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He was around 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not being able to go there just like every other Syrian is definitely a sense feeling lost,” Chaaban said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This loss prompted an identity crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030086\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/band-photo-scaled-e1741288702582.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030086\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/band-photo-scaled-e1741288702582.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1584\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Al Akhbar performed at UC Riverside’s SWANACON on Jan. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Daniel Nasr Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I felt like I was a bit too Arab for the Americans and then not Arab enough for the Arabs,” he said. “It kind of just threw me off for a while.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the COVID-19 pandemic, Chaaban researched Arabic music. 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As he read, Chaaban realized there were overlaps between jazz and Arabic music, like the emphasis on rhythm and the political circumstances that gave rise to both genres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Revolution music is a good way to describe Black American music,” he said. “Resistance music is a great way to describe Middle Eastern music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Persekian saw these links too, and soon, the two began experimenting, combining the music they were raised with and the music they adopted and performing jazz-inspired covers of Arabic music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after, Persekian went to a local Arab classical music concert put on by an organization called Mazikaa Enterprises, led by Layan Amkieh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That scarcity, that feeling of always carrying an armor,” Amkieh began, “led to the need for a space where we could take off that armor. A space that we could look in the mirror, be fully us.”[aside postID=news_12023476 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240403-DrSubeh-005-BL-1020x680.jpg']Amkieh is also Syrian, and she grew up between the United States and the Middle East. She said she felt like she had to buffer her national, cultural and religious identity from others. So, in 2023, she started Mazikaa Enterprises with her sister, Nour Amikeh, in order to curate spaces where Southwest Asian and North African cultures, known as SWANA, could be celebrated in diaspora communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Amkieh and Persekian spoke, he broached the idea of fusion music with her. She loved it and became the band’s manager to make it happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Persekian enlisted additional friends, including saxophone player Richard Albert IV, who goes by Riva, and bassist Hank Lee Nelson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Albert, who grew up in Texas with Mexican and Puerto Rican parents, playing Arabic music has deepened his connection to his Latin American roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those percussive elements and some of the harmonic elements [in Latin music] belong to Arabic culture that … through generations and generations are passed down,” he said. “So learning my own culture through Arabic culture…it’s such a crazy journey as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally from the Bay Area, Nelson’s path to Al Akhbar was more dramatic. One night, he was out with Albert and other friends when Persekian called him in a panic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s like, ‘Yo, the bassist dropped out. Can you pull up and play?’” Nelson recalled. He was floored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want me to play bass at your gig that starts in like 15 minutes?” he responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030108\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Mazikaa-salar-149-2-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Mazikaa-salar-149-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Mazikaa-salar-149-2-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Mazikaa-salar-149-2-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Mazikaa-salar-149-2-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Mazikaa-salar-149-2-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Mazikaa-salar-149-2-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Mazikaa-salar-149-2-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Mazikaa-salar-149-2-1920x2880.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Persekian, a keyboardist with roots in East Jerusalem, founded Al Akhbar with drummer Naji Chaaban in San Diego. \u003ccite>(Mazikaa by Salar)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nelson had only practiced the music once. When the concert started, he was shaking as he strummed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know how or why, but [Nelson] killed it,” Persekian recalled of that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last member to join the band was vocalist and Arab instrumentalist Salem Khattar. Growing up, Khattar’s Lebanese parents would take him to their home country in the summers. Khattar said he felt the musical spark when his grandparents took him to a music festival, where he saw a band play Arabic music live for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was obsessed with it, and I wanted to learn so bad,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His family bought him his first \u003cem>nye\u003c/em> soon after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, while attending law school, Khattar threw himself into practicing the \u003cem>oud\u003c/em>, a lute. Like Persekian, Khattar met Amkieh, the band’s manager, at a concert, exchanging Instagram handles. Then, he joined one of their rehearsals.[aside postID=news_11997602 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240623_GAZAEVACUATION_GC-9-KQED.jpg']“When I met Naji, I was like, ‘I’ll break your legs if you don’t let me into this group,” Khattar said as he laughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego contains many diasporic communities, as about a quarter of its population was born outside the country, \u003ca href=\"https://datausa.io/profile/geo/san-diego-ca\">according to 2022 census data\u003c/a>. San Diego County has historically \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2017/07/san-diego-welcomes-refugees-california-county/\">welcomed\u003c/a> more refugees than others in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The band also attracts a multicultural audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Megan Kirie, who identifies as Boricua, or Puerto Rican, said the music that Al Akhbar played at Lightbulb Coffee resonated with her. It reminded her of the tunes her parents would dance to back home in New York and brought back memories of her time volunteering in the occupied West Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Music is our language. It’s what connects us and brings us together,” she said, referring to the Global South. “It’s how we survive as a people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirie said the Israel-Hamas war has taken an emotional toll on her. It reminded her of her Palestinian friends. She stifled a sob as she explained that the music evoked thoughts of both ancestors and current events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s never just the people in the room,” Kirie said. “It’s always who’s not with us in the room as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The layered emotions aren’t unfamiliar to Al Akhbar, as war and upheaval in the Middle East have impacted band members. Khattar has, at times, felt guilty about performing, worried about his relatives in Lebanon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030087\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Mazikaa-audience-2-scaled-e1741288850383.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030087\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Mazikaa-audience-2-scaled-e1741288850383.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd danced at a Mazikaa event in San Diego on Dec. 15, 2024. Khattar told KQED that joy was a form of resistance. \u003ccite>(Mazikaa by Salar)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to play a party, and they’re worried about tomorrow, you know?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Persekian also missed his family in East Jerusalem and is unsure when he can visit them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just breaks my heart because it just feels like there’s less chances of us returning or being able to be together,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khattar’s family abroad has offered support, commenting on his Instagram posts about the band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My relatives back home personally have reached out to me on my Stories and said, ‘Good for you,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For him and other band members, performing has become a means of resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only is war like an attack on infrastructure or on humans, but it’s also a psychological thing,” Khattar said. “Like, you shouldn’t be happy, and they don’t want you to be happy. So being joyful and having a good time is almost like a rebellion in itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Persekian agrees, viewing the band’s music as a way to keep their culture alive while it’s under siege. Gaza’s health ministry has reported that Israel’s military campaign has killed more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/content/reported-impact-snapshot-gaza-strip-4-march-2025\">48,000 Palestinians\u003c/a>, and the war has leveled the architecture of cultural life as well. \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/14/a-cultural-genocide-which-of-gazas-heritage-sites-have-been-destroyed\">Mosques\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/14/a-cultural-genocide-which-of-gazas-heritage-sites-have-been-destroyed\">churches\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/world/gaza-students-future/\">universities\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/arts-center-in-gaza-destroyed-180984142/\">art galleries\u003c/a> have been destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When your culture is being stolen, you gotta be louder than ever,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[\u003cstrong>March 9:\u003c/strong> A previous version of this story misspelled the names of Layan Amkieh, Salem Khattar, Naji Chaaban, Nour Amikeh and Mazikaa Enterprises. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been eight months since the U.S. Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/06/california-homeless-camps-grants-pass-ruling/\">fundamentally changed\u003c/a> how cities in California and beyond can respond to homeless encampments, allowing them to clear camps and arrest people for sleeping outside — even when there’s nowhere else to sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/06/california-homeless-camps-grants-pass-ruling/\">July ruling\u003c/a> in the case \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/23-175.html\">Grants Pass v. Johnson\u003c/a> upended six years of protections for unhoused people. It was a radical change, and it came as many Californians, from small business owners to Gov. Gavin Newsom, were fed up with regularly seeing tent camps that stretched for blocks, human feces smeared on sidewalks and people injecting drugs in the open. Once the Supreme Court gave the green light, even liberal strongholds such as San Francisco were quick to start removing camps — despite a collective outcry from activists supporting the rights of homeless Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has that meant for people living outside?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters spent four months interviewing experts, requesting data and making a dozen visits to encampments in San Francisco and Fresno to document enforcement efforts and follow the unhoused people displaced when their camps were cleared. Our public media partner, KPBS, did extensive reporting and visits to encampments in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts agree clearing or “sweeping” encampments alone can’t end \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/category/housing/homelessness/\">homelessness\u003c/a>. But here’s what we did see over and over as a result of sweeps in those cities: people becoming more likely to lose touch with support services, people losing essential items they need to get into housing (such as birth certificates) or to survive the elements (such as tents) and people still stuck on the streets — sometimes in new locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, cities try to pair enforcement with \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/02/california-homeless-shelters-purgatory/\">offers of a shelter bed\u003c/a> or other services. But shelter is generally in short supply, and the types of programs available often don’t work for everyone on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities are continuing with enforcement, anyway. Here’s what that looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Linda Vazquez sat cross-legged on the sidewalk during an afternoon last fall, with two dogs in her lap and her hands cuffed behind her back. A police officer stood over her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beside her, balanced on a camp stove, sat the pot of chicharrones she’d been cooking for lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vazquez, 52, was clearly upset. “Because I did \u003cem>so \u003c/em>bad,” she yelled sarcastically at the officer, who was citing her for “unauthorized lodging,” a misdemeanor under California’s penal code. “This is the biggest crime ever.”[aside postID=news_12028502 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Evelyn-Alfred-3.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police didn’t end up taking Vazquez to jail, and instead gave her a slip of paper with a date to show up in court. They did confiscate the tarp she was sheltering under as “evidence,” making it harder for her to survive on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/02/california-homeless-camping-citation-trials/\">citation \u003c/a>was Vazquez’s second in two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within hours, Vazquez was back, setting up camp in the same spot — a block that had essentially become hers. Vazquez was known throughout the neighborhood, always surrounded by dogs and friends. On any given day, you might find her cooking meals to share, giving away blankets and other provisions to her unhoused neighbors or hitting people who caused trouble on the block with a blast of water from her Super Soaker squirt gun. At night, she watched horror movies on a tablet in her tent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vazquez continued to camp there for the next three months and received at least one more citation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘look, there’s nowhere else to go,’” Vazquez said. ‘“All the other places are doing the same thing. So where do you want me to go? Where do you want me to hide out?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California native, Vazquez grew up bouncing between Modesto, Santa Cruz, Gilroy, Monterey and other places as her mother found work on different farms. Her life took a turn for the worse in her 20s when, she says, her former partner became abusive. She fled to San Francisco in 1998, and for the past few years has been bouncing between the street, shelters and subsidized housing placements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Encampment removals in Vazquez’s neighborhood — a handful of alleys that run between Van Ness Avenue and Larkin Street at the edge of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood — have fallen into a predictable rhythm. There are sweeps nearly every Monday and Friday, regular as clockwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029253\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/111924_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_04-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/111924_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_04-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/111924_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_04-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/111924_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_04-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/111924_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_04-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/111924_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_04-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘It’s ridiculous because, if it was actually sweeping, then I’d understand, but since it’s not actually sweeping, the fuck are you moving me for? Then I got to deal with all this shit, then all the toppings you want to put on it, like getting citations, going to jail and all that. Why?’ said Linda Vazquez, 52. Above, Vazquez tidies her belongings outside of her tent on Cedar Street in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jungho Kim for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029259\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Linda Vazquez holds a citation for ‘unauthorized lodging’ from the San Francisco Police Department in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2024. Right: An encampment on Cedar Street in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jungho Kim for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CalMatters visited that area about twice a week for five weeks last fall. During that time, city outreach teams spoke with people camping there 138 times, according to Jackie Thornhill, spokesperson for the city’s Department of Emergency Management. They placed people in shelter 27 times, and placed one person in permanent housing. Police made 16 arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On most days during that five-week span, CalMatters saw several people camped on each block, despite the frequent sweeps. Their reasons for living on the street varied. Many couldn’t stand being in a shelter. One man said he once saw a fellow shelter resident get raped, and since then, he’s avoided those facilities at all costs. A woman CalMatters spoke with said she already had housing in a city-funded SRO, but she’s a victim of domestic violence, and her abuser found out where she lives. Now, she doesn’t feel safe going back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/02/california-homeless-shelters-purgatory/\">CalMatters investigation\u003c/a> revealed that many California shelters are a purgatory — plagued by unsanitary and unsafe conditions, and operating with next-to-no oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people opt to sleep on the street and try to be gone in the morning before the city shows up to kick them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not uncommon for as many as a dozen city workers to participate in an encampment removal, including police, fire department paramedics and staff from the city’s Department of Emergency Management, Homeless Outreach Team and Encampment Resolution Team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That work is coordinated by Mary Ellen Carroll, executive director of the city’s Department of Emergency Management. The goal, she said, is to clean up and offer people services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes people will get up and move around and come back after,” said Carroll, who was on site as her team cleaned up encampments in Vazquez’s neighborhood on a Friday afternoon last fall. “But…it’s a matter of consistency, to just keep coming and addressing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On that Friday, Carroll’s team spoke with 13 people camping in the alleyways between Van Ness and Larkin. None of them accepted a shelter bed. From January through early November 2024, her team engaged with people in that area 930 times, and referred people to shelter 180 times. In another 47 cases, the person already had housing or shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, only between 20% and 30% of people accept a shelter bed when it’s offered, according to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With those low placement numbers, and with people returning over and over to camp on the same streets, are the city’s efforts helping?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that it is helping, overall,” Carroll said. Clearing encampments is just part of a broader strategy that includes outreach and services, but it’s an important piece, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To David Schmitz, a 60-year-old photographer who lives in an apartment overlooking the street where Vazquez camps, the encampment sweeps have made a difference. When he first moved in, about four months earlier, it was common to see at least a dozen tents on the street. People frequently urinated against his garage door, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the November afternoon that he spoke to CalMatters, the city had just finished a clean-up that left the street spotless — not a tent or piece of trash in sight. Schmitz said he’d never seen it so clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029262\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/111524_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_06-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/111524_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_06-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/111524_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_06-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/111524_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_06-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/111524_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_06-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/111524_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_06-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unhoused man carries a tarp and some of his belongings across Polk Street during a homeless encampment sweep in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2024. Unhoused people on Cedar Street are forced to move their shelters and belongings on a regular basis by San Francisco city workers. \u003ccite>(Jungho Kim for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was euphoric,” he said. “I was like, this is amazing. This is what it could be like, you know. If it were like this … I would see my neighbors more. It wouldn’t be such an apocalyptic feeling to come out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone caught camping gets cited or arrested. Police typically give people citations if they have pitched a tent or strung up a tarp, like Vazquez did, to use as shelter, but not if they are sleeping in the open on just a blanket, said Sgt. J. Ellison with the police department’s Healthy Streets Operation Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellison sees Vazquez frequently because many of the city’s shelter and transitional housing programs won’t allow all of Vazquez’s dogs. She has three, and she’s unwilling to give any up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t leave them,” Vazquez said, “because I’ve had them since they were the size of my hand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, nearly every Monday and Friday, Vazquez and her friends packed up everything they owned and moved around the corner, waiting there until the police and other city personnel left and they could return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent rainy Monday afternoon, Vazquez was sick, huddling in a small tent with a hairdryer on (using jumper cables to siphon power from a nearby street light) to keep warm. The city came three days earlier and took her larger, gray tent, tarps, portable heater and other belongings, she said. It was raining then, too, and Vazquez said she stood outside in the rain for hours until a friend could give her a new tent. All her clothes got soaked — as did the two paper camping citations that told her when she was supposed to appear in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city was coming again that afternoon to clear the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have no energy at all,” Vazquez said, sniffling and coughing. “But I have to move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after, Vazquez found a hotel in San Francisco that agreed to take her and her three dogs. A room there costs $70 a day — money Vazquez pays with her disability benefits. She found the place on her own, without the city’s help, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vazquez isn’t sure how long she’ll be able to keep up with the payments. But she has a more pressing concern: The hotel is making her leave temporarily, so that it doesn’t have to grant her tenant’s rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where will she go until she can return?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess I’m going to be in a tent for three days,” she said. “And then I’m going to come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Diego\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Diego’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2023/07/31/san-diegos-unsafe-camping-ordinance-enforcement-begins\">unsafe camping ordinance\u003c/a> went into effect nearly a year before the U.S. Supreme Court’s Grants Pass decision. It prohibits tent camping in all public spaces if shelter beds are available, and near homeless shelters, schools, parks and transit centers regardless of shelter availability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also outlined the process for clearing encampments, reducing \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiego.gov/homelessness-strategies-and-solutions/about/legal-settlements#:~:text=Isaiah%20Settlement%20(2011)&text=A%20one%2Dtime%20settlement%20payment,individuals%20could%20store%20personal%20belongings.\">a previous 72-hour\u003c/a> notice to just 24 hours. Part of the process includes the city’s Environmental Services Department posting neon green notices prior to clearing an encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldea Secory has gotten used to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every other day, pretty much, they make us clean up and move,” she said. She and her husband found they could avoid the sweeps for a while if they stayed near the freeway, on state property the California Department of Transportation oversees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were on the side of the freeway for, like, a month,” Secory said. Then, she said, the California Highway Patrol swept that site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the last time we lost all our stuff,” she said. “It’s heartbreaking to come back to that. You have to start over again and again and again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-four hours after the green notices get posted on fences, light posts, tents or nearby vegetation, city staff take photos of the site and look through any remaining bags, boxes and other items that might contain valuable belongings, such as paperwork or medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029263\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012125-NoticeSignEncampment-KPBS-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1027\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012125-NoticeSignEncampment-KPBS-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012125-NoticeSignEncampment-KPBS-CM-01-copy-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012125-NoticeSignEncampment-KPBS-CM-01-copy-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012125-NoticeSignEncampment-KPBS-CM-01-copy-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012125-NoticeSignEncampment-KPBS-CM-01-copy-1536x1006.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flyer giving 24 hours’ notice before an encampment cleanup hangs in Downtown San Diego on Jan. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Katie Anastas/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Franklin Coopersmith, deputy director of the Environmental Services Department’s Clean SD Division, said cleanup can take around 10 to 30 minutes in places with frequent sweeps, such as downtown surface streets. In more remote areas, like canyons, it can take several days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secory said she’s had valuable items discarded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve thrown brand new things away,” she said. “I had a brand new $35, $40 bag of dog food just thrown away. Beds, clothes, it doesn’t matter. Birth certificates, medication. Doesn’t matter. They just throw it away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Personal items can get discarded for a few reasons, Coopersmith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, he said, they’re in pockets or containers city employees might miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times, too, people are storing them with food that’s spoiled or bags that have gotten wet and they’ve turned moldy,” he said. “We’re not going to be searching a moldy bag that might have a birth certificate at the very bottom of it. If they’re putting their ID or something next to a meth pipe, our code officers aren’t going to be going through that stuff to figure it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any remaining items soiled with moisture, food, human waste, pet waste, insect infestation, drug paraphernalia or in disrepair are then discarded,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiego.gov/homelessness-strategies-and-solutions/services/abatement\">their policy reads\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12026580 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Unhoused-Ban_DMB_00250.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people that are out there on the streets know that if it’s something important, they need to keep it close to them or in a place that’s easy for them to grab,” Coopersmith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the cleanup, the city posts a yellow flyer with information on how to get those non-discarded items back. Coopersmith said they put the notices close to where they found the items. They’ll keep things in storage for up to 90 days and deliver them back to the owner, according to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secory and her husband now live in a tent at one of two campgrounds the city has created on vacant land. The sites, known as Safe Sleeping sites, are operated by Dreams for Change, a nonprofit that provides homeless services and food distribution. The\u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/dfc-safe-sleeping-program.pdf\"> city provides restrooms and wash stations\u003c/a> and pays the nonprofit to provide outdoor sleeping arrangements, a daily meal and a snack. San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/public-safety/2024/09/20/providers-city-leaders-and-researchers-say-safe-parking-fills-critical-gap-in-shelter-services\">asked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development\u003c/a> to consider those sites as shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having somewhere to keep your stuff and not worry about it getting stolen or messed up, it’s a big help,” Secory said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego’s camping ordinance has made it more difficult for service providers like Jenni Wilkens to stay in contact with unhoused people. She manages the street health program at Father Joe’s Villages, a nonprofit that runs shelters and does outreach work. Staff from their Village Health Center visit encampments weekly to provide help such as wound care, substance use disorder counseling and prescription management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prior to the ordinance going into effect, we had very, very tight relationships with the community members we were serving,” Wilkens said. “We always knew where we could find them. Follow-up was much, much easier. They knew where to expect us, and we just knew we were going to be able to find our folks. Since the camping ordinance passed, the abatement sweeps have been much more frequent and much more aggressive. So we have not been able to provide that quality follow-up care that we used to be able to provide, just because everybody is moving. We lose track of our patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the patients, Lee Alirez, has high blood pressure. She’d been dealing with headaches, blurred vision and chest pain before she got diagnosed. Moving her camp frequently has made it hard to stay in contact with the health team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a couple of different times they couldn’t find me, and I was just literally across the street and around the corner,” Alirez said. “And that was in the midst of all that, trying to figure out what was going on with my blood pressure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029266\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029266\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012825-MB_HOMELESS_MEDICAL-KPBS-CM-06-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012825-MB_HOMELESS_MEDICAL-KPBS-CM-06-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012825-MB_HOMELESS_MEDICAL-KPBS-CM-06-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012825-MB_HOMELESS_MEDICAL-KPBS-CM-06-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012825-MB_HOMELESS_MEDICAL-KPBS-CM-06-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012825-MB_HOMELESS_MEDICAL-KPBS-CM-06-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lee Alirez sits with her dog on Jan. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Matt Bowler/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In some cases, Wilkens said, the frequent movement has made people more likely to accept shelter. But many others have moved to state property — freeway onramps and offramps, overpasses and under bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My team can’t put themselves at risk to reach our patients,” she said. “We also can’t go to a location and ask them to cross back over the freeway to see us. So they’re just getting further and further away from resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Shebloski, a captain with the San Diego Police Department’s Neighborhood Policing Division, said the city’s police don’t have the resources or authority to enforce city ordinances on state land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the frustration when people see an encampment go from city property, where it feels like officers are doing their job, and it goes right over the state property. That’s frustrating,” he said. “We can only do so much, and we have to focus on city property. And I don’t know if we can get into the world of policing 151 miles of state highways within the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2024-Encampments-EO-7-24.pdf\">ordered state agencies (PDF)\u003c/a> to clear encampments from state property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Caltrans District 11, which includes San Diego, wrote in an email that they prioritize removing encampments that present “a threat to infrastructure or people.” The agency gives a 48-hour notice to people in an encampment before a sweep, unless there’s an imminent safety risk, and gives social service providers and local governments two weeks’ notice so they can reach out to people staying there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shebloski said SDPD has been meeting with California Highway Patrol on how they can work together. But while the city’s neighborhood policing division has been active since 2018, Newsom’s executive order is less than a year old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at Caltrans and CHP, they have commuters. We have residents,” he said. “I think this is kind of a new thing for them to dive into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fresno\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s become less common these days to see large homeless encampments in and around downtown Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But spend any time there, and you’ll see something else: People walking the streets, pushing carts and strollers loaded with blankets and other necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005898/fresno-rolls-out-one-of-californias-most-aggressive-camping-bans\">city\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article291219750.html\">county\u003c/a> banned camping on all public property last year, but the area still struggles with a shortage of shelter beds. Now Robert Fox, 32, sleeps on the ground with no tent because it makes it easier to leave when the police come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I gotta leave, all I gotta do is push the cart and get out of here,” Fox said. “Every morning we pack up and have our stuff ready to go. You can’t get attached to anything. You can’t get comfortable. You’re always on the move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox ended up outside after getting kicked out of a drug treatment program. He said he was selling drugs to raise money for new lodgings as the program’s end date approached. He spent a few nights at the nearby shelters, but to get a spot, he has to get in line early and spend hours waiting. If he does get a bed, he can’t bring all his belongings with him — so he worries about someone stealing what he has to leave on the street. It’s not worth it for one night inside, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029269\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525-Homeless-Encampment-Sweep-Fresno-LV_CM_22-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525-Homeless-Encampment-Sweep-Fresno-LV_CM_22-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525-Homeless-Encampment-Sweep-Fresno-LV_CM_22-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525-Homeless-Encampment-Sweep-Fresno-LV_CM_22-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525-Homeless-Encampment-Sweep-Fresno-LV_CM_22-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525-Homeless-Encampment-Sweep-Fresno-LV_CM_22-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresno Police and city workers conduct a homeless encampment sweep under a highway overpass in downtown on Feb. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Instead, he now sleeps on an empty dirt lot behind the Poverello House and Fresno Mission shelters, next to a set of railroad tracks and beneath an overpass. It’s near the methadone clinic he visits daily to keep himself off heroin and fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I had somewhere else to go, I wouldn’t be here,” Fox said. “Because they don’t really want us here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 people used to camp in the area around the Poverello House and Fresno Mission, and police mostly used to leave them alone, said advocates and people who live on the streets of Fresno.[aside postID=news_12019944 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-74-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']“Over time, people have gotten more scared to go down there,” said Dez Martinez, a formerly homeless advocate who founded the grassroots organization We Are Not Invisible. She said people worried about getting arrested as police began enforcing the new camping ordinance. “Ever since the ordinance went into effect, (there are) a lot less people. Now everybody’s going to ‘abandos’ (abandoned buildings).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, the city removed a large homeless encampment that had spread across streets surrounding the shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not a very healthy and safe place for those that were camping there and for those nearby,” said Phil Skei, assistant director of the city’s Planning & Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operation received a lot of fanfare — Mayor Jerry Dyer attended and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mayorjerrydyer/p/DB2N_R0yFNq/?img_index=1\">posted about it\u003c/a> on Instagram — and the city held dozens of shelter beds for people displaced from that area. Skei said the city brought 52 people into temporary shelter that day. Another roughly 30 left before the clean-up, and the city doesn’t know where they went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Skei says the city had a bed for everyone who wanted one that day, that’s not always the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a common occurrence where we show up to a place where there’s one person camping or two people camping and we don’t have shelter beds available that day,” Skei said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029272\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Activist Dez Martinez uses her phone to record police officers as they detain an unhoused person for questioning off the highway in Fresno on Jan. 30, 2025. Right: A homeless encampment located on a dirt lot in West Fresno on Jan. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By late January, three months after the Poverello House operation, the surrounding streets were still mostly clear. Martinez said she knows of people arrested after coming back to that area. Skei said in “a minority of cases,” the city does resort to arrests to keep areas from getting re-encamped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But though the streets were empty, Fox wasn’t the only one sleeping on the dirt lot behind the shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leron Bell, 39, said officers with the California Highway Patrol make him move every few days. They usually give a warning of up to 20 minutes, he said, and if he doesn’t move fast enough, they start confiscating things he hasn’t packed up yet. So far, he’s lost a tent, a bicycle, a gas stove, his ID and his birth certificate, which he’s still having a hard time replacing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I try to rush,” Bell said, “hurry up and try to put as much as I can in either my shopping cart or my wagon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once he’s packed, he goes to the other side of the railroad tracks and waits until the officers leave. He’s been in and out of shelters, but the strict rules make him feel like he’s in jail, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate having to start over,” Bell said, “but, it’s like, I’m doing my best as I can being homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four miles away, another group of tents, makeshift shelters and vehicles was scattered across an empty dirt lot behind a Family Dollar store. That’s where Roy Tellez, 62, was living when CalMatters spoke to him this winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, the police told him to pack up and leave his campside, so he did, he said. HHe was thirsty and needed water for his dog, so he pushed his cart, loaded with his belongings, to a store across the street. But police found him there and arrested him for camping, Tellez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he spent about four hours in jail — just long enough for people to steal all his belongings from where he left them on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What was the whole point?” he asked. “What was the inconvenience about?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s been eight months since the U.S. Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/06/california-homeless-camps-grants-pass-ruling/\">fundamentally changed\u003c/a> how cities in California and beyond can respond to homeless encampments, allowing them to clear camps and arrest people for sleeping outside — even when there’s nowhere else to sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/06/california-homeless-camps-grants-pass-ruling/\">July ruling\u003c/a> in the case \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/23-175.html\">Grants Pass v. Johnson\u003c/a> upended six years of protections for unhoused people. It was a radical change, and it came as many Californians, from small business owners to Gov. Gavin Newsom, were fed up with regularly seeing tent camps that stretched for blocks, human feces smeared on sidewalks and people injecting drugs in the open. Once the Supreme Court gave the green light, even liberal strongholds such as San Francisco were quick to start removing camps — despite a collective outcry from activists supporting the rights of homeless Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has that meant for people living outside?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters spent four months interviewing experts, requesting data and making a dozen visits to encampments in San Francisco and Fresno to document enforcement efforts and follow the unhoused people displaced when their camps were cleared. Our public media partner, KPBS, did extensive reporting and visits to encampments in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts agree clearing or “sweeping” encampments alone can’t end \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/category/housing/homelessness/\">homelessness\u003c/a>. But here’s what we did see over and over as a result of sweeps in those cities: people becoming more likely to lose touch with support services, people losing essential items they need to get into housing (such as birth certificates) or to survive the elements (such as tents) and people still stuck on the streets — sometimes in new locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, cities try to pair enforcement with \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/02/california-homeless-shelters-purgatory/\">offers of a shelter bed\u003c/a> or other services. But shelter is generally in short supply, and the types of programs available often don’t work for everyone on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities are continuing with enforcement, anyway. Here’s what that looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Linda Vazquez sat cross-legged on the sidewalk during an afternoon last fall, with two dogs in her lap and her hands cuffed behind her back. A police officer stood over her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beside her, balanced on a camp stove, sat the pot of chicharrones she’d been cooking for lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vazquez, 52, was clearly upset. “Because I did \u003cem>so \u003c/em>bad,” she yelled sarcastically at the officer, who was citing her for “unauthorized lodging,” a misdemeanor under California’s penal code. “This is the biggest crime ever.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police didn’t end up taking Vazquez to jail, and instead gave her a slip of paper with a date to show up in court. They did confiscate the tarp she was sheltering under as “evidence,” making it harder for her to survive on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/02/california-homeless-camping-citation-trials/\">citation \u003c/a>was Vazquez’s second in two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within hours, Vazquez was back, setting up camp in the same spot — a block that had essentially become hers. Vazquez was known throughout the neighborhood, always surrounded by dogs and friends. On any given day, you might find her cooking meals to share, giving away blankets and other provisions to her unhoused neighbors or hitting people who caused trouble on the block with a blast of water from her Super Soaker squirt gun. At night, she watched horror movies on a tablet in her tent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vazquez continued to camp there for the next three months and received at least one more citation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘look, there’s nowhere else to go,’” Vazquez said. ‘“All the other places are doing the same thing. So where do you want me to go? Where do you want me to hide out?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California native, Vazquez grew up bouncing between Modesto, Santa Cruz, Gilroy, Monterey and other places as her mother found work on different farms. Her life took a turn for the worse in her 20s when, she says, her former partner became abusive. She fled to San Francisco in 1998, and for the past few years has been bouncing between the street, shelters and subsidized housing placements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Encampment removals in Vazquez’s neighborhood — a handful of alleys that run between Van Ness Avenue and Larkin Street at the edge of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood — have fallen into a predictable rhythm. There are sweeps nearly every Monday and Friday, regular as clockwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029253\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/111924_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_04-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/111924_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_04-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/111924_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_04-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/111924_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_04-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/111924_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_04-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/111924_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_04-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘It’s ridiculous because, if it was actually sweeping, then I’d understand, but since it’s not actually sweeping, the fuck are you moving me for? Then I got to deal with all this shit, then all the toppings you want to put on it, like getting citations, going to jail and all that. Why?’ said Linda Vazquez, 52. Above, Vazquez tidies her belongings outside of her tent on Cedar Street in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jungho Kim for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029259\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Linda Vazquez holds a citation for ‘unauthorized lodging’ from the San Francisco Police Department in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2024. Right: An encampment on Cedar Street in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jungho Kim for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CalMatters visited that area about twice a week for five weeks last fall. During that time, city outreach teams spoke with people camping there 138 times, according to Jackie Thornhill, spokesperson for the city’s Department of Emergency Management. They placed people in shelter 27 times, and placed one person in permanent housing. Police made 16 arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On most days during that five-week span, CalMatters saw several people camped on each block, despite the frequent sweeps. Their reasons for living on the street varied. Many couldn’t stand being in a shelter. One man said he once saw a fellow shelter resident get raped, and since then, he’s avoided those facilities at all costs. A woman CalMatters spoke with said she already had housing in a city-funded SRO, but she’s a victim of domestic violence, and her abuser found out where she lives. Now, she doesn’t feel safe going back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/02/california-homeless-shelters-purgatory/\">CalMatters investigation\u003c/a> revealed that many California shelters are a purgatory — plagued by unsanitary and unsafe conditions, and operating with next-to-no oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people opt to sleep on the street and try to be gone in the morning before the city shows up to kick them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not uncommon for as many as a dozen city workers to participate in an encampment removal, including police, fire department paramedics and staff from the city’s Department of Emergency Management, Homeless Outreach Team and Encampment Resolution Team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That work is coordinated by Mary Ellen Carroll, executive director of the city’s Department of Emergency Management. The goal, she said, is to clean up and offer people services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes people will get up and move around and come back after,” said Carroll, who was on site as her team cleaned up encampments in Vazquez’s neighborhood on a Friday afternoon last fall. “But…it’s a matter of consistency, to just keep coming and addressing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On that Friday, Carroll’s team spoke with 13 people camping in the alleyways between Van Ness and Larkin. None of them accepted a shelter bed. From January through early November 2024, her team engaged with people in that area 930 times, and referred people to shelter 180 times. In another 47 cases, the person already had housing or shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, only between 20% and 30% of people accept a shelter bed when it’s offered, according to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With those low placement numbers, and with people returning over and over to camp on the same streets, are the city’s efforts helping?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that it is helping, overall,” Carroll said. Clearing encampments is just part of a broader strategy that includes outreach and services, but it’s an important piece, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To David Schmitz, a 60-year-old photographer who lives in an apartment overlooking the street where Vazquez camps, the encampment sweeps have made a difference. When he first moved in, about four months earlier, it was common to see at least a dozen tents on the street. People frequently urinated against his garage door, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the November afternoon that he spoke to CalMatters, the city had just finished a clean-up that left the street spotless — not a tent or piece of trash in sight. Schmitz said he’d never seen it so clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029262\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/111524_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_06-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/111524_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_06-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/111524_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_06-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/111524_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_06-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/111524_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_06-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/111524_Anatomy-Of-A-Sweep-JK_CM_06-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unhoused man carries a tarp and some of his belongings across Polk Street during a homeless encampment sweep in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2024. Unhoused people on Cedar Street are forced to move their shelters and belongings on a regular basis by San Francisco city workers. \u003ccite>(Jungho Kim for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was euphoric,” he said. “I was like, this is amazing. This is what it could be like, you know. If it were like this … I would see my neighbors more. It wouldn’t be such an apocalyptic feeling to come out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone caught camping gets cited or arrested. Police typically give people citations if they have pitched a tent or strung up a tarp, like Vazquez did, to use as shelter, but not if they are sleeping in the open on just a blanket, said Sgt. J. Ellison with the police department’s Healthy Streets Operation Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellison sees Vazquez frequently because many of the city’s shelter and transitional housing programs won’t allow all of Vazquez’s dogs. She has three, and she’s unwilling to give any up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t leave them,” Vazquez said, “because I’ve had them since they were the size of my hand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, nearly every Monday and Friday, Vazquez and her friends packed up everything they owned and moved around the corner, waiting there until the police and other city personnel left and they could return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent rainy Monday afternoon, Vazquez was sick, huddling in a small tent with a hairdryer on (using jumper cables to siphon power from a nearby street light) to keep warm. The city came three days earlier and took her larger, gray tent, tarps, portable heater and other belongings, she said. It was raining then, too, and Vazquez said she stood outside in the rain for hours until a friend could give her a new tent. All her clothes got soaked — as did the two paper camping citations that told her when she was supposed to appear in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city was coming again that afternoon to clear the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have no energy at all,” Vazquez said, sniffling and coughing. “But I have to move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after, Vazquez found a hotel in San Francisco that agreed to take her and her three dogs. A room there costs $70 a day — money Vazquez pays with her disability benefits. She found the place on her own, without the city’s help, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vazquez isn’t sure how long she’ll be able to keep up with the payments. But she has a more pressing concern: The hotel is making her leave temporarily, so that it doesn’t have to grant her tenant’s rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where will she go until she can return?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess I’m going to be in a tent for three days,” she said. “And then I’m going to come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Diego\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Diego’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2023/07/31/san-diegos-unsafe-camping-ordinance-enforcement-begins\">unsafe camping ordinance\u003c/a> went into effect nearly a year before the U.S. Supreme Court’s Grants Pass decision. It prohibits tent camping in all public spaces if shelter beds are available, and near homeless shelters, schools, parks and transit centers regardless of shelter availability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also outlined the process for clearing encampments, reducing \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiego.gov/homelessness-strategies-and-solutions/about/legal-settlements#:~:text=Isaiah%20Settlement%20(2011)&text=A%20one%2Dtime%20settlement%20payment,individuals%20could%20store%20personal%20belongings.\">a previous 72-hour\u003c/a> notice to just 24 hours. Part of the process includes the city’s Environmental Services Department posting neon green notices prior to clearing an encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldea Secory has gotten used to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every other day, pretty much, they make us clean up and move,” she said. She and her husband found they could avoid the sweeps for a while if they stayed near the freeway, on state property the California Department of Transportation oversees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were on the side of the freeway for, like, a month,” Secory said. Then, she said, the California Highway Patrol swept that site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the last time we lost all our stuff,” she said. “It’s heartbreaking to come back to that. You have to start over again and again and again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-four hours after the green notices get posted on fences, light posts, tents or nearby vegetation, city staff take photos of the site and look through any remaining bags, boxes and other items that might contain valuable belongings, such as paperwork or medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029263\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012125-NoticeSignEncampment-KPBS-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1027\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012125-NoticeSignEncampment-KPBS-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012125-NoticeSignEncampment-KPBS-CM-01-copy-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012125-NoticeSignEncampment-KPBS-CM-01-copy-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012125-NoticeSignEncampment-KPBS-CM-01-copy-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012125-NoticeSignEncampment-KPBS-CM-01-copy-1536x1006.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flyer giving 24 hours’ notice before an encampment cleanup hangs in Downtown San Diego on Jan. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Katie Anastas/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Franklin Coopersmith, deputy director of the Environmental Services Department’s Clean SD Division, said cleanup can take around 10 to 30 minutes in places with frequent sweeps, such as downtown surface streets. In more remote areas, like canyons, it can take several days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secory said she’s had valuable items discarded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve thrown brand new things away,” she said. “I had a brand new $35, $40 bag of dog food just thrown away. Beds, clothes, it doesn’t matter. Birth certificates, medication. Doesn’t matter. They just throw it away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Personal items can get discarded for a few reasons, Coopersmith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, he said, they’re in pockets or containers city employees might miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times, too, people are storing them with food that’s spoiled or bags that have gotten wet and they’ve turned moldy,” he said. “We’re not going to be searching a moldy bag that might have a birth certificate at the very bottom of it. If they’re putting their ID or something next to a meth pipe, our code officers aren’t going to be going through that stuff to figure it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any remaining items soiled with moisture, food, human waste, pet waste, insect infestation, drug paraphernalia or in disrepair are then discarded,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiego.gov/homelessness-strategies-and-solutions/services/abatement\">their policy reads\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people that are out there on the streets know that if it’s something important, they need to keep it close to them or in a place that’s easy for them to grab,” Coopersmith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the cleanup, the city posts a yellow flyer with information on how to get those non-discarded items back. Coopersmith said they put the notices close to where they found the items. They’ll keep things in storage for up to 90 days and deliver them back to the owner, according to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secory and her husband now live in a tent at one of two campgrounds the city has created on vacant land. The sites, known as Safe Sleeping sites, are operated by Dreams for Change, a nonprofit that provides homeless services and food distribution. The\u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/dfc-safe-sleeping-program.pdf\"> city provides restrooms and wash stations\u003c/a> and pays the nonprofit to provide outdoor sleeping arrangements, a daily meal and a snack. San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/public-safety/2024/09/20/providers-city-leaders-and-researchers-say-safe-parking-fills-critical-gap-in-shelter-services\">asked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development\u003c/a> to consider those sites as shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having somewhere to keep your stuff and not worry about it getting stolen or messed up, it’s a big help,” Secory said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego’s camping ordinance has made it more difficult for service providers like Jenni Wilkens to stay in contact with unhoused people. She manages the street health program at Father Joe’s Villages, a nonprofit that runs shelters and does outreach work. Staff from their Village Health Center visit encampments weekly to provide help such as wound care, substance use disorder counseling and prescription management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prior to the ordinance going into effect, we had very, very tight relationships with the community members we were serving,” Wilkens said. “We always knew where we could find them. Follow-up was much, much easier. They knew where to expect us, and we just knew we were going to be able to find our folks. Since the camping ordinance passed, the abatement sweeps have been much more frequent and much more aggressive. So we have not been able to provide that quality follow-up care that we used to be able to provide, just because everybody is moving. We lose track of our patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the patients, Lee Alirez, has high blood pressure. She’d been dealing with headaches, blurred vision and chest pain before she got diagnosed. 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But many others have moved to state property — freeway onramps and offramps, overpasses and under bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My team can’t put themselves at risk to reach our patients,” she said. “We also can’t go to a location and ask them to cross back over the freeway to see us. So they’re just getting further and further away from resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Shebloski, a captain with the San Diego Police Department’s Neighborhood Policing Division, said the city’s police don’t have the resources or authority to enforce city ordinances on state land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the frustration when people see an encampment go from city property, where it feels like officers are doing their job, and it goes right over the state property. That’s frustrating,” he said. “We can only do so much, and we have to focus on city property. And I don’t know if we can get into the world of policing 151 miles of state highways within the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Gov. 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Now everybody’s going to ‘abandos’ (abandoned buildings).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, the city removed a large homeless encampment that had spread across streets surrounding the shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not a very healthy and safe place for those that were camping there and for those nearby,” said Phil Skei, assistant director of the city’s Planning & Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operation received a lot of fanfare — Mayor Jerry Dyer attended and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mayorjerrydyer/p/DB2N_R0yFNq/?img_index=1\">posted about it\u003c/a> on Instagram — and the city held dozens of shelter beds for people displaced from that area. Skei said the city brought 52 people into temporary shelter that day. Another roughly 30 left before the clean-up, and the city doesn’t know where they went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Skei says the city had a bed for everyone who wanted one that day, that’s not always the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a common occurrence where we show up to a place where there’s one person camping or two people camping and we don’t have shelter beds available that day,” Skei said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029272\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Activist Dez Martinez uses her phone to record police officers as they detain an unhoused person for questioning off the highway in Fresno on Jan. 30, 2025. 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So far, he’s lost a tent, a bicycle, a gas stove, his ID and his birth certificate, which he’s still having a hard time replacing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I try to rush,” Bell said, “hurry up and try to put as much as I can in either my shopping cart or my wagon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once he’s packed, he goes to the other side of the railroad tracks and waits until the officers leave. He’s been in and out of shelters, but the strict rules make him feel like he’s in jail, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate having to start over,” Bell said, “but, it’s like, I’m doing my best as I can being homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four miles away, another group of tents, makeshift shelters and vehicles was scattered across an empty dirt lot behind a Family Dollar store. That’s where Roy Tellez, 62, was living when CalMatters spoke to him this winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, the police told him to pack up and leave his campside, so he did, he said. HHe was thirsty and needed water for his dog, so he pushed his cart, loaded with his belongings, to a store across the street. But police found him there and arrested him for camping, Tellez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he spent about four hours in jail — just long enough for people to steal all his belongings from where he left them on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What was the whole point?” he asked. “What was the inconvenience about?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"headTitle": "The Controversial Housing Law That’s Changing San Diego’s Landscape | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>In the minds of most Californians, accessory dwelling units — ADUs, short — bring to mind words like “small,” “subtle” and “cute.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of which describe the side-by-side ADU duplexes on E Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perched at the edge of San Diego’s desirable Golden Hill neighborhood, there’s nothing dainty or diminutive about these three-story structures. “Backyard cottage” is another term used to describe accessory dwelling units, but these are out front, practically hiding the five-unit multiplex to which they are technically “accessory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like dozens of small and not-so-small apartment buildings across San Diego, the structures on E Street are ADUs in only one way: They were permitted under the city’s ADU Bonus Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s one-of-a-kind ordinance offers landlords a one-for-one deal. If they agree to construct an ADU and keep the rent low enough for San Diegans making under a certain income, they’re automatically permitted to build a second “bonus” unit, which they can rent at whatever price they like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In parts of the city far from public transit, the 2021 city program offers a one-off: Alongside the main house and the two ADUs already permitted under state law, the city allows for a maximum of five units on one property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Andrew Wofford, graduate student researcher, UC Berkeley Center for Community Innovation\"]‘San Diego may have stumbled on to the quickest solution to producing a lot of ‘missing middle’ housing.’[/pullquote]But in bus-and train-adjacent “transit priority” areas — a designation that \u003ca href=\"https://webmaps.sandiego.gov/portal/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=4efd01a2e06246adb36122fcf136f95d\">covers much of San Diego’s urban core\u003c/a> — a landlord can alternate affordable and bonus units again and again and again. Technically, there are limits. City zoning sets a maximum height on buildings, and a \u003ca href=\"https://library.qcode.us/lib/upland_ca/pub/municipal_code/item/title_17-part_3-chapter_17_10-17_10_080\">more complicated regulatory formula\u003c/a> caps how much built floorspace can dominate a parcel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you can squeeze in an awful lot of ADUs within those parameters. Hence, the project on E Street: A single-family lot with nine apartment units on it, four of them ADUs, two of them affordable. And that’s not an especially extravagant use of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A typical ADU bonus project application includes between 4 and 7 additional units, according to data provided by San Diego’s Development Services Department. Projects with a dozen or more units are not unheard of. The largest proposed project to date, planned for the city’s gentrifying majority Black and Latino \u003ca href=\"https://voiceofsandiego.org/2021/11/15/pushed-out-of-san-diego-by-housing-costs-black-voters-fight-for-county-representation/\">Encanto neighborhood\u003c/a>, is 148 units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Pearson, whose design shop, PALO, designed the E Street duplexes, said his largest permitted project, located behind an existing 76-unit apartment building, comes with 36 “ADUs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a word for 36 units stacked in a row on top of one another. Even Pearson can’t help but grin and use scare quotes when he uses the term “ADU.” The city’s “crafty little maneuver” allows developers to “effectively build an apartment building out of ADUs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really ADUs only in name,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110223_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_06.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968510\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110223_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_06.jpg\" alt=\"A man standing outside wearing a dark buttoned shirt. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110223_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_06.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110223_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110223_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_06-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110223_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110223_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_06-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110223_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_06-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Pearson, co-founder of PALO, in Imperial Beach on Nov. 2, 2023. PALO, an architecture company, helps homeowners in San Diego build different types of housing. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Depending on your perspective, San Diego’s “crafty little maneuver” is either an ingeniously clever use of state law to provide a much-needed boost to the local housing supply or a sneak effort to foist an intolerable degree of construction and density upon unsuspecting residents while only providing a token degree of affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11966342,news_11897977,news_11770372\" label=\"Related Stories\"]The program is just beginning to take off. A total of 159 projects with 1,200 units have been submitted to the city as of October. Less than half of the projects have actually been permitted. Far fewer have broken ground. Even so, supporters, detractors, researchers and policymakers are sitting up and taking note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Diego may have stumbled on to the quickest solution to producing a lot of ‘\u003ca href=\"https://opticosdesign.com/missing-middle-housing/\">missing middle’ housing\u003c/a>,” said Andrew Wofford, a graduate student researcher at the UC Berkeley Center for Community Innovation who has been evaluating the program for the state’s housing department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Missing middle” describes an approachable (and, one hopes, more affordable) scale of development that occupies a middle ground between uber-dense highrises and sprawling single-family homes. Adding an ADU behind an existing home represents the mildest housing of this type. The novelty of San Diego’s program is in redefining “ADU” from a specific building type to a broad privileged regulatory chute into which developers are now encouraged to throw small apartment buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_30.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_30.jpg\" alt='A white, blue and green sign that reads \"Save our Neighborhoods\" on a lawn.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_30.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_30-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_30-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_30-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_30-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_30-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign in opposition to the construction of ADUs or granny flats in the Talmadge neighborhood of San Diego on Nov. 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968520\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_31.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968520\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_31.jpg\" alt='A white, blue and green sign that reads \"No backyard granny towers.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_31.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_31-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_31-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_31-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_31-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_31-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign in opposition to the construction of ADUs or granny flats in the Talmadge neighborhood of San Diego on Nov. 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, local critics of the program have already begun to mobilize. Signs inveighing against “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/story/2021-08-31/granny-flats-san-diego-california\">granny towers\u003c/a>” and “backyard apartments” are common lawn ornaments in many of the city’s residential neighborhoods. The local backlash has already \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-05-18/will-senate-bill-10-destroy-san-diegos-single-family-neighborhoods-experts-arent-so-sure\">spilled over to other areas of local housing policy\u003c/a> and now threatens Mayor Todd Gloria’s broader “Yes In My Backyard” vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even some supporters are surprised by the program’s ambition. Denise Pinkston said her experience with local housing politics would have led her to rule out anything quite so far-reaching. A San Francisco real estate developer and the go-to ADU whisperer for state lawmakers hoping to hop aboard the “backyard revolution,” Pinkston is also the founder and board president of the Casita Coalition, a nonprofit that advocates for ADU-friendly policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But looking at the results so far in San Diego, she paraphrases Shakespeare: “\u003ca href=\"https://nosweatshakespeare.com/quotes/famous/rose-by-any-other-name/\">What’s in a name?\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Actually, it doesn’t really matter what you call it,” Pinkston said. “What you get is more housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Diego: ‘Above and beyond’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California legislators have spent the last half-decade passing bill after bill to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2022-07/ADUHandbookUpdate.pdf\">encourage homeowners to build backyard cottages\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, anywhere in California, city permit review is limited to 60 days. Development fees and construction-cramping setback requirements are capped. Public hearings and design reviews are banned. In many cases, so are the impositions of costly parking, landscaping and storage requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, California has experienced an ADU boom. While other, more ambitious and controversial pro-housing policies have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2020/01/newsom-sb50-dead-failure-ceqa-housing-crisis-shortage-failure/\">flamed out in the state Capitol\u003c/a> or made it through the legislative gauntlet only to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-18/new-california-duplex-law-housing-sb9-homeowners\">produce less impressive results\u003c/a> in the real world, ADUs now make roughly one-in-six of all new units permitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some cities have found ways to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/default/files/docs/policy-and-research/ordinance-review-letters/adu-ordinance-review-letters.xlsx\">quietly obstruct those efforts\u003c/a>. Others have rolled along with them. None have gone quite so far as San Diego with its bonus program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaning in on development-friendly housing policy is on brand for San Diego. The city has a history of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2019/03/housing-san-diego-mayor-became-yimby/\">serving as a laboratory of YIMBYism for California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill ramping up the added density afforded to apartment projects in exchange for additional affordable units. It was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-11-03/california-bill-passes-middle-income-housing-bill-will-it-work-in-san-diego#:~:text=In%202016%2C%20the%20San%20Diego,the%20law%20was%20hardly%20used.\">modeled on a San Diego ordinance\u003c/a>. When state lawmakers passed a law banning local parking requirements for many new housing projects, they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/columnists/story/2023-09-29/michael-smolens-state-gets-onboard-with-lifting-parking-requirements\">following San Diego’s lead\u003c/a>. And as California rolled out its various laws greasing the skids for ADUs, San Diego passed its own rules that greased them further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a lot of cities, the only reforms they’re doing on housing are those that are triggered by the state,” said Colin Parent, a state Assembly candidate and CEO of Circulate San Diego, a nonprofit that advocates for public transit and dense housing. “San Diego has done a bunch of things that go above and beyond what the state reforms require.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ADU bonus program is the latest example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_28.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968518\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_28.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a neighborhood.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_28.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_28-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_28-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_28-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_28-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_28-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The University Heights neighborhood of San Diego, where there are several ADU units, on Nov. 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2019, state lawmakers passed a bill requiring local governments to “\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB671\">incentivize and promote\u003c/a>” the building of more affordable ADUs. City planners in San Diego took this directive to heart in a way that no other city did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To fans of the program, San Diego offers a policy lesson that goes far beyond backyard cottages. Cities don’t “have to reinvent the wheel to build more housing,” said Muhammad Alameldin, a researcher at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation, who wrote an overview of \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/san-diego-adu-bonus-program/\">San Diego’s ADU program\u003c/a> earlier this year. The promise of nearly unlimited density is an irresistible perk for many developers. Cities that want more of a particular type of housing — or more housing in general — can tack on an uncapped density bonus and watch the permit applications flood in, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They found the formula.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are reasons to believe that this particular formula might not work quite so well in other parts of the state. Even by the standards of auto-oriented Southern California cities, San Diego’s lots are on the big side, making it easier for developers to pack more onto the average parcel while staying beneath other zoning limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local economics play a role, too. In San Diego, the median apartment rent (\u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/research/data/\">roughly $2,700 a month, according to Zillow\u003c/a>) is less than $400 over the maximum allowable rent for a \u003ca href=\"https://sdhc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/AMIIncomeRentChart-2023.pdf\">state-designated affordable apartment\u003c/a> in San Diego County. That’s good news for landlords, who don’t have to take quite so large a hit when they set aside certain units for lower-income renters. In places where that gap is larger, the incentive to participate is smaller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jake Wegmann, a professor of urban planning at the University of Texas at Austin, said he thinks the same “slam dunk economics” of the program in San Diego would likely apply in “other very high rent regions, like the Bay Area,” though perhaps not so much in lower-cost metro areas, such as Sacramento or Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even within San Diego, there are only so many parcels where it makes sense to pack in a cluster of multiplexes: Some lots are just weirdly shaped or lack access to water and power, for example. “We should be cautious in assuming it’s going to run rampant over the whole city like kudzu,” Wegmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Waiting for copycats\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jared Basler, an ADU architect and the Casita Coalition’s policy director, said “There are a lot of people who are already looking into how to take it up to the state level” — though none of the state legislators interviewed for this story would confirm as much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even a program booster like Basler isn’t quite so sure going statewide with the idea would be a good thing: “When we take these really successful local programs statewide, they do get watered down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A “watered-down” version of the program might include higher affordability requirements or some of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/04/california-housing-law-union-dispute-2/\">stringent labor standards\u003c/a> that have been tacked onto other high-profile housing bills. Those added requirements would raise costs and result in fewer overall units. That’s a trade-off proponents aren’t willing to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_21.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_21.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a long beard wearing a blue shirt stands outside near bushes.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_21.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_21-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_21-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_21-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_21-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_21-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jared Basler, director of policy and strategic initiatives at Casita Coalition, at Liberty Station in San Diego on Nov. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other places — and even the state as a whole — are welcome to take a look at the program, said Gary Geiler, assistant director of the Development Services Department. But they should proceed with caution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other jurisdictions might have a different geography and topography and built environment,” he said. Instead of opting for the “unlimited option,” allowing for as many affordable bonus pairs as can fit on the lot, a single bonus allowance “could always be the starting point,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushing that “unlimited” option also carries a broader political risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the reasons ADUs have been such a political success in California is that backyard cottages are, generally speaking, human-scale. Grandma’s backyard bungalow will not cast \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/SF-supervisors-reject-housing-project-that-would-13755026.php\">unsightly shadows on nearby parks\u003c/a> or jam the nearby side streets with cars. Unlike large apartment complexes that might be railed against as the work of faceless, greedy developers, ADUs are generally paid for by and stand to financially benefit a neighbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turning ADU policy into a backdoor apartment program threatens to bring those faceless developers back into the debate, upending a tried and true strategy, Parent of Circulate San Diego said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people who own a house — the vast majority of them — are never going to build an apartment building,” he said. Under the San Diego program, “there are some projects that are really, really big because there are an unlimited number of allowable units,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That word ‘unlimited’ is going to be challenging for some people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Backlash begins\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>From the roundabout at Adams and 49th, in San Diego’s historic Talmadge neighborhood, the two ADU duplexes peek over the single-story house out front like a pair of peeping Toms. To Geoffrey Hueter, they’re about as welcome here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are the first ADUs built under the San Diego bonus program and the reason that Hueter got into housing activism. They’re the reason he rallied his friends and co-founded Neighbors for a Better San Diego. They’re the reason that just a few houses down, a front yard sports a sign calling for “No Backyard Apartment Buildings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hueter is the soft-spoken, bespectacled face of the political backlash that housing advocates like Parent worry about. With a retired software engineer’s mind for detail, Hueter will respond to a simple question (“What do you think of the city’s bonus ADU program?”) with a seeking verbal essay on the history of Southern California automobile culture, the rate of local land turnover, social housing in Vienna, and optimal property tax rates for small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But eventually, he will reply: “It’s bad policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_24.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968516\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_24.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of several homes.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_24.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_24-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_24-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_24-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_24-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_24-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A single-family home with an ADU complex in the backyard area in the Talmadge neighborhood of San Diego on Nov. 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before developers got their hands on the 49th Street site, it was a single home. Now there are six: Four new one-bedroom units, plus a new studio carved off from the main house’s garage. When it wrapped up in the late summer of 2022, Mayor Gloria showcased the project as an example of “\u003ca href=\"https://c92f4009-7cd5-46ff-8380-2badc9a02bbd.usrfiles.com/ugd/c92f40_7b01e00ac0704cd2b0c56f6fbeb4e757.pdf\">gentle density\u003c/a>” even as \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/controversial-multi-unit-housing-project-completed-talmadge/509-207027a1-2124-4d8a-be84-fa02ff0ddf35\">some neighbors started to complain\u003c/a>. Their chief sources of angst were a decline in privacy and the prospect of noisy college kids renting out the units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing a few houses down from the 49th Street project, Hueter acknowledged that the buildings aren’t especially imposing or out of character. “It’s not \u003cem>horrible\u003c/em> horrible,” he said, though he still worries about the lack of parking and the sheer number of trash cans required to service the new tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than the details, it’s what he sees as the duplicity of the program that encroaches on “lawlessness” that bothers him most. “Don’t call them ‘accessory’ if they’re dominant,” he said. “If you say something is ‘gentle density,’ it should be gentle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://c92f4009-7cd5-46ff-8380-2badc9a02bbd.usrfiles.com/ugd/c92f40_7b01e00ac0704cd2b0c56f6fbeb4e757.pdf\">weekly newsletter\u003c/a> published just after his visit to the site last year, Gloria also noted that the project was “a huge improvement aesthetically from what it was before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Hueter, who has helped fundraise to beautify Talmadge and who is married to the president of the neighborhood historical society, that was an unforgivable insult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t tell people they live in a s–t neighborhood,” he said. “Be smarter about who you pick a fight with. This is a very politically active neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s administration has learned that the hard way. Earlier this year, Gloria introduced a collection of housing proposals, which he branded “Housing Package 2.0.” One of the proposals would have adopted a 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB10\">state law\u003c/a> that allows small apartment projects of as many as 10 units to skip environmental review if they’re close to transit — so long as a city opts in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That proposal was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/08/california-election-ballot-measures/#wm-story-1\">swatted down by the city’s planning commission\u003c/a> after hundreds of residents, many under the banner of Neighbors for a Better San Diego, led a months-long protest movement against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the reason [that law] got beaten here is because there was a lot of experience from the bonus ADU law,” Hueter said. “People were already sensitized to what was going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the city council rejected the mayor’s entire housing package. Gloria has said he plans to reintroduce a revised version next year, but Neighbors for a Better San Diego were \u003ca href=\"https://www.neighborsforabettersandiego.org/\">happy to consider it a feather in their cap\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Technically affordable vs. truly affordable\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hueter stressed that the group isn’t anti-ADU. The group’s membership leans propertied and graying, so more than a few have backyard units of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most local groups pushing back on new housing laws, the members of Neighbors for a Better San Diego have an easier time rallying around what they oppose than what they would like to see instead. At public hearings and protests, historic preservation, a lack of parking, the unseemly prospect of developer profits, an influx of rental apartments — or a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FromBenC/status/1687198547563933696\">more naked condemnation of lower-income renters themselves\u003c/a> — all motivate opposition to new city housing policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe the most popular argument of all against the city’s ADU program is the claim that the resulting units aren’t “truly” affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_25.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968517\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_25.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a home.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_25.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_25-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_25-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_25-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_25-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_25-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ADU building in the College Area neighborhood of San Diego on Nov. 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In College Area, the residential neighborhood anchored around San Diego State University, a newly built ADU may rent for a little more than $3,000. The “affordable” units are cheaper, but not much. In order to qualify for the program, rent can’t exceed 30% of the monthly paycheck of someone earning 110% of the county’s median income. That works out to \u003ca href=\"https://sdhc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/AMIIncomeRentChart-2023.pdf\">$2,249 per month for a studio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And unlike traditional affordable housing, which has to be set aside at those lower rates for 55 years, the bonus ADU program only requires a 15-year commitment. If a landlord lowers the rent further to someone earning 80% of the typical area income, the commitment is only 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That second option remains a hypothetical. So far, each of the 159 projects submitted to the city has targeted the highest “affordable” income level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the bonus program as an affordable housing solution, city planning director Heidi Vonblum confessed that the question made her nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of neighborhood opposition groups that will go on Zillow and find the most outrageously expensive ADU and then use it to oppose any kind of ADU incentive program,” she said in a Zoom interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if the program isn’t serving the most desperate, making it easier to build modest duplexes provides an escape valve for young professionals, essential workers and other middle-class San Diegans who would otherwise be competing for the region’s scarce rentals, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe an ADU that comes online might have really high rents, but then that frees up housing within the housing ecosystem for people to live in,” Vonblum said. “That’s really hard to explain to, you know, an average community member, because everybody wants us to solve everything with some silver bullet right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pitching the program\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On a Saturday morning in early November, Mayor Gloria dropped by a conference center in San Diego’s master-planned Liberty Station neighborhood to meet up with the builders, housing financiers, politicians and academics gathered at the Casita Coalition’s annual convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If any of the efforts by Hueter and his fellow activists have shaken his confidence, the mayor doesn’t show it. He recalls his visit to that first ADU bonus project on 49th Street. “It’s no surprise that new developments typically get a lot of notice and a lot of signage,” he said. “But the people I met that live there are service members and college students. And where are they gonna go?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_12.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_12.jpg\" alt=\"A man standing at a podium with white signs and posters around him.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_12.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria speaks to attendees of Casita Coalition’s event, Build the Middle: A National Housing Convening, in San Diego on Nov. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On paper, the conference is a celebration of the ADU-ification of the California housing market and an industry meeting of the minds. But much of the programming serves as an unofficial advertisement for the host city’s out-there ADU program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Gloria departs, the conference attendees line up outside for a morning bus tour of the city’s built-up backyards. The tour passes by the 49th Street site but does not stop in Talmadge. In College Area, outside a seven-unit project, bus riders are advised to keep their voices down, lest an already irate neighbor grow more irate. The ADU tourists disembark at each site to pad around the stacked in-law units on display, cooing with giddy disbelief and inquiring about square footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110323_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_11.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968512\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110323_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_11.jpg\" alt=\"Several people walking near buildings.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110323_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_11.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110323_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110323_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110323_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110323_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110323_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees tour an ADU complex during a Casita Coalition’s event, Build the Middle: A National Housing Convening, in San Diego on Nov. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_14.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968514\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_14.jpg\" alt=\"Several people are looking up at three people at the top of the stairs on a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_14.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_14-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_14-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_14-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_14-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_14-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees tour an ADU complex during a Casita Coalition’s event, Build the Middle: A National Housing Convening, in San Diego on Nov. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Getting off the bus back at the convention center, Analise Ortiz, a Democratic Arizona state representative marvels at what San Diego has done. Phoenix \u003ca href=\"https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/phoenix-could-soon-legalize-building-guest-houses-in-backyards\">legalized backyard “casitas”\u003c/a> this fall, though without the other developer-friendly goodies that San Diego offers. Recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.azmirror.com/2023/03/14/sweeping-bill-to-address-arizonas-housing-crisis-shot-down/\">efforts to permit ADUs statewide\u003c/a> and to otherwise \u003ca href=\"https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/legislature-creating-committee-to-study-arizonas-housing-crisis/75-61bdf4db-7d1d-4cb4-9d46-d32ebecfe8fc\">make it easier to build\u003c/a> dense housing have failed in the Arizona Legislature. The debate there is a familiar one, Ortiz said: Concerns about affordability, neighborhood character and parking dominated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this shows that a lot of those concerns are exaggerated…We’re going to try again next year, and I think putting a visualization of what it can look like will hopefully help move some of our colleagues along,” she said. “We’re hoping we can have the same thing in Arizona.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But in bus-and train-adjacent “transit priority” areas — a designation that \u003ca href=\"https://webmaps.sandiego.gov/portal/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=4efd01a2e06246adb36122fcf136f95d\">covers much of San Diego’s urban core\u003c/a> — a landlord can alternate affordable and bonus units again and again and again. Technically, there are limits. City zoning sets a maximum height on buildings, and a \u003ca href=\"https://library.qcode.us/lib/upland_ca/pub/municipal_code/item/title_17-part_3-chapter_17_10-17_10_080\">more complicated regulatory formula\u003c/a> caps how much built floorspace can dominate a parcel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you can squeeze in an awful lot of ADUs within those parameters. Hence, the project on E Street: A single-family lot with nine apartment units on it, four of them ADUs, two of them affordable. And that’s not an especially extravagant use of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A typical ADU bonus project application includes between 4 and 7 additional units, according to data provided by San Diego’s Development Services Department. Projects with a dozen or more units are not unheard of. The largest proposed project to date, planned for the city’s gentrifying majority Black and Latino \u003ca href=\"https://voiceofsandiego.org/2021/11/15/pushed-out-of-san-diego-by-housing-costs-black-voters-fight-for-county-representation/\">Encanto neighborhood\u003c/a>, is 148 units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Pearson, whose design shop, PALO, designed the E Street duplexes, said his largest permitted project, located behind an existing 76-unit apartment building, comes with 36 “ADUs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a word for 36 units stacked in a row on top of one another. Even Pearson can’t help but grin and use scare quotes when he uses the term “ADU.” The city’s “crafty little maneuver” allows developers to “effectively build an apartment building out of ADUs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really ADUs only in name,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110223_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_06.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968510\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110223_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_06.jpg\" alt=\"A man standing outside wearing a dark buttoned shirt. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110223_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_06.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110223_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110223_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_06-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110223_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110223_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_06-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110223_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_06-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Pearson, co-founder of PALO, in Imperial Beach on Nov. 2, 2023. PALO, an architecture company, helps homeowners in San Diego build different types of housing. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Depending on your perspective, San Diego’s “crafty little maneuver” is either an ingeniously clever use of state law to provide a much-needed boost to the local housing supply or a sneak effort to foist an intolerable degree of construction and density upon unsuspecting residents while only providing a token degree of affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The program is just beginning to take off. A total of 159 projects with 1,200 units have been submitted to the city as of October. Less than half of the projects have actually been permitted. Far fewer have broken ground. Even so, supporters, detractors, researchers and policymakers are sitting up and taking note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Diego may have stumbled on to the quickest solution to producing a lot of ‘\u003ca href=\"https://opticosdesign.com/missing-middle-housing/\">missing middle’ housing\u003c/a>,” said Andrew Wofford, a graduate student researcher at the UC Berkeley Center for Community Innovation who has been evaluating the program for the state’s housing department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Missing middle” describes an approachable (and, one hopes, more affordable) scale of development that occupies a middle ground between uber-dense highrises and sprawling single-family homes. Adding an ADU behind an existing home represents the mildest housing of this type. The novelty of San Diego’s program is in redefining “ADU” from a specific building type to a broad privileged regulatory chute into which developers are now encouraged to throw small apartment buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_30.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_30.jpg\" alt='A white, blue and green sign that reads \"Save our Neighborhoods\" on a lawn.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_30.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_30-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_30-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_30-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_30-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_30-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign in opposition to the construction of ADUs or granny flats in the Talmadge neighborhood of San Diego on Nov. 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968520\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_31.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968520\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_31.jpg\" alt='A white, blue and green sign that reads \"No backyard granny towers.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_31.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_31-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_31-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_31-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_31-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_31-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign in opposition to the construction of ADUs or granny flats in the Talmadge neighborhood of San Diego on Nov. 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, local critics of the program have already begun to mobilize. Signs inveighing against “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/story/2021-08-31/granny-flats-san-diego-california\">granny towers\u003c/a>” and “backyard apartments” are common lawn ornaments in many of the city’s residential neighborhoods. The local backlash has already \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-05-18/will-senate-bill-10-destroy-san-diegos-single-family-neighborhoods-experts-arent-so-sure\">spilled over to other areas of local housing policy\u003c/a> and now threatens Mayor Todd Gloria’s broader “Yes In My Backyard” vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even some supporters are surprised by the program’s ambition. Denise Pinkston said her experience with local housing politics would have led her to rule out anything quite so far-reaching. A San Francisco real estate developer and the go-to ADU whisperer for state lawmakers hoping to hop aboard the “backyard revolution,” Pinkston is also the founder and board president of the Casita Coalition, a nonprofit that advocates for ADU-friendly policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But looking at the results so far in San Diego, she paraphrases Shakespeare: “\u003ca href=\"https://nosweatshakespeare.com/quotes/famous/rose-by-any-other-name/\">What’s in a name?\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Actually, it doesn’t really matter what you call it,” Pinkston said. “What you get is more housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Diego: ‘Above and beyond’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California legislators have spent the last half-decade passing bill after bill to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2022-07/ADUHandbookUpdate.pdf\">encourage homeowners to build backyard cottages\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, anywhere in California, city permit review is limited to 60 days. Development fees and construction-cramping setback requirements are capped. Public hearings and design reviews are banned. In many cases, so are the impositions of costly parking, landscaping and storage requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, California has experienced an ADU boom. While other, more ambitious and controversial pro-housing policies have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2020/01/newsom-sb50-dead-failure-ceqa-housing-crisis-shortage-failure/\">flamed out in the state Capitol\u003c/a> or made it through the legislative gauntlet only to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-18/new-california-duplex-law-housing-sb9-homeowners\">produce less impressive results\u003c/a> in the real world, ADUs now make roughly one-in-six of all new units permitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some cities have found ways to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/default/files/docs/policy-and-research/ordinance-review-letters/adu-ordinance-review-letters.xlsx\">quietly obstruct those efforts\u003c/a>. Others have rolled along with them. None have gone quite so far as San Diego with its bonus program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaning in on development-friendly housing policy is on brand for San Diego. The city has a history of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2019/03/housing-san-diego-mayor-became-yimby/\">serving as a laboratory of YIMBYism for California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill ramping up the added density afforded to apartment projects in exchange for additional affordable units. It was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-11-03/california-bill-passes-middle-income-housing-bill-will-it-work-in-san-diego#:~:text=In%202016%2C%20the%20San%20Diego,the%20law%20was%20hardly%20used.\">modeled on a San Diego ordinance\u003c/a>. When state lawmakers passed a law banning local parking requirements for many new housing projects, they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/columnists/story/2023-09-29/michael-smolens-state-gets-onboard-with-lifting-parking-requirements\">following San Diego’s lead\u003c/a>. And as California rolled out its various laws greasing the skids for ADUs, San Diego passed its own rules that greased them further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a lot of cities, the only reforms they’re doing on housing are those that are triggered by the state,” said Colin Parent, a state Assembly candidate and CEO of Circulate San Diego, a nonprofit that advocates for public transit and dense housing. “San Diego has done a bunch of things that go above and beyond what the state reforms require.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ADU bonus program is the latest example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_28.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968518\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_28.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a neighborhood.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_28.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_28-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_28-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_28-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_28-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_28-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The University Heights neighborhood of San Diego, where there are several ADU units, on Nov. 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2019, state lawmakers passed a bill requiring local governments to “\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB671\">incentivize and promote\u003c/a>” the building of more affordable ADUs. City planners in San Diego took this directive to heart in a way that no other city did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To fans of the program, San Diego offers a policy lesson that goes far beyond backyard cottages. Cities don’t “have to reinvent the wheel to build more housing,” said Muhammad Alameldin, a researcher at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation, who wrote an overview of \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/san-diego-adu-bonus-program/\">San Diego’s ADU program\u003c/a> earlier this year. The promise of nearly unlimited density is an irresistible perk for many developers. Cities that want more of a particular type of housing — or more housing in general — can tack on an uncapped density bonus and watch the permit applications flood in, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They found the formula.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are reasons to believe that this particular formula might not work quite so well in other parts of the state. Even by the standards of auto-oriented Southern California cities, San Diego’s lots are on the big side, making it easier for developers to pack more onto the average parcel while staying beneath other zoning limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local economics play a role, too. In San Diego, the median apartment rent (\u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/research/data/\">roughly $2,700 a month, according to Zillow\u003c/a>) is less than $400 over the maximum allowable rent for a \u003ca href=\"https://sdhc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/AMIIncomeRentChart-2023.pdf\">state-designated affordable apartment\u003c/a> in San Diego County. That’s good news for landlords, who don’t have to take quite so large a hit when they set aside certain units for lower-income renters. In places where that gap is larger, the incentive to participate is smaller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jake Wegmann, a professor of urban planning at the University of Texas at Austin, said he thinks the same “slam dunk economics” of the program in San Diego would likely apply in “other very high rent regions, like the Bay Area,” though perhaps not so much in lower-cost metro areas, such as Sacramento or Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even within San Diego, there are only so many parcels where it makes sense to pack in a cluster of multiplexes: Some lots are just weirdly shaped or lack access to water and power, for example. “We should be cautious in assuming it’s going to run rampant over the whole city like kudzu,” Wegmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Waiting for copycats\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jared Basler, an ADU architect and the Casita Coalition’s policy director, said “There are a lot of people who are already looking into how to take it up to the state level” — though none of the state legislators interviewed for this story would confirm as much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even a program booster like Basler isn’t quite so sure going statewide with the idea would be a good thing: “When we take these really successful local programs statewide, they do get watered down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A “watered-down” version of the program might include higher affordability requirements or some of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/04/california-housing-law-union-dispute-2/\">stringent labor standards\u003c/a> that have been tacked onto other high-profile housing bills. Those added requirements would raise costs and result in fewer overall units. That’s a trade-off proponents aren’t willing to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_21.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_21.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a long beard wearing a blue shirt stands outside near bushes.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_21.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_21-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_21-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_21-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_21-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_21-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jared Basler, director of policy and strategic initiatives at Casita Coalition, at Liberty Station in San Diego on Nov. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other places — and even the state as a whole — are welcome to take a look at the program, said Gary Geiler, assistant director of the Development Services Department. But they should proceed with caution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other jurisdictions might have a different geography and topography and built environment,” he said. Instead of opting for the “unlimited option,” allowing for as many affordable bonus pairs as can fit on the lot, a single bonus allowance “could always be the starting point,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushing that “unlimited” option also carries a broader political risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the reasons ADUs have been such a political success in California is that backyard cottages are, generally speaking, human-scale. Grandma’s backyard bungalow will not cast \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/SF-supervisors-reject-housing-project-that-would-13755026.php\">unsightly shadows on nearby parks\u003c/a> or jam the nearby side streets with cars. Unlike large apartment complexes that might be railed against as the work of faceless, greedy developers, ADUs are generally paid for by and stand to financially benefit a neighbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turning ADU policy into a backdoor apartment program threatens to bring those faceless developers back into the debate, upending a tried and true strategy, Parent of Circulate San Diego said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people who own a house — the vast majority of them — are never going to build an apartment building,” he said. Under the San Diego program, “there are some projects that are really, really big because there are an unlimited number of allowable units,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That word ‘unlimited’ is going to be challenging for some people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Backlash begins\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>From the roundabout at Adams and 49th, in San Diego’s historic Talmadge neighborhood, the two ADU duplexes peek over the single-story house out front like a pair of peeping Toms. To Geoffrey Hueter, they’re about as welcome here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are the first ADUs built under the San Diego bonus program and the reason that Hueter got into housing activism. They’re the reason he rallied his friends and co-founded Neighbors for a Better San Diego. They’re the reason that just a few houses down, a front yard sports a sign calling for “No Backyard Apartment Buildings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hueter is the soft-spoken, bespectacled face of the political backlash that housing advocates like Parent worry about. With a retired software engineer’s mind for detail, Hueter will respond to a simple question (“What do you think of the city’s bonus ADU program?”) with a seeking verbal essay on the history of Southern California automobile culture, the rate of local land turnover, social housing in Vienna, and optimal property tax rates for small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But eventually, he will reply: “It’s bad policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_24.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968516\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_24.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of several homes.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_24.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_24-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_24-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_24-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_24-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_24-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A single-family home with an ADU complex in the backyard area in the Talmadge neighborhood of San Diego on Nov. 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before developers got their hands on the 49th Street site, it was a single home. Now there are six: Four new one-bedroom units, plus a new studio carved off from the main house’s garage. When it wrapped up in the late summer of 2022, Mayor Gloria showcased the project as an example of “\u003ca href=\"https://c92f4009-7cd5-46ff-8380-2badc9a02bbd.usrfiles.com/ugd/c92f40_7b01e00ac0704cd2b0c56f6fbeb4e757.pdf\">gentle density\u003c/a>” even as \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/controversial-multi-unit-housing-project-completed-talmadge/509-207027a1-2124-4d8a-be84-fa02ff0ddf35\">some neighbors started to complain\u003c/a>. Their chief sources of angst were a decline in privacy and the prospect of noisy college kids renting out the units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing a few houses down from the 49th Street project, Hueter acknowledged that the buildings aren’t especially imposing or out of character. “It’s not \u003cem>horrible\u003c/em> horrible,” he said, though he still worries about the lack of parking and the sheer number of trash cans required to service the new tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than the details, it’s what he sees as the duplicity of the program that encroaches on “lawlessness” that bothers him most. “Don’t call them ‘accessory’ if they’re dominant,” he said. “If you say something is ‘gentle density,’ it should be gentle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://c92f4009-7cd5-46ff-8380-2badc9a02bbd.usrfiles.com/ugd/c92f40_7b01e00ac0704cd2b0c56f6fbeb4e757.pdf\">weekly newsletter\u003c/a> published just after his visit to the site last year, Gloria also noted that the project was “a huge improvement aesthetically from what it was before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Hueter, who has helped fundraise to beautify Talmadge and who is married to the president of the neighborhood historical society, that was an unforgivable insult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t tell people they live in a s–t neighborhood,” he said. “Be smarter about who you pick a fight with. This is a very politically active neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s administration has learned that the hard way. Earlier this year, Gloria introduced a collection of housing proposals, which he branded “Housing Package 2.0.” One of the proposals would have adopted a 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB10\">state law\u003c/a> that allows small apartment projects of as many as 10 units to skip environmental review if they’re close to transit — so long as a city opts in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That proposal was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/08/california-election-ballot-measures/#wm-story-1\">swatted down by the city’s planning commission\u003c/a> after hundreds of residents, many under the banner of Neighbors for a Better San Diego, led a months-long protest movement against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the reason [that law] got beaten here is because there was a lot of experience from the bonus ADU law,” Hueter said. “People were already sensitized to what was going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the city council rejected the mayor’s entire housing package. Gloria has said he plans to reintroduce a revised version next year, but Neighbors for a Better San Diego were \u003ca href=\"https://www.neighborsforabettersandiego.org/\">happy to consider it a feather in their cap\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Technically affordable vs. truly affordable\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hueter stressed that the group isn’t anti-ADU. The group’s membership leans propertied and graying, so more than a few have backyard units of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most local groups pushing back on new housing laws, the members of Neighbors for a Better San Diego have an easier time rallying around what they oppose than what they would like to see instead. At public hearings and protests, historic preservation, a lack of parking, the unseemly prospect of developer profits, an influx of rental apartments — or a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FromBenC/status/1687198547563933696\">more naked condemnation of lower-income renters themselves\u003c/a> — all motivate opposition to new city housing policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe the most popular argument of all against the city’s ADU program is the claim that the resulting units aren’t “truly” affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_25.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968517\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_25.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a home.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_25.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_25-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_25-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_25-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_25-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110523_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_25-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ADU building in the College Area neighborhood of San Diego on Nov. 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In College Area, the residential neighborhood anchored around San Diego State University, a newly built ADU may rent for a little more than $3,000. The “affordable” units are cheaper, but not much. In order to qualify for the program, rent can’t exceed 30% of the monthly paycheck of someone earning 110% of the county’s median income. That works out to \u003ca href=\"https://sdhc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/AMIIncomeRentChart-2023.pdf\">$2,249 per month for a studio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And unlike traditional affordable housing, which has to be set aside at those lower rates for 55 years, the bonus ADU program only requires a 15-year commitment. If a landlord lowers the rent further to someone earning 80% of the typical area income, the commitment is only 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That second option remains a hypothetical. So far, each of the 159 projects submitted to the city has targeted the highest “affordable” income level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the bonus program as an affordable housing solution, city planning director Heidi Vonblum confessed that the question made her nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of neighborhood opposition groups that will go on Zillow and find the most outrageously expensive ADU and then use it to oppose any kind of ADU incentive program,” she said in a Zoom interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if the program isn’t serving the most desperate, making it easier to build modest duplexes provides an escape valve for young professionals, essential workers and other middle-class San Diegans who would otherwise be competing for the region’s scarce rentals, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe an ADU that comes online might have really high rents, but then that frees up housing within the housing ecosystem for people to live in,” Vonblum said. “That’s really hard to explain to, you know, an average community member, because everybody wants us to solve everything with some silver bullet right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pitching the program\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On a Saturday morning in early November, Mayor Gloria dropped by a conference center in San Diego’s master-planned Liberty Station neighborhood to meet up with the builders, housing financiers, politicians and academics gathered at the Casita Coalition’s annual convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If any of the efforts by Hueter and his fellow activists have shaken his confidence, the mayor doesn’t show it. He recalls his visit to that first ADU bonus project on 49th Street. “It’s no surprise that new developments typically get a lot of notice and a lot of signage,” he said. “But the people I met that live there are service members and college students. And where are they gonna go?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_12.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_12.jpg\" alt=\"A man standing at a podium with white signs and posters around him.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_12.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria speaks to attendees of Casita Coalition’s event, Build the Middle: A National Housing Convening, in San Diego on Nov. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On paper, the conference is a celebration of the ADU-ification of the California housing market and an industry meeting of the minds. But much of the programming serves as an unofficial advertisement for the host city’s out-there ADU program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Gloria departs, the conference attendees line up outside for a morning bus tour of the city’s built-up backyards. The tour passes by the 49th Street site but does not stop in Talmadge. In College Area, outside a seven-unit project, bus riders are advised to keep their voices down, lest an already irate neighbor grow more irate. The ADU tourists disembark at each site to pad around the stacked in-law units on display, cooing with giddy disbelief and inquiring about square footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110323_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_11.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968512\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110323_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_11.jpg\" alt=\"Several people walking near buildings.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110323_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_11.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110323_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110323_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110323_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110323_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110323_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees tour an ADU complex during a Casita Coalition’s event, Build the Middle: A National Housing Convening, in San Diego on Nov. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_14.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968514\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_14.jpg\" alt=\"Several people are looking up at three people at the top of the stairs on a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_14.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_14-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_14-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_14-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_14-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110423_ADU-San-Diego_AH_CM_14-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees tour an ADU complex during a Casita Coalition’s event, Build the Middle: A National Housing Convening, in San Diego on Nov. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Getting off the bus back at the convention center, Analise Ortiz, a Democratic Arizona state representative marvels at what San Diego has done. Phoenix \u003ca href=\"https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/phoenix-could-soon-legalize-building-guest-houses-in-backyards\">legalized backyard “casitas”\u003c/a> this fall, though without the other developer-friendly goodies that San Diego offers. Recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.azmirror.com/2023/03/14/sweeping-bill-to-address-arizonas-housing-crisis-shot-down/\">efforts to permit ADUs statewide\u003c/a> and to otherwise \u003ca href=\"https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/legislature-creating-committee-to-study-arizonas-housing-crisis/75-61bdf4db-7d1d-4cb4-9d46-d32ebecfe8fc\">make it easier to build\u003c/a> dense housing have failed in the Arizona Legislature. The debate there is a familiar one, Ortiz said: Concerns about affordability, neighborhood character and parking dominated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tropical Storm Hilary \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958562/hurricane-hilary-hits-what-california-and-the-bay-area-can-expect\">drenched Southern California on Sunday from the coast to the desert resort city of Palm Springs\u003c/a>, forcing rescuers to pull several people from swollen rivers, before heading east and flooding a county about 40 miles outside of Las Vegas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Hurricane Center in Miami downgraded Hilary to a post-tropical storm Monday morning, but warned that “continued life-threatening and locally catastrophic flooding” was expected over portions of the southwestern United States, along with “record breaking” rainfall and potential flooding as far north as Oregon and Idaho.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remnants of the storm that first brought soaking rains to Mexico’s arid Baja California peninsula and the border city of Tijuana were expected to linger at least through Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958713\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958713\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1614147590-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A large freeway cuts through the desert landscape. However, parts of this road are completely blocked off by large quantities of water that remain after heavy rains.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1614147590-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1614147590-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1614147590-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1614147590-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1614147590-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1614147590-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1614147590-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial image shows no traffic on Interstate 10 due to flooding and mud crossing the highway following heavy rains from Tropical Storm Hilary, in Rancho Mirage, California, on Aug. 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(David Swanson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/08/19/governor-newsom-proclaims-state-of-emergency-as-hurricane-hilary-approaches-california/\">declared a state of emergency on Saturday for much of Southern California\u003c/a>, a typically dry area, but where residents on Sunday had to battle flooded roads, mudslides and downed trees. Winding roads in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles were blocked by mud and debris flows. A stretch of the Interstate 10 freeway near Palm Springs was also shut to traffic due to pooling water from the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the coast, a stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway in surf-friendly Huntington Beach was also flooded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank God my family is OK,” Maura Taura said after a three-story-tall tree crashed down on her daughter’s two cars but missed the family’s house in the Sun Valley area of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958711\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1629829257-scaled.jpg\" alt='Several large trees have fallen over in a residential area. One tree has yellow tape that reads \"Caution\" wrapped around it.' width=\"2560\" height=\"1699\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1629829257-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1629829257-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1629829257-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1629829257-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1629829257-1536x1019.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1629829257-2048x1359.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1629829257-1920x1274.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of a tree that fell onto a house on Aug. 21, 2023 in Sierra Madre, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hilary is just the latest major weather or climate disaster to wreak havoc across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Hawaii’s island of Maui is still reeling from a blaze that killed more than 100 people and ravaged the historic town of Lahaina, making it the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Firefighters in Canada are battling that nation’s worst fire season on record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, Hilary first made landfall in Baja California on Sunday in a sparsely populated area about 150 miles south of Ensenada. One person drowned. It then moved through mudslide-prone Tijuana, threatening the improvised homes that cling to hillsides just south of the U.S. border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilary dropped more than half an average year’s worth of rain on some areas, including Palm Springs, which saw more than 3 inches of rain by Sunday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters warned of dangerous flash floods across Los Angeles and Ventura counties, and fire officials rescued 13 people from knee-deep water in a homeless encampment along the rising San Diego River. Meanwhile, rain and debris washed out some roadways and people left their cars stranded in standing water. 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The stunt gained international attention and condemnation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Amsterdam police did not name the suspect, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942315/san-diego-neo-nazi-suspected-in-antisemitic-incident-at-anne-frank-house\">citizen sleuths linked Wilson to the incident shortly after it occurred using digital forensic techniques\u003c/a>. The Anti-Defamation League, which monitors Wilson’s activity, believes he has been living in Poland since fleeing the U.S. to evade hate crime charges in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11942315 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63308_GettyImages-1149467364-qut-1020x680.jpg']On Tuesday morning, 41-year-old Wilson posted a video he took of several Polish police officers approaching his house. In the footage, he tells the officers in English, “I don’t do anything illegal. My lawyer told me not to open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at the ADL identified Wilson as the man confronting police in the video posted Tuesday. They said they believe he was arrested shortly after it was filmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other extremists have since circulated the news of his arrest,” ADL West spokesperson Laura Fennell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson is a public-facing figure of the Goyim Defense League, a network of individuals in the U.S. who spread antisemitic and white supremacist messages online, as well as in person through flyer distributions, street demonstrations and banner drops. The group was responsible for more than 450 propaganda campaigns last year, according to the ADL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally from Canada, Wilson moved to Chula Vista in 2016. Then in 2021, he allegedly assaulted his neighbor while yelling homophobic slurs at him and was charged with a hate crime. Before he could be prosecuted, he fled the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office has declined to say whether it is attempting to extradite Wilson to the U.S. It did not provide a comment on Wilson’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, a photo circulated on social media showing Wilson at the Auschwitz Memorial in Poland along with the founder of the Goyim Defense League, Jon Minadeo. The two men were holding antisemitic signs outside the entrance, and the incident led to Minadeo’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Goyim Defense League is known for spreading false conspiracy theories about Jews. 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The Anne Frank House organization, which runs a museum on the property, said at the time that they “learned of this with shock and revulsion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the projection and the video the perpetrators are attacking the authenticity of Anne Frank’s diary and inciting hatred,” the organization said in a statement. “It is an antisemitic and racist film. We are acutely aware of what this means for the Jewish community and for the city of Amsterdam as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Stories' tag='extremism']Members of a citizen sleuth group known as Capitol Terrorists Exposers, which was founded by a Netherlands resident, tied Wilson to the Anne Frank House incident using videos he posted in online channels. They provided evidence to police showing that he was in Amsterdam at the time of the projection and drew the route they believe he took to get there from Poland in the days prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their statement, written in Dutch, the Amsterdam police said they also settled on a suspect shortly after the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the projection, the Amsterdam detective department started an investigation in which the suspect soon came into their sights,” the police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police believe the suspect left for Poland “immediately after the laser-projection” and have been in close contact with the Polish authorities, the statement said. Amsterdam detectives traveled to Poland on Monday, joining Polish police during the search of the suspect’s home and the arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Netherlands is in the process of requesting extradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Amsterdam Public Prosecutor has requested the extradition of the suspect to the Polish authorities,” the statement said. “A decision will be made later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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These are incredibly volatile situations and any could lead to horrific and tragic results.’[/pullquote]San Francisco and San Diego are two cities trying to boost utilization of red flag laws to help get guns out of potentially dangerous situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Red flag laws are an incredibly important tool,” said San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu, whose office processes requests for gun violence restraining orders. “In our first few years, we have removed firearms in several dozen highly dangerous circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, California became one of the first states to enact a red flag law, following \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/137287/can-legislation-prevent-mass-shootings\">the 2014 mass shooting in Isla Vista that killed seven people\u003c/a>. California is now among the 19 states and the District of Columbia with such laws, also often called “extreme risk protection orders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law allows law enforcement, household members, family, teachers, employers and co-workers to request that a judge temporarily remove access to another person’s firearm if they pose a significant threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The request is typically made to local law enforcement, who, along with attorneys, investigate and build a case for whether the individual should be brought to court for a hearing before a judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2016, San Francisco has recovered more than 50 firearms, both registered and unregistered, through gun violence restraining orders, according to Chiu, as well as thousands of rounds of ammunition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nearly \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2780806\">two-thirds of Californians surveyed have still never heard of gun violence restraining orders\u003c/a>, according to a 2021 study from UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the same study found that once surveyors were given a description of the policy, they supported it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So what we see there is really this willingness of individuals to take action once they know something is in place. But, a lot of people don’t know this exists or even the process of going about that,” said Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, who studies gun violence at UC Davis and is the lead author of the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdRrQNemFoQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the red flag law has been utilized in situations such as when a man strangled his mother and threatened to kill her, according to Chiu. In another case, San Francisco authorities confiscated firearms and six rounds of ammunition from someone who was experiencing hallucinations and began firing a pistol inside his house, believing someone was coming out of the fridge to take his wife and kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not talking about trivial situations,” Chiu said. “These are incredibly volatile situations and any could lead to horrific and tragic results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu believes San Francisco is just getting started. Last year, the City Attorney’s Office received city funding to hire a full-time staff member to oversee gun removal requests and help increase awareness and capacity for follow-through on requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego has started down that path already. There, a team of around eight attorneys and investigators are assigned to gun violence restraining orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘This is a crisis intervention tool’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The idea is to give a cooling-off period to the individual. Usually, the person for whom guns and access to guns is an issue is going through some kind of a traumatic event. And it could be a breakup of a relationship, maybe they got out of the military and they have post-traumatic stress disorder,” San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott told KQED. “We work closely with Alzheimer’s here in San Diego because once-responsible gun owners could become irresponsible because their health deteriorated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, San Diego accounted for about 31% (435 out of 1,384) of all gun violence restraining orders issued across the state, according to the state Attorney General’s Office. The city has issued more than 1,000 gun violence restraining orders since the law was enacted in California in 2016, according to Elliott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She estimates that roughly a third of those confiscations were in situations where the individual had shown signs or expressed thoughts of self-harm, and another third has been related to domestic violence and intimate partner trauma. Other situations where the restraining orders have been approved include workplace and school threats, Elliott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a crisis intervention tool. If someone is going through a really hard time, let’s get the guns out of their home and help them get better,” Elliott said. “We don’t have any interest in [removing guns from] responsible gun owners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='mass-shootings']Part of the work that San Diego’s gun violence prevention office does is assess whether a gun violence restraining order is the best intervention. In some cases, anger management or mental health treatment might be more appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we are only dealing with the threat and not what led to it, we could miss something really important,” Elliott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officials in San Francisco said the request alone can provide a useful heads-up about behaviors before a violent incident occurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have people who purchased guns legally but may be in crisis or experiencing a mental health issue that may not have come up in the background process. So it’s literally a red flag to us to take that firearm out of their possession,” said San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Dudley, a former deputy chief with the San Francisco Police Department, now teaches criminal justice at San Francisco State University. 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"content": "\u003cp>Luna Guzmán lived through years of brutal abuse and discrimination in her hometown in Guatemala, and has long dreamed of seeking asylum in California. When \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a> produced an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11844742/a-butterfly-with-my-wings-cut-off-a-transgender-asylum-seekers-quest-to-come-to-california\">audio documentary\u003c/a> about her last December, though, it seemed those dreams might be on hold indefinitely. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We followed Luna, now 27, for more than two years, from a migrant shelter in Tijuana to an ICE detention center near San Diego, even tracking her down when she was sick with COVID, fighting for her life in the ICU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we first met her at the migrant shelter in November of 2018, she was wearing men’s clothes in order to protect herself from harassment. She told us she was desperate to live in place where she could fully express her gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day soon I want everyone who knows me to say, ‘Luna made it. She fought for her dreams and they came true,’ ” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11844742 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/LUNA-featured-edit-1020x574-1.jpg']Luna has survived so much; from sexual violence to learning she was HIV positive as a teenager. Her story and her courage inspired some of our listeners, who sent her money to help her with housing in Tijuana. Some even did a tribute performance for her at a tiny drag bar in Modesto. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But until recently, it seemed like Luna’s chances of coming to the United States were over. She had been held in ICE detention and deported twice without a real chance to plead her asylum case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, a couple weeks ago, we got a voicemail from Luna. Her excitement pulsed through the phone as she exclaimed, “I am in the US! I am in San Diego. I was able to cross yesterday!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Luna-At-Border.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11876593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Luna-At-Border-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Luna-At-Border-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Luna-At-Border-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Luna-At-Border-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Luna-At-Border.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luna Guzmán arrives at the US-Mexico border on May 9, 2021 to ask for humanitarian parole. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Luna Guzmán)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This time, she had the help of an attorney, from the Oakland-based \u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org/\">Transgender Law Center\u003c/a>, who helped her with an application for humanitarian parole. It was approved, allowing her to come into the US while she waits for another chance to go in front of an immigration judge and ask for protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An organization in New York City, called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.qdep.org/\">Queer Detainee Empowerment Project\u003c/a>, agreed to sponsor Luna and help her with housing, medical care and finding a lawyer to represent her in immigration court. They sent her a plane ticket from San Diego to JFK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Luna-in-Airport.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11876601\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Luna-in-Airport-800x815.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Luna-in-Airport-800x815.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Luna-in-Airport-1020x1039.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Luna-in-Airport-160x163.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Luna-in-Airport.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luna Guzmán arrives at JFK Airport in New York City on May 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Luna Guzmán)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When she arrived in New York, a volunteer took her to a shelter that houses transgender women in Jamaica, Queens. She’ll eventually be able to get her own apartment, through a program in New York City that guarantees housing for people living with HIV. With her humanitarian parole status, Luna is eligible for Medicaid in New York, which can help her get HIV meds, hormones or eventually, gender-affirming surgery. And QDEP can help her with English-language classes and mental health services, too. She was also able to finally get a COVID-19 vaccine, which had been difficult to access in Tijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It almost sounds too good to be true – like some kind of fairy godmother swooped in and gave Luna a start at a new life. We confirmed it all with QDEP’s co-director, Ian Zdanowicz, himself a trans immigrant from Poland. He said his organization helps with services, but they also give trans migrants and former detainees like Luna a sense of community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876600\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Lunas-Pink-Sneakers.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11876600\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Lunas-Pink-Sneakers-800x865.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Lunas-Pink-Sneakers-800x865.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Lunas-Pink-Sneakers-160x173.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Lunas-Pink-Sneakers.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luna Guzmán shows off her new pink high-top sneakers in her room at a shelter that houses transgender women in Queens. Being in New York and being around other trans women has given her the freedom to start to express her gender identity more freely, she said. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Luna Guzmán)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I really want to make people’s experience of those first few months or years in new place as bearable and, if possible, as joyful as we can,” said Zdanowicz. “Because I think we went through so much trauma in our life and now just painful experiences… It just helps to to go through those experiences together and support each other in that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April and May, Zdanowicz said QDEP – in partnership with the Transgender Law Center and the Santa Fe Dreamers Project – has been able to sponsor 15 LGBTQ migrants from the border for humanitarian parole, bringing them to New York City, including Luna. There’s no guarantee border officials will grant humanitarian parole, though, so with each migrant, Zdanowicz said he’s holding his breath until they finally get across the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our organization is not super trusting of Biden’s administration,” he said. “I was really surprised that they let them through, gave them parole without detention. Other parts of the country are still detaining people. For example, in Juarez, they let some people in with parole, but they give everyone an ankle bracelet. So it’s very messy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luna will still have to present her case in front of an immigration judge in New York. But this time, she’ll have a lawyer to represent her. With the pandemic, the backlog of immigration cases could take many months, even years to resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876599\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Luna-in-Subway.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11876599\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Luna-in-Subway-800x760.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Luna-in-Subway-800x760.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Luna-in-Subway-1020x969.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Luna-in-Subway-160x152.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Luna-in-Subway.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luna Guzmán rides the subway in NYC. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Luna Guzmán)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Luna is waiting, she can start to live the life she’s dreamed about. 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"content": "\u003cp>When most schools across California shut down last year, teenagers were stuck at home. For many of them, that meant months alone to reflect on experiences of trauma in high school. But they didn’t all keep that pain to themselves. Instead, young people created dozens of Instagram accounts for students and alums to share their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linh is one of those students. We’re only using her middle name to protect her privacy. She’s a senior at Mira Mesa High School in San Diego County, and she runs an Instagram account called @metooinsd where students and alums anonymously share experiences of harassment and assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CPEC75-j731/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said part of what motivated her to run the account is her own experience as a survivor. She said she was sexually assaulted by an ex-boyfriend, but didn’t recognize how damaging the relationship was until after it was over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was gaslighted to the point where I thought, ‘He loves me’ or whatever, which obviously is not true,” she said. “But when you’re in it like that, it feels like it is true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Linh, Mira Mesa High School senior\"]‘If I stop, that’s letting them win, and I refuse to do that.’[/pullquote]Linh said she still had to see him in band even after he was reported. The ex-boyfriend denied the allegations, and said he was never disciplined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were times where, you know, there was a concert and I walk into the storage room. He’s right there and I just left,” she said. “I couldn’t be there. I still had to see him, in the hallways, in the library, I still had to see him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The account she runs has helped Linh heal, and feel less alone. She said she’s gotten threats for running the account, but it’s too important to stop now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I stop, that’s letting them win, and I refuse to do that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11859164' label='Related Coverage']In an email, Maureen Magee, spokesperson with the San Diego Unified School District, said the district has made police aware of the account, and that allegations made anonymously are difficult to investigate. Magee said the district has also worked with student leaders to get the word out about how to recognize and report abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are dozens of accounts like the San Diego Instagram page throughout California, including one for students in the affluent Silicon Valley town of Los Gatos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A senior there, Natalie Brooks, made a film about the #MeToo movement happening at her school, and the backlash students faced for speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CJjVlz7pX90/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“LG is idyllic, perfect teens in perfect clothes from perfect families. And don’t forget the money. But like most seemingly perfect things, you can’t see the cracks . . . yet,” the film begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A post by one 15-year-old student, Mia Lozoya, inspired others to share their stories, and eventually set up their own \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/metoo.losgatos/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram account\u003c/a>. Since then, more than 100 students and alums have posted their experiences with harassment and assault on the account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But student organizers say there was still a lot of pushback in response to the attention they were bringing to the football team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876387\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11876387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mia-Lozoya-@-LGHS-Rally-Courtesy-R.-Hansen-800x602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mia-Lozoya-@-LGHS-Rally-Courtesy-R.-Hansen-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mia-Lozoya-@-LGHS-Rally-Courtesy-R.-Hansen-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mia-Lozoya-@-LGHS-Rally-Courtesy-R.-Hansen-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mia-Lozoya-@-LGHS-Rally-Courtesy-R.-Hansen-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mia-Lozoya-@-LGHS-Rally-Courtesy-R.-Hansen.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mia Lozoya ignited a movement at Los Gatos High School when she shared her experience with sexual assault on Instagram. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of R. Hansen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Los Gatos alum, Abbi Berry, saw the post from Lozoya, and wrote an email describing how the culture of the football team allowed players to continue to abuse young women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And my mom didn’t want me to send it. She was like, you could get in trouble or you could get this backlash. And I remember literally being like, I don’t care, this is an issue,” she said. “And I was so angry. I was just so — I was just livid. I was enraged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sent the email to all Los Gatos High School staff, and wrote that the entire community was complicit in these issues. She signed it as a survivor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876388\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11876388\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/LGHS-Rally-Courtesy-A.-Panu-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/LGHS-Rally-Courtesy-A.-Panu-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/LGHS-Rally-Courtesy-A.-Panu-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/LGHS-Rally-Courtesy-A.-Panu.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students and alums rallied over sexual assault at the Los Gatos High School football field July 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of A. Panu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One teacher and football coach hit “reply all,” and responded. He wrote: “Wrong. If this young lady has had something bad happen to her in the past, she should take it up with the individual who is responsible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berry said that confirmed her biggest fear that people would invalidate her statement because she had signed the email as a survivor. She was disappointed to see teachers taking sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teacher did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]Berry is worried about the students who’ve faced backlash and lost friends for speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just really scared for them,” she said, “I know how much reputation counts in high school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Megan Farrell is the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District’s Title IX coordinator, and she handles sexual misconduct claims. She said there are many reasons young people are reluctant to turn to their schools to report abuse. They might not be ready to tell their parents, or want to talk to police, who schools have an obligation to tell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were no Title IX complaints filed against students in the district in the 2019-2020 school year, and only two this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876389\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11876389\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Crowd-Gives-Mia-Lozoya-Standing-Ovation-Courtesy-A.-Panu-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Crowd-Gives-Mia-Lozoya-Standing-Ovation-Courtesy-A.-Panu-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Crowd-Gives-Mia-Lozoya-Standing-Ovation-Courtesy-A.-Panu-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Crowd-Gives-Mia-Lozoya-Standing-Ovation-Courtesy-A.-Panu.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd applauds Mia Lozoya during a rally at the Los Gatos High School field July 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of A. 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