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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. It has created almost 1,000 new housing units for people without shelter. The city is in the process of acquiring two more buildings. [emailsignup newslettername=\"baycurious\" align=\"right\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of San Francisco’s efforts, the unsheltered unhoused population has gone down 15% since 2020. 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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. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\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. 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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. 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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>There’s one less bottle of beer on the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than 127 years of brewing in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.anchorbrewing.com/\">Anchor Brewing\u003c/a> will soon bottle its last beer, the company announced Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial challenges have been bubbling since 2016 at the beverage company, which is widely considered the oldest craft brewery in the country. The company said, in a press release, it has already stopped beer production at its Potrero Hill headquarters and plans to liquidate the business, which involves a state-appointed assignee to sell off assets and pay off creditors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.anchorbrewing.com/visit-us/visit-public-taps/#location-info\">Anchor Public Taps brewpub\u003c/a> will remain open until Aug. 1, and the company will continue to package and distribute the beer it has remaining through the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, today’s economic pressures have made the business no longer sustainable, and we had to make the heartbreaking decision to cease operations,” Sam Singer, spokesperson for Anchor Brewing, said in the company’s announcement. “The impacts of the pandemic, inflation, especially in San Francisco, and a highly competitive market left the company with no option but to make this sad decision to cease operations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955497\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/07/12/as-anchor-brewing-closes-liquidates-business-workers-hope-for-a-miracle/anchor-flag/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11955497\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/anchor-flag.jpg\" alt=\"a flag, that says Anchor, is upside down on a pole above a building\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/anchor-flag.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/anchor-flag-160x104.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anchor Brewing flew its flag upside down above the Potrero Hill headquarters on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. \u003ccite>(Billy Cruz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson said the brewery’s 61 workers will receive a 60-day notice and be provided separation packages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brewery workers, upset to find out the news on Wednesday, told KQED that marketing and distribution had fallen short since the sale to Sapporo Holdings Limited in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw that there were issues. Production has been down because of sales. Members were going to bars and they were asking about Anchor and couldn’t get it,” said Pedro Sá, union representative for the brewery workers. “But it wasn’t about people not wanting it, it was this issue of not knowing the market they had and who they were trying to sell to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed and other city leaders said they were disappointed to see another local legacy business close down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The news of Anchor Brewing is upsetting,” Breed told KQED. “The brewery has been a San Francisco staple for 127 years, making beer that has been sent all over the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101890851 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2022/10/GettyImages-566272557-1020x680.jpg']Supervisor Shamann Walton, whose district includes Potrero Hill, said he’s extremely disappointed to lose the institution. “It was just important to the neighborhood, and now we have a loss of jobs. This will make a big impact on the community and the area,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walton tied the loss to years-long challenges with retail and local businesses struggling in the face of an online shopping boom and other pandemic-related economic downturns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of writing on the wall of what might happen to retail and brick-and-mortar businesses even before the pandemic, and the pandemic has accelerated the loss of business,” Walton told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beer sales have been on the decline for Anchor Brewing for several years. Earlier this summer, the company announced that it \u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2023/6/12/23758091/anchor-brewing-cancels-christmas-ale-ends-national-distribution\">was pulling back its distribution and planned to sell only in California\u003c/a>. It also ended sales of Anchor Brewing’s popular Christmas Ale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, brewers at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11732763/the-brewers-who-make-iconic-anchor-steam-beer-in-s-f-join-union\">the company voted to unionize\u003c/a>, citing high living costs in San Francisco. That move came just two years after \u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2017/8/3/16089794/anchor-steam-brewery-purchased-sapporo-san-francisco\">the company was bought by Japan-based Sapporo\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sapporo had been looking for a buyer for Anchor Brewing over the last year, but was unsuccessful in doing so, according to a company representative. Sapporo also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2022-09-02/end-of-an-era-stone-brewing-completes-165-million-sale-to-japans-sapporo\">bought\u003c/a> the larger San Diego-based Stone Brewing this past fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A buyer could still come forward during the liquidation process, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the hope of the Anchor team that such an outcome comes to fruition, however, all decisions about the future will be in the hands of the independent, third-party,” the company said in its announcement, referring to the state-appointed entity that will sell off its assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sá, the union rep, said workers are hoping for a miracle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want this place to stay open, to get people working here again,” he said. “We can’t continue on this trend of industry just leaving and having people hanging out to dry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporter Billy Cruz contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Graduates often transfer to longer-term treatment after they complete the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have folks in CMA, AA and other programs working in conjunction with us as well,” said Andrews. “And folks who are not ready for abstinence, what’s great for them is that they can come here, feel like they are trying to do something, and be around people. They get something to eat, counseling and community, even if they aren’t ready now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rick Andrews, director of contingency management, San Francisco AIDS Foundation\"]‘[F]olks who are not ready for abstinence, what’s great for them is that they can come here, feel like they are trying to do something, and be around people. They get something to eat, counseling and community, even if they aren’t ready now.’[/pullquote]Addiction experts say that tackling meth and cocaine addiction is crucial as the city works to address its overdose crisis, because those substances also appear in a large portion of fatal accidental overdoses, according to data from the San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Meth is a big, big problem that gets overshadowed by opioids, but a significant percentage of people who are using drugs in our streets are using meth, either alone or in combination with other drugs,” said Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who has advocated for expanding approaches to treat meth addiction. “Contingency management is an incredibly important and impactful approach or treatment for meth addiction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How contingency management can lead to big changes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At PROP 4 All and PROP, a similar program at SFAF that focuses on the gay male community, participants attend weekly group sessions in a calmingly dim conference room off Market Street. They discuss their use patterns, challenges and goals for how they want to adjust their use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also are given the option to take a drug test, and if it comes back negative, they can earn a cash incentive in the form of gift cards. After the 12-week program, participants often transition to longer-term counseling and care, depending on their specific goals and needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants can earn up to $330 in gift cards, if they test negative throughout the entire 12-week program. The cash may start as a draw, but leaders and participants said that what keeps people coming is having a new community, finding stability and getting connected to other services, like housing or longer-term treatment programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyrone Clifford was a participant at PROP before becoming a manager of contingency management at the program. On his 21st birthday, just before moving to San Francisco, he found out he was HIV-positive and was told he had maybe two years to live. Clifford then began partying and using more drugs in an effort to cope with the diagnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after he far outlived the prognosis, his doctor encouraged him to reevaluate his relationship to meth. Clifford had been thinking about changing his drug use, so the encouragement spurred him to give contingency management a try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/20230623-sfaidsfoundation-003-bl/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11954578 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230623-SFAIDSFoundation-003-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Black man in jeans and a flannel shirt sits on a chair in an empty conference room with stacked chairs behind him. He appears to have stud earrings in both ears, and has a bald head and a mostly white goatee and mustache.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230623-SFAIDSFoundation-003-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230623-SFAIDSFoundation-003-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230623-SFAIDSFoundation-003-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230623-SFAIDSFoundation-003-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230623-SFAIDSFoundation-003-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyrone Clifford, manager of contingency management at PROP, sits in the San Francisco AIDS Foundation offices in San Francisco on June 23, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The weekly visits and community he built helped Clifford keep his promises to himself, he said, and gave him a chance to stabilize from the everyday chaos that heavy meth use can bring. The substance can keep users up for days, straining sleep and eating schedules, and lead to other physical and emotional harm in the long run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being in the group, it helped me to stay balanced, you know, helping to appreciate the lives of others and to understand that we’re all doing the same thing. But we all have different reasons for why we do it. We’re all looking to do it to help us get through different things,” said Clifford.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The need for more treatment programs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In coordination with UCSF and nonprofits, the San Francisco Department of Public Health provides contingency management at the \u003ca href=\"https://citywide.ucsf.edu/stimulant-treatment-outpatient-program-stop\">Citywide Clinic’s Stimulant Treatment Outpatient Program\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://psych.ucsf.edu/news/office-based-buprenorphine-induction-clinics-work-highlighted-national-magazine\">Office-Based Buprenorphine Induction Clinic\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/reports/october-2022/overdose-prevention-plan-2022\">Project HOUDINI LINK\u003c/a> (Hospital Opioid Use Disorder treatment INItiation and LINKage to care).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, the expansion of San Francisco’s contingency management programs has come from Prop. C, which passed in 2018 to provide funds to address homelessness. But the Department of Public Health’s \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/reports/october-2022/overdose-prevention-plan-2022\">overdose prevention plan\u003c/a> suggests that these programs won’t be sufficiently utilized without sustained longer-term funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, San Francisco is looking to add at least one additional contingency management program and increase the number of overall participants by 25% in the next four years, according to the overdose prevention plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those efforts are paralleled by a statewide initiative. In 2021, California became the first state to cover contingency management through Medi-Cal, potentially opening doors for people who may have struggled to afford residential treatment or other treatment options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state also allocated $58.5 million to pilot contingency management programs in \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Pages/DMC-ODS-Contingency-Management.aspx\">nearly two dozen other California counties\u003c/a>. Each patient receives a maximum of $599 over six months, after which they are referred for follow-up recovery programs and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it can be hard to find or even know about contingency management program options. Many people at PROP, for example, arrive through word of mouth, court-ordered treatment or referrals from doctors, like Clifford did. But advocates say it’s an under-utilized approach that more people could benefit from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s particularly concerning for experts looking at the overlap between homelessness and substance-use disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco)\"]‘The state has been really slow in rolling out these pilot programs … but we need to do whatever we can to help people suffering from meth addiction.’[/pullquote]\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11953216/lack-of-affordable-housing-is-driving-older-californians-into-homelessness\">Meth is almost three times more commonly used than nonprescribed opioids among people experiencing homelessness in California\u003c/a>, a recent UCSF study found. Of a representative sample of unhoused adults in the state, 31% reported regular use of methamphetamines, 11% used nonprescribed opioids such as fentanyl, and 3% reported cocaine, the study found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Methamphetamine kept them awake and alert, but it obviously comes at a big cost,” said Dr. Margot Kushel, lead author of the study, which also found that about 20% of participants wanted and were ready to enter drug treatment but could not access it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener stressed that the efforts to expand contingency management need to accelerate to meet the current and urgent need. PROP, as just one example, has 12 people on its waitlist right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, he authored \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11854373/state-lawmakers-move-to-expand-effective-but-controversial-treatment-for-meth-addiction\">a bill that aimed to expand contingency management\u003c/a>, SB 110, but Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed it to instead launch the current statewide pilot program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state has been really slow in rolling out these pilot programs,” Wiener said, “but we need to do whatever we can to help people suffering from meth addiction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Wayne Rafus is a manager at a program at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) that helps people change their meth or cocaine use, called PROP 4 All. He said that about 40% of the time, fentanyl is showing up in voluntary drug tests — even though the participants haven’t intended to use that drug. This unintended use of opioids is contributing to the crisis of fatal overdoses. “Fentanyl is showing up in stimulant use, particularly meth and cocaine, which is very sad because sometimes folks are not intentionally wanting to use an opioid,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is slated to receive about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949888/walgreens-pay-san-francisco-230-million-opioid-crisis\">$352 million over the next 15 years\u003c/a> through settlements with a number of companies, including Walgreens, CVS, Teva, Allergan and others for their role in the opioid epidemic. The funding is earmarked to address problems that have come out of the opioid crisis, from increased overdoses to dangerous street-level activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of that, Mayor London Breed is proposing to use $56.2 million of the settlement in the 2023–24 fiscal year budget and $46.5 million in the 2024–25 budget. Of that, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/FY%2023-25%20HC%20Memo%20Fourth%20Meeting%20-%206-2-23%20.pdf\">$2 million (PDF)\u003c/a> would be allocated each year for contingency management programs to address stimulant use. These programs use an incentive and positive-reinforcement-based approach to curbing addictions, primarily for stimulants like meth or cocaine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>San Francisco is simultaneously using settlement funding to increase access to opioid treatments, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945418/san-francisco-has-doubled-participants-of-this-opioid-treatment-heres-why\">buprenorphine, suboxone\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941618/sfs-mobile-clinics-made-opioid-treatment-more-accessible-during-the-pandemic-but-will-they-stay\">methadone\u003c/a> medications, as well as abstinence-based programs and residential facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unlike opioids, there are no federally approved medications to treat stimulant use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, contingency management has been employed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6768930/\">Veterans Affairs\u003c/a> for many years as one option that’s shown success; the agency was the first to complete a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3986725/\">large-scale implementation\u003c/a> of the approach. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376871618300784\">2018 study\u003c/a> found that, on average, VA patients attended more than half of their counseling sessions, and 91% of participants tested negative for the targeted substance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33507776/\">study in 2021\u003c/a> meanwhile found that contingency management showed “long-term benefit in reducing objective indices of drug use, above and beyond other active, evidence-based treatments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/20230623-sfaidsfoundation-023-bl/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954572\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230623-SFAIDSFoundation-023-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A hand holds a brightly colored flyer that reads 'PROP'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230623-SFAIDSFoundation-023-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230623-SFAIDSFoundation-023-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230623-SFAIDSFoundation-023-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230623-SFAIDSFoundation-023-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230623-SFAIDSFoundation-023-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rick Andrews holds a flyer with information about PROP, or the Positive Reinforcement Opportunity Project. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rick Andrews, director of contingency management at SFAF, said that some participants are also enrolled in Alcoholics Anonymous, Crystal Meth Anonymous, other 12-step recovery programs or additional counseling while they are at PROP. Graduates often transfer to longer-term treatment after they complete the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have folks in CMA, AA and other programs working in conjunction with us as well,” said Andrews. “And folks who are not ready for abstinence, what’s great for them is that they can come here, feel like they are trying to do something, and be around people. They get something to eat, counseling and community, even if they aren’t ready now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Addiction experts say that tackling meth and cocaine addiction is crucial as the city works to address its overdose crisis, because those substances also appear in a large portion of fatal accidental overdoses, according to data from the San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Meth is a big, big problem that gets overshadowed by opioids, but a significant percentage of people who are using drugs in our streets are using meth, either alone or in combination with other drugs,” said Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who has advocated for expanding approaches to treat meth addiction. “Contingency management is an incredibly important and impactful approach or treatment for meth addiction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How contingency management can lead to big changes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At PROP 4 All and PROP, a similar program at SFAF that focuses on the gay male community, participants attend weekly group sessions in a calmingly dim conference room off Market Street. They discuss their use patterns, challenges and goals for how they want to adjust their use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also are given the option to take a drug test, and if it comes back negative, they can earn a cash incentive in the form of gift cards. After the 12-week program, participants often transition to longer-term counseling and care, depending on their specific goals and needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants can earn up to $330 in gift cards, if they test negative throughout the entire 12-week program. The cash may start as a draw, but leaders and participants said that what keeps people coming is having a new community, finding stability and getting connected to other services, like housing or longer-term treatment programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyrone Clifford was a participant at PROP before becoming a manager of contingency management at the program. On his 21st birthday, just before moving to San Francisco, he found out he was HIV-positive and was told he had maybe two years to live. Clifford then began partying and using more drugs in an effort to cope with the diagnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after he far outlived the prognosis, his doctor encouraged him to reevaluate his relationship to meth. Clifford had been thinking about changing his drug use, so the encouragement spurred him to give contingency management a try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/20230623-sfaidsfoundation-003-bl/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11954578 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230623-SFAIDSFoundation-003-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Black man in jeans and a flannel shirt sits on a chair in an empty conference room with stacked chairs behind him. He appears to have stud earrings in both ears, and has a bald head and a mostly white goatee and mustache.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230623-SFAIDSFoundation-003-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230623-SFAIDSFoundation-003-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230623-SFAIDSFoundation-003-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230623-SFAIDSFoundation-003-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230623-SFAIDSFoundation-003-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyrone Clifford, manager of contingency management at PROP, sits in the San Francisco AIDS Foundation offices in San Francisco on June 23, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The weekly visits and community he built helped Clifford keep his promises to himself, he said, and gave him a chance to stabilize from the everyday chaos that heavy meth use can bring. The substance can keep users up for days, straining sleep and eating schedules, and lead to other physical and emotional harm in the long run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being in the group, it helped me to stay balanced, you know, helping to appreciate the lives of others and to understand that we’re all doing the same thing. But we all have different reasons for why we do it. 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"content": "\u003cp>As of July 1, 2023, the minimum wage has gone up in several Bay Area cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/July2023%20Minimum%20Wage%20Poster.pdf\">In San Francisco, the minimum wage is now $18.07 (PDF).\u003c/a> On July 1, it increased from $16.99, marking the biggest increase in the city’s minimum wage in the past eight years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/doing-business/operating-berkeley/workforce-standards-and-enforcement\">Berkeley has seen the same rise in its minimum wage\u003c/a> as San Francisco.\u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/business/minimum-wage\"> In Fremont, the minimum wage has risen starting\u003c/a> July 1 from $16 to $16.80, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.milpitas.gov/688/Minimum-Wage\">in Milpitas it’s now $17.20\u003c/a>, up from $16.40. Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.emeryville.ca.us/1024/Minimum-Wage-Ordinance\">in Emeryville, the minimum wage has gone up to $18.77\u003c/a> — higher than even San Francisco or Berkeley – from $17.68, now making the minimum wage in Emeryville one of the highest in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with these latest boosts, many Bay Area residents working minimum wage jobs struggle to make ends meet in some of the most expensive cities in the country. In San Francisco, someone with one full-time minimum wage job is expected to earn roughly $3,100 a month — an amount that is barely above \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/san-francisco-ca/?bedrooms=1\">the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in the city\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a minimum wage job and are hustling to make ends meet, you know how important every single dollar is. Wage theft — that is, employers illegally keeping some of their employees’ pay for themselves — is still very common in California, particularly in the fast-food industry. A 2022 survey released by Fight for $15, a campaign funded by the Service Employees International Union, found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913643/most-fast-food-workers-are-victims-of-wage-theft-survey-finds\">nearly 60% of respondents were victims of multiple types of wage theft\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowing what your rights are and how to keep tabs on your employer is critical to making sure you are getting paid the right amount, especially now that the minimum wage has risen in several parts of the Bay Area. Here’s a quick primer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should I do now that the minimum wage has gone up?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Check your pay stubs. Many employers use automatic payroll services that usually keep up with minimum wage changes, but it’s still a good idea to check the listed hourly rate to make sure it doesn’t list the outdated minimum wage ($16.99) or any lesser amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you receive your wages through automatic deposit and don’t receive physical pay stubs, you can contact your human resources or payroll department — or, in much smaller business, your boss directly — and ask for your most recent pay stub to confirm that what you got in your account is correct. In some cases, you can get this information yourself if your employer has a digital employee portal (the place where you can review other information, like your schedule or insurance benefits).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are paid in cash, you can remind your employer about the new minimum wage and ask them to count your payment in front of you — to make sure each hour is being compensated at the new rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Current Minimum Wages in Bay Area Cities\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-hP8iq\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/hP8iq/6/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"1000\" height=\"869\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I discovered my employer is paying me below the minimum wage. What can I do?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>First off, make sure that everything you communicate to your boss about this is in writing. Labor advocates recommend using email or text messages for these types of conversations, so you can have a written record of your situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In your message, let your employer know in writing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The hourly rate you are being paid\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The correct minimum wage you should get paid\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How long you’ve been paid the incorrect amount (if this applies to you)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You can also send a link to (or a screenshot of) your city government’s website stating the new minimum wage — \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/July2023%20Minimum%20Wage%20Poster.pdf\">like this poster from the city of San Francisco stating the city’s new minimum wage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some workers, this could be intimidating. But remember, you are acting within your rights, and if you are not compensated correctly, small differences will add up over time — and you may be losing hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars a year that can go to covering necessary expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, it is illegal for your employer to retaliate against you for speaking up about wage theft. If they cut your hours or fire you — and you think this is because you spoke up about being paid less than the minimum wage — you can report your employer to the California Labor Commissioner’s Office. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/HowToFileRetaliationComplaint.htm\">Learn more about how to file a complaint for workplace retaliation.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I spoke to my employer about my wages, but they are not doing anything about it. What can I do now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If your employer still refuses to change your wages so you are getting paid the minimum wage, you have several options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can contact the office of your city’s government that deals with labor standards. In San Francisco, for example, you can contact the San Francisco Office of Labor Standards Enforcement at (415) 554-6292 or via email at \u003ca href=\"mwo@sfgov.org%E2%80%9D\">mwo@sfgov.org\u003c/a>. This team is tasked with making sure employers are keeping up with the minimum wage. Let them know about your situation and have both your pay stubs — if you have them — and the written records of your conversations with your employer ready.\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>You can also report the situation to the California Labor Commissioner’s Office. They have a team that investigates wage theft, and if they find that you did experience this, you can receive back pay and potentially additional compensation for damages. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/howtofilewageclaim.htm\">Learn more about how to file a complaint for wage theft.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One important thing to keep in mind: The California Labor Commissioner’s Office has historically been understaffed and has struggled with a backlog of wage theft claims. In 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913910/despite-record-budget-surplus-california-unlikely-to-fix-massive-wage-theft-claim-delays-anytime-soon\">KQED reported that tens of thousands of claims have taken longer than a year to resolve\u003c/a>, while nearly 4,000 have languished for three years or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While reporting your situation to this agency may not sound like the fastest solution, the Labor Commissioner’s Office does have the legal authority to make employers pay their workers back stolen wages and has done so in several big-profile cases. In 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2022/2022-89.html\">the Labor Commissioner’s Office reached a $2.2 million settlement\u003c/a> with the owners of three Saravanaa Bhavan restaurant franchises located across the Bay Area. That amount compensated 317 employees from the three franchises for unpaid minimum wage, overtime hours and inaccurate wage statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Does this new minimum wage apply to me even if I am undocumented or working without a formal contract?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Absolutely. Your immigration status does not affect your right to receive the minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your employer has requested your labor or services, they are required to pay you at least the minimum wage per hour, even if you do not have legal authorization to work in this country. And if you are working without a formal contract and receive your wages in cash, your employer is still legally obligated to pay you the correct rate. Even when there’s not a formal job contract, your city’s labor laws still apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who decides changes to the minimum wage?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the minimum wage goes up each year thanks to a \u003ca href=\"https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/sf_admin/0-0-0-8543\">local ordinance that establishes annual increases based on the regional Consumer Price Index (CPI)\u003c/a>, which measures price changes for essential consumer goods in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noticed that things like groceries and gas got much more expensive in the past couple of years? The CPI keeps track of those price hikes — and these minimum wage increases attempt to keep up with these changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Farida Jhabvala Romero.\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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Despite anti-Black housing discrimination, Black neighborhoods flourished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the 1950s to the 1970s, however, the Fillmore underwent drastic changes driven by the federally-funded redevelopment of areas that were deemed “blighted” by the city’s leaders. The Fillmore, with its old Victorian houses and mostly Black population, became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825401/how-urban-renewal-decimated-the-fillmore-district-and-took-jazz-with-it\">focus of San Francisco’s urban renewal\u003c/a>. Many homes were bulldozed while many others were relocated. Many Black-owned businesses were forced to shut down. According to Rachel Brahinsky, a politics and urban studies professor at USF, an estimated 10,000 to 13,000 Fillmore residents were incrementally displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a sort of instant disappearance,” Brahinsky said. “Culture is very resilient. People are very resilient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In The Black is centering Black people in the Fillmore at a time when the Black population in the city continues to decline. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, the Black population in San Francisco peaked in 1970 with \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty70.htm\">96,078 residents\u003c/a>, or roughly 13% of the city’s total population. That number has steadily dwindled to around \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sanfranciscocountycalifornia\">45,135 residents\u003c/a>, or 5% of the total population in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris wanted to create a store where Black entrepreneurs could thrive. A combination of high commercial rent prices and the lack of access to credit present steep barriers for Black entrepreneurs to open brick-and-mortar businesses. Harris thought businesses that shared rent would have a better chance to survive and maintain a foothold in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952807 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt='A woman wears a green hoodie reading \"Black Girl Magic\" standing beside some brightly colored clothes hanging on a rack.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pia Harris, founder of In The Black and program director at San Francisco Housing Development Corporation, at the shop in the Fillmore district of San Francisco on June 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harris, a longtime Fillmore resident, had to give up where she lived two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had to move out of the city because she made too much for public housing according to the San Francisco Housing Authority’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfha.org/files/documents/Payment%20Standards%20-%202023.pdf\">income limits (PDF)\u003c/a>, but did not make enough to afford renting in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A series of moves\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris moved several times when she was growing up. When she was 4, her mother couldn’t keep up with payments for their Oceanview neighborhood home so they both moved to Chicago. They returned to San Francisco 10 years later, first living on 16th Street and Potrero Avenue before settling in the Fillmore. Around the time Harris graduated from George Washington High School, they were evicted from their one bedroom apartment and became homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All you have to do is lose a job,” Harris said. “I’m so terrified for myself right now. If any part of my income changes, I can’t afford the basic cost of living in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, Harris moved to the Robert B. Pitts Apartments on Scott Street in the Fillmore. She lived there for 15 years, raising her two daughters. She moved to Oakland in 2021, and her oldest daughter took over the lease of Harris’ former apartment with a roommate. Harris currently rents a house on 99th Avenue near San Leandro where she lives with her youngest daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s people like me now that have made it,” Harris said. “But then you’re in this weird in-between spot where you still can’t afford to live here, but you also make too much money for any subsidy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the early stages of the pandemic, Harris paused her catering delivery business, Nia Soul, and prepared meals that were distributed to homeless people living in hotels through \u003ca href=\"https://sfnewdeal.org/\">SF New Deal\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helps local businesses stay open.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rebuilding the Fillmore\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris is a founding member of the Fillmore Merchants and Neighborhood Collaborative, a group focused on creating economic opportunity. Before joining the SFHDC, Harris and the collaborative helped businesses apply for grants during the pandemic. She received a grant from San Francisco’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development to do the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris wants to rebuild the Black prosperity in the Fillmore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that we just want to have representation,” Harris said. “We’re not asking for this to be an all-Black neighborhood. We’re saying we see that there’s boba across the street. We see that there’s poke and a Jewish deli and Japanese food, but where is the African American voice?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Black Fillmore residents were displaced decades ago, they had limited options on where they could live in San Francisco because realtors would steer Black residents away from living in certain areas in the city. Steering is a form of redlining, the act of denying loans and other financial services based on race and gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952804 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt='A person walks down a nearly empty city sidewalk featuring a street sign reading \"Feel More in the Fillmore.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the Fillmore is reflected in the window of the Fillmore Heritage Center in San Francisco on June 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many Black people displaced from the Fillmore settled in Bayview-Hunters Point, an affordable neighborhood with an existing Black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyra Fennell has made it her mission to expand awareness of the Bayview’s art and culture scene. Fennell, who moved to San Francisco in 2009, saw that the historically Black neighborhood was culturally overlooked during her time at the San Francisco Arts Commission.[aside postID=\"forum_2010101891368,arts_13848442\" label=\"Related Posts\"]Through her nonprofit, Imprint City, she hosted events such as Bayview Live, a music and arts festival that ran from 2016-19. A challenge she faced while promoting events was figuring out how to attract Black people to a city where there aren’t a lot of people that identify as Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The landscape here just isn’t Black,” said Fennell, who now works in Mayor London Breed’s administration. “It’s not majority Black, it’s super-minority Black. I prefer to program Black events for Black people, so I generally have to promote outside of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fennell said that predatory lending and increased home pricing are issues that have contributed to the out-migration of Black residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without strong economic policies to maintain the Black community, it’s all just social policies,” Fennell said. “People have to own where they are. That’s the only way for them to be stabilized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jameel Rasheed Patterson sees redevelopment as a force of nature, but only when the government is in lockstep with the community. Labeling a community as blighted, he said, allows the government to make changes without the consent of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They throw out little dog whistle type code words to imply that the community isn’t taking care of the neighborhood,” said Patterson, the associate director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nclfinc.org/\">New Community Leadership Foundation\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that works to empower disenfranchised communities. “So we got to remove the people in order to change the neighborhood, then it becomes pest control gentrification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How In The Black works\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In The Black receives funding from the Office of Economic and Workforce Development and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dreamkeepersf.org/\">Dream Keeper Initiative\u003c/a>, which is under the direction of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. Dr. Sheryl Evans Davis, the executive director of the commission, applauded Harris’ selflessness and her ability to focus on a project outside of her comfort zone in the culinary industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think In The Black has offered a level of hope for folks about sharing spaces and being able to work together collaboratively,” Davis said. “I think it’s also opened up the opportunity, even along the Fillmore corridor, to be able to access and activate other spaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952806 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt='Camouflage and military-print jackets hang on a rack with patches sewn on reading \"Rooting for Everybody Black\" and Not Today KAREN!\" inside a store. Behind and out of focus, two people talk to each other.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CIK Apparel hangs at the store In The Black in the Fillmore district of San Francisco on June 9, 2023. The rent for the marketplace is around $8,000 per month, and the businesses pay between $600 to $1,500. According to Harris, In The Black made $20,000 in sales in December. Because of unsteady retail trends, it has made around $8,000 to $12,000 a month in sales since. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Joshua Farr, In The Black’s manager, hopes to see the marketplace expand to cities like Oakland in the near future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just business as usual,” said Farr, 40. “Us trying to learn and document and put together our story so that we’re able to do it again and do it better, and do it in new spaces and do it for new industries even.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the businesses currently in the store were part of the first SFHDC’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfhdc.org/mmbob/\">Minding My Black-Owned Business\u003c/a> cohort in 2022. The 12-week pilot program gave businesses $7,500 grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cianni Jackson participated in the program. She created her business, \u003ca href=\"https://cikapparel.com/\">CIK Apparel\u003c/a>, during the racial unrest in 2020 because she wanted to showcase the pride and strength inherent in Black culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Fillmore native, Jackson designs and sells jackets, hoodies and other gear that features unique patches with messages such as “Black Girl Magic” and “Rooting for Everybody Black.” She likes to see people trying on her clothes in the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like when you’re in their face, they’ll grab it from you sooner,” Jackson, 43, said. “So In The Black has been a great opportunity for me to have my projects out in front of the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In The Black is currently looking for merchants who sell haircare and other essential lifestyle products, according to Harris, who is in the process of opening a cafe a few blocks from the marketplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She would like to live in the Fillmore again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just waiting for the market to get better to try to take my chance on purchasing something,” Harris said. “I’m always worried about having to get a second or third job if I have to just to maintain our lifestyle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Black people thrived in the Fillmore before being targeted for displacement. The neighborhood was once known as the “Harlem of the West” because of the large number of Black businesses and entertainment venues in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black residents, many of whom migrated west for wartime work in the Navy shipyards and to escape racial terrorism in the south, settled in Bay Area cities like Richmond, Oakland and San Francisco. Despite anti-Black housing discrimination, Black neighborhoods flourished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the 1950s to the 1970s, however, the Fillmore underwent drastic changes driven by the federally-funded redevelopment of areas that were deemed “blighted” by the city’s leaders. The Fillmore, with its old Victorian houses and mostly Black population, became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825401/how-urban-renewal-decimated-the-fillmore-district-and-took-jazz-with-it\">focus of San Francisco’s urban renewal\u003c/a>. Many homes were bulldozed while many others were relocated. Many Black-owned businesses were forced to shut down. According to Rachel Brahinsky, a politics and urban studies professor at USF, an estimated 10,000 to 13,000 Fillmore residents were incrementally displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a sort of instant disappearance,” Brahinsky said. “Culture is very resilient. People are very resilient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In The Black is centering Black people in the Fillmore at a time when the Black population in the city continues to decline. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, the Black population in San Francisco peaked in 1970 with \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty70.htm\">96,078 residents\u003c/a>, or roughly 13% of the city’s total population. That number has steadily dwindled to around \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sanfranciscocountycalifornia\">45,135 residents\u003c/a>, or 5% of the total population in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris wanted to create a store where Black entrepreneurs could thrive. A combination of high commercial rent prices and the lack of access to credit present steep barriers for Black entrepreneurs to open brick-and-mortar businesses. 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When she was 4, her mother couldn’t keep up with payments for their Oceanview neighborhood home so they both moved to Chicago. They returned to San Francisco 10 years later, first living on 16th Street and Potrero Avenue before settling in the Fillmore. Around the time Harris graduated from George Washington High School, they were evicted from their one bedroom apartment and became homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All you have to do is lose a job,” Harris said. “I’m so terrified for myself right now. If any part of my income changes, I can’t afford the basic cost of living in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, Harris moved to the Robert B. Pitts Apartments on Scott Street in the Fillmore. She lived there for 15 years, raising her two daughters. She moved to Oakland in 2021, and her oldest daughter took over the lease of Harris’ former apartment with a roommate. Harris currently rents a house on 99th Avenue near San Leandro where she lives with her youngest daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s people like me now that have made it,” Harris said. “But then you’re in this weird in-between spot where you still can’t afford to live here, but you also make too much money for any subsidy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the early stages of the pandemic, Harris paused her catering delivery business, Nia Soul, and prepared meals that were distributed to homeless people living in hotels through \u003ca href=\"https://sfnewdeal.org/\">SF New Deal\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helps local businesses stay open.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rebuilding the Fillmore\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris is a founding member of the Fillmore Merchants and Neighborhood Collaborative, a group focused on creating economic opportunity. Before joining the SFHDC, Harris and the collaborative helped businesses apply for grants during the pandemic. She received a grant from San Francisco’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development to do the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris wants to rebuild the Black prosperity in the Fillmore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that we just want to have representation,” Harris said. “We’re not asking for this to be an all-Black neighborhood. We’re saying we see that there’s boba across the street. We see that there’s poke and a Jewish deli and Japanese food, but where is the African American voice?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Black Fillmore residents were displaced decades ago, they had limited options on where they could live in San Francisco because realtors would steer Black residents away from living in certain areas in the city. Steering is a form of redlining, the act of denying loans and other financial services based on race and gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952804 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt='A person walks down a nearly empty city sidewalk featuring a street sign reading \"Feel More in the Fillmore.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the Fillmore is reflected in the window of the Fillmore Heritage Center in San Francisco on June 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many Black people displaced from the Fillmore settled in Bayview-Hunters Point, an affordable neighborhood with an existing Black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyra Fennell has made it her mission to expand awareness of the Bayview’s art and culture scene. Fennell, who moved to San Francisco in 2009, saw that the historically Black neighborhood was culturally overlooked during her time at the San Francisco Arts Commission.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Through her nonprofit, Imprint City, she hosted events such as Bayview Live, a music and arts festival that ran from 2016-19. A challenge she faced while promoting events was figuring out how to attract Black people to a city where there aren’t a lot of people that identify as Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The landscape here just isn’t Black,” said Fennell, who now works in Mayor London Breed’s administration. “It’s not majority Black, it’s super-minority Black. I prefer to program Black events for Black people, so I generally have to promote outside of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fennell said that predatory lending and increased home pricing are issues that have contributed to the out-migration of Black residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without strong economic policies to maintain the Black community, it’s all just social policies,” Fennell said. “People have to own where they are. That’s the only way for them to be stabilized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jameel Rasheed Patterson sees redevelopment as a force of nature, but only when the government is in lockstep with the community. Labeling a community as blighted, he said, allows the government to make changes without the consent of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They throw out little dog whistle type code words to imply that the community isn’t taking care of the neighborhood,” said Patterson, the associate director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nclfinc.org/\">New Community Leadership Foundation\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that works to empower disenfranchised communities. “So we got to remove the people in order to change the neighborhood, then it becomes pest control gentrification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How In The Black works\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In The Black receives funding from the Office of Economic and Workforce Development and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dreamkeepersf.org/\">Dream Keeper Initiative\u003c/a>, which is under the direction of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. Dr. Sheryl Evans Davis, the executive director of the commission, applauded Harris’ selflessness and her ability to focus on a project outside of her comfort zone in the culinary industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think In The Black has offered a level of hope for folks about sharing spaces and being able to work together collaboratively,” Davis said. “I think it’s also opened up the opportunity, even along the Fillmore corridor, to be able to access and activate other spaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952806 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt='Camouflage and military-print jackets hang on a rack with patches sewn on reading \"Rooting for Everybody Black\" and Not Today KAREN!\" inside a store. Behind and out of focus, two people talk to each other.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CIK Apparel hangs at the store In The Black in the Fillmore district of San Francisco on June 9, 2023. The rent for the marketplace is around $8,000 per month, and the businesses pay between $600 to $1,500. According to Harris, In The Black made $20,000 in sales in December. Because of unsteady retail trends, it has made around $8,000 to $12,000 a month in sales since. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Joshua Farr, In The Black’s manager, hopes to see the marketplace expand to cities like Oakland in the near future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just business as usual,” said Farr, 40. “Us trying to learn and document and put together our story so that we’re able to do it again and do it better, and do it in new spaces and do it for new industries even.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the businesses currently in the store were part of the first SFHDC’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfhdc.org/mmbob/\">Minding My Black-Owned Business\u003c/a> cohort in 2022. The 12-week pilot program gave businesses $7,500 grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cianni Jackson participated in the program. She created her business, \u003ca href=\"https://cikapparel.com/\">CIK Apparel\u003c/a>, during the racial unrest in 2020 because she wanted to showcase the pride and strength inherent in Black culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Fillmore native, Jackson designs and sells jackets, hoodies and other gear that features unique patches with messages such as “Black Girl Magic” and “Rooting for Everybody Black.” She likes to see people trying on her clothes in the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like when you’re in their face, they’ll grab it from you sooner,” Jackson, 43, said. “So In The Black has been a great opportunity for me to have my projects out in front of the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In The Black is currently looking for merchants who sell haircare and other essential lifestyle products, according to Harris, who is in the process of opening a cafe a few blocks from the marketplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She would like to live in the Fillmore again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just waiting for the market to get better to try to take my chance on purchasing something,” Harris said. “I’m always worried about having to get a second or third job if I have to just to maintain our lifestyle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Celebration and sorrow often intermix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s with that in mind that Friday, the San Francisco Trans March is commemorating 20 years of trans beauty and resilience. At 6 p.m., marchers will make their way from Dolores Park, down Market Street, to Turk and Taylor streets — the Tenderloin site of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria riot, when trans San Franciscans pushed back against police discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the celebration also comes just two months after the death of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950796/banko-brown-family-files-wrongful-death-lawsuit-against-walgreens-security-company\">Banko Brown\u003c/a>, a Black transgender man who was shot and killed by Walgreens security guard Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony in late April, after allegedly shoplifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While locally \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949558/district-attorney-releases-video-of-banko-brown-shooting-at-walgreens-wont-files-charges-against-security-gaurd\">the investigation into Brown’s killing has been dropped by District Attorney Brooke Jenkins\u003c/a>, Brown’s death arrives at a time of unprecedented legal attacks on trans lives throughout the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights\">The ACLU is tracking 491 anti-LGBTQ+ bills in the U.S.\u003c/a> Those laws target many facets of trans people’s lives, from playing sports to using bathrooms, weakening nondiscrimination laws and banning medically necessary health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation isn’t much better close to home. In San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ourtranshomesf.org/about\">transgender people are 18 times more likely to be unhoused than cisgender folks\u003c/a>, according to Our Trans Home SF. One out of two trans people have been unhoused, and 70% of them report being harassed when staying in homeless shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown had a similar experience, spending years struggling to find stable housing and at times being unhoused, including in the days leading up to his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Stories on Banko Brown' tag='banko-brown']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s in this time of turmoil, hate and hope that KQED reached out to trans people in Brown’s life who were part of his community at the Young Women’s Freedom Center, where Brown sought support and, eventually, became a staff community organizer: Xavier Davenport, 36, a Black transmasculine man who was Brown’s mentor; Kazani Kalani Finao, 33, a Samoan transmasculine man who took the role of community sibling; and Juju Pikes-Prince, 24, a Black transgender woman who was a trans auntie to other trans people at the center, including Brown. Davenport and Kalani Finao were born and raised in San Francisco. Pikes-Prince was born in Daly City and raised in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This wide-ranging conversation aimed to find the commonalities in their experiences and Brown’s, navigating homelessness in San Francisco, acceptance in their families, and how trans people can find joy, despite the obstacles that lie in their path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: We have some weighty topics to talk about today, but people aren’t just defined by trauma. Tell me a bit about how you met Banko Brown and your fond memories of him.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kalani Finao\u003cem>: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>I met Banko through Young Women’s Freedom Center. We like to call it their “center sibling.” So he’s a center sibling of mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on a personal note, we just had amazing, great conversations personally. Just always sparring with each other, bouncing back with fun ideas. He was a bright, outgoing person. Like conversation was always immaculate, always amazing, and he was a visionary. The struggle not only brought us together, but like I was able to like really build a relationship with him based on his gifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11953513 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66476_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-23-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A young Samoan descent man wearing large glasses with a goatee and moustache and curly brown hair leans against a wall in a quilted, lavender bomber jacket and alight gray T-shirt.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66476_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-23-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66476_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-23-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66476_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-23-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66476_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-23-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66476_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-23-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66476_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-23-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kazani Kalani Finao poses for a portrait in San Francisco on June 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Davenport: \u003c/strong>He became my mentee [at Young Women’s Freedom Center]. That was during the pandemic. We were focused on a lot of projects that were going to empower trans masculinity, empower the trans masculine identities that were coming up in [the] community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, I wanted to make sure we had a group during the pandemic, like a peer-to-peer support group. The pandemic was very hard for a lot of transmasculine folks. A lot of them were essential workers. A lot of them lost jobs. A lot of them were creators that lost jobs. Some of them were sex workers that lost jobs. So my focus was to empower those people and make sure that they were heard and make sure that they could have someone to talk to. And so, Banko would come to those groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He enjoyed being able to be around other transmasculine people, focusing on how we can do something different for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You said he felt like a visionary. Do you remember the first time you were sitting across, talking to Banko, and thought, “This person is just so amazing.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kalani Finao: \u003c/strong>When he was advocating on behalf of himself, nobody would tell him what is best for him. He was always very, very stern, but very confident in what he was telling me about anything, whether it was advocating on behalf of himself or on behalf of others.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kazani Kalani Finao, community sibling\"]‘He was very creative with his swag, his drip. He was a trendsetter to me. He’s definitely inspirational to me.’[/pullquote]He was very creative with his swag, his drip. He was a trendsetter to me. He’s definitely inspirational to me. I always would share with him, you give me so much confidence. You give me so much courage for me to be me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I remember of him is drip, sauce, smile, hugs, goofiness. He funny. He hella funny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He [also] pushed me to always have hard conversations, being honest for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Banko Brown reportedly was unhoused at the time he was killed. He had slept on BART at times and stayed with friends. Is this a familiar experience, both seeing it with Banko and in your own lives and trans communities? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kalani Finao\u003c/strong>: So I have been homeless a lot in my life. I grew up here [in San Francisco] — you know, my first moments of living life on Earth, my family was experiencing homelessness. And then, when we did kind of get on our feet, and I’m speaking more of like my family, my mother, my grandmother, my great-great-grandmother. You know, those were the people that raised me. We floated in and out of housing, homelessness a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11953512 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66468_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-13-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man with short black hair and a sort of long black beard and a nose-ring holds a small dog and stands against a blank wall. He wears a white T-shirt and a gray cardigan sweater.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66468_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-13-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66468_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-13-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66468_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-13-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66468_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-13-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66468_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-13-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66468_230614-BankoBrownChosenFam-13-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xavier Davenport with his dog in San Francisco on June 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s disgusting to live in the shelters. You always end up with some type of bedbug outbreak, MRSA outbreak. You got people fighting. When you put trans people in the shelter process, people talk bad about you. They treat you messed up, but they also use you for their sexual perversions. And that’s all trans people. And then, when you include a transmasculine person into the entire bit, they’re really mistreated. Right. Because then you have people that want to fight you because you think you’re a man. And so, they want to show you that you’re not a man. And so, you have to now deal [with] and navigate that experience as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so I said, the hell with that. I started just staying with people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pikes-Prince: \u003c/strong>When I first had met Banko, he was housed at some point. Then later on down the line when we lost another trans sister in the community, that’s when stuff started to come out like, oh, he’s looking for housing. He has nowhere to go. So he was struggling at some point around that time. And there’s only so much a person can do for an individual, you know, and you’re also struggling, too.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Juju Pikes-Prince, community auntie\"]‘Navigating homelessness in San Francisco is hard. It’s hard and it’s expensive, no matter what. … Shelters don’t protect my people either. Our stuff gets stolen. There’s fights that break out.’[/pullquote]Navigating homelessness in San Francisco is hard. It’s hard and it’s expensive, no matter what. Being homeless is still expensive. I was homeless for about two years. I was living with a dude and it just wasn’t working out. But then even shelters, shelters don’t protect you. Shelters don’t protect my people either. Our stuff gets stolen. There’s fights that break out. People look at us like we’re nasty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re mostly impacted [because] we’re probably on drugs, sex-working to find shelter, can’t get jobs because of who we are. It’s hard out here. I’m a sex worker, so I know, I know what it’s like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You all touched on discrimination in the homelessness process, to some extent. But I wonder if you could talk about discrimination in a different context — the day Banko Brown was killed by a security guard in Walgreens, in late April. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Some folks in the trans community said they sensed discrimination at play. Some people pushed back, pointing out that the security guard was also Black. I was hoping you could expand on what you suspect that discrimination could have been, from your own experiences.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Davenport: \u003c/strong>When you are a young Black, transmasculine-identified person, people see that. He walks in, he’s dark-skinned. He has a hat on, a T-shirt. And he looks very masculine. He has a little bit of a goatee growing in. People see that. And as another Black man, or being another man, there is a fight for power. There is a fight for or struggle for who is the man in this situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the thought process is, “You look like a little boy, or you’re trying to pretend to be a little boy.” Because let’s be clear. Banko had not had top surgery. He had not been going through that part of medical transitioning. He wasn’t stable enough in his housing to even get through that part of this process and the things that he wanted to do. So you have a masculine person with visible breasts coming at you. You are going to now struggle for your manhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s something that for people that are even lesbians who are more masculine looking, there is a struggle between men and any form of masculinity that, to them, isn’t necessarily real. Because, “You’re a woman. You can’t possibly be as masculine as me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know this. I’ve dealt with this my entire life. I deal with it from police officers. I deal with it from people in my community. I deal with that from people on the streets. I deal with that at all aspects of my life. Somebody always wants to show me who is the man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have a person with the gun who’s struggling for masculine power, then you put a powerful piece in his hand. You end up with this situation with Banko and many other situations around the country with transmasculine folks being killed. His is not the first. Unfortunately, it will not be the last. But this is the state of our country and what we live in right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pikes-Prince: \u003c/strong>And these are cases that are not getting covered, of Black trans men getting killed. We need to come together and start putting it out there so we all can be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We’ve seen a wave of conversations in public about Banko Brown’s identity since he was killed. And his death comes amid a national wave of anti-trans laws, as conservative lawmakers increasingly target the transgender community. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>So I’d like to talk about acceptance. Let’s start close to home. Were you accepted by your family when you came out? What was that like? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Davenport: \u003c/strong>Me and my mother understand what’s happening. Because my mother birthed me. But my father and my siblings that my father has, my father’s children, they have a bit of a hard time. And so, we don’t necessarily talk the way that people would think family should or relatives should. But my mother respects who I am. My mother understands what has taken place. And she’s accepted that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pikes-Prince: \u003c/strong>My family, they understand, they’re very understanding. At first, it was tough, they just didn’t get it, the lifestyle. But when I told my mom everything and broke it down — you don’t want a dead child, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My father, on the other hand, he’s more big on education. He told me, he don’t care what I do. He wants me to graduate. I got it easy, in a way, but I still had it hard and I still struggle. Identity came into play. I’m just trying to come into myself, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know [with] my mom, I was blunt, I do sex work, and I do this and that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And she was understanding?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pikes-Prince: \u003c/strong>I mean, she had to. I’m her child. I think really, partially, where she kind of understood after so long of me having to remind her because it took a time. So just a street life, how the street economy is, and not to put her business out there, but how she had to navigate homelessness herself and how she had to go about business to support about four children at the time or three. 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Banko do have family, that do care and love. But there was, at some point, everyone went their own ways. So I do just want to say that on the record he did have family, that did care and love. But he was looking for space in people’s hearts to fill that void that he has been missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kalani Finao: \u003c/strong>My mother told me straight up, “Be you, son. Be you, son.” And for me, that’s a f—— privilege. Like, you know, for someone who’s being who they are, like me, and for my mom to just show up right away, how she was able to just accept me for me. It was just like a restart of our relationship as a mother and son today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s just a gift to me, you know? And so, what I’ve been doing with my folks is just like sharing my mama with them. Her strength is everything. She’s also someone as a queer being. Coming from a Samoan family and being someone growing up in the ’80s, being this queer, young Samoan girl who also is like exploring identity. And then, also exploring sexuality. She didn’t give a s—. She was like, I am gonna do me.[aside postID=news_11953672 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31561_62418_AW_Pride_09-qut-1180x787.jpg']\u003cstrong>When you say you share your mama, do you mean you share her with other trans people who don’t have that?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kalani Finao: \u003c/strong>Everybody. Trans people, all people. People who struggle. Like, my mom just signs up like, “I love you, I’ll f— with you.” And so, I shared my mama with my folks. And it’s all love. It’s my duty to make sure to create spaces for folks to be themselves. I just have to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We’ve talked a lot about weighty things. Hardships. But the goal is joy, right? I want you to tell me what your joy looks like.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pikes-Prince: \u003c/strong>I would say living and finding purpose, picking up someone else’s purpose when they couldn’t find their purpose. And knowing that I’m here and I can share some type of story for someone. Getting it out there, and hopefully helping the next person, the next generation, to continue to do this advocacy work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kalani Finao: \u003c/strong>I’m hella passionate about young folks. We say kids are the future. We got to really mean that s—.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Davenport: \u003c/strong>My joy looks like the rest of the work that I do, working with transmasculine-identified people. I do that even in my leisure time. 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But I wonder if you could talk about discrimination in a different context — the day Banko Brown was killed by a security guard in Walgreens, in late April. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Some folks in the trans community said they sensed discrimination at play. Some people pushed back, pointing out that the security guard was also Black. I was hoping you could expand on what you suspect that discrimination could have been, from your own experiences.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Davenport: \u003c/strong>When you are a young Black, transmasculine-identified person, people see that. He walks in, he’s dark-skinned. He has a hat on, a T-shirt. And he looks very masculine. He has a little bit of a goatee growing in. People see that. And as another Black man, or being another man, there is a fight for power. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 p.m. June 26:\u003c/strong> City College of San Francisco plans to offer its new 16-unit Cantonese Certificate of Achievement program in the 2024-25 academic year, the president of the board of trustees announced Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need this certificate so that we can train the next generation of public safety, health care, and social workers that can serve and build trust with the Chinese community,” said President Alan Wong, an advocate for Cantonese-language courses at the school, in a press statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates pushed for the 16-unit certificate because it will meet requirements for state funding, which the program needs to stay afloat. Cantonese courses at CCSF were previously on the chopping block due to limited funding, even though Cantonese is the most commonly spoken Chinese language throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCSF only currently offers four conversational courses in the Cantonese curriculum and employs just one part-time Cantonese instructor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new 16-unit program was initially slated to begin in the coming academic year. But to the dismay of advocates, some school officials successfully pushed to delay the launch of the expanded program, arguing that necessary resources wouldn’t be available in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community celebrated the Cantonese certificate after the Board of Trustees voted to move it forward and were all shocked to see it get pulled,” Wong said. “It was unfair and unjust and we need to rebuild the trust with our Chinese community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 4 p.m., June 21:\u003c/strong> City College of San Francisco is pulling a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943615/a-life-and-death-difference-essential-workers-push-for-cantonese-language-access-in-san-francisco\">Cantonese certificate program\u003c/a> after the school’s Board of Trustees approved the 16-unit course sequence last November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reversal follows a long battle to preserve CCSF courses on the language spoken by many Chinese immigrants in the Bay Area. A nine-unit Cantonese certificate program is still on track for approval, but the larger 16-unit course series has been reverted to draft status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having Cantonese education in San Francisco is not just about preserving a language or culture or history,” City College Board President Alan Wong told KQED. “We need to be able to ensure that we have the next generation of public contact workers that are able to speak Cantonese and be able to support the seniors and elders and in the immigrant community that speak Cantonese.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A growing number of California mayors are pushing for a realignment of homelessness spending \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">toward shelters and temporary housing\u003c/a> in the face of political pressure to clear encampments and deliver visible reductions of people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that shift has a trade-off: In a world of limited and often dwindling local dollars, more money for short-term solutions means less funding for permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This dynamic has led to pitched budget battles this month in the Bay Area’s two largest cities, with Mayors London Breed in San Francisco and Matt Mahan in San José pushing for more voter-approved homelessness dollars to go toward temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayors are grappling with the legal reality that making housing available is a prerequisite for clearing tents — and they are bolstered by advancements in the quality of temporary shelters they can offer residents living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We certainly need housing at all levels of affordability that will require public subsidy — not disagreeing with any of that,” said Mahan, who was dealt a setback this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">when his homelessness spending plan was voted down\u003c/a> by the city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San Francisco Mayor London Breed\"]‘The goal is to shift it towards what the needs are. And so that includes housing, it includes shelter because we need to immediately get people into a place to help decide where they belong.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But as long as we have thousands of people living and literally dying on our streets, I think we have to lean into the faster-to-deploy, more cost-effective solutions for getting people into a safe, managed environment with the privacy and stability that they need to take advantage of supportive services,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pressures driving this pivot are familiar to mayors across the state and the nation. Thousands of unsheltered residents are suffering and dying on city sidewalks, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/homeless-populations-are-rising-around-california/\">homelessness in California has risen since the pandemic at a higher rate than elsewhere in the country\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Breed, the shift is a political response to worsening street conditions. In her budget reveal at the end of May, she proposed a controversial move to help fund temporary shelters for unhoused adults by reallocating funding meant to build housing for families and young adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to shift it towards what the needs are. And so that includes housing, it includes shelter because we need to immediately get people into a place to help decide where they belong,” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953071\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS52736_023_SanFrancisco_OmicronPressConference_12012021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with brown hair and a light blue dress stands with her hands folded in front of her. She is looking toward the left. She is standing in front of San Francisco's City Hall building listening to a speech.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS52736_023_SanFrancisco_OmicronPressConference_12012021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS52736_023_SanFrancisco_OmicronPressConference_12012021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS52736_023_SanFrancisco_OmicronPressConference_12012021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS52736_023_SanFrancisco_OmicronPressConference_12012021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS52736_023_SanFrancisco_OmicronPressConference_12012021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed at San Francisco City Hall on Dec. 1, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass defeated a more pro-shelter opponent in last year’s mayoral election. But she has turned to temporary units and hotels as a way to ameliorate street homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, city officials are scrambling to implement a voter-approved measure requiring a certain level of shelter capacity. And hours after San José’s vote, the city council in San Diego approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/homelessness/story/2023-06-13/study-shows-san-diego-falls-far-short-of-shelter-beds-needed-to-house-homeless-people\">an encampment ban that will necessitate an expansion of shelter beds\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing interest in the quick-build, particularly, because I think to really address the dangerous encampments, to try to do it as quickly as possible, you need this kind of mid-term or interim approach,” said Michael Lane, state policy director at SPUR, a Bay Area think tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s why you’re seeing some of these fights at the local level, because that is a relatively new development over the past few years to really say, yes, we need all of this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lane shares in the consensus that cities need investments in permanent as well as temporary housing. But debates in San José and San Francisco have centered on limited pools of tax dollars dedicated to reducing homelessness.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=news_11952870 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/span>In that context, a dollar spent paying for an affordable apartment complex can’t be used for a shelter bed. And then, there’s the politics: Both Mahan and Breed are up for reelection next year and face “tremendous pressure” to ensure their city streets are clear of homelessness, Lane said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Mahan’s homelessness spending plan ran into heavy opposition from members of the city council, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">instead opted to approve a more modest reallocation toward temporary beds\u003c/a>. Nevertheless, Mahan said that conversations with fellow mayors have led him to believe a broader “rebalancing” of homelessness spending priorities is underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe this is a trend across the state,” he said. “I suspect that we will see federal, state and county sources shift toward the solutions that are faster and more cost-effective and help us scale solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also informing the mayors’ moves: the changing nature of shelter beds and the length of time people can stay in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José has opened six interim housing sites that bear little resemblance to traditional congregate shelters. Instead of a cot in a large room, residents of the city’s emergency interim housing units can stay for months — and sometimes longer — in a prefabricated apartment, often with a private bathroom and on-site supportive services. When Breed announced her homelessness funding plan in May, she did so at the site of a tiny-home village on Gough Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>San Francisco mayor looks to redirect money for youth\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the permanent housing funds that Breed wants to tap come from a hard-fought pot of money intended for youth and families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2018 ballot measure known as Proposition C, the Our City, Our Home tax, got just under a two-thirds majority vote to pass, opening it up to legal challenge — even after the effort got major financial backing from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. The measure eventually won out, and it taxes businesses making more than $50 million to raise an expected $300 million annually, half of which was earmarked for permanent housing by voter mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing a $780 million budget shortfall over the next two years, however, Breed’s new budget proposes the city reallocate roughly $60 million of Proposition C funding over the next two years — money that was intended to build permanent homes for young people age 18–24 who are experiencing homelessness, or families with children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, that funding may pay for the expansion of hours at two city homeless shelters, add 350 slots for temporary rental assistance and 75 units of supportive housing for adults, maintain the operation of a program helping people who live in oversize RVs to repair their vehicles, and to help fund a Bayview small-cabin shelter site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherilyn Adams, executive director of Larkin Street Youth Services, a service provider focused on unhoused youth, said the city already under-spends on young people as well as “transitional age youth,” who are between 18 and 25.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sherilyn Adams, executive director, Larkin Street Youth Services\"]‘The reason there are people living outside is because we have insufficient housing stock for young people. That only gets worse if we don’t bring on any new interventions.’[/pullquote]There were roughly 1,100 people under 25 years old living on San Francisco’s streets during the last point-in-time count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason there are people living outside is because we have insufficient housing stock for young people. That only gets worse if we don’t bring on any new interventions” like building more housing, Adams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893348/s-f-mayor-london-breed-on-how-to-prevent-an-economic-doom-loop-and-her-new-budget\">KQED’s Forum in early June\u003c/a>, Breed defended her budget reallocation, saying there aren’t any sites in San Francisco that have been identified yet to build housing for transitional-age youth. But Adams said that’s an easily fixable problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not having a building identified for transition-aged youth, so that they could allocate or use the existing Prop. C funds, does not mean that there’s not young people sleeping outside. It means you didn’t find a building. Unallocated is not the same as unneeded,” Adams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Legal and national pressures on mayors \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Part of the push for California mayors to favor shelters over permanent housing is the result of legal constraints. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/23748522/tent-encampments-martin-boise-homelessness-housing\">2018 Martin v. City of Boise federal appeals court decision\u003c/a> bars locales from clearing out tent encampments if they don’t have enough shelter to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco doesn’t have enough shelter placements for the number of people experiencing homelessness in the city, which in December prompted U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu to place an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950967/advocates-for-unhoused-san-franciscans-say-encampment-sweeps-continue-despite-court-order-call-on-judge-to-rein-city-in\">injunction against encampment sweeps\u003c/a>.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Eric Tars, legal director, National Homelessness Law Center\"]‘When you have that increased street homelessness, in particular, you get this pressure for increased short-term, quick-fix kind of solutions. People want folks out of sight, out of mind.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>Building more temporary shelters, then, is a pathway to gain the legal go-ahead to conduct more encampment sweeps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So while California is home to 30% of the U.S. unhoused population, the shift in funding allocation to favor temporary shelter is a national one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Tars, legal director of the National Homelessness Law Center, said in addition to the push being seen in Democratic California cities, many red states are contemplating the adoption of model legislation to put more funding toward short-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have that increased street homelessness, in particular, you get this pressure for increased short-term, quick-fix kind of solutions. People want folks out of sight, out of mind. And so our elected officials are under pressure to kind of get those quick results,” Tars said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he doesn’t think shelters are unnecessary — far from it — he does think the budget reallocations are shortsighted, and will actually increase homelessness rates in the long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Budget challenges ahead sharpen the debate\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates involved in homelessness policy expect the tug-of-war between permanent and temporary housing to intensify — infusing future debates over shrinking local budgets and any attempts to bolster city coffers with new tax or bond money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, long-term budget projections are far from rosy. The Mayor’s Office confirmed its budget proposal still has structural deficits that will remain in future years and has large amounts of deficits plugged by one-time funding sources. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is expected to debate the budget with the mayor throughout June and put forward a compromise budget proposal by July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953073\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953073\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS61499_IMG_4613-qut.jpg\" alt='A man with a beard wearing a suit and tie stands behind a podium labeled, \"San José Capital of Silicon Valley.\" He is surrounded by people holding various signs. Some read, \"Protect our Democracy.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1182\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS61499_IMG_4613-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS61499_IMG_4613-qut-800x493.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS61499_IMG_4613-qut-1020x628.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS61499_IMG_4613-qut-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS61499_IMG_4613-qut-1536x946.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan said that conversations with fellow mayors have led him to believe a broader ‘rebalancing’ of homelessness spending priorities is underway. ‘I believe this is a trend across the state,’ he said. ‘I suspect that we will see federal, state and county sources shift toward the solutions that are faster and more cost-effective and help us scale solutions.’ \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The debate over homelessness spending in San José hinged on money created by Measure E, a voter-approved tax on expensive home sales in the city. Mahan proposed spending $40 million in Measure E funds on short-term solutions such as prefabricated homes and parking lots for RV dwellers. When that plan was voted down, he joined a council majority to support putting $29 million toward those interim programs — leaving the largest share of city homelessness dollars for permanent housing.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside label='More Stories on the Unhoused Community' tag='unhoused']\u003c/span>David Low, director of policy and communications for the nonprofit Destination: Home, said those funds are vital for the half-dozen permanent affordable housing projects awaiting Measure E funding next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have affordable housing projects ready to go, and without that funding, we will see further delays, increased costs, at a time we can afford neither, or the very serious risk that some of these projects will all fall apart together,” said Low, a former senior adviser to San José’s previous mayor, Sam Liccardo. “So it’s that real-world trade-off and that real-world opportunity we have to build more affordable housing that we don’t want to lose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those trade-offs are likely to dominate future budget discussions across the region and state, particularly as cities grapple with diminished general fund resources, said Lane, with SPUR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push and pull between permanent and temporary housing will animate discussions about state housing aid from the Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom. And the fight could be a key factor in determining the shape of a regional housing bond that could go before Bay Area voters next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To show that we actually have a way that we can move people from off the streets ultimately into permanent affordable housing … interim and mid-term types of solutions have to be a key part of that,” Lane said. “And I think that the voters will expect to see that as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tomiquia Moss, CEO of the nonprofit All Home, sees the injection of new revenue as an opportunity to break the growing homelessness policy binary. Her organization works with elected officials, businesses and nonprofits across the Bay Area to promote regional strategies to reduce homelessness. At the core is a belief in concurrent investments in both temporary and permanent housing, in addition to aid for renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tax and bond measures are no easy lift, particularly across a nine-county region. But Moss, who previously worked for Mayors Ed Lee in San Francisco and Libby Schaaf in Oakland, said such an initiative could unlock that full portfolio of solutions — and unite the factions of homelessness spending around a single cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That, to me, is where you are growing the pie,” Moss added. “You are not robbing Peter to pay Paul. You are increasing resources for the entire region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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