2026-RVMIGUELMERCADO-ET-PU-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/2025-2026-RVMIGUELMERCADO-ET-PU-01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Mercado, 58, holds his Nicaraguan passport, one of the few things that he carried throughout his migration journey, in San Francisco, Calif., on Dec. 8, 2025. Mercado, who has lived in a friend’s RV, will once again be out on the street with very few resources available to him. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Katia said an outreach worker named Alejandra made her a clear promise: stay at the hotel, and then you will qualify for an apartment. “When two or three months pass, we’re going to place you in a permanent place,” she recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katia said she was also told that giving up the RV would help her qualify for permanent housing through the LVRP program and its buyback option. Instead, the same day they moved into the hotel — Dec. 19 — the vehicle was towed. The family has since been unable to locate it and retrieve all their personal belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days later, on Dec. 23, Katia gave birth to her son via emergency C-section. “The baby was tangled in the cord,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1973px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077858\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/112025-UNPERMITTEDRVS-ET-PU-14-BW-scaled-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1973\" height=\"1316\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/112025-UNPERMITTEDRVS-ET-PU-14-BW-scaled-1.jpeg 1973w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/112025-UNPERMITTEDRVS-ET-PU-14-BW-scaled-1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/112025-UNPERMITTEDRVS-ET-PU-14-BW-scaled-1-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1973px) 100vw, 1973px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathia Z., 30, who was eight months pregnant, holds Yerservi M.’s hand on her belly outside their RV in San Francisco’s Bayview–Hunters Point neighborhood on Nov. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 19, Katia, her husband and their newborn were moved into another shelter run by Compass, where they could remain for another 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Katia recently asked her social worker about transitioning to permanent housing, the answer was bleak. She was told that permanent placements are now largely reserved for people with disabilities, serious illnesses, or addictions. For her family, a permanent home was “very unlikely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contrast with other RV families is stark. Katia said she knows of another family who, through the program, had their RV paid off and were placed in a home for two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why not us?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer, she was told, lies in the scam she never asked to be part of. When Katia pressed for more help from the city, her outreach worker told her they no longer qualified for certain programs because they had obtained an “illegal sticker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1987px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077879\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/121725-UNPERMITTEDRVS-ET-PU-12-BW-1-scaled-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1987\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/121725-UNPERMITTEDRVS-ET-PU-12-BW-1-scaled-1.jpeg 1987w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/121725-UNPERMITTEDRVS-ET-PU-12-BW-1-scaled-1-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/121725-UNPERMITTEDRVS-ET-PU-12-BW-1-scaled-1-1536x1022.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1987px) 100vw, 1987px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa Millsaps, an investigator with the City Attorney’s Office, and Eric Karsseboom, an inspector with the District Attorney’s Office, speak with Yerservi M. about a Homeless Outreach Team worker accused of illegally selling him a Large Vehicle Refuge Permit in San Francisco on Dec. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And the scams continue. The Coalition on Homelessness said it recently received another call from an RV resident, reporting that a permit was offered to him for cash. While the Homeless Outreach Team worker was fired, it appears concerns about fraud persist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing acknowledged the allegation against the HOT outreach worker and said it is “committed to maintaining the utmost integrity” of the permitting process. However, the department did not respond to questions about the most recent scam report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Katia’s family, reporting the fraud changed nothing. They remain in limbo, caught in the fallout of the alleged scam, still waiting for the stability that they were promised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked to at least return the RV, or help me find something stable,” Katia said to her outreach worker. “I’m thinking, ‘do we have to leave San Francisco?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family’s case highlights one of the key tensions in the rollout: while the permit program is designed to transition residents out of vehicular homelessness, some families say they have instead cycled through temporary placements without securing long-term stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077883 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_1.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Mercado walks out of the United States Appraisers Building at 630 Sansome Street, after his annual immigration check-in on Jan. 27, 2026. Fearful that he was going to be detained, Mercado becomes emotional and wipes away his tears after walking out of his appointment. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City officials stress that the permit program is not the only gateway to assistance. “The permit is not a prerequisite to receive services,” said Jackie Thornhill, communications manager for the Department of Emergency Management. Anyone experiencing homelessness is “still eligible to engage with city outreach workers,” receive problem-solving assistance, and potentially shelter or housing placement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as \u003cem>El Tecolote’s\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-housing-homeless-families/\">reporting\u003c/a> has documented, eligibility is far from a guarantee. According to city data, from July 2024 to May 2025, 1,826 families were assessed for rental support. Only 30 — less than 1.6% — were placed into housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Katia’s family, that math means the promise of stability remains just out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mounting fines and towing push residents to the brink\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For residents who remain outside the permit system, the two-hour rule has translated into mounting fines and repeated towing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Kauffman, 70, vividly remembers a parking control officer telling him, “We’re going to come get you tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077862\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1317\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-03.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-03-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-03-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Kauffman, 70, keeps his belongings in his van where he sleeps, in San Francisco, Calif., on Jan. 21, 2026. Kauffman has been towed three times since the city’s Large Vehicle Refuge Permit Program, and has been navigating new parking restrictions that aim to eliminate RVs in the city. Since his RV is inoperable, he’s had to pay $700 to tow it out of the city’s tow-yard and pay $107 in San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority fees. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The next day, his RV was towed, requiring two trucks to haul it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kauffman has three vehicles: two RVs and a shuttle bus. All have mechanical issues except the bus, but all are registered under his name and paid off, he said. Thieves have repeatedly tried breaking into the vehicles, damaging ignition systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since enforcement began, Kauffman said he spent roughly $4,000 on impound and towing fees. Even with a low-income waiver, he pays just over $100 per impound, plus approximately $700 to transport the vehicle back to its parking spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citywide, the two-hour ordinance has generated 599 citations at $108 each, which is worth $64,692, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/large--vehicle--program--outcomes\">public dashboard.\u003c/a> But that figure captures only one slice of enforcement.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>From November to Feb. 12, San Francisco towed 194 RVs for expired registration and violation of the 72-hour rule. Nearly 40% of all tows were for registration issues alone, paving another way for the city to clear RVs from its streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kauffman said he was only able to secure one permit sticker. Because the city issues one permit per vehicle and does not allow multiple permits for one person, his friend, an 80-year-old mechanic with memory issues, was displaced from one of the unpermitted RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s sleeping in his car now,” Kauffman said. “He’s old — very old.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, DEM’s Jackie Thornhill said, ”One individual cannot occupy multiple vehicles, and therefore should not be issued multiple permits.” Thornhill did not comment on how the city addresses situations where vehicles are used as shared shelter among friends or relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the 70-year-old has adapted to enforcement by changing his strategy on where he parks his other RV. In early February, someone smashed the windows and ransacked the RV. He then had it towed across the city line to Daly City, hoping to avoid more problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He implores the city to reform the LVRP rules so more people can be met where they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How has anything changed since that program? We’re just paying the costs,” Kauffman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kauffman is not the only one. The Coalition on Homelessness often hears from people getting towed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Friedenbach, the coalition’s director, described one recent case: an in-home care worker who was at his job — caring for someone else’s home — when his own home was towed away. His dog was inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077868\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-01.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-01-1536x1029.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Kauffman, 70, who’s been towed three times since the city’s Large Vehicle Refuge Permit Program, rests inside his van where he sleeps in San Francisco, Calif., on Jan. 20, 2026. Kauffman has been navigating new parking restrictions that aim to eliminate RVs in the city. Since his RV is inoperable, he’s had to pay $700 to tow it out of the city’s tow-yard and pay $107 in San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority fees. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The dog didn’t get hurt, but that’s very dangerous because all the stuff falls down,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, who had $60 to his name, needed $107 to get his RV back. He asked the Coalition about shelter options, but with shelter waitlists stretching months long, there was nothing they could offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>José Arámbula, 48, experienced a similar loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 18, the trailer he had been sleeping in was towed in the Mission District. He had been visiting a friend nearby when neighbors called to warn him that a tow truck had arrived. Arámbula said he rushed over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got there, it was gone,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/EBC_9799.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/EBC_9799.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/EBC_9799-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/EBC_9799-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">José Arámbula smiles at his pitbull, Kira, who sleeps in the car with him on March 6, 2026. Days earlier, the RV he had been living in was towed from the Mission District with Kira still inside. He retrieved his dog, but lost his IDs, clothes and everything he owned. \u003ccite>(Erika Carlos/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His beloved pitbull, Kira, had been inside the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time they take one, they take everything,” Arámbula said. “They give you a phone number to recover your things, but nobody ever answers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said losing documents during previous tows has made it difficult to replace his identification or recover his belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My IDs were in there. My clothes. Everything,” he said. “You lose it all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arámbula said he was able to retrieve Kira, but not his belongings. He now has only the clothes he was wearing and is sleeping in his small car with his dog. He said he plans to sell the vehicle in hopes of saving enough money to buy another RV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They promise help when everything is happening,” he said. “But once things calm down, they forget about the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/EBC_9825.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/EBC_9825.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/EBC_9825-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/EBC_9825-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">José Arámbula drives through the Mission District looking for a place to safely park and sleep for the night on March 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Erika Carlos/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach also noted that despite the program budgeting funds for parking signage, many warning signs have yet to appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/o0122-25.pdf\">ordinance\u003c/a> states the city intended to install 400 signs warning drivers of the new enforcement zones. But parking control officers no longer chalk tires to warn residents of time limits, she said, meaning many people don’t know they’re at risk of being towed until it’s too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This idea that they needed to hammer people and scare them in order to push them into housing is silly,” she said. “There’s nothing positive about the rest of the program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Gap to widen as permits begin to expire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>LVRP permits are set to expire by April, but could be extended for up to six additional months for eligible residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is currently making arrangements for extensions for those vehicles and will work directly with permitted occupants on the process,” wrote DEM’s Jackie Thornhill in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say that’s not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_3.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mercado_3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Mercado charges his LED lamp inside his RV in the Mission District on Feb. 12, 2026. The solar system in the RV barely holds enough power to get through the night, just enough for his phone and lights. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Coalition on Homelessness is calling on the city to follow the Large Vehicle legislation’s requirement for “automatic renewal” without a new application process — and to keep renewing permits every six months until residents secure housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also want the city to reopen the permit process for people who were left out and people who have become homeless after the qualifying date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our affordability crisis is going nowhere,” Friedenbach said. “We’re going to continue having folks who rely on RVs to shelter themselves. The city needs to plan for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Latino residents, she said, additional barriers compounded the problem: few Spanish-speaking outreach workers, schedules that conflicted with work, and heightened fear of Immigration Customs Enforcement after recent federal raids. “Folks are nervous about answering their doors,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077876\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1317\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-14.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-14-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/01212026-BOBRVTOW-ET-PU-14-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Kauffman, 70, inspects his RV on the side of the road after retrieving it from the City & County of San Francisco Impound in Daly City, Calif., on Jan. 21, 2026. Kauffman has been towed three times since the city’s Large Vehicle Refuge Permit Program, and has been navigating new parking restrictions that aim to eliminate RVs in the city. Since his RV is inoperable, he’s had to pay $700 to tow it out of the city’s tow-yard and pay $107 in San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority fees. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As permits begin to expire this spring, the uneven outcomes of the rollout are likely to become more visible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Mercado, the stakes could not be higher. His asylum case hangs in the balance. He is required to check in with ICE in June, but with no stable place to live and no money for a lawyer, he doesn’t know how he will manage it. One misstep could mean deportation to a country he fled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no one who advocates for the immigrants who are on the streets, who are surviving — not at the government’s expense,” he said. “But through their own survival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Erika Carlos contributed to this report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After years of strife over RV dwellers living on San Francisco streets, the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047562/please-just-let-us-be-san-francisco-rv-crackdown-advances-despite-families-pleas\">ban long-term oversized vehicle parking\u003c/a> citywide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial vote by the board means people residing in RVs will soon have to move their vehicles every two hours unless they acquire a permit, leaving hundreds of people at risk of being displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say that someone living in a vehicle does not have a home is malicious when they have no other form of shelter,” Supervisor Shamann Walton, who voted against the ban, said at Tuesday’s board meeting. “This legislation is alluding to supporting brick and mortar as the only possible home in the most expensive city on the planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot condone mass evictions to the streets for people trying to live in their homes — especially at a time when there’s an attack on immigrants, people of color, our LGBTQ community and basically anyone that is not in the one percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast:\u003c/strong> In 2024, city officials attempted to implement targeted parking restrictions in neighborhoods with longstanding RV communities, like the Lake Merced area near \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965352/san-francisco-rv-community-fears-new-parking-rules-could-push-them-closer-to-homelessness\">Stonestown Galleria and San Francisco State University\u003c/a> and Bernal Hill. In the fall, former Mayor London Breed proposed legislation that would allow vehicles parked overnight to be towed citywide if residents had previously refused shelter, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">supervisors blocked it\u003c/a> in December after pushback from community advocates. Last month, Mayor Daniel Lurie revived the ban, proposing a strict two-hour limit for oversized vehicles on all city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members at 16th and Mission Streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003c/strong>Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">June legislation\u003c/a> takes a citywide approach to address the reshuffling caused by earlier iterations and includes incentives for people moving into housing, his office told the board this month. Some carve-outs will be made for commercial vehicles parked in industrial areas. The proposal received unanimous approval from the city’s Budget and Finance Committee last week, and this week, it passed a first vote, 9–2. Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who represents the Mission, and Walton, whose district spans the Bayview and Potrero Hill, opposed the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Lurie’s office said the plan “offers a path forward on what has long been an intractable challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With compassion and accountability, we will give those living in vehicles a better option and deliver safe and clean streets for our communities,” he said in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The context: \u003c/strong>Other cities across the Bay Area, including Berkeley and Fremont in the East Bay, have also been cracking down on vehicle homelessness. In February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026580/this-bay-area-city-just-passed-the-most-extreme-encampment-ban-in-california\">Fremont passed\u003c/a> what is believed to be the most restrictive overnight camping ban in the state, prohibiting RV parking on public and private property, including residential streets, for more than three consecutive nights.[aside postID=news_12047562 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-023-BL_qed.jpg']In November, Berkeley’s city council directed city workers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014227/progressive-berkeley-new-tough-stance-homeless-encampments\">clean up a known RV community\u003c/a> on Second Street in West Berkeley. The move was in line with a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014227/progressive-berkeley-new-tough-stance-homeless-encampments\">aggressive approach\u003c/a> to sweeping encampments, which allows people to be cleared from streets even if the city cannot offer them housing. Both cities’ new rules came after Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">ordered state agencies\u003c/a> last July to dismantle homeless encampments across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>If Lurie’s legislation passes a second vote in the coming weeks as expected, the new parking regulations will take effect. Homelessness advocates say this could affect residents living in about 475 vehicles, many of whom may not be willing to trade their private mobile homes for the housing options the city can provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents actively looking for housing will be eligible for permits up to six months to remain in their RVs while they wait to relocate. The legislation includes funding to subsidize 65 rapid rehousing slots in addition to more than 300 similar subsidies added to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing’s annual budget this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates are awaiting more details about another incentive to move people off the streets: a vehicle buyback program that will offer people cash for their RVs. It’s unclear how much residents stand to receive, though the legislation includes a $500,000 budget for buybacks. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot condone mass evictions to the streets for people trying to live in their homes — especially at a time when there’s an attack on immigrants, people of color, our LGBTQ community and basically anyone that is not in the one percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast:\u003c/strong> In 2024, city officials attempted to implement targeted parking restrictions in neighborhoods with longstanding RV communities, like the Lake Merced area near \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965352/san-francisco-rv-community-fears-new-parking-rules-could-push-them-closer-to-homelessness\">Stonestown Galleria and San Francisco State University\u003c/a> and Bernal Hill. In the fall, former Mayor London Breed proposed legislation that would allow vehicles parked overnight to be towed citywide if residents had previously refused shelter, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">supervisors blocked it\u003c/a> in December after pushback from community advocates. Last month, Mayor Daniel Lurie revived the ban, proposing a strict two-hour limit for oversized vehicles on all city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members at 16th and Mission Streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003c/strong>Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">June legislation\u003c/a> takes a citywide approach to address the reshuffling caused by earlier iterations and includes incentives for people moving into housing, his office told the board this month. Some carve-outs will be made for commercial vehicles parked in industrial areas. The proposal received unanimous approval from the city’s Budget and Finance Committee last week, and this week, it passed a first vote, 9–2. Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who represents the Mission, and Walton, whose district spans the Bayview and Potrero Hill, opposed the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Lurie’s office said the plan “offers a path forward on what has long been an intractable challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With compassion and accountability, we will give those living in vehicles a better option and deliver safe and clean streets for our communities,” he said in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The context: \u003c/strong>Other cities across the Bay Area, including Berkeley and Fremont in the East Bay, have also been cracking down on vehicle homelessness. In February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026580/this-bay-area-city-just-passed-the-most-extreme-encampment-ban-in-california\">Fremont passed\u003c/a> what is believed to be the most restrictive overnight camping ban in the state, prohibiting RV parking on public and private property, including residential streets, for more than three consecutive nights.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the city of Berkeley ordered the clearing of RV encampments on Second Street, the city began offering cash to people living in their RVs in addition to a room at a motel shelter. Most accepted the offer, and city leaders are hopeful that this approach can expand.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC7936715503&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This transcript is computer-generated. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:42] Your story focused on this concentration of RVs on Second Street in Berkeley. Tell me a little bit more about this area and why it was such an area of interest for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:01:55] Yeah, this is an industrial area on the western edge of the city. It attracted people living in RVs over the past few years, but eventually got to the point where there were RVs, cars, broken down busses, tents and structures that people built just for blocks and blocks along Second Street and some of the cross streets there. Trash started piling up. There were problems with rats. There was rotting food. There was feces. The data I saw was that in 2023, police were called to the area about 250 times. And there were 20 fires reported to the fire department. 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Tell me about Elvia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:05:38] Elvia Guzman told me that she and her husband ended up on Second Street last year after bouncing around a couple different RV encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvia Guzman \u003c/strong>[00:05:48] Second Street was a place where there was a lot of RVs and a little community there, so we just came down here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:05:56] Briefly been around Harrison Street in that big encampment in Berkeley, recently got swept. Before that, they were in Richmond, where she had lived for a long time. And they ended up in an RV there until the area, the encampments they were living in there got cleared. Then she came to Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvia Guzman \u003c/strong>[00:06:19] Police wasn’t moving us as much and they weren’t really bothering us over here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:06:30] In general, she made it sound like she never felt fully safe or comfortable living in an RV. She talked about how they always had to park in sort of sketchy areas. She also talked about ways in which life was just hard in an RV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvia Guzman \u003c/strong>[00:06:49] Everything is like ten times harder. Sometimes you don’t have water. Sometimes, you know, it’s too cold or too hot not enough space and I Think it’s frustrating a little bit for like it was frustrating a lot a little it for me because I get anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:07:06] She seemed much less comfortable than Fannie living in an RV, although she was really grateful for the shelter it provided and the security, you know? To the extent that it provided security, she was very grateful for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:28] How long was Elvia living in an RV on Second Street?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:07:32] Elvia and her husband moved to 2nd Street around six months before the city started moving in earnest to close down this encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:45] I want to talk more about the city’s effort to close down this encampment. Tell me about what the city began offering to people living in these RVs on Second Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:07:59] So what they did is offer people cash for their RVs. So if participants agreed to move indoors into this motel shelter they were offering, they would get $175 per linear foot of RV. That pencils out to about $6,000 for a 35-foot RV. And the way it would work is that people would get some of that money when they first moved into the motel. Then they do this trial period. To see if they felt comfortable at the shelter, if they wanted to stay. And if they decided they wanted to stay, they’d get their RV towed. And at that point, they got the rest of the money. If they decided to leave, they would keep the initial 15% of the payout that they’d already gotten, and they got to keep their RV. RV encampments are hard to deal with because people are reluctant to leave their RV for shelter. And that had been the case on Second Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Radu \u003c/strong>[00:09:00] And so, we’re just giving folks another choice in their choice set, right? About how to navigate this reality that we had to close this encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:09:08] Peter Radu, who oversees the city’s homeless response team, told me that he saw it as a way to build trust with people and overcome some of that reluctance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Radu \u003c/strong>[00:09:24] Anything interim or anything time-limited, I think they were very rationally and rightly afraid that if they moved in and that didn’t work out, they would be back out on the street, but this time without their largest remaining asset, which is their vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:09:38] They were out there for about three months, hearing them out about their concerns and trying to find ways to accommodate their individual needs, right? So some people, initially, I was told the motel was gonna only accept one dog per room. It quickly became clear that that wasn’t gonna work because so many people had. Dogs. So they found ways to accommodate more dogs. They found ways to place people together in rooms, not just couples, but friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:16] And I mean, that’s pretty unique, Vanessa, I feel like you don’t often hear of efforts like this that feel and sound very individual. Usually it feels like a one-size-fit-all sort of solution, just throw folks into shelters, but it seems like there was a real effort here to accommodate people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:10:36] That’s right, but I think Peter Radu would say that they’ve known for a long time that a low barrier model, right, which is what they would call this shelter, is crucial. But what really made the difference in this case was really the buyback program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Radu \u003c/strong>[00:10:57] The hypothesis, I suppose, in wanting to pilot this is what if we could liquefy that asset for them? What if we can buy it for them, would that change their decision-making, and would that changed their willingness to engage with us in the homeless system?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:11:15] I think it’s more than just an incentive, I think that it’s building trust by promising these people a bit of a safety net. People are very distrustful that they will actually end up getting permanent housing. So if they give up their RV but they at least have a few thousand dollars in their pocket, that’s a big difference, right? I mean, I talked to multiple people who told me that. 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That’s the reason why I’m still where I’m at, because who can afford the high cost of living?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:12:58] Fannie’s two RVs, hers and her sons, are among those three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:03] I’m one of the people that can go in, but I don’t want to go in. I’d rather stay where I’m safe and I’m familiar with, and I want to do the RV buyback, but I think they could come up with a little bit better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:13:18] Fannie told me she was worried about the unknowns at the shelter, so would she feel safe there? Who would be there? She worried about restrictions, not being able to cook in her motel room, not be able to have guests. 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They came on a Monday, I had to be out by Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:04:18] She claims that they were some of the first people down on Second Street, that it was quiet at first, and she tried to keep the area where she was clean and keep a low profile. She works three days a week as a home health aide, and she has a car, so she said she would use that to haul garbage to a dumpster down the street. But over time, more and more people moved in, trash started piling up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fannie Hall \u003c/strong>[00:04:47] Rats became a problem. I’ve had my camper chewed on and I’ve killed multiple rats up in my camper and I keep a clean camper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:04:54] So it became increasingly difficult, but she seemed to like the independence and she’d been there for quite some time, you know, so while it was certainly not ideal and she talked about wanting housing, I think she had figured out a fairly manageable life for herself and her family under really hard circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:22] Yeah, and I imagine her family unit, it’s very important for her to keep them all together and that they were, it sounds like they were really able to do that. And then I know you met someone who moved to Second Street a little bit more recently. Tell me about Elvia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:05:38] Elvia Guzman told me that she and her husband ended up on Second Street last year after bouncing around a couple different RV encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvia Guzman \u003c/strong>[00:05:48] Second Street was a place where there was a lot of RVs and a little community there, so we just came down here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:05:56] Briefly been around Harrison Street in that big encampment in Berkeley, recently got swept. Before that, they were in Richmond, where she had lived for a long time. And they ended up in an RV there until the area, the encampments they were living in there got cleared. Then she came to Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvia Guzman \u003c/strong>[00:06:19] Police wasn’t moving us as much and they weren’t really bothering us over here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:06:30] In general, she made it sound like she never felt fully safe or comfortable living in an RV. She talked about how they always had to park in sort of sketchy areas. She also talked about ways in which life was just hard in an RV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvia Guzman \u003c/strong>[00:06:49] Everything is like ten times harder. Sometimes you don’t have water. Sometimes, you know, it’s too cold or too hot not enough space and I Think it’s frustrating a little bit for like it was frustrating a lot a little it for me because I get anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:07:06] She seemed much less comfortable than Fannie living in an RV, although she was really grateful for the shelter it provided and the security, you know? To the extent that it provided security, she was very grateful for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:28] How long was Elvia living in an RV on Second Street?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:07:32] Elvia and her husband moved to 2nd Street around six months before the city started moving in earnest to close down this encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:45] I want to talk more about the city’s effort to close down this encampment. Tell me about what the city began offering to people living in these RVs on Second Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:07:59] So what they did is offer people cash for their RVs. So if participants agreed to move indoors into this motel shelter they were offering, they would get $175 per linear foot of RV. That pencils out to about $6,000 for a 35-foot RV. And the way it would work is that people would get some of that money when they first moved into the motel. Then they do this trial period. To see if they felt comfortable at the shelter, if they wanted to stay. And if they decided they wanted to stay, they’d get their RV towed. And at that point, they got the rest of the money. If they decided to leave, they would keep the initial 15% of the payout that they’d already gotten, and they got to keep their RV. RV encampments are hard to deal with because people are reluctant to leave their RV for shelter. And that had been the case on Second Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Radu \u003c/strong>[00:09:00] And so, we’re just giving folks another choice in their choice set, right? About how to navigate this reality that we had to close this encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:09:08] Peter Radu, who oversees the city’s homeless response team, told me that he saw it as a way to build trust with people and overcome some of that reluctance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Radu \u003c/strong>[00:09:24] Anything interim or anything time-limited, I think they were very rationally and rightly afraid that if they moved in and that didn’t work out, they would be back out on the street, but this time without their largest remaining asset, which is their vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:09:38] They were out there for about three months, hearing them out about their concerns and trying to find ways to accommodate their individual needs, right? So some people, initially, I was told the motel was gonna only accept one dog per room. It quickly became clear that that wasn’t gonna work because so many people had. Dogs. So they found ways to accommodate more dogs. They found ways to place people together in rooms, not just couples, but friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:16] And I mean, that’s pretty unique, Vanessa, I feel like you don’t often hear of efforts like this that feel and sound very individual. Usually it feels like a one-size-fit-all sort of solution, just throw folks into shelters, but it seems like there was a real effort here to accommodate people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:10:36] That’s right, but I think Peter Radu would say that they’ve known for a long time that a low barrier model, right, which is what they would call this shelter, is crucial. But what really made the difference in this case was really the buyback program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Radu \u003c/strong>[00:10:57] The hypothesis, I suppose, in wanting to pilot this is what if we could liquefy that asset for them? What if we can buy it for them, would that change their decision-making, and would that changed their willingness to engage with us in the homeless system?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:11:15] I think it’s more than just an incentive, I think that it’s building trust by promising these people a bit of a safety net. People are very distrustful that they will actually end up getting permanent housing. So if they give up their RV but they at least have a few thousand dollars in their pocket, that’s a big difference, right? I mean, I talked to multiple people who told me that. That gave them a bit of reassurance and made them feel more comfortable taking the city up on this shelter offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:01] It sounds like a really big decision to make for many of the folks living on Second Street. How many people were offered this buyout program and how many took it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:12:21] So Radu told me that outreach workers encountered 32 vehicles out there during the closure process. In all, 36 people and 26 dogs ended up moving into this motel. Of those 32 vehicles they encountered, only three of them are still on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:51] The housing market is not great. That’s the reason why I’m still where I’m at, because who can afford the high cost of living?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:12:58] Fannie’s two RVs, hers and her sons, are among those three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:03] I’m one of the people that can go in, but I don’t want to go in. I’d rather stay where I’m safe and I’m familiar with, and I want to do the RV buyback, but I think they could come up with a little bit better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:13:18] Fannie told me she was worried about the unknowns at the shelter, so would she feel safe there? Who would be there? She worried about restrictions, not being able to cook in her motel room, not be able to have guests. She knew that however accommodating they were going to be, she was never going to to take 11 dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:41] You know, there were criteria that they require for you to move in. They want to get into too much in your personal business. You know that doesn’t require them to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:13:49] They ultimately did not take the offer and they ended up moving to the Oakland-Emeryville border. She’s working with outreach workers and says she is in the process of trying to get housing. It sounds like if that doesn’t happen in the next couple of years, she’s seriously considering moving out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:12] So it sounds like Fannie Hall decided not to take the offer because there was a sense of stability in her current situation, and giving up her RV felt like a huge risk. But the vast majority of people did actually take the offer to sell their RVs, including Elvia Guzman. What did she tell you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:14:38] Elvia, though she was really ready to get out of an RV and into permanent housing, she was so scared to give up this shelter and security that had caught her when she’d lost everything else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvia Guzman \u003c/strong>[00:14:56] The RV was like our everything, like I was just nervous about the whole thing because that’s where we lived and that’s all we had. I want to say we almost got about $3,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:15:07] And I did not seem like it would work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvia Guzman \u003c/strong>[00:15:10] It seemed, I think it was more than enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:15:15] When I met her, she was at the motel shelter on a busy street in Berkeley, and she said that it was going pretty well so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvia Guzman \u003c/strong>[00:15:25] It’s safer here and it’s just way better to be in a real place, like have a real roof over your head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:15:35] Said she was working with staff there to get all of her paperwork in order so that she could apply for housing. She seemed to be feeling, you know, at least somewhat optimistic and just reiterated how ready she was to be off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvia Guzman \u003c/strong>[00:15:58] Hoping to just you know end up with our housing like we’ve been wanting for so many years now and be stable. I just want an boring normal regular life, you know? That’s all. I’ll be happy with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:17] Right, because this is ultimately not a permanent living situation, being in these motels. So I’m curious for Peter and the city, was this a success?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:16:33] He sees this as a resounding success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Radu \u003c/strong>[00:16:37] We had almost four in five, I believe 79% of the people that we encountered moved in indoors. And we didn’t have to do a big enforcement operation at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/strong>[00:16:50] Like I said, of those 32 vehicles, there are just three that are still on the streets. None of them are on Second Street. Compared to past efforts to close encampments like this, Radu said that they had a much higher success rate. And so this is something that he says they’d like to try to build upon going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:17:13] And also, we’re just talking about people who are living in RVs, but what do you think there is to learn from this when it comes to addressing all forms of homelessness in the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>An \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-crackdown-weaponized-parking/\">El Tecolote investigation\u003c/a> reveals how officials quietly coordinated a crackdown, using parking laws and construction projects to push out RV residents.\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, dozens of working-class families living in RVs along Winston Drive built a stable, self-reliant community on San Francisco’s west side. But in 2024, new city policies tore it apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em> investigation — based on thousands of internal emails, city records and firsthand accounts — reveals how officials quietly coordinated a crackdown, using parking laws and construction projects to push out RV residents even when safe alternatives didn’t exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind closed doors, staff warned the crackdown would likely fail and destabilize vulnerable residents. But officials moved forward anyway — citing political pressure, optics and infrastructure plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still need a reasonable, feasible answer to the question, ‘Where will all these people go if they can’t park here?’” SFMTA’s policy analyst Andy Thornley wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/05-23-23_Melgar-understands-risks.jpg\">May 2023 email\u003c/a> to homelessness director Emily Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that Supervisor Melgar “understands fully” the risks of mass displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials framed the evictions as public safety measures or routine maintenance. But records show a broader pattern. These five takeaways reveal how the crackdown unfolded — and how it became San Francisco’s playbook for displacing RV communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043961\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-1536x1015.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line up on Winston Drive near San Francisco State University in San Francisco, on April 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>1. A crackdown driven by politics, not safety\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Publicly, city leaders said the Winston Drive displacement was about safety and the need for more parking near San Francisco State University. SFSU official Jason Porth \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/07-26-23_Jason_SFSU.jpg\">cited\u003c/a> “syringes with needles, broken beer bottles, a chair.” Supervisor Melgar echoed those concerns, requesting 4-hour parking limits to protect schools and pedestrians.[aside postID=news_12043516 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-25-BL-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But internal emails tell a different story. SFMTA staff \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shelter-vehicle-encampment-on-SFSU-vicinity-streets.docx-Google-Docs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted\u003c/a> that most RV residents on Winston were “mostly obeying parking rules,” staying registered, moving their vehicles for street cleaning, and keeping the area tidy. Even so, Melgar and SFMTA moved ahead with new 4-hour parking restrictions designed to force residents out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents say the deepest betrayal came from Melgar — the city’s only Latina supervisor at the time — who had personally visited the community and promised families they wouldn’t be displaced without alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We trusted [Melgar] a lot,” said Angela Arostegui, who lived in an RV on Winston with her husband and two daughters. “She gave us false hope. She played with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar, in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/El-Tecolote-Mail-Request-for-Comment_-Investigative-Report-on-RV-Enforcement-Policies.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written response\u003c/a> to \u003cem>El Tecolote’s\u003c/em> investigative findings, rejected claims that her office misled RV residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My staff and I worked for 3 years to find safe alternatives for the folks living on Winston and Buckingham drives. It took great effort,” wrote Melgar on April 28, 2025. “However, the goal was always to restore the public right of way, and I never said anything to the contrary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043968\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Lopez reacts in disbelief, as one of their neighbor’s RV was towed away on Zoo Road in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>2. When tickets didn’t work, the city turned to construction — and optics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A July 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2023/a164180.html\">court ruling\u003c/a> blocked San Francisco from towing legally parked vehicles for unpaid tickets. With towing off the table, officials looked for other tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar pushed for 4-hour limits on Winston, even though SFMTA staff noted enforcement would be difficult.[aside postID=news_11999643 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SFZooRVs-1020x683.jpg']“Bear in mind that this enforcement will not result in towing,” SFMTA liaison Joél Ramos wrote in a July 2024 email. “It is the Supervisor’s hope that the threat and/or issuance of parking citations alone will result in people moving the RVs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When tickets didn’t work, officials used a street repaving project to clear RVs, citing safety and logistics. The project became a public-facing justification that masked what internal emails described as political urgency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy worked. Families were pushed out. The press framed the evictions as development-driven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days before the city’s July 2024 deadline to clear Winston Drive, more than 20 RVs \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/winston-drive-rv-sf-zoo/\">caravanned\u003c/a> to an empty private lot near the San Francisco Zoo in an attempt to pressure the city to provide an alternative safe parking site. That same night, police and park rangers redirected them to Zoo Road, near the Pomeroy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same strategy — combining parking restrictions and construction — was quickly replicated on Zoo Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA began enforcing the 72-hour parking rule. But internal emails questioned its use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The purpose of [the] 72-hour rule is to ensure vehicles are not abandoned,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/07-31-24_72-hour-not-applicable.jpg\">wrote\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Chadwick Lee. “I do not believe it’s applicable in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043967\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families who live in RVs stressfully wait to see if their vehicles will be towed on Zoo Road during the morning time in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Director of Parking Enforcement Scott Edwards said in another \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/08-05-24-chalk-policy-zoo-rd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email\u003c/a>: “If a vehicle moves an inch, then it cannot be cited or towed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To work around this limitation, SFMTA signed a work order for curb painting and restriping on Zoo Road, using the same contract from Winston. Advocates questioned whether the work was even necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families who did not qualify for housing who were promised safe parking for 3 years by [the] city are being evicted again,” read a Coalition on Homelessness \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C-lBVOsPcoE/?img_index=2&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">Instagram post\u003c/a>. “We spoke to workers who confirmed the [restriping] work has been completed so why exactly does the city require them to move?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Evictions resulted in predictable consequences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even before enforcement began, internal emails flagged likely fallout: displaced families would scatter across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As early as March 2023, SFMTA policy manager Hank Wilson flagged in an \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/04-20-23_4-hour-policy-internal-reviews.jpg\">email\u003c/a> to Melgar’s office the likely fallout: “as we all know, the proposed 4-hour time limits would impact the large number of vehicles (120 or so).” He added that “It likely will push those folks living in vehicles to other blocks in the City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what happened. As RVs were cleared from Winston and Zoo Road, they appeared on John Muir Drive, Vidal, 19th Avenue, the Bayview neighborhood, and beyond. Neighbors complained. Supervisors called for new restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As many predicted, displacing these vehicles from Winston Drive has merely moved the problem to other areas,” wrote an anonymous constituent to District 4 Supervisor Joe Engardio on Aug. 9, 2024. “Each day more and more RVs, vans, trailers, and trucks are showing up in front of Rolph Nicol Park and around the Merced Manor Reservoir.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We obviously need a bigger citywide plan and process,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/RE-Phelps-st-RVs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> Thornley on Aug. 21, responding to a complaint on Phelps Street. “Or we’ll just keep pushing large vehicles around from neighborhood to neighborhood — not good for anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Carlo, 36, drives through the street where RVs are parked in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Carlo was a 4-year RV resident on Winston Drive. ‘It’s difficult what we are living through,’ Carlo said. ‘Mentally, it makes you feel depressed.’ \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>4. Winston became the city’s de-facto eviction playbook\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Winston and Zoo Road, SFMTA began using the same enforcement blueprint across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By December 2024, 19th Avenue had become the next target. “Question might be how will we handle enforcement,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoon_s-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote (PDF)\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Director of Streets Viktoriya Wise to Thornley. “My plan is to say we would handle it similar to Winston. Do you agree?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thornley \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoons-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replied\u003c/a> with a now-refined strategy: legislate the restriction, coordinate sign installation, post multilingual flyers, allow a two-week grace period and begin enforcement — while looping the homeless department and other agencies to manage fallout. But he also flagged the limits of this strategy: “Vidal Drive is more parked-up than it’s ever been,” he wrote. “It’s a stark illustration of our limitations, to put it mildly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em>, SFMTA said: “We’ll continue working with the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, SFPD, and the Mayor’s Office to make sure that anyone living on our streets or in recreational vehicles (RVs) has information about the many city services and resources available to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas, an RV resident, speaks to the media while holding her 1-year old son on Winston Drive, to appeal to the city to find a safe parking site for the RV community before a parking enforcement deadline, in San Francisco, on June 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>5. Immigrant families suffered most\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout the eviction process, it was working-class immigrant families who were hit hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco offered the Arostegui family a city subsidy in Parkmerced. Their rent is income-based, with support lasting up to three years. “Time flies,” said Angela Arostegui. “We’re already trying to find a more permanent option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other relatives weren’t as lucky. Angela’s cousin Marlon remains in an RV nearby. Her nephew Lisandro, who couldn’t move in time, sold his RV and left San Francisco. He and his wife slept in their car before settling in Las Vegas. “At least in Winston, I had my family close,” Lisandro said. “We were helping each other. That made it easier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosales family now lives under the shadow of another looming eviction. Verónica Cañas and her mother Eusebia were offered the same subsidy program to move into Parkmerced, but said they are being pressured to pay more rent soon, despite their inability to find stable work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they kick us out,” Eusebia said, “we’ll return to our RVs again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Angela Arostegui, who was leaving Zoo Road in August 2024, relentless pressure from city workers left the families exhausted and feeling coerced into signing rental agreements they didn’t fully understand or might have declined under different circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has us at the brink of the abyss,” said Angela Arostegui. “First on Winston, they gave us 4-hour parking rules. Then on Zoo Road, there wasn’t a day without a ticket or a knock on the door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several families moved out from Zoo Road into subsidized rentals at Parkmerced, other RV residents from Winston Drive remain uncertain about where they will park next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city did nothing for us,” said Marcivon Oliviera, 46, an Uber and Lyft driver from Brazil. He said about twenty other RV residents from Winston Drive are now parking in Palo Alto, forced to move every 72 hours in a continuous search for a new street on which to park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas puts her hand on the window as her 1-year-old son looks out from their RV in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>6. The city is doubling down on the same strategy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Mayor Daniel Lurie unveiled a sweeping new policy that would expand the tactics used on Winston Drive into a citywide mandate. His new legislation, introduced with support from Supervisor Melgar and others, would impose 24/7 two-hour parking limits for large vehicles across San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Framed as part of Lurie’s “Breaking the Cycle” homelessness plan, the bill pledges $13 million for housing subsidies, a vehicle buyback program and specialized outreach teams. It would also create a temporary permit for people actively working with case managers to avoid displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the plan balances compassion with accountability. But advocates argue it formalizes the same enforcement-first model that scattered RV families from block to block, and now risks pushing even more residents into crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-crackdown-weaponized-parking/\">\u003cem>Read part one of El Tecolote’s investigation here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still need a reasonable, feasible answer to the question, ‘Where will all these people go if they can’t park here?’” SFMTA’s policy analyst Andy Thornley wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/05-23-23_Melgar-understands-risks.jpg\">May 2023 email\u003c/a> to homelessness director Emily Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that Supervisor Melgar “understands fully” the risks of mass displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials framed the evictions as public safety measures or routine maintenance. But records show a broader pattern. These five takeaways reveal how the crackdown unfolded — and how it became San Francisco’s playbook for displacing RV communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043961\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-1536x1015.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line up on Winston Drive near San Francisco State University in San Francisco, on April 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>1. A crackdown driven by politics, not safety\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Publicly, city leaders said the Winston Drive displacement was about safety and the need for more parking near San Francisco State University. SFSU official Jason Porth \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/07-26-23_Jason_SFSU.jpg\">cited\u003c/a> “syringes with needles, broken beer bottles, a chair.” Supervisor Melgar echoed those concerns, requesting 4-hour parking limits to protect schools and pedestrians.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But internal emails tell a different story. SFMTA staff \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shelter-vehicle-encampment-on-SFSU-vicinity-streets.docx-Google-Docs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted\u003c/a> that most RV residents on Winston were “mostly obeying parking rules,” staying registered, moving their vehicles for street cleaning, and keeping the area tidy. Even so, Melgar and SFMTA moved ahead with new 4-hour parking restrictions designed to force residents out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents say the deepest betrayal came from Melgar — the city’s only Latina supervisor at the time — who had personally visited the community and promised families they wouldn’t be displaced without alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We trusted [Melgar] a lot,” said Angela Arostegui, who lived in an RV on Winston with her husband and two daughters. “She gave us false hope. She played with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar, in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/El-Tecolote-Mail-Request-for-Comment_-Investigative-Report-on-RV-Enforcement-Policies.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written response\u003c/a> to \u003cem>El Tecolote’s\u003c/em> investigative findings, rejected claims that her office misled RV residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My staff and I worked for 3 years to find safe alternatives for the folks living on Winston and Buckingham drives. It took great effort,” wrote Melgar on April 28, 2025. “However, the goal was always to restore the public right of way, and I never said anything to the contrary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043968\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Lopez reacts in disbelief, as one of their neighbor’s RV was towed away on Zoo Road in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>2. When tickets didn’t work, the city turned to construction — and optics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A July 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2023/a164180.html\">court ruling\u003c/a> blocked San Francisco from towing legally parked vehicles for unpaid tickets. With towing off the table, officials looked for other tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar pushed for 4-hour limits on Winston, even though SFMTA staff noted enforcement would be difficult.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Bear in mind that this enforcement will not result in towing,” SFMTA liaison Joél Ramos wrote in a July 2024 email. “It is the Supervisor’s hope that the threat and/or issuance of parking citations alone will result in people moving the RVs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When tickets didn’t work, officials used a street repaving project to clear RVs, citing safety and logistics. The project became a public-facing justification that masked what internal emails described as political urgency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy worked. Families were pushed out. The press framed the evictions as development-driven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days before the city’s July 2024 deadline to clear Winston Drive, more than 20 RVs \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/winston-drive-rv-sf-zoo/\">caravanned\u003c/a> to an empty private lot near the San Francisco Zoo in an attempt to pressure the city to provide an alternative safe parking site. That same night, police and park rangers redirected them to Zoo Road, near the Pomeroy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same strategy — combining parking restrictions and construction — was quickly replicated on Zoo Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA began enforcing the 72-hour parking rule. But internal emails questioned its use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The purpose of [the] 72-hour rule is to ensure vehicles are not abandoned,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/07-31-24_72-hour-not-applicable.jpg\">wrote\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Chadwick Lee. “I do not believe it’s applicable in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043967\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families who live in RVs stressfully wait to see if their vehicles will be towed on Zoo Road during the morning time in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Director of Parking Enforcement Scott Edwards said in another \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/08-05-24-chalk-policy-zoo-rd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email\u003c/a>: “If a vehicle moves an inch, then it cannot be cited or towed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To work around this limitation, SFMTA signed a work order for curb painting and restriping on Zoo Road, using the same contract from Winston. Advocates questioned whether the work was even necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families who did not qualify for housing who were promised safe parking for 3 years by [the] city are being evicted again,” read a Coalition on Homelessness \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C-lBVOsPcoE/?img_index=2&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">Instagram post\u003c/a>. “We spoke to workers who confirmed the [restriping] work has been completed so why exactly does the city require them to move?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Evictions resulted in predictable consequences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even before enforcement began, internal emails flagged likely fallout: displaced families would scatter across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As early as March 2023, SFMTA policy manager Hank Wilson flagged in an \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/04-20-23_4-hour-policy-internal-reviews.jpg\">email\u003c/a> to Melgar’s office the likely fallout: “as we all know, the proposed 4-hour time limits would impact the large number of vehicles (120 or so).” He added that “It likely will push those folks living in vehicles to other blocks in the City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what happened. As RVs were cleared from Winston and Zoo Road, they appeared on John Muir Drive, Vidal, 19th Avenue, the Bayview neighborhood, and beyond. Neighbors complained. Supervisors called for new restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As many predicted, displacing these vehicles from Winston Drive has merely moved the problem to other areas,” wrote an anonymous constituent to District 4 Supervisor Joe Engardio on Aug. 9, 2024. “Each day more and more RVs, vans, trailers, and trucks are showing up in front of Rolph Nicol Park and around the Merced Manor Reservoir.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We obviously need a bigger citywide plan and process,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/RE-Phelps-st-RVs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> Thornley on Aug. 21, responding to a complaint on Phelps Street. “Or we’ll just keep pushing large vehicles around from neighborhood to neighborhood — not good for anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Carlo, 36, drives through the street where RVs are parked in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Carlo was a 4-year RV resident on Winston Drive. ‘It’s difficult what we are living through,’ Carlo said. ‘Mentally, it makes you feel depressed.’ \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>4. Winston became the city’s de-facto eviction playbook\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Winston and Zoo Road, SFMTA began using the same enforcement blueprint across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By December 2024, 19th Avenue had become the next target. “Question might be how will we handle enforcement,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoon_s-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote (PDF)\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Director of Streets Viktoriya Wise to Thornley. “My plan is to say we would handle it similar to Winston. Do you agree?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thornley \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoons-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replied\u003c/a> with a now-refined strategy: legislate the restriction, coordinate sign installation, post multilingual flyers, allow a two-week grace period and begin enforcement — while looping the homeless department and other agencies to manage fallout. But he also flagged the limits of this strategy: “Vidal Drive is more parked-up than it’s ever been,” he wrote. “It’s a stark illustration of our limitations, to put it mildly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em>, SFMTA said: “We’ll continue working with the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, SFPD, and the Mayor’s Office to make sure that anyone living on our streets or in recreational vehicles (RVs) has information about the many city services and resources available to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas, an RV resident, speaks to the media while holding her 1-year old son on Winston Drive, to appeal to the city to find a safe parking site for the RV community before a parking enforcement deadline, in San Francisco, on June 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>5. Immigrant families suffered most\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout the eviction process, it was working-class immigrant families who were hit hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco offered the Arostegui family a city subsidy in Parkmerced. Their rent is income-based, with support lasting up to three years. “Time flies,” said Angela Arostegui. “We’re already trying to find a more permanent option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other relatives weren’t as lucky. Angela’s cousin Marlon remains in an RV nearby. Her nephew Lisandro, who couldn’t move in time, sold his RV and left San Francisco. He and his wife slept in their car before settling in Las Vegas. “At least in Winston, I had my family close,” Lisandro said. “We were helping each other. That made it easier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosales family now lives under the shadow of another looming eviction. Verónica Cañas and her mother Eusebia were offered the same subsidy program to move into Parkmerced, but said they are being pressured to pay more rent soon, despite their inability to find stable work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they kick us out,” Eusebia said, “we’ll return to our RVs again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Angela Arostegui, who was leaving Zoo Road in August 2024, relentless pressure from city workers left the families exhausted and feeling coerced into signing rental agreements they didn’t fully understand or might have declined under different circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has us at the brink of the abyss,” said Angela Arostegui. “First on Winston, they gave us 4-hour parking rules. Then on Zoo Road, there wasn’t a day without a ticket or a knock on the door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several families moved out from Zoo Road into subsidized rentals at Parkmerced, other RV residents from Winston Drive remain uncertain about where they will park next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city did nothing for us,” said Marcivon Oliviera, 46, an Uber and Lyft driver from Brazil. He said about twenty other RV residents from Winston Drive are now parking in Palo Alto, forced to move every 72 hours in a continuous search for a new street on which to park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas puts her hand on the window as her 1-year-old son looks out from their RV in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>6. The city is doubling down on the same strategy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Mayor Daniel Lurie unveiled a sweeping new policy that would expand the tactics used on Winston Drive into a citywide mandate. His new legislation, introduced with support from Supervisor Melgar and others, would impose 24/7 two-hour parking limits for large vehicles across San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Framed as part of Lurie’s “Breaking the Cycle” homelessness plan, the bill pledges $13 million for housing subsidies, a vehicle buyback program and specialized outreach teams. It would also create a temporary permit for people actively working with case managers to avoid displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the plan balances compassion with accountability. But advocates argue it formalizes the same enforcement-first model that scattered RV families from block to block, and now risks pushing even more residents into crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-crackdown-weaponized-parking/\">\u003cem>Read part one of El Tecolote’s investigation here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In January, three generations of the Hall family were living in a pair of RVs, tucked into an industrial corner of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley\">Berkeley\u003c/a>. Fannie Hall shared her blue and white 29-footer with her adult daughter and granddaughter, plus a pack of yapping Chihuahuas — Hall’s beloved Tutti, her daughter’s Blu, and nine puppies. Across the street, Hall’s son lived in a second camper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m letting him stay in the cottage — I call it the cottage,” Hall, 64, said with a laugh, motioning toward a red and white RV she likened to a vacation home. “We all got homeless about the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was roughly six years ago, after the house they rented in San Pablo was red-tagged for code violations. They were forced to move out with a week’s notice, Hall said, and eventually all ended up on Berkeley’s Second Street — a stretch of wrecked asphalt at the city’s western edge lined with barbed wire-ringed recycling and construction businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the corner, another family shared their own set of RVs. Patrick, 58, and his wife had moved into the area around the same time as the Halls, after Patrick’s wife had a heart attack, lost her job as an administrative assistant and the couple got evicted from their San Pablo home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t been able to afford anywhere around here,” said Patrick, who asked to be identified only by his first name because he doesn’t want his employers to know his living situation. “So this is kind of where we just landed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041257\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stretch of Harrison Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, is home to an unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both families were working — Hall as a home health aide three days a week and Patrick as a security guard — and they tried to keep their areas tidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by the time Elvia Guzman, 42, and her husband moved there in 2024, the area had become a well-established encampment with dozens of people living in motorhomes, broken down buses, cars and tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Second Street was a place where there was a lot of RVs and a little community there,” she said, explaining authorities had broken up a similar site where the couple was living in Richmond. “They weren’t really bothering us over here, so it felt more comfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over time, the area grew increasingly chaotic. Hall watched in frustration as garbage piles swelled to mini mountains and fires broke out. The mess eventually became her problem, attracting pests — “I’ve had my camper chewed on and killed multiple rats up in my camper,” she said — and the authorities.[aside postID=news_12043568 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240130-HomelessCount-46-BL_qed.jpg']In 2023, police were called to the area around 250 times, and there were 20 reported fires, according to \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024-09-10%20Item%2037%20Encampment%20Policy%20Resolution.pdf\">city documents\u003c/a>. Neighbors complained to the city council that there were “human feces just about anywhere you dare to look,” “a stabbing,” and fights resulting in “retaliatory arson.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city provided porta potties, dumpsters, mobile showers and laundry facilities, and cleared nearly 40 tons of debris over the years. Still, by early 2024, officials deemed the area an imminent health hazard, citing used hypodermic needles, rotting food, a rat infestation and waste-contaminated storm drains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014227/progressive-berkeley-new-tough-stance-homeless-encampments\">even famously liberal Berkeley had had enough\u003c/a> and city leaders directed staff to focus on cleaning up the area. They started laying plans to close the encampment for good and, ideally, house its inhabitants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Radu, who oversees Berkeley’s Homeless Response Team, knew they would need to try something different. Past outreach efforts offering shelter to the residents had largely failed. A staff report noted engagement wasn’t successful because many of the RV dwellers did not consider themselves homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall explained it this way: With an apartment out of reach, her RV offered a degree of privacy, security and independence, not to mention a valuable asset that could be traded for cash. Accepting temporary shelter risked all that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041250\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They can’t guarantee you housing once you get in there,” she said, expressing concern that she might be forced to move out of the shelter before a permanent home opened up. Her family could land back on the streets and worse off if they gave up their campers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Radu and his colleagues decided to test a new strategy: cash for RVs. If the participants agreed to move indoors, they would get $175 per linear foot of RV, or about $6,000 for a 35-foot vehicle. They’d receive 15% of the payout when they moved into a motel shelter and the rest after they tried out the shelter and their RV was towed. If residents decided not to stick with the program during the trial period, they’d still pocket the initial payment and keep their vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approach was modeled after a pilot in \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.gov/news-releases/new-initiatives-approved-binford-road-encampment?language=es\">Marin County that was \u003c/a>itself inspired by a cash incentive meant to get \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sausalito-homeless-encampment-17531723.php\">boat dwellers out of Richardson Bay\u003c/a>. It had a lot of promise, said UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative Director Margot Kushel, who has \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/resources/long-road-home-housing-and-service-needs-people-who-inhabit-oversized-vehicles\">studied the needs of people living in large vehicles. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city designed this to really gain people’s trust and to make sure that people were not left worse off than they were when they started,” she said. \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/resources/long-road-home-housing-and-service-needs-people-who-inhabit-oversized-vehicles\">She called Berkeley’s program \u003c/a>“quite innovative” and said it could prove valuable in the future as the state contends with RV homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041249\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teahana Roman, program manager, speaks with a resident at Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. The site, operated by Dorothy Day House, provides transitional housing and supportive services for unhoused individuals in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As cities work to clean up homeless encampments under increasing pressure from Gov. Gavin Newsom and housed residents, RV communities present a distinct — and notoriously difficult — challenge, especially with \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10511482.2022.2117990?src=#abstract\">more\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://usich.gov/sites/default/files/document/How_Communities_Are_Responding_to_Vehicular_Homelessness.pdf\">and more\u003c/a> Californians taking up residence in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over half of Alameda County’s unsheltered homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/data_point_in_time.page?\">now lives in some kind of car or RV\u003c/a>, but strategies for managing and resolving this unique form of homelessness are lagging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, attempts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999643/unhoused-san-francisco-rv-families-forced-to-move-yet-again-with-nowhere-to-go\">clear RV encampments\u003c/a> have led to widespread public outcry, and after moving to ban overnight RV parking, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">city reversed course\u003c/a> under pressure from advocates. Now, Mayor Daniel Lurie is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">again proposing to ban the vehicles\u003c/a>, this time with a similar offer to Berkeley’s, as part of a broader plan to get motorhomes off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kushel’s \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/resources/long-road-home-housing-and-service-needs-people-who-inhabit-oversized-vehicles\">research\u003c/a> found that people living in RVs are reluctant to give them up for anything short of permanent housing — a dilemma when there’s little to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley officials designed their strategy with that in mind, but residents still had reservations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041248\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An empty stretch of Second Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, was once home to a large unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It sounds good,” Patrick said, “but that’s what makes me a little leery — maybe it just sounds too good to be true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall was wary, too. What she didn’t know about the motel program gave her pause. “[You] don’t know if it’s going to be safe,” she said. “You’re going in with strangers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so did what she knew. “You can’t have anybody visiting you,” Hall said, “You can’t cook in the room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Guzman, though RV living never felt truly safe, the possibility of ending up on the streets in a tent, even less protected from the elements, was even more terrifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get the program to work, city staff and nonprofit outreach workers spent roughly three months coaxing residents, explaining their offer, listening to concerns and making accommodations to the shelter policies where possible. A one-dog-per-person rule stretched to allow four dogs in one room; friends were allowed to bunk together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041252\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Letty Guzman looks out of the window in her room at Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. The site, operated by Dorothy Day House, provides transitional housing and supportive services for unhoused individuals in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All of that really matters,” Radu said. But ultimately, it was the city’s cash offer that overcame many of the residents’ reservations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guzman and her husband ended up accepting roughly $3,000 for their vehicle, which they promptly put into savings. That gives them some reassurance, she said, in case they get kicked out or the program ends. “We don’t have another RV to go to or a Plan B, so we gotta have something put aside for that, just in case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick and his wife also took the city up on its offer. For them, it solved a logistical problem: What to do with their motorhomes if they moved into a shelter? They have two cars and two RVs and stand to get about $4,900 for just one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The buy-back program kind of makes everything sort of doable because it gives me a little money in my pocket, and I don’t have to worry about my stuff getting towed because it’s not my stuff anymore,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Halls, on the other hand, opted out because, as Fannie Hall said, “I’d rather stay where I’m safe and I’m familiar with.” But they were among the exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An empty stretch of Second Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, was once home to a large unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A total of 36 people and 26 dogs moved from the encampment into a city-leased motel in central Berkeley beginning in January. Of the 32 vehicles workers encountered on Second Street during the closure process, just three remain on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By that metric, it was a resounding success and something that we’re looking to expand upon hopefully in other encampments,” Radu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kushel and her team are now evaluating the program’s success at Berkeley’s request — a highly unusual step. The city built the research plan into its application for $5.4 million in state \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-and-funding/programs-active/encampment-resolution-funding-program\">Encampment Resolution Funding\u003c/a> last year.[aside postID=news_11999643 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SFZooRVs-1020x683.jpg'] While California has put \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007\">$1 billion toward the grants\u003c/a> since 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982237/california-audit-questions-state-homelessness-spending-san-jose\">there’s little quality research on what works\u003c/a> when it comes to successfully closing encampments. Radu and Kushel want to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that we are leaning into this crisis with both a sense of urgency and also a sense of moving beyond rhetoric to actually explore what does work, what doesn’t work and to try to get as many win-wins as we possibly can,” Kushel said. “The story is just beginning, but I think we’ve already learned a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the research, Kushel will be looking closely at the holdouts, like Hall and her family, to understand why they refused to accept the city’s offer. The answer might influence how they design future programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Halls left Second Street in late April with help from the city of Berkeley to get their RVs running. Rats had gnawed through some wiring, Hall said, and the motorhomes needed new batteries, which the city sprang for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re now adjusting to life behind a Target on the Oakland-Emeryville border. “We’re all kind of watching out for each other like we did over on Second Street,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall is applying for housing and still works three days a week as a home health aide, she said. “I’m just trying to keep the faith and then hopefully something gives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041251\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041251\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Letty Guzman holds a cat pillow in her room at Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About a mile away, Guzman sat inside the Capri Motel, a two-story terracotta-roofed building on a busy street in Berkeley. It was a weekday in May, and a group of formerly homeless residents were playing cornhole in the courtyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guzman said she’s working with program staff to replace her ID, birth certificate and other documents that were stolen when she lived in the RV so she can apply for apartments. Like most of the residents there, it’ll take her several months, even a year or more, to get into a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just hoping to end up with our housing like we’ve been wanting for so many years now and be stable,” she said. “I just want a boring, normal, regular life, that’s all. I’ll be happy with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Second Street, there’s little trace of the encampment she and the Halls left behind. The heaps of garbage and barking dogs are gone. Dozens of new street signs line the road, threatening would-be lodgers with arrest. There’s not an RV in sight, just crumbling pavement, weeds and graffiti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In 2023, police were called to the area around 250 times, and there were 20 reported fires, according to \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024-09-10%20Item%2037%20Encampment%20Policy%20Resolution.pdf\">city documents\u003c/a>. Neighbors complained to the city council that there were “human feces just about anywhere you dare to look,” “a stabbing,” and fights resulting in “retaliatory arson.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city provided porta potties, dumpsters, mobile showers and laundry facilities, and cleared nearly 40 tons of debris over the years. Still, by early 2024, officials deemed the area an imminent health hazard, citing used hypodermic needles, rotting food, a rat infestation and waste-contaminated storm drains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014227/progressive-berkeley-new-tough-stance-homeless-encampments\">even famously liberal Berkeley had had enough\u003c/a> and city leaders directed staff to focus on cleaning up the area. They started laying plans to close the encampment for good and, ideally, house its inhabitants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Radu, who oversees Berkeley’s Homeless Response Team, knew they would need to try something different. Past outreach efforts offering shelter to the residents had largely failed. A staff report noted engagement wasn’t successful because many of the RV dwellers did not consider themselves homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall explained it this way: With an apartment out of reach, her RV offered a degree of privacy, security and independence, not to mention a valuable asset that could be traded for cash. Accepting temporary shelter risked all that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041250\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They can’t guarantee you housing once you get in there,” she said, expressing concern that she might be forced to move out of the shelter before a permanent home opened up. Her family could land back on the streets and worse off if they gave up their campers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Radu and his colleagues decided to test a new strategy: cash for RVs. If the participants agreed to move indoors, they would get $175 per linear foot of RV, or about $6,000 for a 35-foot vehicle. They’d receive 15% of the payout when they moved into a motel shelter and the rest after they tried out the shelter and their RV was towed. If residents decided not to stick with the program during the trial period, they’d still pocket the initial payment and keep their vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approach was modeled after a pilot in \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.gov/news-releases/new-initiatives-approved-binford-road-encampment?language=es\">Marin County that was \u003c/a>itself inspired by a cash incentive meant to get \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sausalito-homeless-encampment-17531723.php\">boat dwellers out of Richardson Bay\u003c/a>. It had a lot of promise, said UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative Director Margot Kushel, who has \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/resources/long-road-home-housing-and-service-needs-people-who-inhabit-oversized-vehicles\">studied the needs of people living in large vehicles. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city designed this to really gain people’s trust and to make sure that people were not left worse off than they were when they started,” she said. \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/resources/long-road-home-housing-and-service-needs-people-who-inhabit-oversized-vehicles\">She called Berkeley’s program \u003c/a>“quite innovative” and said it could prove valuable in the future as the state contends with RV homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041249\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teahana Roman, program manager, speaks with a resident at Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. The site, operated by Dorothy Day House, provides transitional housing and supportive services for unhoused individuals in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As cities work to clean up homeless encampments under increasing pressure from Gov. Gavin Newsom and housed residents, RV communities present a distinct — and notoriously difficult — challenge, especially with \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10511482.2022.2117990?src=#abstract\">more\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://usich.gov/sites/default/files/document/How_Communities_Are_Responding_to_Vehicular_Homelessness.pdf\">and more\u003c/a> Californians taking up residence in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over half of Alameda County’s unsheltered homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/data_point_in_time.page?\">now lives in some kind of car or RV\u003c/a>, but strategies for managing and resolving this unique form of homelessness are lagging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, attempts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999643/unhoused-san-francisco-rv-families-forced-to-move-yet-again-with-nowhere-to-go\">clear RV encampments\u003c/a> have led to widespread public outcry, and after moving to ban overnight RV parking, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">city reversed course\u003c/a> under pressure from advocates. Now, Mayor Daniel Lurie is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">again proposing to ban the vehicles\u003c/a>, this time with a similar offer to Berkeley’s, as part of a broader plan to get motorhomes off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kushel’s \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/resources/long-road-home-housing-and-service-needs-people-who-inhabit-oversized-vehicles\">research\u003c/a> found that people living in RVs are reluctant to give them up for anything short of permanent housing — a dilemma when there’s little to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley officials designed their strategy with that in mind, but residents still had reservations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041248\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An empty stretch of Second Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, was once home to a large unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It sounds good,” Patrick said, “but that’s what makes me a little leery — maybe it just sounds too good to be true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall was wary, too. What she didn’t know about the motel program gave her pause. “[You] don’t know if it’s going to be safe,” she said. “You’re going in with strangers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so did what she knew. “You can’t have anybody visiting you,” Hall said, “You can’t cook in the room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Guzman, though RV living never felt truly safe, the possibility of ending up on the streets in a tent, even less protected from the elements, was even more terrifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get the program to work, city staff and nonprofit outreach workers spent roughly three months coaxing residents, explaining their offer, listening to concerns and making accommodations to the shelter policies where possible. A one-dog-per-person rule stretched to allow four dogs in one room; friends were allowed to bunk together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041252\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Letty Guzman looks out of the window in her room at Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. The site, operated by Dorothy Day House, provides transitional housing and supportive services for unhoused individuals in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All of that really matters,” Radu said. But ultimately, it was the city’s cash offer that overcame many of the residents’ reservations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guzman and her husband ended up accepting roughly $3,000 for their vehicle, which they promptly put into savings. That gives them some reassurance, she said, in case they get kicked out or the program ends. “We don’t have another RV to go to or a Plan B, so we gotta have something put aside for that, just in case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick and his wife also took the city up on its offer. For them, it solved a logistical problem: What to do with their motorhomes if they moved into a shelter? They have two cars and two RVs and stand to get about $4,900 for just one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The buy-back program kind of makes everything sort of doable because it gives me a little money in my pocket, and I don’t have to worry about my stuff getting towed because it’s not my stuff anymore,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Halls, on the other hand, opted out because, as Fannie Hall said, “I’d rather stay where I’m safe and I’m familiar with.” But they were among the exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An empty stretch of Second Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, was once home to a large unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A total of 36 people and 26 dogs moved from the encampment into a city-leased motel in central Berkeley beginning in January. Of the 32 vehicles workers encountered on Second Street during the closure process, just three remain on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By that metric, it was a resounding success and something that we’re looking to expand upon hopefully in other encampments,” Radu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kushel and her team are now evaluating the program’s success at Berkeley’s request — a highly unusual step. The city built the research plan into its application for $5.4 million in state \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-and-funding/programs-active/encampment-resolution-funding-program\">Encampment Resolution Funding\u003c/a> last year.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> While California has put \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007\">$1 billion toward the grants\u003c/a> since 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982237/california-audit-questions-state-homelessness-spending-san-jose\">there’s little quality research on what works\u003c/a> when it comes to successfully closing encampments. Radu and Kushel want to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that we are leaning into this crisis with both a sense of urgency and also a sense of moving beyond rhetoric to actually explore what does work, what doesn’t work and to try to get as many win-wins as we possibly can,” Kushel said. “The story is just beginning, but I think we’ve already learned a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the research, Kushel will be looking closely at the holdouts, like Hall and her family, to understand why they refused to accept the city’s offer. The answer might influence how they design future programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Halls left Second Street in late April with help from the city of Berkeley to get their RVs running. Rats had gnawed through some wiring, Hall said, and the motorhomes needed new batteries, which the city sprang for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re now adjusting to life behind a Target on the Oakland-Emeryville border. “We’re all kind of watching out for each other like we did over on Second Street,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall is applying for housing and still works three days a week as a home health aide, she said. “I’m just trying to keep the faith and then hopefully something gives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041251\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041251\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Letty Guzman holds a cat pillow in her room at Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About a mile away, Guzman sat inside the Capri Motel, a two-story terracotta-roofed building on a busy street in Berkeley. It was a weekday in May, and a group of formerly homeless residents were playing cornhole in the courtyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guzman said she’s working with program staff to replace her ID, birth certificate and other documents that were stolen when she lived in the RV so she can apply for apartments. Like most of the residents there, it’ll take her several months, even a year or more, to get into a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just hoping to end up with our housing like we’ve been wanting for so many years now and be stable,” she said. “I just want a boring, normal, regular life, that’s all. I’ll be happy with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Second Street, there’s little trace of the encampment she and the Halls left behind. The heaps of garbage and barking dogs are gone. Dozens of new street signs line the road, threatening would-be lodgers with arrest. There’s not an RV in sight, just crumbling pavement, weeds and graffiti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Facing mounting pressure from residents, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie introduced a plan on Tuesday to ban large vehicles and RVs from parking for longer than two hours on city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, which is part of his March “Breaking the Cycle” \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news-mayor-lurie-unveils-breaking-the-cycle-vision-for-tackling-san-franciscos-homelessness-and-behavioral-health-crisis\">initiative\u003c/a>, would subject unauthorized oversized vehicles to citations and towing if not moved within the new time limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No child should grow up in San Francisco forced to live in a car,” Lurie said at a press conference on Tuesday. “And no parent should have to raise their children in those conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the program, Lurie is proposing to devote nearly $13 million to enforcement, outreach and housing subsidies, with city workers offering residents living in large vehicles the chance to receive stable housing. Lurie also intends to offer RV dwellers a “vehicle buyback” incentive — essentially a cash offer to encourage residents to relinquish their large vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes just six months after former Mayor London Breed’s own plan for banning RV street parking was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">reversed\u003c/a> by the Board of Supervisors, due to mounting criticism from homeless advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"a line of RVs in a car mirror\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members look for vehicles and RVs serving as shelters, but many have to make judgment calls as they count. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed’s plan would have allowed officials with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to tow vehicles if RV dwellers rejected the city’s offers of shelter or services. However, the End Poverty Tows Coalition successfully \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13531123&GUID=EE66C5B2-A7B2-4941-B9E6-1F0B62A1DC95\">appealed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of that coalition are blasting Lurie’s current plan, while others say it has some merit, but lacks clarity about who specifically should be prioritized for rehousing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleana Binder, the director of public policy at the GLIDE Center for Social Justice and a member of the coalition, said the most troubling part of the plan is the city’s estimate that it could provide funding to rehouse only 115 families, or roughly a quarter of the 437 households estimated to live in large vehicles citywide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The difference between 115 and 437 is concerning,” Binder said. “Those who are not immediately connected with housing subsidies will have some protection from the two-hour parking restrictions, but we’ll still be at risk of ticketing and towing for other violations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12017544 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s proposal includes some exceptions for residents actively awaiting their placement into housing; they’ll be eligible for a temporary permit that allows them to remain parked until they can relocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Binder said she believes this plan could make it harder for people who are already in the queue for housing to get the resources they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those folks might experience further bottlenecking in the system if the few resources that are available are dedicated only to families who are living in RVs,” Binder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Binder said the coalition isn’t staunchly opposed to what Lurie has proposed so far. Still, she would like to see changes to the vehicle buyback program, which she said “needs to be actually adequate and a true recognition of the value of the vehicle\u003cem>.\u003c/em>” The city did not immediately respond to a question about how much money would be offered for each vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lukas Illa, a human rights organizer with the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness, however, called Lurie’s plan “draconian” and described the buyback program as “coercive in nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It’s] being framed as a benevolent act, but with the threat of towing and impounding and scrapping of their vehicle if they refuse the ‘services’ they’re being offered,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Lurie said his proposal has the support of five county supervisors, the majority needed for the board to approve his plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board will likely take its first vote on the proposal in September, according to Emily Cohen, a spokesperson for the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. 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"content": "\u003cp>Facing staunch opposition from advocates for people experiencing homelessness, San Francisco supervisors voted Tuesday to reverse course on a controversial citywide policy banning overnight parking for RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approved Oct. 1 by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, enforcement of the ban was intended to begin Nov. 1 but got delayed after advocates with the End Poverty Tows Coalition filed an \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13531123&GUID=EE66C5B2-A7B2-4941-B9E6-1F0B62A1DC95\">appeal\u003c/a>. The policy did not initially require approval from the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parking ban would have allowed SFMTA officials to tow oversized vehicles, like RVs — rather than just ticketing them — if inhabitants turn down offers of shelter or services. The 18-month pilot program would have been implemented on most city streets between 12 a.m. and 6 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its appeal, filed just days before the policy would have gone into effect, advocates with the End Poverty Tows Coalition argued it unjustly targeted unhoused residents. Supervisors Dean Preston, Hillary Ronen, Shamann Walton, Aaron Peskin and Ahsha Safai signed on to the appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those supervisors, with the addition of Supervisors Connie Chan and Myrna Melgar, voted to reverse the SFMTA policy after hours of public comment urging them to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing marks the first time the board heard an appeal to an SFMTA decision since the city enacted a review process in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An RV is often where people can get out of survival mode, take a breath, and have the mental and emotional capacity to focus on stabilizing and rebuilding their lives,” said Joy D’Ovidio, cofounder of the San Francisco-based nonprofit A Meal With Dignity. “We’ve all experienced the trauma of having a car towed — imagine having your home towed. We must be more compassionate than that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board heard from dozens of San Francisco residents in support of reversing the ban, some of whom were currently or formerly living in their vehicles. Speakers pointed to the lack of shelter space and options for families living in RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No members of the public spoke in support of the SFMTA policy during the hearing. But, in a presentation to the board defending the ban, officials from the SFMTA said it would have been used as a last resort to address health and safety issues for people living in their vehicles, as well as for neighboring residents and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency had planned to implement the policy at a rate of one or two city blocks per month, SFMTA Streets Division Director Viktoriya Wise said during the presentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until there is a clear indication of meaningful enforcement, such as having your vehicle towed, people don’t always want to accept shelter and our other services,” Wise said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gabriel Medina, executive director of La Raza Community Resource Center who spoke on behalf of the End Poverty Tows Coalition, argued the ban would endanger people who live in their RVs — many of whom are disabled, undocumented, or survivors of domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His organization has been involved in outreach with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000285/unhoused-rv-families-return-to-winston-drive-after-eviction-from-s-f-zoo-road\">Winston Drive RV community\u003c/a> near Lake Merced. Families in that RV community were evicted earlier this summer after being shuffled around the area for years. Some were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007425/san-francisco-bans-overnight-parking-for-rvs-on-most-city-streets\">moved into long-term housing\u003c/a> after the city threatened to tow their vehicles.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12007425,news_11983146,news_12000285\"]Instead, he said the city should invest in safe parking sites and ramp up community engagement to connect more people with housing opportunities. Though, previous attempts by the city to create safe parking sites have not gone smoothly. The city is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/homeless-parking-site-close-19962351.php\">set to close\u003c/a> its only safe parking site for people living in their vehicles early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The requirement only for shelter, rather than housing, is inappropriate for this population. For every person in an RV offered a shelter bed, someone on the street loses out on that bed,” said Eleana Binder, who filed the appeal on behalf of the End Poverty Tows Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversial parking ban was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/mayor-london-breed-proposes-new-city-policy-address-oversized-vehicle-parking-across-san\">first proposed in September\u003c/a> by Mayor London Breed as part of her broader effort to crack down on homelessness in the city. Of the roughly 4,300 people who are unsheltered on San Francisco’s streets, about a third of them live in their vehicles, according to the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/reports/september-2024/2024-point-time-count\">2024 point-in-time count\u003c/a>. However, for unsheltered families, that rate jumps to 90%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Joel Engardio, Rafael Mandelman and Matt Dorsey supported the proposal when it was announced and also voted against reversing the SFMTA policy at Tuesday’s meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not going to mean the mass displacement of RVs, but these are some tools to be sparingly used as necessary when nothing else is working,” Mandelman said. “I take staff at their word. That’s how they see it. I think they have constrained themselves quite a bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar, who worked with the Winston Drive RV community in her district, said the issue with the ban is that it would charge the SFMTA with tasks outside the scope of the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the city is not currently set up to support those living in RVs — especially families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eventually, I will support the parking restrictions when we have a system to deal with it, which I don’t think we have today,” Melgar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Instead, he said the city should invest in safe parking sites and ramp up community engagement to connect more people with housing opportunities. Though, previous attempts by the city to create safe parking sites have not gone smoothly. The city is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/homeless-parking-site-close-19962351.php\">set to close\u003c/a> its only safe parking site for people living in their vehicles early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The requirement only for shelter, rather than housing, is inappropriate for this population. For every person in an RV offered a shelter bed, someone on the street loses out on that bed,” said Eleana Binder, who filed the appeal on behalf of the End Poverty Tows Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversial parking ban was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/mayor-london-breed-proposes-new-city-policy-address-oversized-vehicle-parking-across-san\">first proposed in September\u003c/a> by Mayor London Breed as part of her broader effort to crack down on homelessness in the city. Of the roughly 4,300 people who are unsheltered on San Francisco’s streets, about a third of them live in their vehicles, according to the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/reports/september-2024/2024-point-time-count\">2024 point-in-time count\u003c/a>. However, for unsheltered families, that rate jumps to 90%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Joel Engardio, Rafael Mandelman and Matt Dorsey supported the proposal when it was announced and also voted against reversing the SFMTA policy at Tuesday’s meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not going to mean the mass displacement of RVs, but these are some tools to be sparingly used as necessary when nothing else is working,” Mandelman said. “I take staff at their word. That’s how they see it. I think they have constrained themselves quite a bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar, who worked with the Winston Drive RV community in her district, said the issue with the ban is that it would charge the SFMTA with tasks outside the scope of the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the city is not currently set up to support those living in RVs — especially families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eventually, I will support the parking restrictions when we have a system to deal with it, which I don’t think we have today,” Melgar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> transportation officials will begin taking aggressive steps to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983146/san-franciscos-new-parking-rules-set-to-displace-rv-community-near-sf-state\">stop oversized vehicles from parking overnight\u003c/a> on city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Municipal Transportation Authority’s board approved the policy change, which allows the city to tow oversized vehicles if the people living inside them reject offers of shelter, housing or services. The Tuesday board meeting, which stretched into the night, was filled with residents united in their opposition to the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This decision is clearly an attack on our most vulnerable communities and is not a solution,” Yessica Hernandez, a housing justice organizer with the Coalition on Homelessness, said during public comment. “Hiding a problem doesn’t solve it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed proposed the policy change. It comes as she and officials in other California cities crack down on encampments and unhoused people living on the streets. For years, vocal residents have urged officials to address blight and public safety issues sometimes caused by homeless encampments. Several San Francisco Supervisors, including Joel Engardio, Rafael Mandelman, Matt Dorsey and Catherine Stefani, support the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Gov. 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More than 8,323 people are unhoused, according to \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/about/research-and-reports/pit/#PIT-Count-Dashboard\">the city’s 2024 count\u003c/a>. About 9% of the 4,354 people who are unsheltered in San Francisco live in their vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MTA officials and the San Francisco Police Department will enforce the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12006541 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“City workers are out on the streets every day offering shelter and housing to people living in recreational vehicles,” Jeff Tumlin, SFMTA’s director of transportation, said in a statement. “This legislation will allow for parking enforcement if and when all those offers have been refused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, city officials have already moved 50 households from vehicles on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965352/san-francisco-rv-community-fears-new-parking-rules-could-push-them-closer-to-homelessness\">Winston Drive near Stonestown Mall\u003c/a> and Zoo Road near Lake Merced into long-term housing since June after threatening to tow their vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affordable housing activists and critics argue the proposed law does nothing to fix the lack of affordable housing in the city or access to safe parking sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the conversation was, ‘Give up your RV for permanent shelter,’ it would be a completely different conversation,” Lukas Illa, an organizer with the Coalition on Homelessness, said. “Shelter is so temporary. So many folks I have talked to desperately want permanent solutions. But that is not what’s being offered by the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What other housing questions do you have for KQED?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Housing is one of the most crucial — and contentious — issues in the Bay Area, and here at KQED, we have a whole team dedicated to exploring \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/housing\">stories about housing affordability\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of our work, we also want to bring you explainers and guides about housing in the region, offering practical advice and insight for renters, homeowners and unhoused folks on a wide range of housing situations. We also want you to send us your story ideas and tips, share your personal experience with housing in the Bay Area or volunteer to be one of the KQED readers and listeners we consult about housing stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So tell us: What housing question should we answer next?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can use the comment box below to submit your question about housing in the Bay Area or California more widely. Or, maybe there’s a housing program you want explained or investigated. Whatever’s on your mind, use the Google Form below to talk to us. The information you provide here will be shared with the folks who work on KQED’s housing coverage, and we may follow up with you directly through the contact details you provide. (We’ll never share your information outside of KQED without your permission.) 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My two daughters are in school, and I need a safe place for both of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-02-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983160\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a black and white track suit stands next to a woman with a green shirt in front of microphones inside a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marlon Arostegui speaks at an SFMTA Board of Directors meeting at San Francisco City Hall on April 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During Tuesday’s SFMTA board meeting, Director Jeffrey Tumlin said, however, that the city “will not be doing any enforcement of these new signs” until after a nearby road paving program is complete and after the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing can do additional rounds of outreach to RV residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parking and traffic safety enforcement will ramp up across the entire city in the coming weeks as the city has hired more parking patrol officers, Tumlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several speakers on Tuesday protested the decision and said that they couldn’t move their vehicles because they were at work during the day. Others needed help repairing a mechanical issue in order to drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many said they wouldn’t be able to pay the $92 ticket that the city would issue to cars that don’t move and fear those tickets could further entrench their housing challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983159\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Three women and one man sit behind a table with microphones and computer screens.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFMTA Board Chair Amanda Eaken (center right) and others listen to public comments during an SFMTA Board of Directors meeting at San Francisco City Hall on April 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across San Francisco, people living in RVs are in similar face offs with the city. About 35 RV dwellers were facing displacement when the city announced it would begin enforcing parking limits near Bernal Heights Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some neighbors complained the vehicles clogged up the road and sidewalk around the park. But a \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/bernal-heights-residents-buck-trend-and-fight-rv-evictions/\">group of housed neighbors\u003c/a> has also come together to delay enforcement until residents have an alternative place to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing has been working with people living in RVs on Winston Ave. for months to find housing placements and other solutions for people who want to stay in their RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department previously told KQED it was reviewing potential locations where people living on Winstron could safely park their RVs. 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You say this is for the safety for the public. But where are these people going to go after they are displaced? We aren’t thinking about that,” Yessica Hernandez, an organizer who has been working with families living on Winston Drive, said during public comment. “We have a huge problem with homelessness in San Francisco, and we aren’t going to get rid of it by putting in four-hour parking restrictions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Tuesday, many residents who came to speak at City Hall said they felt stranded without many options ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need from you a safe place where we can move,” Walter Mejia, who has lived in an RV on Winston Dr for three years, said through a Spanish translator during Tuesday’s board meeting. “We don’t have the funds to pay for these parking tickets.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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My two daughters are in school, and I need a safe place for both of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-02-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983160\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a black and white track suit stands next to a woman with a green shirt in front of microphones inside a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marlon Arostegui speaks at an SFMTA Board of Directors meeting at San Francisco City Hall on April 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During Tuesday’s SFMTA board meeting, Director Jeffrey Tumlin said, however, that the city “will not be doing any enforcement of these new signs” until after a nearby road paving program is complete and after the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing can do additional rounds of outreach to RV residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parking and traffic safety enforcement will ramp up across the entire city in the coming weeks as the city has hired more parking patrol officers, Tumlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several speakers on Tuesday protested the decision and said that they couldn’t move their vehicles because they were at work during the day. Others needed help repairing a mechanical issue in order to drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many said they wouldn’t be able to pay the $92 ticket that the city would issue to cars that don’t move and fear those tickets could further entrench their housing challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983159\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Three women and one man sit behind a table with microphones and computer screens.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-RV-COMMUNITY-RALLY-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFMTA Board Chair Amanda Eaken (center right) and others listen to public comments during an SFMTA Board of Directors meeting at San Francisco City Hall on April 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across San Francisco, people living in RVs are in similar face offs with the city. About 35 RV dwellers were facing displacement when the city announced it would begin enforcing parking limits near Bernal Heights Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some neighbors complained the vehicles clogged up the road and sidewalk around the park. But a \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/bernal-heights-residents-buck-trend-and-fight-rv-evictions/\">group of housed neighbors\u003c/a> has also come together to delay enforcement until residents have an alternative place to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing has been working with people living in RVs on Winston Ave. for months to find housing placements and other solutions for people who want to stay in their RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department previously told KQED it was reviewing potential locations where people living on Winstron could safely park their RVs. But no such location has been identified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965074\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-LakeMercedRVs-023-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965074\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-LakeMercedRVs-023-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A ticket on a windshield of a vehicle.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-LakeMercedRVs-023-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-LakeMercedRVs-023-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-LakeMercedRVs-023-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-LakeMercedRVs-023-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-LakeMercedRVs-023-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-LakeMercedRVs-023-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An SFMTA parking ticket for street cleaning sits on the windshield of an RV along Winston Drive in San Francisco, California, on Oct. 17, 2023, near San Francisco State University. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You’ll be displacing a lot of families. 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