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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 12:45 p.m. 9/13/18\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency says mistakes by the contractor for the Twin Peaks Tunnel rehabilitation project have led to a series of train control problems and lengthy Muni Metro service delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last weekend, the agency says, the contractor’s crews drove heavy equipment into the tunnel and damaged trackside train control equipment. The agency says it also believes the contractor improperly reinstalled parts of the train control system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contractor, Shimmick Construction, denies responsibility for the issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA has promised \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/projects/twin-peaks-tunnel-improvements-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the $40 million project\u003c/a> would lead to improved service on the K-Ingleside, L-Taraval and M-Ocean View light-rail lines, all of which use the tunnel to get from the Castro to the west side of Twin Peaks. The project, which closed the tunnel for two months, included installing new rails and track ballast (the gravel bed on which rails usually sit) and seismic retrofits to the century-old tunnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni began advising riders two days after the tunnel reopened on Aug. 25 that some trains were being delayed by “signal issues” at West Portal — the western entrance to the 2-mile bore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on a review of Muni advisories on Twitter, those issues eased after a few days. But daily delays described as “system issues” or “signal issues” began again on Monday, causing major backups in K, L and M service heading toward downtown San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Haley, the SFMTA’s director of transit, said Wednesday the problems were due to missteps by Shimmick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley said in an interview that both series of problems involved Muni Metro’s automatic train control system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Muni’s light-rail vehicles enter the system’s tunnels, including the Twin Peaks Tunnel, they transition from operator control to the automatic system. The train control system includes trackside equipment that identifies each vehicle as it arrives by counting the number of axles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that identification is made as intended — Haley said the process involves a “handshake” between computerized equipment at trackside and aboard each light-rail vehicle — the train is put on automatic control. In the case of the refurbished Twin Peaks Tunnel, the train is cleared to travel to the next station, Forest Hill, at a speed of 50 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley said that immediately after the tunnel reopened last month, the automatic train control system was not executing the “handshake” at West Portal. The system’s response is to slow the trains to a crawl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley said that the problem, which he described as intermittent but disruptive, involved improperly reinstalled components for the train control system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That could mean the components were relocated in the wrong place, they were buried under track or ballast that was put back down, that kind of thing,” Haley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that SFMTA employees have found that by reducing the automatically set speeds for a 1,000-foot section of eastbound track at West Portal, trains are able to proceed through the area without stopping. Once past the affected section of track, trains are able to resume their normal speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley said the second issue was more serious and grew out of previously scheduled construction last Friday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shimmick crews brought heavy equipment into the tunnel through the West Portal entrance, he said, and in the process damaged the train control system’s trackside components.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had all sorts of heavy equipment vehicles going in, and they damaged the equipment alongside the trackway,” Haley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the components damaged was the system that counts vehicle axles. Haley said the result is that the system “stops the train and says, ‘Wait a minute, you’re not going any further until we figure out who you are.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The damage was extensive enough that it has prevented Muni from issuing remote commands to clear the problem from its operations control center. Instead, two Muni workers have been stationed at West Portal, Haley said, and are trying to manually correct problems with the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley added that the damage has caused a ripple effect throughout the Muni Metro system, as it forces downtown-bound trains to slow to 25 mph for the entire length of the Twin Peaks Tunnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Muni crews have replaced much of the damaged equipment at trackside and are working with the train control system’s manufacturer on a fix that could be in place later Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley said the SFMTA has discussed the problems with Shimmick Construction, but declined to characterize the conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a representative for Shimmick said the company is not to blame for the train control problems and denied its equipment caused any damage last weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have reached out to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to offer our continued post-construction support,” Chapin Fay, a Shimmick spokesperson, said in an emailed statement. “The automatic train control system work on the project was not under our purview and we are not aware of any damage that was done this weekend by our equipment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supervisor that represents the area of the West Portal station expressed outrage on Thursday after learning about the subway problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These delays are unacceptable,” said Supervisor Norman Yee in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I urge the SFMTA to work with the contractors to resolve these issues as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new West Portal problems come just weeks after Mayor London Breed put SFMTA chief Ed Reiskin on notice she expects quick action to resolve the transit agency’s service issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked how much the West Portal issues might cost, Haley said, “Well, I can tell you the biggest concern I have for the cost is the public inconvenience and the impact on service. … I’m less concerned about the dollar value than the loss of confidence that our riders have.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echoing the union's slogan for its Marriott campaign, she adds: “One job should be enough to pay the bills, to put food on the table, to pay the rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the nearly 2,300 housekeepers, dishwashers, servers, bartenders, cooks and bellmen at seven Marriott-owned hotels -- the St. Francis, the W, the Marriott Union Square, the Palace, the Marriott Marquis, the Courtyard San Francisco Downtown and the St. Regis -- will take part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a union versus industry issue,” says Anand Singh, president of San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.unitehere2.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unite Here Local 2\u003c/a>. “It’s about the workers who make up the fabric of this city standing up and fighting for what they deserve. What they’re asking for is their fair share.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s 25 million annual visitors contribute well over \u003ca href=\"https://sftravel.ent.box.com/s/3oq7bqy1vj6j32catxluhl4ltagydnmx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$9 billion\u003c/a> to the economy, the San Francisco Travel Association says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Unite Here, Local 2 workers are working at Marriott-operated hotels representing 15 percent of San Francisco’s 33,000 hotel rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The company hasn’t taken us seriously enough yet,” says Singh. ”It’s unconscionable that the workers that make the industry tick would struggle to make ends meet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The median income of a Local 2 housekeeper is $44,000, says Unite Here. That's low in a region where the federal government recently said a family of four earning as much as $117,400 could be \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/elist/2018-apr_10.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">classified\u003c/a> as \"low-income.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marriott International said in a statement last week that it has conducted good faith negotiations with the union and that it is still \"hopeful that we will reach an agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement without any strike activity.\" The company said the hotels will continue to operate even in the event of a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last major hotel strike in San Francisco took place in September 2004. Back then, Unite Here leaders called for a two-week strike at four hotels. In response, management at those hotels and 10 other unionized hotels locked workers out in a standoff that lasted two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two sides eventually agreed on a contract in 2006. It granted workers higher wages, better pensions and full health care benefits, according to Unite Here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevorkian says a major issue is her team's workload. She manages as many as seven housekeepers, who together clean more than 100 rooms a night. That's too many rooms for too few workers in too short a time, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like they’re testing how far they can go,” says Kevorkian. “I’ve worked as a manager for 11 years, and I’ve never seen that craziness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help cope with the stress, Kevorkian says, she takes an anxiety medication her doctors prescribed to get through her workday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My doctor told me to quit my job, but it’s not so easy,” she said. “I’m the backbone of my house.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As drug-related deaths rise to record numbers, at least a dozen U.S. cities are considering \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/12/628136694/harm-reduction-movement-hits-obstacles\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opening supervised injection sites\u003c/a>, where people can use illicit drugs with trained staff present, ready to respond in case of an overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The future of such proposals in the U.S. is uncertain. A California bill that would greenlight a pilot injection site in San Francisco awaits the governor's signature, but a representative of the Justice Department vowed to crack down on any such site \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/08/30/642735759/justice-department-promises-crackdown-on-supervised-injection-sites\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in recent public statements\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say supervised injection sites encourage drug use and bring crime to surrounding communities. Proponents argue that they save lives and can help people in addiction reconnect with society and get health services. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out with the dark alley, fear and shame, they say, in with a safe space, clean injection supplies, care and compassion. It's an approach that falls under the umbrella of harm reduction, a public health philosophy that emphasizes lessening the harms of drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what does evidence say? If the policy goal is to save lives and eventually curb opioid addiction, do these sites work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a tricky question to answer, although many of these sites have been studied for years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 100 supervised injection sites operate around the world, mainly in Europe, Canada and Australia. Typically, drug users come in with their own drugs and are given clean needles and a clean, safe space to consume them. Staff are on hand with breathing masks and naloxone, the overdose antidote, and to provide safer injection advice and information about drug treatment and other health services. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most have grown out of community and grassroots efforts, according to \u003ca href=\"https://gph.ucsd.edu/people/core/Pages/davidson.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Davidson\u003c/a>, a researcher specializing in harm reduction at the University of California San Diego who is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(17)30316-1/fulltext\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">researching an underground supervised injection site\u003c/a> in the United States. They lack big budgets for comprehensive services or for conducting high level evaluations, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he says the research – both \"the grey\" and the robust - point to the benefits, especially in preventing deaths among society's most vulnerable. No death has been reported in an injection site. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.drugandalcoholdependence.com/article/S0376-8716(14)01875-4/fulltext\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2014 review of 75 studies\u003c/a> concluded such places promote safer injection conditions, reduce overdoses and increase access to health services. Supervised injection sites were associated with less outdoor drug use, and they did not appear to have any negative impacts on crime or drug use. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If there had been unintended consequences, I suspect that would have been picked up by now,\" says Davidson. \"It's reassuring.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 669px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/insite-booths2-768x512-85ff32d915d2cc242428388d9f299e8af9e83cdc.jpg\" alt=\"At safe injection sites like Insite, in Vancouver, Canada, drug users can inject drugs under the watch of trained medical staff who will help in case of overdose.\" width=\"669\" height=\"502\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11691212\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/insite-booths2-768x512-85ff32d915d2cc242428388d9f299e8af9e83cdc.jpg 669w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/insite-booths2-768x512-85ff32d915d2cc242428388d9f299e8af9e83cdc-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/insite-booths2-768x512-85ff32d915d2cc242428388d9f299e8af9e83cdc-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/insite-booths2-768x512-85ff32d915d2cc242428388d9f299e8af9e83cdc-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/insite-booths2-768x512-85ff32d915d2cc242428388d9f299e8af9e83cdc-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At safe injection sites like Insite, in Vancouver, Canada, drug users can inject drugs under the watch of trained medical staff who will help in case of overdose. \u003ccite>(Elana Gordon/WHYY)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Research debates\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ijdp.org/article/S0955-3959(18)30180-4/abstract\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in another review of studies\u003c/a> published in August in the International Journal of Drug Policy, the researchers, criminologists from the University of South Wales in the United Kingdom, found that the evidence for supervised injection is not as strong as previously thought. Only eight studies met the researchers' standards for high quality design. And of those, the findings on the effectiveness of supervised injection were uncertain, with no effect on overdose mortality or needle sharing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nobody should be looking at this literature making confident conclusions in either direction,\" says Keith Humphreys, an addiction researcher and psychiatry professor at Stanford University who wasn't involved in the study. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humphreys says he'd welcome better tools to address the drug crisis. He doesn't think the latest analysis points to supervised injection as being harmful, though. The real problem is, the analysis found there just are not a lot of good studies, period, on supervised injection. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They can't rule out no effect, they can't rule [in] an effect,\" he said. \"So I think we should be pretty cautious.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bccsu.ca/?team=m-j-milloy-phd\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">M-J Milloy\u003c/a>, an epidemiologist with the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use and an associate editor of the International Drug Policy Journal which published the UK analysis, doesn't think this review reflects the evidence. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their decision to exclude all but eight studies is in my view one of the methodological flaws,\" he says, adding that the analysis looked at measures beyond the scope of some of what individual studies set out to assess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 911px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/tim-gauthier-1024x683-591486527c131b9abb00e8cd4be12660dc03d7e1.jpg\" alt=\"Insite's clinic coordinator, Tim Gauthier, demonstrates how staff respond to an overdose in the main injection room. No one has ever died in here or any other injection site.\" width=\"911\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11691213\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/tim-gauthier-1024x683-591486527c131b9abb00e8cd4be12660dc03d7e1.jpg 911w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/tim-gauthier-1024x683-591486527c131b9abb00e8cd4be12660dc03d7e1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/tim-gauthier-1024x683-591486527c131b9abb00e8cd4be12660dc03d7e1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/tim-gauthier-1024x683-591486527c131b9abb00e8cd4be12660dc03d7e1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/tim-gauthier-1024x683-591486527c131b9abb00e8cd4be12660dc03d7e1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/tim-gauthier-1024x683-591486527c131b9abb00e8cd4be12660dc03d7e1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 911px) 100vw, 911px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Insite's clinic coordinator, Tim Gauthier, demonstrates how staff respond to an overdose in the main injection room. No one has ever died in here or any other injection site. \u003ccite>(Elana Gordon/WHYY)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Canadian model\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the existing research for the effects of supervised injection sites comes from two places: the \u003ca href=\"https://uniting.org/who-we-help/for-adults/sydney-medically-supervised-injecting-centre\">Medically Supervised Injecting Centre\u003c/a> in Sydney, Australia and \u003ca href=\"http://www.vch.ca/locations-services/result?res_id=964\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Insite, a facility in Vancouver,\u003c/a> which public health officials have operated and researched for 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Insite opened, supervised injection was contentious in Canada. After years of drug-user-led activism, the government approved it as a pilot, creating a place with wrap-around addiction services under the same roof, and mandated scientific evaluations on the impact from the start. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milloy, who is part of a team that researches Insite, says it points to the benefits of supervised injection. The research was observational, drawing from unique datasets. Since 1996, well before Insite, researchers had followed 1500 active drug users in the city as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC535533/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of the largest long-term studies\u003c/a> of drug users in North America. They then recruited 1,050 people at Insite, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bccsu.ca/seosi/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">followed them over time\u003c/a> as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since opening in 2003, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.vch.ca/public-health/harm-reduction/supervised-consumption-sites/insite-user-statistics\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">facility has supervised\u003c/a> more than 3.6 million injections and responded to more than 6,000 overdoses. No one has ever died there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19378451\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found no signs\u003c/a> of a so called \"honey pot effect,\" at Insite, meaning it didn't increase or encourage drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"//www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)62353-7/abstract?code=lancet-site\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a study published in Lancet\u003c/a>, and included in the most recent review of evidence by criminologists, Milloy and other researchers found that the fatal overdose rate sharply decreased in and around the immediate area of the site. Additional evaluations from Milloy's group and \u003ca href=\"http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/library/publications/year/2011/decreasing-HIV-in-IDU-population.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the regional health ministry\u003c/a> found that Insite \u003ca href=\"http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0003351\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">averted about 50 deaths\u003c/a> in the first three to four years of operation; that people were less likely to engage in behaviors that would lead to HIV infections; and, that those who used Insite were \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2007.01818.x\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more likely to initiate detoxing\u003c/a> from drugs and access treatment like methadone, compared to those who weren't using the facility. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That might seem odd to people. You know, you give someone a safer, cleaner, warmer drier place to inject and they end up going into addiction treatment,\" Milloy says. \"It's a place where they can access healthcare, and where their exposure to an increasingly toxic drug supply can be managed and mitigated in an effective sense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For people working in the field, the value of supervised injection facilities transcends the debate over death or crime statistics, because it offers something people who use drugs may not have experienced before: a non-judgmental place that accepts them for who they are. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's about making a space where drug users are allowed to feel like people,\" says Darwin Fisher, Insite's longtime program coordinator. \"We're also mindful that this is a respite from the street and at times it might be difficult for people to leave the only situation that feels vaguely safe for them in a day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milloy concurs, describing Insite as \"a place which is an official healthcare setting which is not judgmental, which does not stigmatize them for their drug use, and which accepts that they are people first and foremost.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milloy says studying supervised injection presents challenges. Early on, they considered setting up the gold standard for a study — a randomized trial — but that would mean separating a sample of drug users into two groups, one that gets access to Insight, and one that doesn't. He says denying a potentially life-saving service to some people seemed unethical. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the reason we chose the observational framework,\" he says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Sharon Larson, a longtime public health researcher who recently reviewed the evidence on supervised injection and assessed their potential impact for the city of Philadelphia, questions still remain. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insite, she says \"was a great pioneering start.\" It demonstrated making a difference for those who used the site. But, is it generalizable and directly replicable in other places?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larson, a professor at Thomas Jefferson University and director of the Main Line Health Center for Population Health Research at Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, \u003ca href=\"https://dbhids.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/OTF_LarsonS_PHLReportOnSCF_Dec2017.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">concluded in a report\u003c/a> that the science is still limited. In part, she says, that stems from the challenge of studying an illicit behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's a really hard population to count,\" she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a citywide level, it's hard to know the size of the actual baseline population of drug users. That leaves unanswered how many sites would be needed to have a broader community impact. Plus, where should they go? Who might benefit most from a site, and what's the most effective way to bring them in? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larson's models estimate a supervised injection site in Philadelphia could prevent dozens overdose deaths annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It does not give me pause about developing these injection sites,\" Larson says. \"What it tells me is if we want to demonstrate that this is an effective strategy for harm reduction, one of many, that we ought to be very thoughtful about how we develop data to answer the important questions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of a reporting partnership with NPR, WHYY's health show \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://whyy.org/episodes/crisis-mode/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>The Pulse\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and Kaiser Health News. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Elana Gordon is 2018-19 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a tricky question to answer, although many of these sites have been studied for years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 100 supervised injection sites operate around the world, mainly in Europe, Canada and Australia. Typically, drug users come in with their own drugs and are given clean needles and a clean, safe space to consume them. Staff are on hand with breathing masks and naloxone, the overdose antidote, and to provide safer injection advice and information about drug treatment and other health services. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most have grown out of community and grassroots efforts, according to \u003ca href=\"https://gph.ucsd.edu/people/core/Pages/davidson.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Davidson\u003c/a>, a researcher specializing in harm reduction at the University of California San Diego who is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(17)30316-1/fulltext\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">researching an underground supervised injection site\u003c/a> in the United States. They lack big budgets for comprehensive services or for conducting high level evaluations, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he says the research – both \"the grey\" and the robust - point to the benefits, especially in preventing deaths among society's most vulnerable. No death has been reported in an injection site. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.drugandalcoholdependence.com/article/S0376-8716(14)01875-4/fulltext\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2014 review of 75 studies\u003c/a> concluded such places promote safer injection conditions, reduce overdoses and increase access to health services. Supervised injection sites were associated with less outdoor drug use, and they did not appear to have any negative impacts on crime or drug use. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If there had been unintended consequences, I suspect that would have been picked up by now,\" says Davidson. \"It's reassuring.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 669px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/insite-booths2-768x512-85ff32d915d2cc242428388d9f299e8af9e83cdc.jpg\" alt=\"At safe injection sites like Insite, in Vancouver, Canada, drug users can inject drugs under the watch of trained medical staff who will help in case of overdose.\" width=\"669\" height=\"502\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11691212\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/insite-booths2-768x512-85ff32d915d2cc242428388d9f299e8af9e83cdc.jpg 669w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/insite-booths2-768x512-85ff32d915d2cc242428388d9f299e8af9e83cdc-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/insite-booths2-768x512-85ff32d915d2cc242428388d9f299e8af9e83cdc-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/insite-booths2-768x512-85ff32d915d2cc242428388d9f299e8af9e83cdc-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/insite-booths2-768x512-85ff32d915d2cc242428388d9f299e8af9e83cdc-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At safe injection sites like Insite, in Vancouver, Canada, drug users can inject drugs under the watch of trained medical staff who will help in case of overdose. \u003ccite>(Elana Gordon/WHYY)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Research debates\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ijdp.org/article/S0955-3959(18)30180-4/abstract\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in another review of studies\u003c/a> published in August in the International Journal of Drug Policy, the researchers, criminologists from the University of South Wales in the United Kingdom, found that the evidence for supervised injection is not as strong as previously thought. Only eight studies met the researchers' standards for high quality design. And of those, the findings on the effectiveness of supervised injection were uncertain, with no effect on overdose mortality or needle sharing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nobody should be looking at this literature making confident conclusions in either direction,\" says Keith Humphreys, an addiction researcher and psychiatry professor at Stanford University who wasn't involved in the study. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humphreys says he'd welcome better tools to address the drug crisis. He doesn't think the latest analysis points to supervised injection as being harmful, though. The real problem is, the analysis found there just are not a lot of good studies, period, on supervised injection. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They can't rule out no effect, they can't rule [in] an effect,\" he said. \"So I think we should be pretty cautious.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bccsu.ca/?team=m-j-milloy-phd\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">M-J Milloy\u003c/a>, an epidemiologist with the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use and an associate editor of the International Drug Policy Journal which published the UK analysis, doesn't think this review reflects the evidence. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their decision to exclude all but eight studies is in my view one of the methodological flaws,\" he says, adding that the analysis looked at measures beyond the scope of some of what individual studies set out to assess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 911px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/tim-gauthier-1024x683-591486527c131b9abb00e8cd4be12660dc03d7e1.jpg\" alt=\"Insite's clinic coordinator, Tim Gauthier, demonstrates how staff respond to an overdose in the main injection room. No one has ever died in here or any other injection site.\" width=\"911\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11691213\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/tim-gauthier-1024x683-591486527c131b9abb00e8cd4be12660dc03d7e1.jpg 911w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/tim-gauthier-1024x683-591486527c131b9abb00e8cd4be12660dc03d7e1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/tim-gauthier-1024x683-591486527c131b9abb00e8cd4be12660dc03d7e1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/tim-gauthier-1024x683-591486527c131b9abb00e8cd4be12660dc03d7e1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/tim-gauthier-1024x683-591486527c131b9abb00e8cd4be12660dc03d7e1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/tim-gauthier-1024x683-591486527c131b9abb00e8cd4be12660dc03d7e1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 911px) 100vw, 911px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Insite's clinic coordinator, Tim Gauthier, demonstrates how staff respond to an overdose in the main injection room. No one has ever died in here or any other injection site. \u003ccite>(Elana Gordon/WHYY)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Canadian model\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the existing research for the effects of supervised injection sites comes from two places: the \u003ca href=\"https://uniting.org/who-we-help/for-adults/sydney-medically-supervised-injecting-centre\">Medically Supervised Injecting Centre\u003c/a> in Sydney, Australia and \u003ca href=\"http://www.vch.ca/locations-services/result?res_id=964\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Insite, a facility in Vancouver,\u003c/a> which public health officials have operated and researched for 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Insite opened, supervised injection was contentious in Canada. After years of drug-user-led activism, the government approved it as a pilot, creating a place with wrap-around addiction services under the same roof, and mandated scientific evaluations on the impact from the start. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milloy, who is part of a team that researches Insite, says it points to the benefits of supervised injection. The research was observational, drawing from unique datasets. Since 1996, well before Insite, researchers had followed 1500 active drug users in the city as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC535533/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of the largest long-term studies\u003c/a> of drug users in North America. They then recruited 1,050 people at Insite, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bccsu.ca/seosi/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">followed them over time\u003c/a> as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since opening in 2003, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.vch.ca/public-health/harm-reduction/supervised-consumption-sites/insite-user-statistics\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">facility has supervised\u003c/a> more than 3.6 million injections and responded to more than 6,000 overdoses. No one has ever died there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19378451\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found no signs\u003c/a> of a so called \"honey pot effect,\" at Insite, meaning it didn't increase or encourage drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"//www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)62353-7/abstract?code=lancet-site\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a study published in Lancet\u003c/a>, and included in the most recent review of evidence by criminologists, Milloy and other researchers found that the fatal overdose rate sharply decreased in and around the immediate area of the site. Additional evaluations from Milloy's group and \u003ca href=\"http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/library/publications/year/2011/decreasing-HIV-in-IDU-population.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the regional health ministry\u003c/a> found that Insite \u003ca href=\"http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0003351\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">averted about 50 deaths\u003c/a> in the first three to four years of operation; that people were less likely to engage in behaviors that would lead to HIV infections; and, that those who used Insite were \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2007.01818.x\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more likely to initiate detoxing\u003c/a> from drugs and access treatment like methadone, compared to those who weren't using the facility. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That might seem odd to people. You know, you give someone a safer, cleaner, warmer drier place to inject and they end up going into addiction treatment,\" Milloy says. \"It's a place where they can access healthcare, and where their exposure to an increasingly toxic drug supply can be managed and mitigated in an effective sense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For people working in the field, the value of supervised injection facilities transcends the debate over death or crime statistics, because it offers something people who use drugs may not have experienced before: a non-judgmental place that accepts them for who they are. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's about making a space where drug users are allowed to feel like people,\" says Darwin Fisher, Insite's longtime program coordinator. \"We're also mindful that this is a respite from the street and at times it might be difficult for people to leave the only situation that feels vaguely safe for them in a day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milloy concurs, describing Insite as \"a place which is an official healthcare setting which is not judgmental, which does not stigmatize them for their drug use, and which accepts that they are people first and foremost.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milloy says studying supervised injection presents challenges. Early on, they considered setting up the gold standard for a study — a randomized trial — but that would mean separating a sample of drug users into two groups, one that gets access to Insight, and one that doesn't. He says denying a potentially life-saving service to some people seemed unethical. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the reason we chose the observational framework,\" he says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Sharon Larson, a longtime public health researcher who recently reviewed the evidence on supervised injection and assessed their potential impact for the city of Philadelphia, questions still remain. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insite, she says \"was a great pioneering start.\" It demonstrated making a difference for those who used the site. But, is it generalizable and directly replicable in other places?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larson, a professor at Thomas Jefferson University and director of the Main Line Health Center for Population Health Research at Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, \u003ca href=\"https://dbhids.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/OTF_LarsonS_PHLReportOnSCF_Dec2017.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">concluded in a report\u003c/a> that the science is still limited. In part, she says, that stems from the challenge of studying an illicit behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's a really hard population to count,\" she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a citywide level, it's hard to know the size of the actual baseline population of drug users. That leaves unanswered how many sites would be needed to have a broader community impact. Plus, where should they go? Who might benefit most from a site, and what's the most effective way to bring them in? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larson's models estimate a supervised injection site in Philadelphia could prevent dozens overdose deaths annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It does not give me pause about developing these injection sites,\" Larson says. \"What it tells me is if we want to demonstrate that this is an effective strategy for harm reduction, one of many, that we ought to be very thoughtful about how we develop data to answer the important questions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of a reporting partnership with NPR, WHYY's health show \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://whyy.org/episodes/crisis-mode/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>The Pulse\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and Kaiser Health News. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Scott Wiener, co-author of Assembly Bill 186 --\"controlled substances: overdose prevention program\" -- said he's hopeful that the governor will sign it, because Brown believes in progressive alternatives to incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He understands that the war on drugs failed, that drug addiction is not a criminal issue -- it is a health issue -- and we have to take a public health approach to addressing it,\" Wiener said at a press briefing Tuesday at \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthright360.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HealthRIGHT 360\u003c/a>, a drug addiction support organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11690412 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"California Senator Scott Wiener speaks at a press briefing about AB186, a new bill that, if passed, will make San Francisco the first U.S. city to allow a safe injection drug site.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California state Sen. Scott Wiener speaks at a press briefing about AB 186, which would make San Francisco the first U.S. city to allow a safe injection drug site. \u003ccite>(Francis Zhang)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed also spoke at the briefing. Despite some initial skepticism, she said she decided to make the safe injection site bill a priority after visiting a supervised injection site in Vancouver, Canada, last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was very surprised at how impressed I was with not only the numbers, but also the facility,\" Breed said of the Vancouver program. \"Zero overdoses in those facilities, and over 3,500 people referred to detox who have not come back through their system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a previous briefing outside Glide Memorial Church last week, Breed said opening just one facility in San Francisco could make a huge difference in fighting the opioid epidemic, and could even save the city up to $3.5 million by reducing hospital stays, HIV infections and overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But federal law prohibits illicit drug use, as well as owning or renting facilities for drug consumption. So the bill faces stiff opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We're not scared to push the envelope on public health policy. Even if the federal government threatens us with criminal prosecution.'\u003ccite>State Sen. Scott Wiener\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For example, in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/opinion/opioids-heroin-injection-sites.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">op-ed in the New York Times\u003c/a> last week after the California State Senate passed AB 186, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein railed against the dangers of injection sites, and said that those who open them should expect penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Violations are punishable by up to 20 years in prison, hefty fines and forfeiture of the property used in the criminal activity,\" wrote Rosenstein. \"Because federal law clearly prohibits injection sites, cities and counties should expect the Department of Justice to meet the opening of any injection site with swift and aggressive action.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11690445\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor London Breed inspects a prototype safe injection site at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed (center) inspects a prototype safe injection site at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Raquel Maria Dillon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bill's supporters are steeling themselves for a protracted fight with the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not scared to push the envelope on public health policy,\" Wiener said. \"Even if the federal government threatens us with criminal prosecution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the city has faced off successfully against federal authorities before, when San Francisco was at the forefront of changing policies around such contentious health care-related issues as medical marijuana facilities, needle exchanges and abortion clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/SIStaskforce/SISInfographicUPDATED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to data from San Francisco’s Department of Public Health\u003c/a>, there are 22,500 injection drug users in the city. Most of them don’t shoot up in the street. But last year, 193 people died of overdoses in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If adopted, the supervised sites will give users access to clean needles, counseling and treatment services in a three-year pilot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed said she doesn't yet know when the first site might open. She said that after securing the governor's signature, city officials will focus on combating potential federal government criticism and actions and working on implementing security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to make sure that people who are going to be working at the site are protected,\" Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor doesn't typically comment on pending legislation. His press office said he has until Sept. 30 to take action on the bill.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco officials, as well as health care and substance abuse service professionals, are urging California Gov. Jerry Brown to sign a bill allowing the city to open the country's first supervised injection site for drug users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener, co-author of Assembly Bill 186 --\"controlled substances: overdose prevention program\" -- said he's hopeful that the governor will sign it, because Brown believes in progressive alternatives to incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He understands that the war on drugs failed, that drug addiction is not a criminal issue -- it is a health issue -- and we have to take a public health approach to addressing it,\" Wiener said at a press briefing Tuesday at \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthright360.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HealthRIGHT 360\u003c/a>, a drug addiction support organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11690412 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"California Senator Scott Wiener speaks at a press briefing about AB186, a new bill that, if passed, will make San Francisco the first U.S. city to allow a safe injection drug site.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Scott-Wiener-safe-injection-site-briefing-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California state Sen. Scott Wiener speaks at a press briefing about AB 186, which would make San Francisco the first U.S. city to allow a safe injection drug site. \u003ccite>(Francis Zhang)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed also spoke at the briefing. Despite some initial skepticism, she said she decided to make the safe injection site bill a priority after visiting a supervised injection site in Vancouver, Canada, last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was very surprised at how impressed I was with not only the numbers, but also the facility,\" Breed said of the Vancouver program. \"Zero overdoses in those facilities, and over 3,500 people referred to detox who have not come back through their system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a previous briefing outside Glide Memorial Church last week, Breed said opening just one facility in San Francisco could make a huge difference in fighting the opioid epidemic, and could even save the city up to $3.5 million by reducing hospital stays, HIV infections and overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But federal law prohibits illicit drug use, as well as owning or renting facilities for drug consumption. So the bill faces stiff opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We're not scared to push the envelope on public health policy. Even if the federal government threatens us with criminal prosecution.'\u003ccite>State Sen. Scott Wiener\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For example, in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/opinion/opioids-heroin-injection-sites.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">op-ed in the New York Times\u003c/a> last week after the California State Senate passed AB 186, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein railed against the dangers of injection sites, and said that those who open them should expect penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Violations are punishable by up to 20 years in prison, hefty fines and forfeiture of the property used in the criminal activity,\" wrote Rosenstein. \"Because federal law clearly prohibits injection sites, cities and counties should expect the Department of Justice to meet the opening of any injection site with swift and aggressive action.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11690445\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor London Breed inspects a prototype safe injection site at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/injection-site-prototype.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed (center) inspects a prototype safe injection site at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Raquel Maria Dillon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bill's supporters are steeling themselves for a protracted fight with the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not scared to push the envelope on public health policy,\" Wiener said. \"Even if the federal government threatens us with criminal prosecution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the city has faced off successfully against federal authorities before, when San Francisco was at the forefront of changing policies around such contentious health care-related issues as medical marijuana facilities, needle exchanges and abortion clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/SIStaskforce/SISInfographicUPDATED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to data from San Francisco’s Department of Public Health\u003c/a>, there are 22,500 injection drug users in the city. Most of them don’t shoot up in the street. But last year, 193 people died of overdoses in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If adopted, the supervised sites will give users access to clean needles, counseling and treatment services in a three-year pilot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed said she doesn't yet know when the first site might open. She said that after securing the governor's signature, city officials will focus on combating potential federal government criticism and actions and working on implementing security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to make sure that people who are going to be working at the site are protected,\" Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor doesn't typically comment on pending legislation. His press office said he has until Sept. 30 to take action on the bill.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2:15 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> A 21-year-old man who was set upon by two other Muni passengers on Thursday night says the incident began with a dispute over playing music that another rider objected to. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dexter Lotz said in \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/they-attacked-me-man-in-viral-muni-fight-says-riders-didnt-like-him-playing-music-on-train/4114815/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an interview with San Francisco’s ABC7 \u003c/a>that as he played music — it’s not clear over what kind of device — another passenger on the N-Judah light-rail vehicle approached him. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘Are you going to get off?’ ” Lotz told ABC7. “I said, ‘Do you have a problem with the music?’ He didn’t respond. Then I said, ‘Are you going to do something about it?’ And he attacked me.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lotz gave a slightly \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/on-air/as-seen-on/Rider-Almost-Pushed-Off-Muni-Train-in-SF_Bay-Area-492246481.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">different version of events\u003c/a> in an interview with NBC Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In yet \u003ca href=\"https://mic.com/articles/191065/muni-mark-muni-matt-video-of-white-men-san-francisco-attack#.gdloKROhx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a third interview\u003c/a> — with independent journalist \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AnnaMSterling\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Sterling\u003c/a>, who tweeted video of the Thursday evening incident she had obtained from a witness — Lotz said that San Francisco police ordered him to the ground and handcuffed him when they encountered him after the incident. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sterling wrote that when Lotz asked why he was in handcuffs and not the man who had put him in a headlock and attempted to throw him from the Muni vehicle, police told him that reports claimed that Lotz was the aggressor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/safety/safety-and-good-conduct\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Muni rules\u003c/a> — like those on virtually every California transit system — prohibit playing sound equipment without earphones. Lotz told ABC7 Thursday night’s episode wasn’t the first time a Muni passenger has wanted him to turn his music down. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone would have asked me to turn it down, I would have done that,” Lotz said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (last updated 5:35 p.m. Friday):\u003c/strong> San Francisco police are investigating a Thursday night incident captured on cellphone video in which two adult passengers on the Muni Metro appear to assault a younger passenger and then attempt to throw him from the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said Friday they had located all three men involved in the incident and none sought to press charges. The department said its investigation is ongoing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two short videos of the episode, which occurred about 8:45 p.m. Thursday on an N-Judah light-rail vehicle near 34th Avenue and Judah Street in the city’s Outer Sunset neighborhood, were tweeted late Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AnnaMSterling/status/1035391641861799936\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the videos depicts an adult white male who has another person in a headlock on one of the vehicle’s seats. Other passengers approach, exclaiming, “He’s a kid!” and “Over music?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second video shows the first adult and a second, also apparently white, trying repeatedly to force a younger male off the vehicle through an open side door. The younger man, who appears to be a person of color, struggles to stay on the car and screams “Stop!” several times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The videos were posted by Anna Sterling, an independent journalist and part-time producer for KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said on Twitter that she had obtained the video from a witness who got off the Muni car at the same stop as the young man to offer aid. “He is OK,” Sterling reported early Friday via tweet. “He was shaken up after the incident for sure though. We are following up this story and will share soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It isn’t apparent from the videos what led to the incident. Police said they planned to review Muni surveillance footage, “which may show what occurred prior to the encounter seen in the cellphone videos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni said on Twitter that the N-Judah operator was aware of the incident as it was occurring and notified police. The agency said it had given the SFPD surveillance video from the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sfmta_muni/status/1035555365084061696\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department said in a statement that about 8:45 p.m. Thursday, it “received several calls regarding an assault that occurred on a Muni light rail vehicle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Officers arrived on scene and made contact with two adult male subjects,” the statement said. “During our investigation, both subjects admitted to being involved in a mutual physical altercation, but neither party chose to press charges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Grace Gatpandan, a department spokeswoman, said later Friday that police had also located and interviewed the apparent victim, who declined to press charges. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an open and active investigation into what happened,” Gatpandan said, including “looking at the circumstances” that led to the incident. 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"content": "\u003cp>For our series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\">Letters To My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\">write a short letter\u003c/a> to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>What happened to it?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Is that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a letter from Katrin Ciaffa, to herself:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dear Self,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You were a California Dreamer since you first watched “Hair” at your neighborhood movie theater in Hamburg, Germany, at 13. Later, the Grateful Dead, combined with a solid dose of psychedelics, confirmed that San Francisco was the place to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Of course, it was the ’80s and you were more than 20 years late to that particular party … but that didn’t stop you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">As a graduate student at the University of Hamburg, you applied to a bunch of colleges for internship opportunities in counseling, the primary criteria being that the campus was in or near San Francisco. Europeans tend to not quite grasp the vast expanses of the American West, and on a map, it seemed like UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz were basically just right next to the Golden Gate. Alas, neither of them welcomed you in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Instead, it was Sonoma State University, located in the City of Rohnert Park — who had ever heard of that? Rohnert Park was most definitely not San Francisco, but it was mercifully close to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">With the assistance of Golden Gate Transit, and a dear new friend of a friend, a hip and kind hairdresser with a tiny apartment in the Mission District, you set out to capture your personal version of the California Dream. And you succeeded — perhaps more than you bargained for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11675993\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11675993\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-800x573.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-1020x731.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-1200x860.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-1180x846.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-960x688.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-375x269.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-520x373.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ciaffa on her wedding day. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Katrin Ciaffa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Twenty-five years later, you are still here — with a California husband (born in Yonkers, NY, but raised in Orange County), a daughter born in Santa Rosa (who currently is exploring her European roots as an au pair in Germany — full circle, anyone?!), and your 93-year-old mom who sold her house in Hamburg and moved to the Sonoma Wine Country 10 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11675995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11675995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-800x1120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1120\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-800x1120.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-160x224.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-1020x1428.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-857x1200.jpg 857w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-1180x1652.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-960x1344.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-240x336.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-375x525.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-520x728.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ciaffa’s mother (top left) eventually followed in her daughter’s footsteps and moved from Germany to California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Katrin Ciaffa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Seems like the California Dream is contagious across generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">What a long strange trip it’s been!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Peace and Love,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Katrina\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We’d love to see your letter to your family’s California Dreamer. Maybe it was a parent, a great-great grandparent or maybe even you were the first in your family to come to California with a dream. \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/californiadreamletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fill out the form here\u003c/a> and share your story with us!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Of course, it was the ’80s and you were more than 20 years late to that particular party … but that didn’t stop you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">As a graduate student at the University of Hamburg, you applied to a bunch of colleges for internship opportunities in counseling, the primary criteria being that the campus was in or near San Francisco. Europeans tend to not quite grasp the vast expanses of the American West, and on a map, it seemed like UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz were basically just right next to the Golden Gate. Alas, neither of them welcomed you in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Instead, it was Sonoma State University, located in the City of Rohnert Park — who had ever heard of that? Rohnert Park was most definitely not San Francisco, but it was mercifully close to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">With the assistance of Golden Gate Transit, and a dear new friend of a friend, a hip and kind hairdresser with a tiny apartment in the Mission District, you set out to capture your personal version of the California Dream. And you succeeded — perhaps more than you bargained for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11675993\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11675993\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-800x573.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-1020x731.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-1200x860.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-1180x846.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-960x688.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-375x269.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31514_Wedding-Day-Bride-and-Groom-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-520x373.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ciaffa on her wedding day. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Katrin Ciaffa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Twenty-five years later, you are still here — with a California husband (born in Yonkers, NY, but raised in Orange County), a daughter born in Santa Rosa (who currently is exploring her European roots as an au pair in Germany — full circle, anyone?!), and your 93-year-old mom who sold her house in Hamburg and moved to the Sonoma Wine Country 10 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11675995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11675995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-800x1120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1120\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-800x1120.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-160x224.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-1020x1428.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-857x1200.jpg 857w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-1180x1652.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-960x1344.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-240x336.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-375x525.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut-520x728.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31516_Duncan-Garrett-Portrait_5x7-Katrin-Ciaffa-qut.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ciaffa’s mother (top left) eventually followed in her daughter’s footsteps and moved from Germany to California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Katrin Ciaffa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Seems like the California Dream is contagious across generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">What a long strange trip it’s been!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Peace and Love,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Katrina\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We’d love to see your letter to your family’s California Dreamer. Maybe it was a parent, a great-great grandparent or maybe even you were the first in your family to come to California with a dream. \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/californiadreamletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fill out the form here\u003c/a> and share your story with us!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Supporters of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832148/new-sf-cultural-districts-ordinance-aims-to-counteract-gentrification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plan\u003c/a> to allocate city funds to cultural districts throughout San Francisco are dealing with a new reality: The districts will be receiving far less tax dollars than originally anticipated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a \"Cultural Districts Ordinance\" in May that would, among other provisions, have allowed these districts to get city money for the first time, the suggested funding allocation was $1 million in tax dollars per year for each district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now that amount is looking closer to $400,000, depending on the number of cultural districts in existence at the time the funds are dispersed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are currently five cultural districts across the city, with at least two more in the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each has a special identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mission's Calle 24 Latino Cultural District is packed with Latino businesses and vibrant murals; Compton's Transgender Cultural District in the Tenderloin has historical significance as the site of game-changing battles over transgender rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668349\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/ww2.kqed_.orgCalle24.MAIN_-800x450-bf1d5058119499f97e9fee58a15a5519be462420-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street sign on 24th Street in the Mission denoting the neighborhood's status as a San Francisco cultural district.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And each cultural district is threatened by gentrification and displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Slowly, we’re seeing the erosion of these really unique communities in San Francisco that make it special,\" said San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen. She successfully championed the Cultural District Ordinance earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funding for cultural districts would come from \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/BSC/2018%20Nov/2-Final_digest.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition E\u003c/a>, which the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11684107/sf-board-of-supervisors-votes-to-put-hotel-tax-arts-measure-on-november-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Board of Supervisors recently approved for appearance on the November ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition E would allocate 1.5 percent of the money raised from the current 8 percent base hotel tax to arts and culture organizations, venues and activities. It would not change the total hotel tax rate of 14 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668345\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11668345 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/ww2.kqed_.orgronen-800x600-1301d4c3a95b297c7943017c2ebe3a45ba254822-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Supervisor Hillary Ronen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Prop. E would provide the most stable source of funding to these districts of any source,\" said Ronen, noting that cultural districts could also obtain funding from other sources, such as foundations and real estate developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I had written Prop. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mission's Calle 24 Latino Cultural District is packed with Latino businesses and vibrant murals; Compton's Transgender Cultural District in the Tenderloin has historical significance as the site of game-changing battles over transgender rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668349\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/ww2.kqed_.orgCalle24.MAIN_-800x450-bf1d5058119499f97e9fee58a15a5519be462420-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street sign on 24th Street in the Mission denoting the neighborhood's status as a San Francisco cultural district.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And each cultural district is threatened by gentrification and displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Slowly, we’re seeing the erosion of these really unique communities in San Francisco that make it special,\" said San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen. She successfully championed the Cultural District Ordinance earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funding for cultural districts would come from \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/BSC/2018%20Nov/2-Final_digest.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition E\u003c/a>, which the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11684107/sf-board-of-supervisors-votes-to-put-hotel-tax-arts-measure-on-november-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Board of Supervisors recently approved for appearance on the November ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition E would allocate 1.5 percent of the money raised from the current 8 percent base hotel tax to arts and culture organizations, venues and activities. It would not change the total hotel tax rate of 14 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668345\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11668345 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/ww2.kqed_.orgronen-800x600-1301d4c3a95b297c7943017c2ebe3a45ba254822-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Supervisor Hillary Ronen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Prop. E would provide the most stable source of funding to these districts of any source,\" said Ronen, noting that cultural districts could also obtain funding from other sources, such as foundations and real estate developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I had written Prop. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]ean Kayode says he watched his whole world roll away from him at 3:00 a.m. Kayode had been living in his car in San Francisco for about two years. During the early morning of March 5, traffic police towed and impounded his black 2005 Mercedes Benz -- for having too many overdue parking tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wake up at 3 o’clock in the morning and there was a guy behind me. And I’m like, ‘What are you doing behind my car?’” Kayode said while standing in the lobby of the Next Door homeless shelter in downtown San Francisco. “He says, ‘I'm just waiting for the tow truck to come get you.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Kayode, who now lives at Next Door, his car wasn’t just a place to sleep, it was how he earned a living, he said, delivering food through Uber Eats. He shakes his head in disbelief at where he was, and where he is now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am a homeless guy that worked my way out of homelessness,” Kayode said. “Bought my own car. Now you've taken my car, taken my job and now you're giving me food stamps. It doesn't make sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is it Unconstitutional to Impound a Car for Unpaid Tickets?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>An estimated half million cars a year in California are impounded, unclaimed and sold, according to Jude Pond of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco. He said many of those cars belonged to poor people living in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pond helped file a lawsuit on Kayode's behalf to challenge the California law that allows cities to tow a car away if that car has five or more overdue parking tickets. Many cities follow that policy, and Pond said it’s unconstitutional in several ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government should not be allowed to take someone’s property without any notice and without a warrant, he said. That’s doubly true because these vehicles weren’t used in a crime, but were towed simply for financial reasons -- just to collect fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It makes absolutely no sense to take a homeless person's car, confiscating it, impounding it. If you take away their car, they’re going to be on the street. That’s not a benefit to society. Common sense has to be in play.'\u003ccite>Zev Yaroslavsky, UCLA\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cities do not issue warnings, outside of the fine print on a parking ticket, that they’re coming to impound a vehicle. Parking officers just show up and take it away. And in the case of the homeless who live in their cars, city officials are taking their temporary home from them, which raises the stakes above the taking of a vehicle, Pond said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re hoping that this case sets the precedent that the city should not take people’s only asset -- in this case their car -- for the purpose of satisfying a debt, based on just outstanding parking tickets,\" Pond said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, officers towing a car with a homeless occupant will contact the police department and social services to help that person get services, according to Paul Rose, spokesman for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, who responded by email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be times when the [Homeless Outreach Team] will not be available to respond. If there is no urgency regarding the towing of the vehicle we will make an effort to delay the tow to allow services to respond,” Rose said. “We cannot completely avoid the removal of the vehicle as this would create an unintended exemption for vehicles that are in violation of city or state law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-800x590.jpg\" alt=\"Sean Kayode, outside the Next Door homeless shelter in San Francisco on July 26, 2018. Kayode is suing the city, saying he lost his means of food-delivery employment and his home when his car was impounded in March — for having too many parking tickets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689591\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-800x590.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-1200x885.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-1180x870.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-960x708.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-240x177.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-375x277.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-520x384.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Kayode, outside the Next Door homeless shelter in San Francisco on July 26, 2018. Kayode is suing the city, saying he lost his means of food-delivery employment and his home when his car was impounded in March — for having too many parking tickets. \u003ccite>(David Gorn/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Tipping Point Toward Homelessness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of Californians are living in their cars. Because losing those cars to impoundment can mean the loss of work and home, it can be a tipping point into a life on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many people, having their car towed for overdue parking tickets is a major annoyance and life disruption. But for homeless people, it’s a permanent loss, because most of them cannot afford to recover their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs escalate quickly. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Offenders must reimburse the tow charge, roughly $500. They also need to pay off their original tickets and the accrued fines on those tickets, which can be $1,000 or more. On top of all of that, it usually costs $71 for each day the car is stored at the tow yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Kayode’s case, more than five months after his car was impounded, it would cost him more than $21,000 to get his car back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s about $20,000 more than he paid for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ostensibly, the city is towing the car to collect a debt, but in many cases where cars are unclaimed and eventually sold, the city doesn’t make much money on the sale, if anything. That’s because the tow yard has first dibs on any cash collected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the cities, though, it’s not about the money, according to UCLA political expert Zev Yaroslavsky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's the credibility of the restrictions,” Yaroslavsky said. “If the restrictions were not enforced, then no one would comply with them. The reason you and I rush out to the parking meter when it’s about to expire, to put another quarter in there, is because we don’t want to pay $80 for the privilege of having overstayed our welcome by a minute.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The quickly escalating costs of having a vehicle impounded usually mean poor Californians can’t afford to get their cars back. Including original tickets, accrued fines and charges for towing and impounding, it would now cost Sean Kayode more than $21,000 to get his car back.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689602\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The quickly escalating costs of having a vehicle impounded usually mean poor Californians can’t afford to get their cars back. Including original tickets, accrued fines and charges for towing and impounding, it would now cost Sean Kayode more than $21,000 to get his car back. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yaroslavsky spent four decades in local government in Los Angeles, most of it on the county Board of Supervisors. He said he understands why cities hold onto their impound power with both hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a local elected official I was never concerned about the revenue stream we were getting out of the parking,” Yaroslavsky said. “It was motivated by getting turnover in the limited parking spaces we had available at curbside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, he said, there has to be a middle ground when towing cars from the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes absolutely no sense to take a homeless person's car, confiscating it, impounding it. If you take away their car, they’re going to be on the street. That’s not a benefit to society. Common sense has to be in play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the moment, though, the middle ground is hard to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless advocates say cities could make exceptions for extremely low-income citizens -- maybe let them hold onto the car, but pay off the tickets in installments.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689507/how-a-transportation-safety-net-could-keep-more-people-off-the-streets\">How a Transportation Safety Net Could Keep More People Off the Streets\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689507/how-a-transportation-safety-net-could-keep-more-people-off-the-streets\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/MetroGoldLine-1180x785.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some cities, including San Francisco, have a payment-plan program -- but nothing in place to return cars to the homeless or restrict impoundment of those cars in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal district court judge in San Francisco is expected to hear Kayode’s motion in September for a preliminary injunction to get his car back. A hearing on his lawsuit would be scheduled after a ruling on the injunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, if the preliminary injunction is granted and San Francisco has to return Kayode’s car, he will still technically owe that $21,000 in parking, towing and storage fees until the case is decided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kayode, who has been homeless for the past six years, looks back on the incident and its aftermath with a mixture of anger and despair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I have my car, I have my phone. That's all I need. I can earn money,” Kayode said. “But right now, they are holding my car hostage. What I want to know is, does taking my car from me help the city budget in one way or another? Is my car going to make them or break them?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stops a moment, looks around the crowded and chaotic lobby of the homeless shelter he now calls home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am back in the same hole,” Kayode said. “And I don't have any way to get out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Common sense has to be in play.'\u003ccite>Zev Yaroslavsky, UCLA\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cities do not issue warnings, outside of the fine print on a parking ticket, that they’re coming to impound a vehicle. Parking officers just show up and take it away. And in the case of the homeless who live in their cars, city officials are taking their temporary home from them, which raises the stakes above the taking of a vehicle, Pond said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re hoping that this case sets the precedent that the city should not take people’s only asset -- in this case their car -- for the purpose of satisfying a debt, based on just outstanding parking tickets,\" Pond said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, officers towing a car with a homeless occupant will contact the police department and social services to help that person get services, according to Paul Rose, spokesman for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, who responded by email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be times when the [Homeless Outreach Team] will not be available to respond. If there is no urgency regarding the towing of the vehicle we will make an effort to delay the tow to allow services to respond,” Rose said. “We cannot completely avoid the removal of the vehicle as this would create an unintended exemption for vehicles that are in violation of city or state law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-800x590.jpg\" alt=\"Sean Kayode, outside the Next Door homeless shelter in San Francisco on July 26, 2018. Kayode is suing the city, saying he lost his means of food-delivery employment and his home when his car was impounded in March — for having too many parking tickets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689591\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-800x590.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-1200x885.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-1180x870.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-960x708.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-240x177.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-375x277.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-520x384.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Kayode, outside the Next Door homeless shelter in San Francisco on July 26, 2018. Kayode is suing the city, saying he lost his means of food-delivery employment and his home when his car was impounded in March — for having too many parking tickets. \u003ccite>(David Gorn/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Tipping Point Toward Homelessness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of Californians are living in their cars. Because losing those cars to impoundment can mean the loss of work and home, it can be a tipping point into a life on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many people, having their car towed for overdue parking tickets is a major annoyance and life disruption. But for homeless people, it’s a permanent loss, because most of them cannot afford to recover their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs escalate quickly. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Offenders must reimburse the tow charge, roughly $500. They also need to pay off their original tickets and the accrued fines on those tickets, which can be $1,000 or more. On top of all of that, it usually costs $71 for each day the car is stored at the tow yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Kayode’s case, more than five months after his car was impounded, it would cost him more than $21,000 to get his car back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s about $20,000 more than he paid for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ostensibly, the city is towing the car to collect a debt, but in many cases where cars are unclaimed and eventually sold, the city doesn’t make much money on the sale, if anything. That’s because the tow yard has first dibs on any cash collected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the cities, though, it’s not about the money, according to UCLA political expert Zev Yaroslavsky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's the credibility of the restrictions,” Yaroslavsky said. “If the restrictions were not enforced, then no one would comply with them. The reason you and I rush out to the parking meter when it’s about to expire, to put another quarter in there, is because we don’t want to pay $80 for the privilege of having overstayed our welcome by a minute.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The quickly escalating costs of having a vehicle impounded usually mean poor Californians can’t afford to get their cars back. Including original tickets, accrued fines and charges for towing and impounding, it would now cost Sean Kayode more than $21,000 to get his car back.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689602\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The quickly escalating costs of having a vehicle impounded usually mean poor Californians can’t afford to get their cars back. Including original tickets, accrued fines and charges for towing and impounding, it would now cost Sean Kayode more than $21,000 to get his car back. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yaroslavsky spent four decades in local government in Los Angeles, most of it on the county Board of Supervisors. He said he understands why cities hold onto their impound power with both hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a local elected official I was never concerned about the revenue stream we were getting out of the parking,” Yaroslavsky said. “It was motivated by getting turnover in the limited parking spaces we had available at curbside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, he said, there has to be a middle ground when towing cars from the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes absolutely no sense to take a homeless person's car, confiscating it, impounding it. If you take away their car, they’re going to be on the street. That’s not a benefit to society. Common sense has to be in play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the moment, though, the middle ground is hard to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless advocates say cities could make exceptions for extremely low-income citizens -- maybe let them hold onto the car, but pay off the tickets in installments.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689507/how-a-transportation-safety-net-could-keep-more-people-off-the-streets\">How a Transportation Safety Net Could Keep More People Off the Streets\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689507/how-a-transportation-safety-net-could-keep-more-people-off-the-streets\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/MetroGoldLine-1180x785.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some cities, including San Francisco, have a payment-plan program -- but nothing in place to return cars to the homeless or restrict impoundment of those cars in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal district court judge in San Francisco is expected to hear Kayode’s motion in September for a preliminary injunction to get his car back. A hearing on his lawsuit would be scheduled after a ruling on the injunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, if the preliminary injunction is granted and San Francisco has to return Kayode’s car, he will still technically owe that $21,000 in parking, towing and storage fees until the case is decided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kayode, who has been homeless for the past six years, looks back on the incident and its aftermath with a mixture of anger and despair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I have my car, I have my phone. That's all I need. I can earn money,” Kayode said. “But right now, they are holding my car hostage. What I want to know is, does taking my car from me help the city budget in one way or another? Is my car going to make them or break them?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stops a moment, looks around the crowded and chaotic lobby of the homeless shelter he now calls home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am back in the same hole,” Kayode said. “And I don't have any way to get out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>City leaders on Thursday announced that San Francisco Superior Court has forgiven $32.7 million in outstanding debt owed by people who have been in jail or on probation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors \u003ca href=\"mailto:https://www.kqed.org/news/11669840/a-severe-inability-to-pay-criminal-processing-fees-in-sf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passed legislation\u003c/a> to stop charging people local criminal justice fees related to probation, reports and booking fees. An \u003ca href=\"https://sftreasurer.org/publications-and-materials\">analysis\u003c/a> of these fees by the San Francisco Office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector found that collection rates were very low, in large part because individuals could not pay them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an extension of this policy, San Francisco’s public defender, district attorney, sheriff, chief probation officer and treasurer worked together to relieve more than 21,000 people of their outstanding court debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Salazar, 33, is one of those people. She said she got out of jail in March 2016 and spent a year in treatment for her addiction to prescription medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it has been a struggle to find work, to reconnect with her 7-year-old daughter and to prepare for the birth of her second child, who is due early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm just hanging on there,\" she said. \"I have a roof over my head, my kids have food. I have used clothes, but they're nice clothes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she said court fees have been a huge psychological and financial burden. But, she said, her latest bill dropped from around $3,000 to $700.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm like OK,” she said. “This is something I still have to stress over, but I can work with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar still owes around $700 in state-mandated fines and fees, but she said the elimination of nearly $2,300 in local administrative fees is a huge relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11688532\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11688532\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3239-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Salazar, 33, said it was a huge relief to have her court fee debt reduced as she gets back on her feet after serving time in jail.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3239-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3239-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3239-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3239-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3239-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3239-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3239-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3239-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3239-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3239-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Salazar, 33, said it was a huge relief to have her court fee debt reduced as she gets back on her feet after serving time in jail. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed said the city took this step to help people like Salazar get back on track. Administrative fees are supposed to help offset costs, not be punitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know some people do commit crimes, and there has to be consequences for that kind of behavior,” Breed said. “But at the end of the day, especially when someone has served their time and is paying their restitution, to add these layers of court fees is just not fair. That's not justice. And we can be better than that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector estimates that by eliminating these fees, San Francisco will lose about $1 million annually in revenue across multiple departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chief Adult Probation Officer Karen Fletcher said her office worked with the city to be able to continue to fund services for probationers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it's not simply about barrier removal,\" she said. \"But it really is about continuing the level of service that we've been providing to these folks to continue to support them as they're released.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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