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The government-subsidized health care plan supports 95% of patients at the hospital, but that funding was only temporarily granted while the hospital worked toward recertification with federal regulators.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Roland Pickens, interim CEO, Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center\"]‘This is really the culmination of all of the improvement work we have been doing over the last 18 months since the decertification happened.’[/pullquote] The move marks a turning point in the almost two-year regulatory crisis that threatened to shutter Laguna Honda, the state’s largest public nursing facility and home to nearly 500 medically fragile residents with needs ranging from stroke rehabilitation to dementia and mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really the culmination of all of the improvement work we have been doing over the last 18 months since the decertification happened,” the hospital’s interim CEO Roland Pickens told KQED. “The most recent monitoring surveys went fairly well and gave us the confidence that we have made significant enough improvements and that we would be successful in attaining a recertification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, Laguna Honda was found out of compliance on several safety issues across multiple regulatory surveys that federal regulators administered after the hospital self-reported two nonfatal overdoses that occurred on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of the findings, federal regulators stripped Laguna Honda from Medicare and Medi-Cal, subsidized health care plans that cover the vast majority of residents at the facility, most of whom have extremely low or fixed incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services required the hospital to craft and implement a plan to prepare for closure, and in return, the agency would temporarily sustain funding to the hospital. That plan involved assessing and relocating as many patients as possible in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 57 residents who were transferred or discharged during that process, 12 died shortly after their relocations. Community members and government officials, including Mayor London Breed, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and others, publicly decried the regulators’ decision and advocated for a different response. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921717/san-francisco-sues-feds-over-forced-closure-of-laguna-honda-hospital\">The city sued the federal government\u003c/a> following the relocation deaths, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920121/sf-officials-outraged-over-laguna-honda-patient-deaths-following-federally-mandated-transfers\">the transfer process was paused\u003c/a> as part of a settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Laguna Honda has taken steps to address deficiencies in areas such as medication storage and hygiene control. Regulators marked just 33 areas for improvement in a June 2023 monitoring survey to check progress, compared to the first survey that had 124 findings, according to the San Francisco Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Departments of Public Health and Health Care Services will review the application next to determine what is to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958178\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut.jpg\" alt='The entryway to a hospital driveway with a sign that reads, \"Main Hospital Entrance and Residences.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign points to the main entrance to the Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco on Jan. 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Time is of the essence. The hospital is currently facing a deadline of Sept. 19 before the current temporary pause on involuntary transfers could resume. If relocations do resume, residents will have the right to appeal their transfer and must first be assessed for appropriate options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear exactly how long the process could take or whether the federal and state regulators could again delay the deadline. Pickens, however, said he hopes the regulatory process will be completed in time to prevent any additional involuntary transfers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to emphasize that applying for recertification is not the end of our work to improve our facility, but rather the beginning of a new era of excellence for Laguna Honda Hospital,” Pickens said in a letter to residents sent on Aug. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nursing home reform advocates and members of the Laguna Honda community welcomed the news of the reapplication. 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The issue is even more pronounced for low-income elderly residents who rely on Medicare and Medi-Cal, typically those who can’t afford private nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pickens said that residents who were transferred to other facilities during the 2022 relocation process will receive priority to come back once the hospital can resume admitting new patients again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New admissions have been on hold since the hospital was decertified. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center has submitted its application to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941887/health-secretary-xavier-becerra-visits-san-francisco-hospital-fighting-off-closure\">regain participation in Medicaid\u003c/a>. The government-subsidized health care plan supports 95% of patients at the hospital, but that funding was only temporarily granted while the hospital worked toward recertification with federal regulators.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> The move marks a turning point in the almost two-year regulatory crisis that threatened to shutter Laguna Honda, the state’s largest public nursing facility and home to nearly 500 medically fragile residents with needs ranging from stroke rehabilitation to dementia and mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really the culmination of all of the improvement work we have been doing over the last 18 months since the decertification happened,” the hospital’s interim CEO Roland Pickens told KQED. “The most recent monitoring surveys went fairly well and gave us the confidence that we have made significant enough improvements and that we would be successful in attaining a recertification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, Laguna Honda was found out of compliance on several safety issues across multiple regulatory surveys that federal regulators administered after the hospital self-reported two nonfatal overdoses that occurred on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of the findings, federal regulators stripped Laguna Honda from Medicare and Medi-Cal, subsidized health care plans that cover the vast majority of residents at the facility, most of whom have extremely low or fixed incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services required the hospital to craft and implement a plan to prepare for closure, and in return, the agency would temporarily sustain funding to the hospital. That plan involved assessing and relocating as many patients as possible in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 57 residents who were transferred or discharged during that process, 12 died shortly after their relocations. Community members and government officials, including Mayor London Breed, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and others, publicly decried the regulators’ decision and advocated for a different response. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921717/san-francisco-sues-feds-over-forced-closure-of-laguna-honda-hospital\">The city sued the federal government\u003c/a> following the relocation deaths, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920121/sf-officials-outraged-over-laguna-honda-patient-deaths-following-federally-mandated-transfers\">the transfer process was paused\u003c/a> as part of a settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Laguna Honda has taken steps to address deficiencies in areas such as medication storage and hygiene control. Regulators marked just 33 areas for improvement in a June 2023 monitoring survey to check progress, compared to the first survey that had 124 findings, according to the San Francisco Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Departments of Public Health and Health Care Services will review the application next to determine what is to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958178\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut.jpg\" alt='The entryway to a hospital driveway with a sign that reads, \"Main Hospital Entrance and Residences.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign points to the main entrance to the Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco on Jan. 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Time is of the essence. The hospital is currently facing a deadline of Sept. 19 before the current temporary pause on involuntary transfers could resume. If relocations do resume, residents will have the right to appeal their transfer and must first be assessed for appropriate options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear exactly how long the process could take or whether the federal and state regulators could again delay the deadline. Pickens, however, said he hopes the regulatory process will be completed in time to prevent any additional involuntary transfers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to emphasize that applying for recertification is not the end of our work to improve our facility, but rather the beginning of a new era of excellence for Laguna Honda Hospital,” Pickens said in a letter to residents sent on Aug. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nursing home reform advocates and members of the Laguna Honda community welcomed the news of the reapplication. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> San Francisco and many other parts of California lack enough skilled nursing beds to meet the current demand and need, and residents are often required to move out of the county to receive necessary care. The issue is even more pronounced for low-income elderly residents who rely on Medicare and Medi-Cal, typically those who can’t afford private nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pickens said that residents who were transferred to other facilities during the 2022 relocation process will receive priority to come back once the hospital can resume admitting new patients again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New admissions have been on hold since the hospital was decertified. The hospital is currently licensed for over 780 beds but its current census is around 500, according to Pickens. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/lifestyles/health/laguna-honda-plans-to-cut-120-beds-amid-regulatory-turmoil/article_fa8cacd4-0229-11ed-bf2b-77b38812d44f.html#:~:text=As%20a%20regulatory%20crisis%20engulfs,and%20obtained%20by%20The%20Examiner.\">The hospital also stands to lose 120\u003c/a> of its 780 beds due to a new federal regulation that requires nursing homes like Laguna Honda to have no more than two beds per room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to officially be recertified into the federal programs, and once we have that recertification, we will then be pursuing getting those 120 beds back into our system,” Pickens told KQED. “We know that’s a big priority. First priority: get certified. Second priority is to get 120 beds back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>One sunny morning in mid-July, dozens of people filled the Bayview Opera House, in the heart of San Francisco’s historically Black neighborhood, to celebrate the 39 women and men who graduated from a training program for Black early childhood educators. The audience sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” watched Mayor London Breed deliver the commencement address, and cheered as the graduates walked across the stage to receive their certificate of completion — each one wearing graduation stoles with the words “Black Grads Matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their achievements were a cause for celebration because of the high expectations riding on this city-funded program: to increase the number of Black early educators in San Francisco so they can help Black infants, toddlers and preschoolers gain the skills necessary to succeed in kindergarten and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about changing lives, this is about changing the future of African Americans in San Francisco,” the mayor said at the graduation ceremony, hailing the program as an effective investment of her signature \u003ca href=\"https://www.dreamkeepersf.org/\">Dream Keeper Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/rs67037_230714-educatorgraduation-19-bl-kqed/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67037_230714-EducatorGraduation-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person stands on stage and speaks at a podium with their hand raised.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67037_230714-EducatorGraduation-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67037_230714-EducatorGraduation-19-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67037_230714-EducatorGraduation-19-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67037_230714-EducatorGraduation-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67037_230714-EducatorGraduation-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67037_230714-EducatorGraduation-19-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josiane Stokes sings ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ during a graduation ceremony for the Black Early Childhood Educator Career Pipeline at the Bayview Opera House in San Francisco on July 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Creating a Black early childhood educator pipeline\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Breed and Supervisor Shamann Walton co-founded the initiative in 2021 after the police killing of George Floyd sparked demands for police reform and a rethinking of policies that \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-07/AARAC%20Reparations%20Final%20Report%20July%207%2C%202023.pdf\">contributed to decades of inequities (PDF)\u003c/a> and the decline of San Francisco’s Black population. They began by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862094/sf-mayor-breed-unveils-plan-for-reinvesting-120-million-from-police-into-black-communities\">steering $60 million annually in Police Department funding\u003c/a> toward helping Black residents start businesses and take out loans to buy homes. At the time, Walton called the initiative “a first step towards true reparations for the Black community here in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $1.6 million from that fund was also set aside to support \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrenscouncil.org/support-us/key-initiatives/apprenticeship-program-pipeline-for-black-early-childhood-educator-career-development/\">the Pipeline for Black Early Childhood Educator pilot program\u003c/a>. Je Ton Carey, who oversees the program for the nonprofit Children’s Council San Francisco, said it’s already showing promising results. Over the past two years, 62 out of about 80 participating students obtained associate teaching permits in early childhood education from City College of San Francisco and have gone on to work in classrooms, start their own family child care business or pursue higher degrees. Recently, the city approved an additional two years of funding for the program.[aside postID=news_11935433,news_11929082,news_11948690,news_11948419 label='Child Care Costs']“This is huge, and why that’s important is because when you look at the data, when you look at the research, you see the decline of folks entering this field,” Carey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though there’s high demand for well-trained early childhood educators,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948419/care-cant-wait-californias-child-care-workers-demand-better-funding-for-essential-services\"> low pay can make it hard to attract or retain people in the profession\u003c/a>. Fewer students are enrolling in early childhood education programs, \u003ca href=\"https://www.naeyc.org/sites/default/files/globally-shared/downloads/PDFs/accreditation/higher-ed/brief_-_covid_higher_ed_survey_results_fall_2021.pdf\">according to a 2021 survey of 400 colleges (PDF)\u003c/a> conducted by the National Association for the Education of Young Children, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.edsurge.com/news/2022-02-23-why-are-colleges-hesitant-to-train-more-early-childhood-educators\">some colleges stopped offering early education certification programs\u003c/a> because they don’t want to steer their students into careers that don’t pay a living wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To bring more Black students into the profession, San Francisco’s pipeline program covers tuition, provides $10,000 in stipends, laptops, a flexible class schedule, regular check-ins with a case manager and other forms of support over the course of 10 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some of the program’s participants, however, the stipend and free classes they received through the training wasn’t enough to offset the high cost of living in San Francisco. Twenty-three out of 40 students in the first cohort dropped out of the pipeline program, many of them citing financial reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are folks who’ve been impacted by the housing crisis, impacted by economic conditions that have pushed them out of San Francisco and they’re hoping that this opportunity will stabilize them,” Carey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the second year, 39 out of 40 students stuck it out. Carey thinks more students succeeded because the program provided more help, such as transportation and child care during classes. One student, for example, was experiencing homelessness. Carey said her staff helped the woman find temporary housing until she was able to graduate and find work at a child care center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why ‘Black Grads Matter’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is trying to fix the broader early education workforce issue \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948690/business-tax-provides-crucial-funding-for-early-childhood-education-and-care-in-san-francisco\">by using a local business tax\u003c/a> to both pay teachers higher salaries and to lower child care costs for families. But in order to see that pay bump, teachers have to meet certain criteria: They must be trained to offer high-quality care and teaching to young kids, and agree to serve lower-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is only 10 out of 287 family child care businesses that meet those requirements are Black-owned, according to the city’s Department of Early Childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That number is too low,” Carey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disparity underscores the need to diversify the workforce, she said, because all children, and especially Black children, benefit from having Black role models in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows that Black students who have even one Black teacher during elementary school are \u003ca href=\"https://www.nber.org/papers/w25254\">more likely to graduate high school\u003c/a> and enroll in college and less likely to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.educationnext.org/teacher-race-and-school-discipline-suspensions-research/\">removed from the classroom as a form of discipline\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s something about affirming a child’s culture when there is a teacher that represents them in a classroom … that understands their experiences, their family … there’s something around that that has impacted Black children’s success,” Carey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/rs67029_230714-educatorgraduation-03-bl-kqed/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955858\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67029_230714-EducatorGraduation-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt='A black, green, yellow and red striped graduation stole with the words \"Class of 2023\" and \"Black Grads Matter\" written on it.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67029_230714-EducatorGraduation-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67029_230714-EducatorGraduation-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67029_230714-EducatorGraduation-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67029_230714-EducatorGraduation-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67029_230714-EducatorGraduation-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67029_230714-EducatorGraduation-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graduate Maryetta Jefferson, 60, poses for a photo outside of the Bayview Opera House in San Francisco on July 14, 2023, before a graduation ceremony for the Black Early Childhood Educator Career Pipeline. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hope is that having more Black early educators will help narrow persistent educational disparities in San Francisco. The \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/files/CG5V977F8741/%24file/6_28_22%20-%20SFUSD%20Student%20Performance%20Analysis.pdf\">most recent data from San Francisco Unified School District (PDF)\u003c/a> shows only 43.8% of Black children were deemed ready for kindergarten, compared to nearly 70% of white and 67.6% of Asian American children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kindergarten readiness is a major concern among education advocates and policymakers because research shows children who enter kindergarten behind \u003ca href=\"https://bipartisanpolicy.org/download/?file=/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Early-Childhood-Report_36-years-later_September-2019.pdf\">are likely to stay behind throughout their educational careers (PDF)\u003c/a>. At SFUSD, Black students graduate high school and attend college at lower rates than the district’s Asian American and white students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A panel of early education experts formed by the Children’s Council concluded \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrenscouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Childrens-Council-SF-AAECEP-White-Paper-Nov-2022-final.pdf\">in a 2021 report (PDF)\u003c/a> that the city’s early education systems weren’t supporting Black children enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because 90% of a child’s brain develops during the first five years of life, the report said, Black children need high-quality early education and care because it “can serve as a positive intervention that allows a child’s brain to overcome the stresses of poverty, hunger, violence, housing instability and economic racism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The onus falls on Black early educators, then, to nurture these children and chart their social-emotional, cognitive and physical development to ensure they have the foundational skills for kindergarten, said Dr. Patricia Sullivan, who taught most of the classes to this year’s program cohort.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I found a passion that I didn’t know I had’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like some of the students in the cohort, Sullivan started out providing child care out of her home before she went back to school to obtain degrees in developmental psychology and early childhood education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The importance of being a Black teacher in the classroom, and being the first in her family to graduate to college, isn’t lost on Sullivan.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Matthew Sullivan\"]‘I get to see them grow. I get to see them go from being little sprouts to tall giants that can actually change the world.’[/pullquote]“For some students in classes that I teach at [San Francisco State University and City College], I’m the first Black professor they’ve ever seen,” she said. “For this group, it was really important to not only show them that someone could be in higher education and be Black, but that, you know, this stuff is not as hard as you think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides teaching 12 core units of child growth and development to the cohort, Sullivan facilitated discussions about the Black experience and how to respond to and care for children who have experienced neglect, abuse, violence, family separation, racism and other traumas. \u003ca href=\"https://www.first5california.com/en-us/articles/how-toxic-stress-can-affect-childrens-development/\">Emerging research\u003c/a> has found that toxic stress from these types of trauma can disrupt children’s brain development and undermine their ability to learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First, we talked about how we got this way. And then, how do we find a way to make sure that when we’re helping kids grow, that we are avoiding some of these dangerous pitfalls, barriers and situations that could cause trauma and how could we get around them? And then if we can’t get around them, how do we help people get past them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among this year’s cohort is Djimon Asberry. The 25-year-old said those lessons validated her decision to become an early educator. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003cem>Read a transcript of this episode.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you were walking down San Francisco’s Fillmore Street in the 1950s, chances are you might run into Billie Holiday stepping out of a restaurant. Or Ella Fitzgerald trying on hats. Or Thelonious Monk smoking a cigarette. This wouldn’t be out of the ordinary in the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825401/how-urban-renewal-decimated-the-fillmore-district-and-took-jazz-with-it\">Harlem of the West\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this episode originally aired in 2020, reporter Bianca Taylor explores the rise of the Fillmore as a cultural center for jazz, and the “urban renewal” that ultimately changed the identity of the neighborhood, and forced out many of its residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Hey everyone, this is Olivia Allen-Price and you’re listening to Bay Curious. The show that answers your questions about the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today we’re going to start the episode by venturing back in time, and into the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the 1950s … and while most folks around the Bay Area have tucked themselves in by midnight, all cozy in their warms beds, things in San Francisco’s Fillmore District are just heating up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[\u003cem>Distant jazz music wafts in, as if you’re hearing it from outside on the street\u003c/em>]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Jazz is on special here every night of the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take a stroll down Fillmore Street and you might run into Billie Holiday stepping out of a restaurant … or Thelonious Monk smoking a cigarette.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The music of Dizzy Gillespie bleeds through the door of a music venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[\u003cem>Door opens, music gets much louder, like we’re in a club]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Step inside and you’re front and center for why this neighborhood got the moniker “Harlem of the West.” In the 1940s and ’50s, the Fillmore was THE spot on the West Coast to see the jazz greats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until … it wasn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[\u003cem>Construction noises\u003c/em>]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Today on the show — how the Fillmore become a national hotspot for jazz, and how city planners dismantled it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story was inspired by a winning question from a public voting round on BayCurious.org. It first aired in 2020. But we’re bringing it back today because this story is featured in our newly released book, “Bay Curious: Exploring the Hidden True Stories of the San Francisco Bay Area,” which, I’ll just mention, is available at a local bookstore near you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll turn up the music, right after this…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> We’re delving into how a small neighborhood in San Francisco became an epicenter for jazz. Reporter Bianca Taylor brings us the story…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor:\u003c/strong> Like so much of San Francisco history, the story of the Fillmore can be traced back to the day the city shook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Early 1900-music]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Pepin Silva:\u003c/strong> After the earthquake, pretty much all of San Francisco all relocated to the Fillmore simply because it was the closest place to downtown that survived relatively intact the earthquake and subsequent fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor:\u003c/strong> Elizabeth Pepin Silva is a filmmaker and co-author of the book, \u003cem>Harlem of the West\u003c/em>. She grew up in San Francisco. When she was a teenager, she got a job working for music promotor Bill Graham at the Fillmore Auditorium. It’s how she first started digging into the history of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Pepin Silva:\u003c/strong> Once downtown was rebuilt, the local Fillmore Neighborhood’s merchants association were trying to figure out a way to keep people coming back to the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor:\u003c/strong> It was decided that the Fillmore would be San Francisco’s entertainment center. In 1909, an amusement park called the Fillmore Chutes was built, complete with a wooden roller coaster and Ferris wheel, and three years later, the Fillmore Auditorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Pepin Silva: \u003c/strong>You know, there were beer halls. It was a really fun, exciting place. It was a place to go have fun. But it was mainly for white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor:\u003c/strong> Yes, San Francisco was segregated, but in the Fillmore it was a little bit different. The earthquake had damaged a lot of neighborhoods where people of color were “allowed” to live in the city, but the surviving Fillmore district had inexpensive real estate and a history of accepting immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So through the early 1900s up until the 1940s, you had Filipinos, Mexicans, African Americans, Russians, Japanese Americans and Jewish people living next door to one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Pepin Silva: \u003c/strong>And it really became known as one of the most integrated neighborhoods west of the Mississippi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archival Newsreel:\u003c/strong> “On December 7th, 1941 Japan, like its infamous axis partners, struck first and declared war afterwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>Then, Pearl Harbor was bombed. And the country changed completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Pepin Silva: \u003c/strong>Japanese Americans are forced into concentration camps and it left this huge hole in the Fillmore district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>At the same time there was a push to recruit African Americans from the Midwest to work the shipyards in San Francisco and Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Pepin Silva: \u003c/strong>And they were given a free train ticket and promise of a job and they were like, “come on out we need you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>African Americans arriving in San Francisco moved into empty apartments the JapanesecAmericans had been forced out of. Between 1940 and 1950, the Black population of San Francisco grew tenfold. By 1945, some 30,000 African Americans were living in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With this surge in population came an explosion in the Fillmore of Black-owned businesses, nightclubs, restaurants, and bars like…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Terry Hilliard:\u003c/strong> Circle Star\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Mary Stallings:\u003c/strong> I hung out at Bop City\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Terry Hilliard:\u003c/strong> Like Jack’s on Sutter\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Mary Stallings: \u003c/strong>The Blue Mirror\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Terry Hilliard:\u003c/strong> Booker T. Washington Hotel\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>And you could go out on Friday night and not come home till Sunday night because there is so much to do. And so that’s how Fillmore became Harlem of the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Music: “Soul Sauce,” Cal Tjader with Terry Hilliard]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Terry Hilliard:\u003c/strong> So, you know, when you play in the city, it just feels so wonderful that you have an audience of that caliber who enjoy your music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>Terry Hilliard, who we’re hearing on this track by Cal Tjader, is a bass player who started playing in the Fillmore district when he was a student at SF State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Terry Hilliard:\u003c/strong> We had great crowds. People really dressed up nice. The places were very elegant. There’s just a lot of joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>The Fillmore was one of the few places where, as a Black man, Terry could play a venue and enter through the front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Terry Hilliard: \u003c/strong>When we played the private party, we’d have to come in through the loading dock. We’d play the show and then we come back down through the kitchen. Didn’t feel that at the Fillmore. At the Fillmore, they were Black clubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Music: “Sunday Kind of Love,” Mary Stallings]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>Jazz singer Mary Stallings, who we’re hearing here, was born in the Fillmore District in 1939.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Stallings:\u003c/strong> My family came from the Midwest. I was the first born in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>She started singing gospel in her neighborhood church when she was 8 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Stallings:\u003c/strong> Growing up in that area, walking to church in the morning you cross that Fillmore area. It was just music … god, music everywhere. It was just an amazing experience and feeling, and I knew that I was living something very special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Music: “What a Difference a Day Makes,” Dinah Washington]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>When she was older, Mary worked at jazz clubs where she got to see her idols perform when they came through town, like Dinah Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Stallings:\u003c/strong> When I was a kid, I used to imitate Billy Eckstine. I used to imitate Dinah Washington. I used to imitate Billie Holiday. And it’s amazing. 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I just don’t see that today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>Why don’t you see that today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After World War II, President Truman signed the 1949 Housing Act, which authorized the demolition and reconstruction of urban neighborhoods that were considered slums. This policy of “redevelopment” specifically targeted neighborhoods that were low-income and not-white. So in the 1960s, with its old Victorian houses and mostly Black population, the Fillmore became the focus of San Francisco’s “urban renewal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jazz clubs were shuttered. Businesses torn down. Geary Street turned into the massive four-lane Geary Boulevard, slicing through the heart of the neighborhood. Residents were forced out of their homes, often without much warning or adequate compensation. To city planners, this was urban renewal, but to the residents of the Fillmore, it felt like something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Archival Tape] \u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Man 1:\u003c/strong> And then this is part of redevelopment also.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>James Baldwin: \u003c/strong>What do you mean? Redevelopment meaning what?\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Man 1:\u003c/strong> Meaning removal of negroes.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>James Baldwin: \u003c/strong>That’s what I thought you meant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>That’s writer James Baldwin. In 1963, he came to San Francisco to interview Black residents for a documentary produced by KQED. 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It first aired in 2020. But we’re bringing it back today because this story is featured in our newly released book, “Bay Curious: Exploring the Hidden True Stories of the San Francisco Bay Area,” which, I’ll just mention, is available at a local bookstore near you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll turn up the music, right after this…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> We’re delving into how a small neighborhood in San Francisco became an epicenter for jazz. Reporter Bianca Taylor brings us the story…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor:\u003c/strong> Like so much of San Francisco history, the story of the Fillmore can be traced back to the day the city shook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Early 1900-music]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Pepin Silva:\u003c/strong> After the earthquake, pretty much all of San Francisco all relocated to the Fillmore simply because it was the closest place to downtown that survived relatively intact the earthquake and subsequent fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor:\u003c/strong> Elizabeth Pepin Silva is a filmmaker and co-author of the book, \u003cem>Harlem of the West\u003c/em>. She grew up in San Francisco. When she was a teenager, she got a job working for music promotor Bill Graham at the Fillmore Auditorium. It’s how she first started digging into the history of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Pepin Silva:\u003c/strong> Once downtown was rebuilt, the local Fillmore Neighborhood’s merchants association were trying to figure out a way to keep people coming back to the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor:\u003c/strong> It was decided that the Fillmore would be San Francisco’s entertainment center. In 1909, an amusement park called the Fillmore Chutes was built, complete with a wooden roller coaster and Ferris wheel, and three years later, the Fillmore Auditorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Pepin Silva: \u003c/strong>You know, there were beer halls. It was a really fun, exciting place. It was a place to go have fun. But it was mainly for white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor:\u003c/strong> Yes, San Francisco was segregated, but in the Fillmore it was a little bit different. The earthquake had damaged a lot of neighborhoods where people of color were “allowed” to live in the city, but the surviving Fillmore district had inexpensive real estate and a history of accepting immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So through the early 1900s up until the 1940s, you had Filipinos, Mexicans, African Americans, Russians, Japanese Americans and Jewish people living next door to one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Pepin Silva: \u003c/strong>And it really became known as one of the most integrated neighborhoods west of the Mississippi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archival Newsreel:\u003c/strong> “On December 7th, 1941 Japan, like its infamous axis partners, struck first and declared war afterwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>Then, Pearl Harbor was bombed. And the country changed completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Pepin Silva: \u003c/strong>Japanese Americans are forced into concentration camps and it left this huge hole in the Fillmore district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>At the same time there was a push to recruit African Americans from the Midwest to work the shipyards in San Francisco and Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Pepin Silva: \u003c/strong>And they were given a free train ticket and promise of a job and they were like, “come on out we need you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>African Americans arriving in San Francisco moved into empty apartments the JapanesecAmericans had been forced out of. Between 1940 and 1950, the Black population of San Francisco grew tenfold. By 1945, some 30,000 African Americans were living in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With this surge in population came an explosion in the Fillmore of Black-owned businesses, nightclubs, restaurants, and bars like…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Terry Hilliard:\u003c/strong> Circle Star\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Mary Stallings:\u003c/strong> I hung out at Bop City\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Terry Hilliard:\u003c/strong> Like Jack’s on Sutter\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Mary Stallings: \u003c/strong>The Blue Mirror\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Terry Hilliard:\u003c/strong> Booker T. Washington Hotel\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>And you could go out on Friday night and not come home till Sunday night because there is so much to do. And so that’s how Fillmore became Harlem of the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Music: “Soul Sauce,” Cal Tjader with Terry Hilliard]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Terry Hilliard:\u003c/strong> So, you know, when you play in the city, it just feels so wonderful that you have an audience of that caliber who enjoy your music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>Terry Hilliard, who we’re hearing on this track by Cal Tjader, is a bass player who started playing in the Fillmore district when he was a student at SF State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Terry Hilliard:\u003c/strong> We had great crowds. People really dressed up nice. The places were very elegant. There’s just a lot of joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>The Fillmore was one of the few places where, as a Black man, Terry could play a venue and enter through the front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Terry Hilliard: \u003c/strong>When we played the private party, we’d have to come in through the loading dock. We’d play the show and then we come back down through the kitchen. Didn’t feel that at the Fillmore. At the Fillmore, they were Black clubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Music: “Sunday Kind of Love,” Mary Stallings]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>Jazz singer Mary Stallings, who we’re hearing here, was born in the Fillmore District in 1939.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Stallings:\u003c/strong> My family came from the Midwest. I was the first born in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>She started singing gospel in her neighborhood church when she was 8 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Stallings:\u003c/strong> Growing up in that area, walking to church in the morning you cross that Fillmore area. It was just music … god, music everywhere. It was just an amazing experience and feeling, and I knew that I was living something very special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Music: “What a Difference a Day Makes,” Dinah Washington]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>When she was older, Mary worked at jazz clubs where she got to see her idols perform when they came through town, like Dinah Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Stallings:\u003c/strong> When I was a kid, I used to imitate Billy Eckstine. I used to imitate Dinah Washington. I used to imitate Billie Holiday. And it’s amazing. I worked with all these people and knew these people personally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>But Mary and Terry both say it wasn’t just the music that made the Fillmore special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Stallings: \u003c/strong>You know, you felt like you were cared for. You know, you had a home life, but everybody else was your family, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Terry Hilliard: \u003c/strong>The reason it was so different was because of the culture. It had a culture that was a place where talent could be developed, whether it be music, art, dancing or whatever. It was there. It was a place where you could express yourself and be accepted by others and you had an audience. I just don’t see that today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>Why don’t you see that today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After World War II, President Truman signed the 1949 Housing Act, which authorized the demolition and reconstruction of urban neighborhoods that were considered slums. This policy of “redevelopment” specifically targeted neighborhoods that were low-income and not-white. So in the 1960s, with its old Victorian houses and mostly Black population, the Fillmore became the focus of San Francisco’s “urban renewal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jazz clubs were shuttered. Businesses torn down. Geary Street turned into the massive four-lane Geary Boulevard, slicing through the heart of the neighborhood. Residents were forced out of their homes, often without much warning or adequate compensation. To city planners, this was urban renewal, but to the residents of the Fillmore, it felt like something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Archival Tape] \u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Man 1:\u003c/strong> And then this is part of redevelopment also.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>James Baldwin: \u003c/strong>What do you mean? Redevelopment meaning what?\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Man 1:\u003c/strong> Meaning removal of negroes.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>James Baldwin: \u003c/strong>That’s what I thought you meant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>That’s writer James Baldwin. In 1963, he came to San Francisco to interview Black residents for a documentary produced by KQED. In the film called \u003cem>Take This Hammer\u003c/em>, Baldwin points out that even though San Francisco thinks of itself as a progressive city, its policies — like those of redevelopment — made it no different from Birmingham, Alabama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Archival Tape] \u003c/em>\u003cstrong>James Baldwin:\u003c/strong> I imagine it’d be easy for any white person walking through San Francisco to imagine everything was at peace. Cuz it certainly looks that way on the surface. San Francisco’s much prettier than New York. And it’s easier to hide in San Francisco than in New York. You’ve got the view, you’ve got the hills. You’ve got the San Francisco legend too which is that it’s cosmopolitan and forward-looking. But it’s just another American city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>The redevelopment of the Fillmore was one of the largest projects of urban renewal on the West Coast. It impacted nearly 20,000 people. And by the time new housing and storefronts were finally completed in the 1980s, most of the former Fillmore residents couldn’t afford to move back in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the U.S. census, in the 1970s 10% of San Francisco’s population identified as Black. Today, that number is half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Stallings still lives in San Francisco but says going back to the Fillmore now breaks her heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Stallings:\u003c/strong> I was trying to explain that in another interview and I didn’t get very far because I cried like a baby. Because I missed — I missed the community feeling, the feeling of family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>Terry Hilliard lives in Oakland now. He kept playing music in the Bay Area, but says all the musicians he played with back then left and went to New York. They couldn’t afford to live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Terry Hilliard:\u003c/strong> The only ones, the musicians who stay here, were those who had jobs like me. I ended up being a computer programmer and others worked at other jobs. Then we just played as often as we could together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>Jazz in the Fillmore isn’t entirely dead. You can catch a live jazz show six days a week at the Boom Boom Room on Fillmore and Geary. The free, two-day Fillmore Jazz Festival draws big performers each summer. But is it still the Harlem of the West? Elizabeth Pepin Silva says…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Pepin Silva:\u003c/strong> Oh, absolutely not. No way. No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sad jazz start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bianca Taylor: \u003c/strong>Cities change. It’s easy to romanticize the past… But listening to Mary talk about her childhood in the Fillmore, she keeps using this word:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Stallings:\u003c/strong> It was just so magical as I look back, it was just \u003cem>magic\u003c/em>. You know, I use that terminology when things just can’t explain it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Music: “Sunday Kind of Love,” Mary Stallings]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Jazz singer Mary Stallings. That story was reported by Bianca Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A written version of this story is one of the 49 included in our newly released book: \u003cem>Bay Curious: Exploring the Hidden True Stories of the San Francisco Bay Area\u003c/em>. Be sure to check it out to learn more fascinating things, like: How Mountain Bikes first got rolling in Marin or how a once-popular island became a ghost town in the middle of San Francisco Bay. You can find details at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/baycuriousbook\">KQED.org/baycuriousbook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve also got a book event coming up on Thursday, Aug. 24 at Black Bird Bookstore in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset. Come by to hear me tell some stories! We’ll also play a little mini trivia game, have some audience Q&A, and I’ll be signing books. The event is free and starts at 7 p.m. This is our last event on the calendar for a while, so I hope to see you there!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s episode was produced by Katrina Schwartz and Asal Ehsanipour. Audio engineering was by Rob Speight and Christopher Beale. The Bay Curious team also includes Amanda Font. Additional support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Cesar Saldana and Holly Kernan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED.\u003cbr>\nI’m your host and senior editor, Olivia Allen-Price. Stay curious and have a wonderful week.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>After three years of economic growth and historic federal pandemic relief, local budgets in the Bay Area are looking a little different this year. Much of that federal aid has been spent, and cities are grappling with the economic fallout of a rise in working from home and empty downtown office buildings and storefronts. Elected officials often say that budgets are “statements of values.” So KQED is checking the receipts of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/city-budgets\">spending plans recently passed in San Francisco, San José and Oakland\u003c/a> to see how leaders in the region’s three largest cities are prioritizing taxpayer dollars.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 26, San Francisco Mayor London Breed signed a $14.6 billion budget, after weeks of negotiations with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors over how to address a projected $780 million two-year deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that’s an eye-popping number compared to the budgets of San José and Oakland, it’s helpful to remember San Francisco is a county, as well as a city, and therefore funds additional expenses that Oakland and San José do not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11957666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1.png\" alt=\"A graph that shows San Francisco's 2023-24 $14.6 Billion Budget\" width=\"1788\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1.png 1788w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1-800x186.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1-1020x237.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1-160x37.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1-1536x357.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1788px) 100vw, 1788px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest budget battle in San Francisco centered on redirecting permanent housing funds to homeless shelters and temporary housing, similar to a controversial budget proposal in San José over homelessness spending. Breed proposed using $60 million earmarked by voters for permanent housing to fund her plan. Similarly, she also proposed dipping into a voter-approved tax that funds early childhood education and child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors tussled with the mayor’s office over those proposed changes in negotiations for weeks. Ultimately, they reached a compromise using money they only later realized was available, using accrued interest from those two tax measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like San José, San Francisco’s budget also includes funding to increase the city’s police force. The police department budget grew by 8.5%, enough to hire 220 officers in the coming years. Public pressure to address a feared rise in crime prompted most lawmakers to back the mayor’s plan to increase the police department, one of the largest expansions in San Francisco’s spending plan, even as other departments were asked to take a cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"One-Time Funding Solutions in San Francisco's 2023–24 Budget\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-cD4o8\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/cD4o8/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"654\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s shrinking daytime population and vacant office space blew a $780 million hole in San Francisco’s budget. Escalating health insurance costs and pensions contributed, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the way lawmakers plugged that hole won’t hold for long. The city’s two-year budget was balanced using nearly $1 billion in one-time funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This funding comes from a number of sources, including an opioid lawsuit settlement against Walgreens, FEMA reimbursements for emergency pandemic spending and various reserve funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The use of one-time sources to meet a budget need isn’t unheard of. And according to the City Controller’s Office, the use of one-time funding falls within the city’s legally mandated limits. But in a budget briefing letter, the controller also warned, “The use of one-time or nonrecurring sources to support ongoing operations creates a future budget shortfall, requiring expenditures to be reduced or replacement resources identified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means it’s the budget equivalent of using chewing gum to plug a leak. If downtown doesn’t boom like a Gold Rush in the near future, then San Francisco lawmakers will need to make drastic cuts in future budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-year budget is often revised in its second year so lawmakers can adjust it to the realities of tax revenue projections. If the projections don’t hold, Breed can look forward to a bitter fight over what departments to cut during her mayoral re-election bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"San Francisco's Projected Deficit in Upcoming Fiscal Years \" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-cMZn6\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/cMZn6/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s budget process didn’t turn into the bloodbath many predicted it would. But that could happen soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A five-year estimate issued by the City Controller’s Office, Mayor’s Office and Board of Supervisors’ Budget and Legislative Analyst foresees growing budget shortfalls in the coming years, starting at $488.9 million in 2024–2025 and reaching $1.3 billion in the 2027–2028 budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some good news for the city, San Francisco’s tourism tax dollars are already rebounding. But it’s not enough money to offset a shrinking tax base from a massive dip in office use. A variety of taxes are tied to how many people work in San Francisco, from property taxes to various business taxes, and all of those have taken a hit post-pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing this all coming down the pike, Mayor Breed and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin passed legislation to foster economic growth downtown. Much of that was supported in this year’s budget, including a program to waive city fees for small businesses in their first year of operation, and the “vacant to vibrant” program which will help artists beautify empty ground-floor spaces, and give grants to business owners to fill those storefronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have cited San Francisco’s reliance on the tech industry and the outsized impact of work-from-home as a major factor in its slow recovery from the pandemic. Now the city is trying to attract new businesses downtown to generate more city revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Under-the-Radar Projects Funded in SF's 2023–24 Budget\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-0ampp\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/0ampp/4/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"729\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the mayor and Board of Supervisors clash over the budget, it’s actually over a very small slice of the overall $14.6 billion pie. Ultimately, the Board of Supervisors reallocated $70 million after their weeks-long negotiations with the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put that into perspective, that’s less than 1% of the budget.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101893348,news_11953006,news_11954871\"]And while it may be a small piece of the pie, the impact on the people and programs who need it is incalculable. Here are some of the program investments that caught our eye:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sisterhood Gardens near the Ocean View neighborhood received $115,000 to continue operating a community garden that serves the area’s large population of seniors and monolingual immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another $4.8 million went to the SRO Collaborative to keep up its code enforcement efforts in single-room occupancy hotels. The program helps SRO tenants, many of whom are monolingual immigrants, negotiate with landlords over housing disputes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nature programming at Golden Gate Park’s Stow Lake netted $15,000, ensuring plenty of families can still enjoy a sunny (or foggy) day at the scenic lake. An additional $250,000 will keep the music playing at the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater, and $1 million will go toward an expansion of a homeless navigation center on Hyde Street for young adults, aged 18–24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a full list of programs the supervisors added back into the budget, \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23903018/fy-2023-2024-and-fy-2024-2025-final-spending-plan-and-sources_weds-6-28-23-1130pm-final-1.pdf\">click here (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Much of that was supported in this year’s budget, including a program to waive city fees for small businesses in their first year of operation, and the “vacant to vibrant” program which will help artists beautify empty ground-floor spaces, and give grants to business owners to fill those storefronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have cited San Francisco’s reliance on the tech industry and the outsized impact of work-from-home as a major factor in its slow recovery from the pandemic. 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The letter also suggested, without evidence, that the center received funds from some of X’s competitors, even though the center has also published critical reports about TikTok, Facebook and other large platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imran Ahmed, the center’s founder and CEO, told the Associated Press that his group has never received a similar response from any tech company. He said that typically the targets of the center’s criticism have responded by defending their work or promising to address any problems that have been identified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an unprecedented escalation by a social media company against independent researchers. Musk has just declared open war,” Ahmed told the Associated Press. “If Musk succeeds in silencing us other researchers will be next in line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite being a self-professed free speech absolutist, it’s not the first time that Musk has fired back at critics. Last year, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11935729/a-suspended-journalist-and-a-litigator-discuss-latest-spate-of-suspensions-at-twitter\">suspended the accounts of several journalists\u003c/a> who covered his takeover of Twitter. Another user was \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-technology-business-social-media-13119e8cc9bbc15a886369263b29087a\">permanently banned\u003c/a> for using publicly available flight data to track Musk’s private plane; Musk had initially pledged to keep the user on the platform but later changed his mind, citing his personal safety. 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Walsh said that he plans to meet with employees at the brewery about involvement or collaboration. De Sá did not definitively say what the brewery workers would be open to, but that they “feel strongly at this point that they want to have governance and a say in how that company is run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest dash for a new owner to come in and keep Anchor from shuttering comes after a long history of highs and lows for the historic brand and brewery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67000_230714-AnchorBrewing-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People sit under umbrellas in a sunny outdoors space.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67000_230714-AnchorBrewing-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67000_230714-AnchorBrewing-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67000_230714-AnchorBrewing-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67000_230714-AnchorBrewing-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67000_230714-AnchorBrewing-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67000_230714-AnchorBrewing-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People sit at picnic tables outside of Anchor Public Taps in San Francisco on July 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anchor was founded 127 years ago, using actual steam and San Francisco’s cold temps and fog to brew its iconic Anchor Steam beverage. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Editor’s note:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cem> This story is part of an occasional series examining the rollout of CARE Courts across the state. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952228/san-francisco-to-implement-newsoms-care-court-plan-to-treat-severe-mental-illness\">\u003cem>Read or listen to KQED’s reporting on San Francisco County here.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Heidi Sweeney first began hallucinating, the voices in her head told her Orange County’s Huntington Beach was where she would be safe. There, behind the bikini-clad crowds playing volleyball and riding beach cruisers, she slept in homeless encampments, then beside a bush outside a liquor store, drinking vodka to drown out the din only she could hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, she refused help, insisting to all who offered, “I’m not sick,” until police arrested her for petty theft and public drunkenness. A judge gave her an ultimatum: jail, or treatment. She chose treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so thankful that they did that,” said Sweeney, now 52. “I needed that. I think there’s others out there that need it, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she hadn’t been compelled to get care, Sweeney said she wouldn’t be alive today, back at work and reunited with her husband. It’s why she supports California’s new civil CARE Courts, which will launch this fall in eight counties, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952228/san-francisco-to-implement-newsoms-care-court-plan-to-treat-severe-mental-illness\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/psych-treatment/care-court\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and Orange, followed by the rest of the state in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new system, family members and first responders can ask county judges to order people with psychotic illness into treatment, even if they are not unhoused or haven’t committed a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill creating the program sailed through the state Legislature with near unanimous support last year amid growing frustration from voters over the state’s increasing population of unhoused residents, even as it drew vehement opposition from disability rights groups, who argued CARE Courts’ hallmark — compelling people who have done nothing wrong into mental health care — is a violation of civil rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Maria Hernandez, presiding judge, Orange County Superior Court\"]‘We don’t want to punish people. We want them to maintain their dignity.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Orange County, that tension — between those who advocate for voluntary treatment and those who say the status quo allows people to die in the streets “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11944448/a-war-of-compassion-debate-over-forced-treatment-of-mental-illness-splits-california-liberals\">with their rights on\u003c/a>” — is playing out in the implementation of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its officials are threading a delicate needle: particularly, how to convince people to accept care without coercion, when their illness causes them to believe they are not ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to punish people,” said Maria Hernandez, the presiding judge for Orange County Superior Court. “We want them to maintain their dignity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11955163 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A light-skinned middle-aged woman with long brown hair and wearing black judge's robes smiles at the camera from behind a desk.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orange County Superior Court Presiding Judge Maria Hernandez says CARE Court will resemble the county’s other collaborative courts, like her young adult diversion court, where compassion and science drive her decisions. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Orange County is expecting that between 900 and 1,500 residents will be eligible for CARE Court in any given year, according to the county public defender’s office. Local lawyers, judges and health officials all have aligned in designing their program with a distinct patient focus, endeavoring to make the process as benign and nonthreatening as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Stories on CARE Court' tag='care-court']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said that means modeling the new civil court after the county’s other collaborative courts, where judges often lose the black robe and come down off the bench to work \u003cem>with \u003c/em>people, eye to eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One prototype, she said, is her \u003ca href=\"https://www.occourts.org/directory/collaborative-courts/YAC_Pamphlet.pdf\">Young Adult Court (PDF)\u003c/a>, where, on a day in June, the mood was downright jovial. Defendants and their family members were chatting and laughing, munching on snacks laid out on a table in the back as three young men “graduated” from the diversion program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Judge Hernandez is so awesome,” said Abraham, 25, a former graduate, who asked to be identified only by his first name because he was charged with a felony that has since been expunged from his record. “I don’t even look at her as the judge. She’s just like a mom figure. She’s only trying to push you to be the better you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A minute later, Hernandez walked through the aisle of the courtroom and gave Abraham a hug.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Disaster preparedness’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even if CARE Court is ruled by the likes of Mary Poppins, Orlando Vera, who lives with bipolar disorder, said helping a vulnerable person heal from mental illness shouldn’t involve dragging them into a courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955161\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11955161 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A very fair-skinned bald man wearing glasses sits in an office setting, smiling and wearing a short-sleeved blue collared polo shirt.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orlando Vera, co-founder of Peer Voices of Orange County, says he and other people with lived experience of mental illness will attend CARE Court proceedings on behalf of patients. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a place [where] you resolve your emotions. It is a very business-oriented environment. So I do feel that this is not the place for it,” Vera said, adding, “Can we stop it? I would say we can’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Orlando Vera, founder, Peer Voices of Orange County\"]‘Our focus is how do we support those that are going through the system. We need to be their voice.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After advocates \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article274547296.html\">failed to convince the state Supreme Court\u003c/a> to block the program on constitutional grounds, some started referring to the rollout of CARE Court as “disaster preparedness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://peervoices.org/\">Peer Voices of Orange County\u003c/a>, a group Vera co-founded and runs, plans to install patient advocates at the courthouse to attend any and all CARE Court hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our focus is how do we support those that are going through the system,” he said. “We need to be their voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘CARE’ without coercion\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Orange County behavioral health director Veronica Kelley is sympathetic to advocates’ concerns. She said CARE Court is not the program she would have created to improve the state’s mental health system. But she serves at the will of the governor and other elected officials who control her budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we end up building the Winchester Mystery House,” she said. “It is a structure that was OK, but then it just started adding hallways to nowhere and basements that are on top of the building. That’s what our system looks like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955162\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11955162 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman with long blond hair and long earrings sits in front of a bookshelf filled with books. She is unsmiling.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Kelley, behavioral health director for Orange County, will oversee mental health outreach and care provided through the local CARE Court, launching Oct. 1. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Kelley is committed to making sure CARE Court is not a hallway to nowhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a hallway that I’m going to, at the end, construct a door that opens out to a bunch of different options,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelley is shaping the new court process into something its critics can accept. This is why she wanted Orange County to go first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we can help craft it into something that’s not another colossal waste of time and funds, and that we don’t destroy the people we’re trying to serve at the same time,” she told a roomful of patient advocates during a meeting of the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/MH/Pages/PatientsRights.aspx#:~:text=California%20Office%20of%20Patients'%20Rights,training%20and%20technical%20assistance%20to\">Patient Rights’ Committee\u003c/a>, held in Santa Ana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means social workers from her \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochealthinfo.com/services-programs/mental-health-crisis-recovery/mental-health\">behavioral health department\u003c/a> or the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pubdef.ocgov.com/\">public defender’s office\u003c/a> might visit people 20, 30 or 40 times to build trust, listen and set goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Veronica Kelley, behavioral health director, Orange County\"]‘If someone agrees to do something of their own accord, it is far more probable that there will be long-term success and long-term commitment to the services being provided.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they can’t be convinced, CARE Court isn’t for them. But we’re not going to give up on folks because they say no the first time,” said Martin Schwarz, Orange County’s public defender, who plans to devote eight full-time staff to represent the interests of patients referred into the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the CARE legislation, the court is allowed to fine behavioral health agencies $1,000 per day if they can’t find a patient and enroll them in treatment by certain deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelley said her county’s judges have agreed to give her staff the time and extensions they need to do their jobs right. She also vowed that no one who declines services in her county would be institutionalized, as the legislation allows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone agrees to do something of their own accord, it is far more probable that there will be long-term success and long-term commitment to the services being provided,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelley and Schwarz pointed to their success with another civil court process established by Laura’s Law in 2002, where for each individual involved in court-ordered outpatient care, there were another 20 who accepted treatment willingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say they have the same goal for CARE Court, where the focus will be on finding a treatment plan people accept voluntarily — before a judge has to order it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Success is measured by who we keep out of the court system,” Schwarz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said that means modeling the new civil court after the county’s other collaborative courts, where judges often lose the black robe and come down off the bench to work \u003cem>with \u003c/em>people, eye to eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One prototype, she said, is her \u003ca href=\"https://www.occourts.org/directory/collaborative-courts/YAC_Pamphlet.pdf\">Young Adult Court (PDF)\u003c/a>, where, on a day in June, the mood was downright jovial. Defendants and their family members were chatting and laughing, munching on snacks laid out on a table in the back as three young men “graduated” from the diversion program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Judge Hernandez is so awesome,” said Abraham, 25, a former graduate, who asked to be identified only by his first name because he was charged with a felony that has since been expunged from his record. “I don’t even look at her as the judge. She’s just like a mom figure. She’s only trying to push you to be the better you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A minute later, Hernandez walked through the aisle of the courtroom and gave Abraham a hug.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Disaster preparedness’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even if CARE Court is ruled by the likes of Mary Poppins, Orlando Vera, who lives with bipolar disorder, said helping a vulnerable person heal from mental illness shouldn’t involve dragging them into a courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955161\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11955161 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A very fair-skinned bald man wearing glasses sits in an office setting, smiling and wearing a short-sleeved blue collared polo shirt.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orlando Vera, co-founder of Peer Voices of Orange County, says he and other people with lived experience of mental illness will attend CARE Court proceedings on behalf of patients. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a place [where] you resolve your emotions. It is a very business-oriented environment. So I do feel that this is not the place for it,” Vera said, adding, “Can we stop it? I would say we can’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After advocates \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article274547296.html\">failed to convince the state Supreme Court\u003c/a> to block the program on constitutional grounds, some started referring to the rollout of CARE Court as “disaster preparedness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://peervoices.org/\">Peer Voices of Orange County\u003c/a>, a group Vera co-founded and runs, plans to install patient advocates at the courthouse to attend any and all CARE Court hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our focus is how do we support those that are going through the system,” he said. “We need to be their voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘CARE’ without coercion\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Orange County behavioral health director Veronica Kelley is sympathetic to advocates’ concerns. She said CARE Court is not the program she would have created to improve the state’s mental health system. But she serves at the will of the governor and other elected officials who control her budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we end up building the Winchester Mystery House,” she said. “It is a structure that was OK, but then it just started adding hallways to nowhere and basements that are on top of the building. That’s what our system looks like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955162\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11955162 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman with long blond hair and long earrings sits in front of a bookshelf filled with books. She is unsmiling.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Kelley, behavioral health director for Orange County, will oversee mental health outreach and care provided through the local CARE Court, launching Oct. 1. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Kelley is committed to making sure CARE Court is not a hallway to nowhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a hallway that I’m going to, at the end, construct a door that opens out to a bunch of different options,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelley is shaping the new court process into something its critics can accept. This is why she wanted Orange County to go first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we can help craft it into something that’s not another colossal waste of time and funds, and that we don’t destroy the people we’re trying to serve at the same time,” she told a roomful of patient advocates during a meeting of the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/MH/Pages/PatientsRights.aspx#:~:text=California%20Office%20of%20Patients'%20Rights,training%20and%20technical%20assistance%20to\">Patient Rights’ Committee\u003c/a>, held in Santa Ana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means social workers from her \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochealthinfo.com/services-programs/mental-health-crisis-recovery/mental-health\">behavioral health department\u003c/a> or the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pubdef.ocgov.com/\">public defender’s office\u003c/a> might visit people 20, 30 or 40 times to build trust, listen and set goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Read Part One of this story about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955680/explaining-303-creative-decision\">the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on LGBTQ+ discrimination\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last days of June, the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, opened the door to LGBTQ+ discrimination and outlawed the Biden administration’s plan to forgive student loans. These are monumental rulings that directly affect people of color, queer folks, prospective students and the 43 million Americans who would have had some relief from their student debt — leaving many devastated and fearful for the future.[aside label='More Supreme Court Explainers' tag='explaining-the-supreme-court']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/explaining-the-supreme-court\">our series on the ramifications of these Supreme Court decisions\u003c/a>, we’re unpacking how they’ll affect you — and what can be done about it. In this explainer, we hear from experts about the Supreme Court’s two decisions that affect students: namely, the court’s rulings against affirmative action, and student loan forgiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do you need to know if you’re a current or prospective student? How will these decisions impact social mobility and diversity — not only in higher education but in the workforce and society more broadly? And how can you empower yourself in the face of these rulings that have proven devastating news for many?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking in front of an assembled crowd at Manny’s, a San Francisco community space, was the panel:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Courtney Liss\u003c/strong>, associate at San Francisco law firm Keker, Van Nest and Peters\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Cody Harri\u003c/strong>s, partner at Keker, Van Nest and Peters\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Matthew Coles\u003c/strong>, professor of practice at UC Law SF (formerly UC Hastings)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>June 29: The Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the case \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf\">Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College\u003c/a>, the Supreme Court declared that race cannot be a factor in admissions. Colleges and admissions can no longer consider an applicant’s race as one of many factors in deciding who to admit.[aside label='More Stories on Affirmative Action' tag='affirmative-action']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court’s conservative majority effectively overturned cases reaching back 45 years in invalidating admissions plans at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, the nation’s oldest private and public colleges, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the decision for the court majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said that the nation’s colleges and universities must use colorblind criteria in admissions. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first-ever Black female justice on the Supreme Court, wrote in her dissent that “with let-them-eat-cake obliviousness,” the court’s majority “pulls the ripcord and announces ‘colorblindness for all’ by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1181138066/affirmative-action-supreme-court-decision\">Read more on the affirmative action ruling from NPR.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What prospective students need to know about these changes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can technically still, in your main essay, write about diversity,” said San Francisco lawyer Courtney Liss, “as long as you are discussing how it individually strengthens \u003cem>your \u003c/em>application.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving the example of her own background, Liss said that she herself could write in her application essay about how “growing up with a mom who’s a refugee, who didn’t know how to navigate social systems, made me want to go to law school.” But then, Liss added, college admissions officers now have to consider, “Did my race impact me personally in being braver?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can’t say, ‘Yeah, it’s automatically hard to have parents who don’t speak English.’ Even though it is often very hard,” Liss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who’s behind this case?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affirmative action cases were brought by conservative activist Edward Blum, the founder of Students for Fair Admissions — the group that filed the lawsuits against both schools in 2014. The group’s argument was that the Constitution forbids the use of race in college admissions and called for overturning earlier Supreme Court decisions that said otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Courtney Liss, lawyer, Keker, Van Nest and Peters\"]‘You can technically still, in your main essay, write about diversity,” said San Francisco lawyer Courtney Liss, “as long as you are discussing how it individually strengthens your application.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students for Fair Admissions’ suit claimed that the schools particularly discriminated against Asian American students. Liss noted that as an Asian American who was the first in her family to go to college, she found this case “really tragic” in how she saw the Asian American community being “pitted against or used against, like as a wedge, in the broader community of color in which we are — and should be considered — part.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also noted the plurality of experiences among Asian Americans, saying, “So many of which are so far removed from this lawsuit” — and how the perception that “Asians are harmed by affirmative action practices” is based on this notion of the community as a monolith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How this ruling could impact students and society now\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, NPR reported on places where affirmative action has already been eliminated and found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1181138066/affirmative-action-supreme-court-decision\">there was a severe drop in admissions of people of color\u003c/a> — particularly among Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955729\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955729\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-IMAGES-KN-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Dozens of people protest holding signs and yelling in each other's faces.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-IMAGES-KN-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-IMAGES-KN-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-IMAGES-KN-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-IMAGES-KN-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-IMAGES-KN-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-IMAGES-KN-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-affirmative action supporters and counterprotesters shout at each outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These places include the University of California, which \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/university-of-california-looks-to-share-expertise-after-decades-without-affirmative-action/693374\">in 1996, was prohibited from considering race as a factor in admissions\u003c/a> after the state’s voters passed a ballot measure against affirmative action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Supreme Court’s decision on June 29, UC President Michael Drake wrote that without being able to consider race in the admissions process, institutions would now have to “work much harder to identify and address the root causes of societal inequities that hinder diverse students in pursuing and achieving a higher education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Courtney Liss, lawyer, Keker, Van Nest and Peters\"]‘We live in a country where there are so few CEOs of color, and this only strengthens that — and it only strengthens the pipeline for white students, against the interests of students of color.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Striking down affirmative action, Liss said, will not only hold back individuals, but society more broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have fewer students of color in college, you have fewer students of color in med school and fewer students of color who become doctors … already, we live in a country with some of the highest maternal mortality rates, especially for Black mothers,” Liss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We live in a country where there are so few CEOs of color, and this only strengthens that — and it only strengthens the pipeline for white students, against the interests of students of color,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>June 30: The Supreme Court strikes down Biden’s student loan forgiveness program\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By ruling against the Biden administration in the case \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-506_nmip.pdf\">Biden v. Nebraska\u003c/a>, the Supreme Court effectively \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954741/supreme-court-student-loan-decision-how-affects-you\">killed the White House’s $400 billion plan\u003c/a> to cancel or reduce federal student loan debts for millions of Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 6-3 decision, with conservative justices in the majority, said the Biden administration overstepped its authority with the plan, and it left borrowers on the hook for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954741/supreme-court-student-loan-decision-how-affects-you\">repayments that are expected to resume in the fall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s loan forgiveness plan would have canceled up to $20,000 in federal student loans for 43 million people. Of those, 20 million would have had their remaining student debt erased completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How the student loans case will impact prospective students\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing the practical impact of this decision on student loans, Liss said: “A lot of students like me, and like a lot of other people, won’t go [to college] … or they won’t be able to afford to go.” It was a decision, she said, that would undoubtedly “disproportionately affect people of color and people from other underrepresented backgrounds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those students who would still take on massive student loans to be able to go to college, Liss expressed deep concern about how the decision could change “the shape of their lives” on account of the sheer amount of debt they’d undertake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When thinking about the professions that many graduates now wouldn’t feel able to embark upon — “students who might be future doctors or lawyers or legislators” — because they couldn’t afford to, Liss said it was “really f—— sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My education has been not just like a door for me, but a door for my whole family,” Liss said. “And it’s like, just slamming that door shut in people’s faces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the future of student loan forgiveness after this ruling?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the Supreme Court’s decision, Biden vowed to push ahead with a new plan to provide student loan relief for millions of borrowers, while blaming Republican “hypocrisy” for triggering the decision that wiped out his original plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have student loans,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954741/supreme-court-student-loan-decision-how-affects-you\"> payment requirements for student loans will resume in October\u003c/a>. But Biden said that in the coming weeks, he’ll work under the authority of the Higher Education Act to begin a new program designed to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/student-loan-new-proposal-biden-b74e9dd2b535c97a7ce0f43b600fa28b\">ease borrowers’ threat of default\u003c/a> if they fall behind over the next year. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/student-loan-new-proposal-biden-b74e9dd2b535c97a7ce0f43b600fa28b\">Read more about the White House’s plans for student debt forgiveness after the Supreme Court ruling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s SAVE Plan, framed as “a student loan safety net,” would also allow millions of Americans with student loans to enroll in a new repayment plan that offers some of the most lenient terms ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interest won’t pile up as long as borrowers make regular payments. Millions of people will have monthly payments reduced to $0. And in as little as 10 years, any remaining debt will be canceled. The Education Department says the SAVE Plan will be available to all borrowers in the Direct Loan Program who are in good standing on their loans, and that borrowers will be notified when the new application process launches this summer. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/student-loans-debt-college-cancellation-forgiveness-34152bb5000128a413efd2287887a37a\">Read more about the SAVE Plan.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, more than 800,000 federal student loan borrowers will still have their student loan debts automatically erased, independent of the Supreme Court’s recent decision — as part of a one-time “account adjustment” for those borrowers specifically impacted by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/19/1093310151/student-loans-income-based-repayment\">the White House’s controversial income-driven repayment (IDR) plans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This targeted student loan forgiveness is the result of the Biden administration’s 2022 pledge to help these borrowers after multiple complaints, lawsuits and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/01/1089750113/student-loan-debt-investigation\">an NPR investigation into IDR plans\u003c/a> into mismanagement by the department and loan servicers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/14/1187660793/student-loan-forgiveness-income-driven-repayment\">Read more about student loan forgiveness for these borrowers around IDR plans.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Answering more questions about the Supreme Court\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it’s important to engage with Supreme Court rulings — even when the content is painful\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris issued a general urge for audiences to read and educate themselves about Supreme Court cases by finding and downloading them online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“They’re daunting at first,” he acknowledged. “But you get used to them as you read them” — adding that people shouldn’t worry if they want to “skip the boring parts and kind of get to the guts.” Eventually, Harris said, their Supreme Court-reading “muscle” will develop and they’ll “get the feel for what these things are like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why \u003cem>should \u003c/em>you read Supreme Court cases for yourself?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we just leave these issues to people like us — lawyers, professors — that’s you sort of giving away your birthright,” Harris warned. “This is part of the country. This is part of our charter of government. These people — these nine people, these lawyers in robes — are making a lot of decisions that affect all of us very personally — and our country and how it operates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incumbent upon all of us as Americans,” Harris urged, “to engage with it — as difficult as it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Could the Supreme Court be changed?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With these recent rulings on affirmative action, student loan forgiveness, discrimination against LGBTQ+ people and the constitutional right to an abortion, the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority has led many to question what’s even possible in terms of reforming the Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could there, hypothetically, be another court \u003cem>above \u003c/em>the Supreme Court?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The answer is no,” Harris confirmed. “The Constitution only provides for one court, which is the Supreme Court. It doesn’t say how many justices have to be in it, but it’s just one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Cody Harris, lawyer, Keker, Van Nest and Peters\"]‘This hasn’t been a steady march towards equality. It’s like a sine wave. It’s gone up and down — and up and down.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harris was nonetheless keen to provide context and perspective for how the Supreme Court’s rulings have, historically, “changed over time” depending on the composition of its justices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This hasn’t been a steady march towards equality,” he said. “It’s like a sine wave. It’s gone up and down — and up and down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A key focus of reform advocates has been the term limits of Supreme Court justices. On June 30, California Representative Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) reintroduced the \u003ca href=\"https://khanna.house.gov/media/press-releases/khanna-and-beyer-reintroduce-scotus-term-limits-bill-following-court-blocking\">Supreme Court Term Limits and Regular Appointments Act\u003c/a>, specifically prompted by the Supreme Court’s decision that blocked the Biden administration’s plan to forgive student loan debt. Khanna’s bill aims to enact 18-year term limits for the justices and to “stop extreme partisanship” in a court he described as “regressive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955326/supreme-court-reform-would-ro-khannas-term-limit-proposal-work\">Read more about how Khanna’s bill would work, and its potential chances of success.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955722\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED.jpg\" alt='People hold signs reading \"Cancel Student Debt Now!\" in front of the columned facade of the supreme court.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-1020x664.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-1536x1000.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-1920x1250.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student debt relief activists participate in a rally at the US Supreme Court on June 30, 2023, in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does the Supreme Court care about public opinion?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Dobbs in 2022 to affirmative action last month, the Court’s recent rulings have drawn sharp criticism and spurred many public protests. Does this dissent have an impact on the justices?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps, Harris said — who noted that throughout its history, the Supreme Court has been “very mindful of its legitimacy — and its jealously guards it because it’s all it has.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-government/the-executive-branch/\">the executive branch\u003c/a> of the United States government, which includes the military, the Supreme Court “doesn’t have an army to enforce its rules and its rulings,” Harris stressed. So amid the absence of that ability to enforce its rules, “what they have is legitimacy — that when they speak, everyone up to and including the President of the United States and the military [says] ‘OK, the court has spoken.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that accord was to ever go away, Harris said, “That’s how you get what’s called a constitutional crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they’re beginning to get sensitive to the notion that there’s wide, ever-growing public belief that some of what they’re doing is not legitimate,” said Matthew Coles of the conservative justices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important if you think what they’re doing is not legitimate, to keep voicing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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There’s a lot of focus on revitalizing downtown, but we can’t forget about our neighborhood businesses here on the west side,” said San Francisco Supervisor Joel Engardio, who has made it his mission since stepping into office earlier this year to bring night markets to the city’s Sunset District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio said he felt inspired to make the night market happen after visiting Taipei with his husband and reveling in the tastes, sights and sounds of the bustling food and merchant stalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see the night market as a way to help address all those issues,” he said. “We are helping our merchant corridors, but also bringing people out in the community in the evening and taking back the street. 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That’s good for public safety.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His bill would create a specific statewide permit for night markets and farmers markets that organizers would need to apply for once a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are few things people love more than their farmers markets. It’s a source of joy, they pick up their produce, meet friends. And unfortunately, the state makes it hard to open a farmers market,” Haney told KQED. “We want people selling food and bringing people together in community, including in the evenings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is on track to open a pilot night market in the Sunset on Sept. 15, 2023, on Irving Street from 5:00–10:00 p.m. The initial event is funded through a $50,000 grant from the San Francisco nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.avenuegreenlightsf.org/\">Avenue Greenlight\u003c/a>. Other groups such as the San Francisco Parks Alliance and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cutfruitcollective.org/\">Cut Fruit Collective\u003c/a>, an AAPI arts nonprofit rooted in the Bay Area, also signed on to kick-start the Sunset night market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio envisions there will be a “combination of all the things that makes the Sunset so amazing” including all different types of food, music and games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celebrity chef and San Francisco icon Martin Yan will also be at the first night market, doing cooking demonstrations, signing cookbooks and greeting visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The beauty of the night market is that it’s for everyone,” Engardio said. “It starts at 5 p.m., so if you have a young family, you can come on out for an early dinner. 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It can be another opportunity for home-based small businesses, for example, to pop up as vendors and meet new customers, she said.[aside label='More on Bay Area Food' tag='bay-area-food']She added that a night market would also increase foot traffic to an area and could support brick-and-mortar restaurants that were hit hard during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the pop-up vendors that are eager to be a part of the event are restaurants that previously had storefronts, but were forced to close during the pandemic. Since then, these businesses have turned to creative ways to keep their business afloat, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The night market in the Sunset would add to the city’s existing farmers markets and food truck events like \u003ca href=\"https://offthegrid.com/\">Off the Grid\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.undiscoveredsf.com/\">Undiscovered Block Party\u003c/a>, a recurring night market celebrating Filipino culture in the SoMa neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Above all, Petitt-Taylor wants to see people in her neighborhood on the city’s west side come together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is inspired by the night markets of Asia. Here in the Sunset, we have a large Chinese community and we are excited about a night market that can celebrate our Chinese culture,” Petitt-Taylor said. “I’m excited as a mom in the Sunset to give our youth a fun and safe place to hopefully want to come and hang out on a Friday night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporter Billy Cruz also contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q7BNr6kOVbzQpP46ZuANDKQEgjwIpge7/view?usp=drive_link\">Read a transcript of this episode. \u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you watch national TV news — or eavesdrop at your local coffee shop — you may have heard something like this: San Francisco’s offices are lying vacant, homelessness is rampant, and the city is floundering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Judith Gottlieb, a retired nurse in Oakland, has been hearing some of those stories. And the idea of people sleeping on the street breaks her heart. One day, she got an idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard about all these empty office buildings in San Francisco, and I was thinking, couldn’t we just move [people] in there really quickly?” Gottlieb asked Bay Curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Office vacancy is hovering around 30% in downtown San Francisco, and recently there’s been a lot of talk about converting all these empty offices to living space as a way to create much-needed housing and revive downtown at the same time. [baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The unhoused need dignity. They need a roof over their head,” said Gottlieb. “Anything we can do is better than just waiting around.”\u003cbr>\nBay Curious looked into the economics of converting office space to housing in the city, and explored whether this is a good option for getting people off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How difficult is conversion?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Offices have been converted to housing before in San Francisco, but only a handful of times, according to the San Francisco Planning Commission. But as far as the agency knows, it hasn’t been done for people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A prime example of a market-rate conversion is 100 Van Ness, a 28-story, glass-covered tower just steps from Market Street and City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This tower first belonged to the California State Automobile Association and was built in the 1970s. Back then, it was a beige tower of concrete with small rectangular windows. Now its exterior is almost all glass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955562\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/IMG_6909-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11955562 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/IMG_6909-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A white man wearing a suit smiles at the camera in the foreground. He's standing on the rooftop of a skyscraper. Behind him is a view of the San Francisco city skyline.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/IMG_6909-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/IMG_6909-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/IMG_6909-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/IMG_6909-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/IMG_6909-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/IMG_6909-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/IMG_6909-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strachan Forgan stands on the rooftop of 100 Van Ness. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We essentially took off the entire façade of the building and replaced it with this floor-to-ceiling glass,” said Strachan Forgan, a principal at SCB, the architectural firm that helped create the residential units in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a recent tour of 100 Van Ness, Forgan explained the complete transformation of the interior of the building. The once sprawling open floors of office space have been carved up into hundreds of luxury apartments. Only four of the original eight elevators remain, because residential settings have less need for elevators, according to Forgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The converted apartments — ranging from $3,159 for a tiny studio to more than $6,000 for a roomy two-bedroom — are not without design quirks. Some are attractive, others less so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things residents may enjoy are the elevated ceilings — slightly higher than in your standard apartment. Developers also removed the heating and cooling machinery, which is typically kept on office building roofs, to make open leisure space instead, complete with chairs and 360-degree views of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has pretty spectacular views in every direction,” said Forgan, with a backdrop of the Marin Headlands, and the many hills of San Francisco, behind him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the downside, some apartments at Van Ness have fewer surface area for windows, so bedrooms use “borrowed light” from living spaces. Because the apartments are carved out of a vast open office floor, many of the apartments are long and deep, stretching from the window to the center elevators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, many apartments at 100 Van Ness have long, tunnel-like hallways with windows at the end. In one of the building’s one-bedroom units, a windowless bedroom in the middle of the layout has a semi-transparent wall to let in light from the living room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-14-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11954821 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large empty room with a glass sliding door and glass panels in one wall.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-14-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-14-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-14-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-14-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sliding door and light panels allow light through to an interior bedroom in a converted apartment at 100 Van Ness in San Francisco on June 30, 2023. Built in 1974, the building was converted from office space to residential apartment units in 2012. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When 100 Van Ness first opened to residents, units with windowless bedrooms were initially offered with significant discounts, but developers soon found that wasn’t necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Actually, the residents really like it because it’s very quiet,” said Forgan. “You’re away from the hustle and bustle. It can be a little darker, so if you’re sleeping there, it’s fine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>It comes down to money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Forgan’s firm wants to stay in this business of designing conversions of offices to housing. They see the value to downtown San Francisco, and the environment. Reusing an existing building has a smaller carbon footprint than knocking it down and starting from scratch.\u003cbr>\nSo why is this project one of only a handful of office-to-residential conversions in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps not surprisingly, it has largely to do with the high cost of housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a very basic level, there’s the cost of new plumbing and electrical. You need pipes for new kitchens and bathrooms. Then, a lot of these buildings need a seismic upgrade. Forgan says the kind of housing that would recoup costs of a conversion would be at the higher end of the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got to buy the building and do everything to convert it. And by the time you add up those costs, the only thing that pencils [out] is more of a luxury product, especially with a building like this that has great views and a good location,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954820\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-10-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11954820 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People pass a sign on a city sidewalk advertising luxury apartments.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People pass by the entrance to the 100 Van Ness building in San Francisco on June 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Housing developers like the Emerald Fund, which backed 100 Van Ness, say they’re interested in doing more office-to-housing conversions. The raw construction costs of converting offices could actually be done more cheaply than building a brand-new apartment tower, says Marc Babsin, president of the fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Babsin says they’ve looked at four office buildings to convert recently, but so far, no new project has made sense cost-wise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We continue to look. We think this is a great idea from a public policy perspective. We do need to save our downtowns and this is a great way to do that, to bring people onto the street,” said Babsin. “It’s a great way to produce housing that is currently not being produced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public policy experts at the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) agree that the hefty costs of development can make such a project a nonstarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sujata Srivastava, San Francisco director at SPUR, explained a few of the financial burdens that give housing developers pause:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>City fees that support public projects like child care programs and transportation, which can add up to millions of dollars.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Transfer and property taxes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reduced revenue potential, because San Francisco requires a certain number of units be affordable to lower-income tenants.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Construction costs, which are very expensive right now.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t really make any financial sense to do conversions under the current costs that we have in San Francisco,” said Srivastava, adding that housing development is even less likely because rents are also down since before the pandemic. “The math just doesn’t really work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent SPUR report suggests city lawmakers need to make major changes if they want to jump-start these conversions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco politicians have already made some changes, and are working on more. The Mayor’s Office and supervisors have relaxed rules about open space, sunlight and apartment sizes for some conversions. Elected city officials have proposed reducing affordable housing requirements and impact fees on all new housing developments, but not as low as developers want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s all part of the city’s effort to jump-start more activity downtown and build more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A solution for homelessness?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic emptied out office space in the Financial District, downtown streets look vacant; pedestrians experience windy sidewalks, empty restaurants and sparse foot traffic. Graham Luth was sitting on the sidewalk on 2nd Street near Montgomery Street one recent Friday morning, trying to get money to go to Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got evicted, sort of,” said Luth about being temporarily without a home. “I got a job offer but I’m short on bus money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about this idea of sheltering people in empty office space downtown, Luth looked up at the tall buildings around him, and said, if no one’s using them, why not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a fantastic idea because there is a lot of space that is just … sitting there,” said Luth. “So I guess just being able to figure out who owns the spaces and if … they’re not gaining or losing, that the space can be used for a matter that would help support the whole community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the city of San Francisco may have already found a different way to shelter people without housing: buying underused hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that happened during the pandemic that … really kind of changed the landscape around solving homelessness was this idea of using hotels,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, San Francisco and their partner organizations bought eight hotels and apartment buildings to provide permanent supportive housing to people who were formerly on the streets. 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Developers also removed the heating and cooling machinery, which is typically kept on office building roofs, to make open leisure space instead, complete with chairs and 360-degree views of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has pretty spectacular views in every direction,” said Forgan, with a backdrop of the Marin Headlands, and the many hills of San Francisco, behind him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the downside, some apartments at Van Ness have fewer surface area for windows, so bedrooms use “borrowed light” from living spaces. Because the apartments are carved out of a vast open office floor, many of the apartments are long and deep, stretching from the window to the center elevators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, many apartments at 100 Van Ness have long, tunnel-like hallways with windows at the end. 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Built in 1974, the building was converted from office space to residential apartment units in 2012. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When 100 Van Ness first opened to residents, units with windowless bedrooms were initially offered with significant discounts, but developers soon found that wasn’t necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Actually, the residents really like it because it’s very quiet,” said Forgan. “You’re away from the hustle and bustle. It can be a little darker, so if you’re sleeping there, it’s fine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>It comes down to money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Forgan’s firm wants to stay in this business of designing conversions of offices to housing. They see the value to downtown San Francisco, and the environment. Reusing an existing building has a smaller carbon footprint than knocking it down and starting from scratch.\u003cbr>\nSo why is this project one of only a handful of office-to-residential conversions in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps not surprisingly, it has largely to do with the high cost of housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a very basic level, there’s the cost of new plumbing and electrical. You need pipes for new kitchens and bathrooms. Then, a lot of these buildings need a seismic upgrade. Forgan says the kind of housing that would recoup costs of a conversion would be at the higher end of the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got to buy the building and do everything to convert it. And by the time you add up those costs, the only thing that pencils [out] is more of a luxury product, especially with a building like this that has great views and a good location,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954820\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-10-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11954820 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People pass a sign on a city sidewalk advertising luxury apartments.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People pass by the entrance to the 100 Van Ness building in San Francisco on June 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Housing developers like the Emerald Fund, which backed 100 Van Ness, say they’re interested in doing more office-to-housing conversions. 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