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According to Birnbaum, the city has failed to do necessary maintenance work or invest in programming to keep the fountain and surrounding space a vibrant community hub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been involved in this site for a decade now, and it was clear the path that this was heading,” he told KQED. “The situation we find ourselves in is not an unexpected occurrence. It’s a predictable result of years of neglect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055239\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Vaillancourt Fountain in the Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco on Sept. 8, 2025. The 40-foot concrete fountain was designed by artist Armand Vaillancourt and installed in 1971. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The appeal to the Board of Supervisors, filed by modernist conservation nonprofit Docomomo and supported by Birnbaum’s organization, alleges that parks officials invoked the emergency exemption not to mitigate an imminent risk but to avoid the long and often cumbersome CEQA process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administrative record paints a clear picture: the [Recreation and Parks] Department decided to remove the Vaillancourt Fountain in late 2024 to make way for a pre-planned park renovation,” it reads. “Funding was secured for project management along with the explicitly declared strategy to use the removal of the fountain to “avoid an EIR [Environmental Impact Report].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the appeal, the Planning Department granted the emergency exemption in November, shortly after it determined that the Vaillancourt Fountain was eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, triggering CEQA protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a reason why these procedures are in place,” Birnbaum said. “There’s a reason why people go through a process to assess and evaluate the historic significance of a place, so we don’t make a knee-jerk reaction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some city officials and the Recreation and Parks Department, on the other hand, said that the space isn’t being used to its full potential and that the fountain hasn’t operated as it was designed to for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027567 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-17-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-17-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-17-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-17-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-17-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-17-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-17-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 3 Supervisor Danny Sauter speaks during a press conference in Union Square, San Francisco, on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a lot of folks who have fond memories of a fountain, but maybe they have memories that are connected to when the fountain was there with the Embarcadero Freeway or when the fountain was newer and working fully and in better shape,” said Supervisor Danny Sauter, who represents the area. “If you’ve lived in the neighborhood 10, 20, 30 years, you have that memory. I would say some of the newer residents frankly don’t have as much of a connection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, he said, it seems like the groups fighting for the fountain to be maintained are those with an interest in architectural history, not neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see that same passion and attachment to it from nearby residents, for example, and neighborhood groups in the Barbary Coast and then into the adjoining neighborhoods,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Board of Supervisors does not grant Docomomo’s request and allows the removal of the fountain to go forward, Recreation and Parks could begin disassembly as soon as February. The department said it plans to store the fountain’s pieces in a secure location, where it could further assess its damage and possible repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But arts commissioners, and fountain fans, are wary of any path to restoration. Goodwin estimated that the construction to return the fountain to working condition could cost at least $29 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My fear is that once it’s removed, it opens the door to never coming back,” Arts Commissioner Patrick Carney said at the November meeting. “If it is temporarily removed without a plan and funds in place beforehand to possibly restore it or move it, then its fate may be sealed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco could begin dismantling one of its most controversial public art pieces as soon as next month, unless the Board of Supervisors grants a request by supporters of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055275/this-fountain-looms-over-sfs-skateboarding-scene-a-growing-few-are-trying-to-save-it\">the Vaillancourt Fountain\u003c/a> to halt its emergency removal on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hulking concrete structure, built in 1971 in the shadow of the towering Embarcadero Freeway, has sustained major corrosion and degradation that makes it an imminent safety risk and exempts it from the full California Environmental Quality Act review process, according to the city. In November, the city’s Arts Commission gave the Recreation and Parks Department the go-ahead for an expedited removal of the fountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a coalition of art historians, landscape architects and skateboarders are down to perhaps their last chance to keep the fountain in place. They are asking supervisors to require the review process before disassembly can move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel that as a significant work of landscape architecture and art that is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, it should be subject to the California Environmental Quality Act,” said Charles Birnbaum, founder of the nonprofit Cultural Landscape Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a reason why people go through a process to assess and evaluate the historic significance of a place, so we don’t make a knee-jerk reaction. To me, this is no different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battle over the 710-ton jumble of blocky concrete tubes, which has been compared to the excrements of a robot dog and “dynamited debris,” comes amid a plan to transform Embarcadero Plaza and nearby Sue Bierman Park into a grassy waterfront park. In 2024, San Francisco’s parks department announced it would partner with real estate developer Boston Properties (BXP) and Downtown SF Partnership on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055237\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Vaillancourt Fountain in the Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco on Sept. 8, 2025. The 40-foot concrete fountain was designed by artist Armand Vaillancourt and installed in 1971. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City officials said at the time that the redevelopment would foster connectivity and community engagement, but Vaillancourt’s supporters worry that the current plans, which don’t include the fountain, abandon the history of the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fountain’s rushing waters initially served to drown out the sound of cars on the nearby Embarcadero Freeway. Though the freeway came down after it was destroyed in the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, and the fountain itself has run dry periodically over time, it served as the backdrop of numerous protests, a free outdoor U2 concert, and countless photos and videos by street skateboarders in the 1980s and ’90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has always been a destination for everything from happenings to public protests,” said Birnbaum, who called the fountain and brick-lined Embarcadero Plaza significant emblems of modernist architecture and San Francisco’s social and cultural history. “The fountain was the magnetic icon that invited engagement and participation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s been pushback since redevelopment plans were announced in 2024, but tensions have intensified in recent months after the city was granted its emergency exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act process.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In November, Recreation and Parks project manager Eoanna Goodwin told the city’s Arts Commission, which is made up of working art professionals appointed by the mayor and oversees the fountain, that one of the massive arms of the fountain had failed and was bearing weight it was not intended to support. The department put up fencing and mesh screening to prohibit access, she said, but that had been repeatedly breached and could be dangerous to residents and visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a sustainable, long-term solution,” Goodwin told the commission. “Disassembly and secure storage are the appropriate next steps and safe path forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An engineering firm contracted to assess the fountain last year \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c806e5734c4e2faa1db54c9/t/68a80fea9a2a9f2b6e2a55e2/1755844586236/20250602+Vaillancourt+Fountain+Conditions+Assessment+Final.pdf\">found widespread corrosion\u003c/a> of the structural steel and concrete, and the \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=15053519&GUID=B66F97F1-DCD9-4C7A-8B4D-55CBF170D2BA\">Planning Department wrote in October\u003c/a> that parts of the structure could be at risk of “progressive or localized collapse” under its own weight, environmental loading or seismic activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fountain’s supporters say that degradation isn’t new. According to Birnbaum, the city has failed to do necessary maintenance work or invest in programming to keep the fountain and surrounding space a vibrant community hub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been involved in this site for a decade now, and it was clear the path that this was heading,” he told KQED. “The situation we find ourselves in is not an unexpected occurrence. It’s a predictable result of years of neglect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055239\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Vaillancourt Fountain in the Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco on Sept. 8, 2025. The 40-foot concrete fountain was designed by artist Armand Vaillancourt and installed in 1971. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The appeal to the Board of Supervisors, filed by modernist conservation nonprofit Docomomo and supported by Birnbaum’s organization, alleges that parks officials invoked the emergency exemption not to mitigate an imminent risk but to avoid the long and often cumbersome CEQA process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administrative record paints a clear picture: the [Recreation and Parks] Department decided to remove the Vaillancourt Fountain in late 2024 to make way for a pre-planned park renovation,” it reads. “Funding was secured for project management along with the explicitly declared strategy to use the removal of the fountain to “avoid an EIR [Environmental Impact Report].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the appeal, the Planning Department granted the emergency exemption in November, shortly after it determined that the Vaillancourt Fountain was eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, triggering CEQA protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a reason why these procedures are in place,” Birnbaum said. “There’s a reason why people go through a process to assess and evaluate the historic significance of a place, so we don’t make a knee-jerk reaction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some city officials and the Recreation and Parks Department, on the other hand, said that the space isn’t being used to its full potential and that the fountain hasn’t operated as it was designed to for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027567 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-17-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-17-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-17-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-17-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-17-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-17-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-17-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 3 Supervisor Danny Sauter speaks during a press conference in Union Square, San Francisco, on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a lot of folks who have fond memories of a fountain, but maybe they have memories that are connected to when the fountain was there with the Embarcadero Freeway or when the fountain was newer and working fully and in better shape,” said Supervisor Danny Sauter, who represents the area. “If you’ve lived in the neighborhood 10, 20, 30 years, you have that memory. I would say some of the newer residents frankly don’t have as much of a connection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, he said, it seems like the groups fighting for the fountain to be maintained are those with an interest in architectural history, not neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see that same passion and attachment to it from nearby residents, for example, and neighborhood groups in the Barbary Coast and then into the adjoining neighborhoods,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Board of Supervisors does not grant Docomomo’s request and allows the removal of the fountain to go forward, Recreation and Parks could begin disassembly as soon as February. The department said it plans to store the fountain’s pieces in a secure location, where it could further assess its damage and possible repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But arts commissioners, and fountain fans, are wary of any path to restoration. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> is backing a proposed state law that would allow courts to authorize involuntary medication for people struggling with behavioral health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under current law, judges can order people to participate in assisted outpatient treatment, but they cannot require medication that officials said is “often essential” to stabilizing severe mental illness. This bill would allow courts to implement involuntary medication into an individual’s treatment plan “when clinically necessary,” and assign a psychiatrist to oversee case specifics like dosages and effectiveness over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, San Francisco Assemblymember Catherine Stefani — the bill’s author — and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman gathered with other local and state officials on the steps of City Hall on Monday to emphasize the need for additional care options for the city’s most vulnerable residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a situation where courts can mandate so-called treatment, but can’t actually mandate treatment like necessary medication that provides the relief that is desperately needed,” Stefani said. “The result is predictable: people fall off their care plans, they deteriorate, they cycle again through our emergency rooms, psychiatric holds, jails and back out onto the street. This is not compassion, it’s failure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program marks the latest in the city’s recent efforts to curb a visible behavioral health crisis. Lurie last week announced the launch of the Rapid Enforcement, Support, Evaluation, and Triage Center — which offers an alternative to jail or hospitalization for individuals arrested for public intoxication. Last year, the mayor’s office consolidated the city’s 10 street outreach teams and opened a drop-in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038376/tenderloin-welcomes-mental-health-clinic-demands-broader-city-action-on-homelessness\">mental health stabilization center\u003c/a> at 822 Geary Street in the Tenderloin as part of the city’s 2025 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031581/first-look-sf-mayor-luries-yearlong-plan-homelessness-response\">Breaking the Cycle plan.\u003c/a>[aside postID=news_12068599 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251230-SFSocialWorker-19-BL.jpg']“Too many people in San Francisco are falling into crisis when intervention could — and should — come sooner. At the center of this effort is a simple reality: Stability is the gateway to recovery,” Lurie said. “For many people with severe mental illness, medication is what allows treatment to work at all. Without it, housing placements fail, care plans break down, and crises repeat themselves — often with greater harm each time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Involuntary commitments and forced treatment of mental health in California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11944448/a-war-of-compassion-debate-over-forced-treatment-of-mental-illness-splits-california-liberals\">have long been controversial.\u003c/a> And past attempts by the city to place those struggling with mental health issues into involuntary medical treatment have been called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/modest-gains-effort-force-mentally-ill-treatment-20394450.php\">disappointing\u003c/a>” by city leaders — in part due to a shortage of facilities that can specifically address the combination of mental illness and addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials are hopeful that this addition of medication authorization will provide care to individuals who may not need a full conservatorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We certainly do not have the beds or the staffing capacity to provide full-blown conservatorships for all of those people,” Mandelman said. “So, this is a less-intrusive intervention to get medical care through assisted outpatient treatment to people who could benefit [from] it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco residents are furious with Pacific Gas & Electric after nearly one third of the city was hit by a series of power outages over the holiday season. This public outrage has also revived calls for the city — or even the state — to take over the investor-owned utility.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC9963352964&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:00] I’m Alan Montecillo, in for Erika Cruz Guevara, and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. A few weeks ago during the holiday season, San Francisco was hit with a series of power outages. Businesses lost customers during the busiest weekend of the year, restaurants had to throw out food, and some people didn’t get their power back for days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Susan Molthen \u003c/strong>[00:00:27] It’s terrible, I have a restaurant and I had a party of over 15-16 people last night and I had to call them all to cancel. This is my livelihood and I can’t, I can’ open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Desi Valdez \u003c/strong>[00:00:40] Haven’t been able to do anything I needed to do. So I’ve just been sitting around in the dark, trying to find motivation, but it’s hard when there’s nothing to turn on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:51] San Francisco residents, especially on the city’s west side, are furious with PG&E. And all this chaos has some people wondering whether it’s time for the city to go even further and take over the investor-owned utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Wiener \u003c/strong>[00:01:07] It’s time for us to move forward, for San Francisco to be able to break away from PG&E to form our own public utility. We’ve got to get this done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:01:17] Today, what it would take for San Francisco to break up with PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:01:26] On December 20th, there was a fire at a substation, like a power substation PG&E in Soma, Mission and Eighth Streets, which led to power outages for roughly a third of San Francisco customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:01:42] Laura Klivans is a climate reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:01:47] The neighborhoods that were most affected were Richmond, sort of the west side, Presidio, parts of the sunset. We even saw some of the Fillmore, some of Hayes Valley, some parts of downtown. For different people, it lasted for different time periods. So if you talk to somebody in the Richmond, they really got it the worst. They got it for sustained periods of time, some up to two or three days, and then multiple outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:02:15] I remember that first one that lasted for some residents 48 hours maybe, and there were several more after that, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:02:23] Yeah, there were several others after that, not lasting as long. PG&E attempted to fix and restore power. They put in these diesel generators in the Richmond district, which were extremely loud and residents didn’t like those either. And then the impacts on people were significant. A lot of people lost the stuff in their fridge. There was all sorts of regular nuisances. And for businesses too, it was a holiday week, a lot of people were going out to restaurants and stuff and they were losing all their produce or fish or whatever it might be. PG&E has offered to give people money for this stuff, 200 bucks for residents on your credit on your next bill and 2,500 for businesses and you could apply for even more. But for some people, it’s more than just like a nuisance and an inconvenience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kai Spencer-Martin \u003c/strong>[00:03:15] I’m in a wheelchair. I’m gonna power wheelchair. I wouldn’t be able to charge my chair. I wouldn’t be able get out of my building or into my building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:03:24] I talked to San Francisco residents, including Kai Spencer Martin, about this latest power loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kai Spencer-Martin \u003c/strong>[00:03:29] If the power went out, I wouldn’t be able to go out and buy new groceries because my groceries went bad. We’d go hungry. My family. And it’s not just me. It’s me, my husband, my teenage son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:03:40] Luckily, she said the lights all around her building went out and hers didn’t. And she found out later that they have a backup generator in her building. So she was really lucky. But she’s an example of like how it’s more than just an inconvenience, right? Like it’s just more than eating a weird meal and trying to keep your fridge closed. She also has medications that need to be refrigerated, uses a nebulizer for asthma, and her husband uses a CPAP machine for sleeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kai Spencer-Martin \u003c/strong>[00:04:08] I have other friends that have disabilities that live in some of the downtown SROs that were out of power, um, for days, some of them just went hungry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:25] How much anger were you seeing, and are still seeing, as a result of this power outage and the ones that came after?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:04:34] Yeah, I mean, I think many people are familiar with how people already feel about PG&E. And if you look at like any Reddit forum about this power outage, it’s just like full of livid people, understandably, and people saying, how is this our one choice? People are upset for how much they’re paying for this power that isn’t very reliable. And all of this anger has led for calls for the city to take over PG&e.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Wiener \u003c/strong>[00:05:07] PG&E is too large. It’s not adequately maintaining its infrastructure as we saw this weekend yet again with the substation that caught on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:05:17] State Senator Scott Wiener, he has just recently in the last few days introduced legislation that would make it easier for cities to break away from PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Wiener \u003c/strong>[00:05:29] When giant corporations put profits over the public interest, it is time for us to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:05:36] And then we have other local officials supporting it, like San Francisco Supervisor Matt Dorsey. Why is that the solution that many people are thinking about now? Because PG&E is an investor-owned utility, which means it is motivated by profit in part, because they have investors and they need to offer them a return to make it worth them investing in the company. If PG&e were public, it would not have that motivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:03] Is the idea that a takeover would lead to cheaper and better?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:06:11] That’s the idea, yeah. So if you look at some other examples, there are some places that have public power and they are paying way lower rates than people who have PG&E. And also, by having local control, you have more control of the grid that’s in front of you and the priorities in your smaller area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:33] So how does this happen exactly? Can San Francisco just make PG&E an offer? I mean, is PG&e even for sale in San Francisco or anywhere?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:06:42] PG&E is not for sale, and they are not interested in selling all their infrastructure in San Francisco, but through a process called eminent domain, it could be possible. And what this would mean would be that San Francisco, it’s within their purview to take private property for public use as long as it pays fair compensation. So it would mean buying the part of the grid that PG&E owns and also paying for the cost of separating that out. We would need to have regulators involved. The California Public Utilities Commission would be involved. This would likely involve a variety of lawsuits because PG&E isn’t interested in this, we’d also need some sort of environmental review. If this all happened and the city and county of San Francisco was able to take over all of these poles and wires that currently belong to PG&E, then you need to staff the organization and run the organization. And I don’t know, who knows how to do that? Former PG&e workers. Maybe you find a whole bunch of new people. There’s just a lot that goes into this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:05] When Sacramento took over its utility and lessons for the rest of us. That’s coming up after the break. Are there examples of other California cities doing this that we can point to? That would be instructive here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:08:30] So, in 1923, Sacramento residents were really fed up with PG&E. They were fed up high rates and poor service, does that sound familiar? So they voted overwhelmingly, 87%, to establish what is called SMUD, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, which is a public utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mohit Chhabra \u003c/strong>[00:08:53] In 1923, Sacramento residents voted to establish SMUD, and voters finally approved a $12 million bond to do that in 1934.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:09:05] So I spoke to Mohit Chhabra. He’s an analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council. He focuses on energy and economics and climate about how this played out in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mohit Chhabra \u003c/strong>[00:09:16] And then it took them 23 years after that to start serving customers as SMUD. Because there were legal battles. PG&E challenged Sacramento’s eminent domain claim in state and federal courts. And you have to figure out exactly how much you need to pay to buy them out and so on. And it took 23 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:09:40] There were operational challenges. SMUD inherited aging infrastructure, poorly maintained infrastructure. They had trouble recruiting workers. They actually had their prices increase around the 70s and 80s. And then now, here we are today, and SMUD is actually doing very well. Their prices are way cheaper than PG&E’s. People seem more happy with it, but it’s taken quite some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mohit Chhabra \u003c/strong>[00:10:12] Are the gains from owning the utility public, worth the amount of money, time and effort that San Francisco would spend to buy out a section of PG&E and start running its own public utility? That’s the key question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:10:38] I mean, I can’t imagine if you’re PG&E right now and you’re seeing all of this anger towards you and you are seeing talk of taking over, buying out your infrastructure in San Francisco. I can imagine they’re thrilled about the idea of this. What has PG&e said about this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:10:55] Right. So I reached out to PG&E. They provided me with a statement. You know, they don’t intend to give away or sell their infrastructure in San Francisco. They want to continue to serve San Francisco They also bring up that San Francisco offered to buy PG&Es electric grid in San Francisco in 2019. But that is still in process. And they have said that San Francisco has failed to sort of provide a bunch of things that. Are needed to move forward with that process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:11:28] So we’ve established that taking over PG&E would be very expensive. It would take a lot of time. Um, but if San Francisco was able to do this, what could that mean for the rest of the state?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:11:41] There could be a lot of impacts on our neighbors. So for one, if San Francisco opts out of PG&E, prices for the rest of Californians will likely increase. And that’s because some of the more expensive parts of the system and what we’re spending on right now is protecting against wildfires, paying for past wildfires protecting against future ones. And those areas that we need to work on are in more fire prone areas, that’s not San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mohit Chhabra \u003c/strong>[00:12:12] Someone needs to pay for the shared part of the grid. 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PG&E has offered to give people money for this stuff, 200 bucks for residents on your credit on your next bill and 2,500 for businesses and you could apply for even more. But for some people, it’s more than just like a nuisance and an inconvenience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kai Spencer-Martin \u003c/strong>[00:03:15] I’m in a wheelchair. I’m gonna power wheelchair. I wouldn’t be able to charge my chair. I wouldn’t be able get out of my building or into my building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:03:24] I talked to San Francisco residents, including Kai Spencer Martin, about this latest power loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kai Spencer-Martin \u003c/strong>[00:03:29] If the power went out, I wouldn’t be able to go out and buy new groceries because my groceries went bad. We’d go hungry. My family. And it’s not just me. It’s me, my husband, my teenage son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:03:40] Luckily, she said the lights all around her building went out and hers didn’t. And she found out later that they have a backup generator in her building. So she was really lucky. But she’s an example of like how it’s more than just an inconvenience, right? Like it’s just more than eating a weird meal and trying to keep your fridge closed. 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And all of this anger has led for calls for the city to take over PG&e.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Wiener \u003c/strong>[00:05:07] PG&E is too large. It’s not adequately maintaining its infrastructure as we saw this weekend yet again with the substation that caught on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:05:17] State Senator Scott Wiener, he has just recently in the last few days introduced legislation that would make it easier for cities to break away from PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Wiener \u003c/strong>[00:05:29] When giant corporations put profits over the public interest, it is time for us to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:05:36] And then we have other local officials supporting it, like San Francisco Supervisor Matt Dorsey. Why is that the solution that many people are thinking about now? 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If this all happened and the city and county of San Francisco was able to take over all of these poles and wires that currently belong to PG&E, then you need to staff the organization and run the organization. And I don’t know, who knows how to do that? Former PG&e workers. Maybe you find a whole bunch of new people. There’s just a lot that goes into this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:05] When Sacramento took over its utility and lessons for the rest of us. That’s coming up after the break. Are there examples of other California cities doing this that we can point to? That would be instructive here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:08:30] So, in 1923, Sacramento residents were really fed up with PG&E. They were fed up high rates and poor service, does that sound familiar? So they voted overwhelmingly, 87%, to establish what is called SMUD, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, which is a public utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mohit Chhabra \u003c/strong>[00:08:53] In 1923, Sacramento residents voted to establish SMUD, and voters finally approved a $12 million bond to do that in 1934.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:09:05] So I spoke to Mohit Chhabra. He’s an analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council. He focuses on energy and economics and climate about how this played out in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mohit Chhabra \u003c/strong>[00:09:16] And then it took them 23 years after that to start serving customers as SMUD. Because there were legal battles. PG&E challenged Sacramento’s eminent domain claim in state and federal courts. And you have to figure out exactly how much you need to pay to buy them out and so on. 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No prison staff was present in the meetings, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the tour, [the warden and other prison officials] were showing us they were going by the book, and they took standards really seriously,” he said. “Then when we met the detainees, I was just floored.”[aside postID=news_12068663 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260105-VenezuelaCalifornia-06-BL_qed.jpg']Khanna said he spoke with a man who said he had blood in his urine and was still waiting for medical care after seven days. He said people described rocks in their food, undrinkable water, punishing lockdowns four times a day and no-contact visits with family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really dehumanizing, and many of them were in tears,” he said. “Some of them had been in this country for over a decade, paying taxes, and they’re just shocked that they had been sent to this facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna said he was particularly alarmed by the lack of medical care. On the day he visited, he said, he saw only one doctor handling a clinic waiting room filled with roughly 40 patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CoreCivic, the company that owns and operates the facility, said the safety and health of people in its custody is its top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility employs licensed health care providers, who “[take] seriously their role and responsibility to provide high-quality healthcare, available 24/7, to the individuals in our care,” said CoreCivic public affairs director Ryan Gustin, in a statement emailed to KQED. “Our health services teams follow both CoreCivic’s standards for medical care and the standards set forth by our government partners. 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The group found that conditions at the detention center were dangerous for disabled people and that health care access was broadly lacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, immigrant rights organizations filed a lawsuit alleging that CoreCivic began operating the ICE facility without first obtaining state and local permits. Then, in November, detainees at the facility\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/11/ice-california-city-detainee-lawsuit/\"> sued\u003c/a>, alleging the place is polluted by sewage leaks and insect infestations, and that detainees can’t get proper medical attention for life-threatening conditions.[aside postID=news_12069104 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty.jpg']Last month, the California Attorney General’s office sent out its own inspection team, as mandated under state law, and then \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-warns-dangerous-conditions-california-city-detention\">issued \u003c/a>a sharply worded letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, calling out “dangerous and inadequate living conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta said the facility had “opened prematurely and was not prepared to handle the needs of the incoming population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE’s $130 million two-year contract with CoreCivic for the California City facility — formerly used as a state prison but vacant since 2023 — was enabled by Congress’s passage last summer of a budget bill that included $170 billion for President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement priorities — including $45 billion specifically for detention facilities. Analysts estimate the money could allow for as many as 116,000 detention beds. By comparison, ICE held about 39,000 people in the final days of the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna said he decided to see the inside of the facility for himself after residents in his Santa Clara County district expressed concern for loved ones who were held there. The lawmaker said he wants more of Congress to visit detention centers and hold ICE accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think more members need to go in,” he said. “Get access to these facilities and talk to the detainees. And then we need to tell their stories. That’s our job in oversight. I did it because my constituents faced it, and I’m really glad I did and horrified to see what I discovered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The state’s attorney general’s office would enforce the provisions, and independent annual safety audits would provide accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s in it for OpenAI?\u003c/strong> Chris Lehane, chief global affairs officer for the San Francisco-based AI developer, said there’s great appeal for the company to partner with Common Sense Media, because it has credibility with voters, lawmakers and parents. “How you build this trust is incredibly important for the societal license to be able to operate,” Lehane said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069332\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12069332 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/phones-at-school-getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/phones-at-school-getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/phones-at-school-getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/phones-at-school-getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In September 2024, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Phone‑Free Schools Act (AB 3216), which requires every school district, charter school and county education office to adopt policies by July 1, 2026, that limit or prohibit the use of smartphones by students while on campus or under school supervision.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not mentioned: the company is facing several \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063401/openai-faces-legal-storm-over-claims-its-ai-drove-users-to-suicide-delusions\">lawsuits\u003c/a> from plaintiffs claiming ChatGPT brought on mental delusions and, in four cases, drove people to suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s in it for Common Sense Media?\u003c/strong> Jim Steyer, the advocacy group’s founder and CEO, said their polling shows overwhelming numbers of California voters, regardless of their party, support stronger AI protections for kids, teens and families. “This is so core to the long-term future of this industry that there are the right kind of protections, and that the public trusts these platforms and the big frontier labs,” Steyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m pleased to see a leading child safety organization and a large tech company joining forces on this critical safety issue affecting our children,” wrote Asm. 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Steve Padilla, D-San Diego, who authored SB 243, an AI chatbot safety bill that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058013/newsom-signs-california-ai-transparency-bill-tailored-to-meet-tech-industry-tastes\">did get the governor’s signature\u003c/a> last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla, however, disagrees with the proposal to put the law into the state constitution, warning that it would create an unnecessarily high bar to revise and update that law in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about opting to promote a ballot measure, Steyer argued he’s interested in whatever strategy or combination of strategies gets child safety regulations on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last year alone, Common Sense Media has sponsored or supported a variety of bills aimed at protecting children online, including social media warning labels and an age verification mandate. “At this pivotal moment for AI, we cannot make the same mistake that we did with social media,” Steyer said, criticizing Silicon Valley companies that have been using children as guinea pigs, and “fueled a youth mental health crisis here in California, and quite frankly, across the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lehane predictably used more measured terms. “We do believe AI is an empowerment tool. It helps people solve really hard problems,” he began, finishing with “Part and parcel of that is making sure parents have the control and are empowered to exercise control in terms of how their kids use it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative’s backers still need to gather signatures to qualify it for the California ballot this November, an effort that Lehane said is likely to begin next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Local rapid response networks are reporting an increased interest in volunteer training after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/immigration\">Immigration\u003c/a> and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a Minneapolis woman on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within 48 hours of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good, 37, officials with the North Bay Rapid Response Network said 30 individuals reached out to request legal observer training — the biggest surge they’ve seen since the last presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local and Minnesota state leaders said Good was on the scene as a legal observer or a volunteer who monitors law enforcement operations during intensifying protests against ICE enforcement in Minneapolis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel Ibarra, a co-director of the Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership, which serves as Alameda’s rapid response network, said the East Bay organization has similarly received a flood of messages expressing interest in volunteer training. The networks provide resources for immigrant communities, including confirming immigration enforcement activity in real time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That just speaks to the resilience of our communities and how willing they are to put themselves out there to support and be allies,” Ibarra said. “We are already updating our trainings to include stronger guidance on situational awareness, legal observation, de-escalation and how volunteers can protect one another when they’re out in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engels Garcia, a steering committee member for the Rapid Response Network in Santa Clara, said the network is also updating its training and procedures, adding that the group is committed to continuing its work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069305\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1433\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty2-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty2-1536x1101.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters take part in a vigil for Renee Nicole Good at Fruitvale Plaza in Oakland, California, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know that this is intimidation not only to our legal observers and to the Rapid Response Network, but to the community in general, and we’re not going to be intimidated,” Garcia said. “Regardless of what transpired, no one should lose their life from recording ICE activity in our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibarra said Alameda’s rapid response network is also hearing from current volunteers in response to the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what we do, this is our bread and butter,” Ibarra said. “The fact that now, you need to take this extra level of precaution to make sure that folks are being not just effective but safe in the face of federal law enforcement is something that, you know, we didn’t expect originally, but we are in that sad reality now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within 36 hours of the high-profile killing, local advocates held a handful of marches and vigils across the Bay Area — and organizers said more are coming this weekend.[aside postID=news_11821950 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64575_022_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1020x680.jpg']Demonstrations are already planned for Saturday in several cities, including Dublin, Livermore, Concord and San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The night of the shooting, a group gathered outside of ICE offices in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw what was happening in Minneapolis, and we said we couldn’t wait another day to actually get our voices out there and the community’s voices out there,” Adam Sheehan, an event producer with Indivisible SF, a group behind last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060511/massive-no-kings-crowds-return-to-bay-area-streets-rebuking-trump\">No Kings protest\u003c/a>, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indivisible SF is also organizing a protest on Saturday, with other Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.mobilize.us/?tag_ids=29132\">chapters\u003c/a> holding their own demonstrations and vigils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheehan criticized the federal response to the shooting, citing comments made by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who initially described Good’s actions in the moments leading up to her death as domestic terrorism. Noem also accused Good of attempting to weaponize her vehicle against agents on the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Noem] came out in the cowboy hat and said it was domestic terrorism, trying to run over an officer, and then the footage came out and didn’t speak to that at all,” Sheehan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference on Wednesday after the shooting, Noem said immigration officers were “carrying out lawful operations” in Minneapolis, and protesters gathered around an ICE vehicle that was stuck in the snow that morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12069309 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks at a news conference on Jan. 7, 2026, in Brownsville, Texas. Secretary Noem announced that the federal government would be deploying 500 miles of water barriers in the Rio Grande River. \u003ccite>(Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Law enforcement were attempting to push out this vehicle … when a mob of agitators that were harassing them all day began blocking them in, shouting and impeding law enforcement operations,” Noem said, referring to Good’s vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html\">Footage\u003c/a> from multiple angles sourced by the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> shows Good in a car nearby as officers begin advancing towards her maroon SUV. Good, the driver, appeared to try to turn right to leave the scene, but can first be seen appearing to wave the cars by, indicating for them to pass in front of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when she was approached by immigration officers and ordered to exit the vehicle. Footage shows Good back the car up, then turn as if to evade the officers. As she began to pull forward, one officer fired three shots into the vehicle, shooting Good in the head. The FBI is currently investigating the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day later, Customs and Border Patrol agents also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kgou.org/2026-01-09/border-patrol-shooting-in-portland-raises-questions-about-law-enforcement-training\">shot and wounded two people\u003c/a> in Portland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a completely unconscionable and lawless act — the murder of an innocent woman who was doing nothing illegal, simply legally observing ICE actions in Minneapolis,” Sanika Mahajan, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, one of the groups behind another San Francisco demonstration the night of Good’s death, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rev. Deborah Lee is the co-executive director of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, a group that has organized recent protests against ICE actions and holds vigils outside of San Francisco ICE offices multiple times per week. Lee said the news of Good’s death was devastating and noted that it’s not the first time ICE has employed violence against people observing or protesting immigration enforcement activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069308\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1341\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3-1536x1030.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters take part in a vigil for Renee Nicole Good at Fruitvale Plaza Park in Oakland, California, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even here in Oakland, right? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel Ibarra, a co-director of the Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership, which serves as Alameda’s rapid response network, said the East Bay organization has similarly received a flood of messages expressing interest in volunteer training. The networks provide resources for immigrant communities, including confirming immigration enforcement activity in real time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That just speaks to the resilience of our communities and how willing they are to put themselves out there to support and be allies,” Ibarra said. “We are already updating our trainings to include stronger guidance on situational awareness, legal observation, de-escalation and how volunteers can protect one another when they’re out in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engels Garcia, a steering committee member for the Rapid Response Network in Santa Clara, said the network is also updating its training and procedures, adding that the group is committed to continuing its work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069305\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1433\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty2-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty2-1536x1101.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters take part in a vigil for Renee Nicole Good at Fruitvale Plaza in Oakland, California, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know that this is intimidation not only to our legal observers and to the Rapid Response Network, but to the community in general, and we’re not going to be intimidated,” Garcia said. “Regardless of what transpired, no one should lose their life from recording ICE activity in our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibarra said Alameda’s rapid response network is also hearing from current volunteers in response to the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what we do, this is our bread and butter,” Ibarra said. “The fact that now, you need to take this extra level of precaution to make sure that folks are being not just effective but safe in the face of federal law enforcement is something that, you know, we didn’t expect originally, but we are in that sad reality now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within 36 hours of the high-profile killing, local advocates held a handful of marches and vigils across the Bay Area — and organizers said more are coming this weekend.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Demonstrations are already planned for Saturday in several cities, including Dublin, Livermore, Concord and San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The night of the shooting, a group gathered outside of ICE offices in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw what was happening in Minneapolis, and we said we couldn’t wait another day to actually get our voices out there and the community’s voices out there,” Adam Sheehan, an event producer with Indivisible SF, a group behind last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060511/massive-no-kings-crowds-return-to-bay-area-streets-rebuking-trump\">No Kings protest\u003c/a>, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indivisible SF is also organizing a protest on Saturday, with other Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.mobilize.us/?tag_ids=29132\">chapters\u003c/a> holding their own demonstrations and vigils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheehan criticized the federal response to the shooting, citing comments made by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who initially described Good’s actions in the moments leading up to her death as domestic terrorism. Noem also accused Good of attempting to weaponize her vehicle against agents on the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Noem] came out in the cowboy hat and said it was domestic terrorism, trying to run over an officer, and then the footage came out and didn’t speak to that at all,” Sheehan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference on Wednesday after the shooting, Noem said immigration officers were “carrying out lawful operations” in Minneapolis, and protesters gathered around an ICE vehicle that was stuck in the snow that morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12069309 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks at a news conference on Jan. 7, 2026, in Brownsville, Texas. Secretary Noem announced that the federal government would be deploying 500 miles of water barriers in the Rio Grande River. \u003ccite>(Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Law enforcement were attempting to push out this vehicle … when a mob of agitators that were harassing them all day began blocking them in, shouting and impeding law enforcement operations,” Noem said, referring to Good’s vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html\">Footage\u003c/a> from multiple angles sourced by the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> shows Good in a car nearby as officers begin advancing towards her maroon SUV. Good, the driver, appeared to try to turn right to leave the scene, but can first be seen appearing to wave the cars by, indicating for them to pass in front of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when she was approached by immigration officers and ordered to exit the vehicle. Footage shows Good back the car up, then turn as if to evade the officers. As she began to pull forward, one officer fired three shots into the vehicle, shooting Good in the head. The FBI is currently investigating the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day later, Customs and Border Patrol agents also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kgou.org/2026-01-09/border-patrol-shooting-in-portland-raises-questions-about-law-enforcement-training\">shot and wounded two people\u003c/a> in Portland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a completely unconscionable and lawless act — the murder of an innocent woman who was doing nothing illegal, simply legally observing ICE actions in Minneapolis,” Sanika Mahajan, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, one of the groups behind another San Francisco demonstration the night of Good’s death, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rev. Deborah Lee is the co-executive director of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, a group that has organized recent protests against ICE actions and holds vigils outside of San Francisco ICE offices multiple times per week. Lee said the news of Good’s death was devastating and noted that it’s not the first time ICE has employed violence against people observing or protesting immigration enforcement activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069308\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1341\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3-1536x1030.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters take part in a vigil for Renee Nicole Good at Fruitvale Plaza Park in Oakland, California, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even here in Oakland, right? They shot a pepper ball right into the face of one of our faith colleagues,” Lee said, referring to an October protest against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061545/bay-area-spared-from-federal-immigration-enforcement-surge-officials-say\">potential ICE-enforcement escalation\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, where a federal agent shot \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061191/activists-federal-agents-clash-at-coast-guard-base-during-immigration-crackdown\">San Mateo pastor Jorge Bautista\u003c/a> in the face with some kind of pepper powder \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/10/23/live-report-cbp-staging-area-coast-guard-island-oakland-alameda/\">at point-blank range.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said this moment is also an opportunity to remember other deaths resulting from ICE actions, like Jaime Alanís, a farmworker in Ventura who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047860/california-farmworker-dies-after-falling-from-greenhouse-roof-during-ice-raid\">fell off a greenhouse roof \u003c/a>during an ICE raid in July and died of his injuries a day later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2025 was also the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5538090/ice-detention-custody-immigration-arrest-enforcement-dhs-trump\">deadliest\u003c/a> year for people in ICE custody in more than 20 years. A total of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline\">32 people\u003c/a> died in ICE custody last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Limei Chen, an activist with the interfaith movement, regularly participates in those vigils. Last month, Chen, Lee and dozens of others were handcuffed and cited after they chained themselves to the doors of those offices to demand an end to ICE detentions of people showing up for court hearings or mandated check-ins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our main goal is to let the folks there who are there for their ICE check-ins know that they are not alone. We are there. 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"content": "\u003cp>Plaintiffs representing small businesses and neighborhood groups filed a lawsuit on Friday morning challenging Mayor Daniel Lurie’s controversial “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065204/everything-you-need-to-know-about-san-franciscos-family-zoning-plan\">Family Zoning Plan\u003c/a>,” which allows for taller and more dense housing in large swaths of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The litigation comes after months of debate and input on the plan, which aims to make it easier to build housing as the city faces a state mandate to add tens of thousands of new homes by 2031. Filed by members of Neighborhoods United San Francisco and Small Business Forward, a progressive business coalition, the lawsuit seeks to pause implementation of the rezoning plan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065204/everything-you-need-to-know-about-san-franciscos-family-zoning-plan\">that the city passed in December\u003c/a> and is set to take effect Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot claim to support families and affordability while advancing a rezoning that encourages displacement, strains infrastructure, and offers no clear path to housing people can afford,” Katherine Petrin, co-founder of Neighborhoods United, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California required San Francisco to adopt an updated zoning plan by Jan. 31 to make way for 82,000 housing units in the next five years. Some 43,000 units that the city has already approved, but that have yet to be developed, are included in the tally of total units. The city’s plan aims to create capacity for at least 36,000 units for various income levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s office, planning department and other agencies held numerous public meetings, workshops and feedback sessions on the plan leading up to its final vote in December. Some changes were included in the plan, including an amendment to remove any building with three or more rent-controlled units from demolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044983\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie, alongside members of the team behind a new housing project, during a groundbreaking ceremony in San Francisco on June 18, 2025. The event marked the start of two affordable housing developments — one with 75 units prioritized for SFUSD and City College educators, and another that will add 92 family apartments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Critics of the zoning plan said it didn’t go far enough to protect tenants and businesses that could be displaced as a result of development or increasing rental prices. The lawsuit also alleges that the city did not conduct a proper review under the California Environmental Quality Act before passing the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather than prepare a CEQA document to analyze the 2025 upzone’s impacts and to consider reasonable alternatives and mitigation measures, the city instead bypassed CEQA review and relied on the addendum to the environmental impact report prepared in 2022 for the Housing Element of the City’s General Plan,” the complaint said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rezoning plan is also required under the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/project/housing-element-update-2022\">Housing Element\u003c/a>, a set of policies aimed at guiding where and how the city’s future housing should be built. 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One will deliver 75 units prioritized for SFUSD and City College educators, and the other at 850 Turk will add 92 family apartments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit filed on Friday may not be the only legal challenge that Lurie’s rezoning plan faces. Pro-housing development advocacy groups such as YIMBY Law, the legal arm of Yes In My Backyard, have also suggested that they could file a lawsuit if the city doesn’t do enough to produce more housing in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We passed that Housing Element and it passed unanimously. So if we’re not just not meeting the spirit but not meeting the letter of the law, then we want to make sure we are holding San Francisco compliant,” said Jane Natoli, Bay Area Director of YIMBY Action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estimates for how much housing might actually result from the zoning changes have been mixed. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Plaintiffs representing small businesses and neighborhood groups filed a lawsuit on Friday morning challenging Mayor Daniel Lurie’s controversial “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065204/everything-you-need-to-know-about-san-franciscos-family-zoning-plan\">Family Zoning Plan\u003c/a>,” which allows for taller and more dense housing in large swaths of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The litigation comes after months of debate and input on the plan, which aims to make it easier to build housing as the city faces a state mandate to add tens of thousands of new homes by 2031. Filed by members of Neighborhoods United San Francisco and Small Business Forward, a progressive business coalition, the lawsuit seeks to pause implementation of the rezoning plan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065204/everything-you-need-to-know-about-san-franciscos-family-zoning-plan\">that the city passed in December\u003c/a> and is set to take effect Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot claim to support families and affordability while advancing a rezoning that encourages displacement, strains infrastructure, and offers no clear path to housing people can afford,” Katherine Petrin, co-founder of Neighborhoods United, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California required San Francisco to adopt an updated zoning plan by Jan. 31 to make way for 82,000 housing units in the next five years. Some 43,000 units that the city has already approved, but that have yet to be developed, are included in the tally of total units. The city’s plan aims to create capacity for at least 36,000 units for various income levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s office, planning department and other agencies held numerous public meetings, workshops and feedback sessions on the plan leading up to its final vote in December. Some changes were included in the plan, including an amendment to remove any building with three or more rent-controlled units from demolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044983\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie, alongside members of the team behind a new housing project, during a groundbreaking ceremony in San Francisco on June 18, 2025. The event marked the start of two affordable housing developments — one with 75 units prioritized for SFUSD and City College educators, and another that will add 92 family apartments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Critics of the zoning plan said it didn’t go far enough to protect tenants and businesses that could be displaced as a result of development or increasing rental prices. The lawsuit also alleges that the city did not conduct a proper review under the California Environmental Quality Act before passing the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather than prepare a CEQA document to analyze the 2025 upzone’s impacts and to consider reasonable alternatives and mitigation measures, the city instead bypassed CEQA review and relied on the addendum to the environmental impact report prepared in 2022 for the Housing Element of the City’s General Plan,” the complaint said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rezoning plan is also required under the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/project/housing-element-update-2022\">Housing Element\u003c/a>, a set of policies aimed at guiding where and how the city’s future housing should be built. Plaintiffs in the lawsuit also allege that the mayor’s plan does not fully comply with the Housing Element, saying the new rezoning rules allow for more dramatic redevelopment than what was approved in the city’s housing plan passed in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor’s plan left in thousands of rent-controlled housing units. A lot of our small business employees live in these,” said Christin Evans, who owns The Booksmith in Haight-Ashbury.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The concern from Small Business Forward is that we get this housing plan right, that we make sure that we are taking care of not displacing small business workers from the city, that we are protecting small business workers, not just their jobs and livelihoods, but also the housing that they live in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials defended the mayor’s housing plan on Friday, saying it underwent a thorough review before approval by state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Family Zoning Plan is the product of years of study, outreach and hearings. The city took deliberate obligations under state law, including CEQA. We are comforted that the California Department of Housing and Community Development reviewed the Family Zoning Plan and felt it complied with state law,” said Jen Kwart, a spokesperson for the city attorney. “We will review any lawsuit once we are served and will have more to say in court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from the mayor’s office underscored that the city needs to build more housing to meet state requirements and keep up with increasing demand for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State housing authorities could have withheld critical public funding and taken over local housing plans and approvals if San Francisco failed to pass a housing plan by the end of this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More and more, families are struggling to live in San Francisco, and the Family Zoning Plan will help us build the affordable homes they need to stay here,” said Charles Lutvak, a spokesperson for the mayor’s office. “The status quo isn’t working for families in this city, and we’re not going to wait around for someone else to do something about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068866\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/250618-NewTeacherHousing-18-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/250618-NewTeacherHousing-18-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/250618-NewTeacherHousing-18-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/250618-NewTeacherHousing-18-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers build at 750 Golden Gate Ave., in San Francisco, on June 18, 2025, during a groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of two affordable housing projects. One will deliver 75 units prioritized for SFUSD and City College educators, and the other at 850 Turk will add 92 family apartments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit filed on Friday may not be the only legal challenge that Lurie’s rezoning plan faces. Pro-housing development advocacy groups such as YIMBY Law, the legal arm of Yes In My Backyard, have also suggested that they could file a lawsuit if the city doesn’t do enough to produce more housing in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We passed that Housing Element and it passed unanimously. So if we’re not just not meeting the spirit but not meeting the letter of the law, then we want to make sure we are holding San Francisco compliant,” said Jane Natoli, Bay Area Director of YIMBY Action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estimates for how much housing might actually result from the zoning changes have been mixed. 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"content": "\u003cp>For more than 20 years, Hugh Leeman made his home in a studio at 50 Golden Gate Ave. He said many of his neighbors in the rent-controlled building had lived there long before he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the predawn hours of Dec. 12, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066892/fire-tears-through-tenderloin-apartment-building-forcing-rescues-of-residents-cats\">a major blaze\u003c/a> erupted on the top floor of the six-story Beaux Arts-style building in the Tenderloin, rendering it unlivable for Leeman and about 130 others who were displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the tenants in the 60-unit building aren’t sure where they’ll live in the coming months, as they face deadlines to apply for city assistance and a possible end to short-term paid hotel stays. Many say they haven’t received sufficient support from the property management company, Mosser Companies, or city leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been incredibly difficult,” Leeman said after a community meeting on Tuesday with the area’s supervisor and city housing officials. “You’ve got multi-generation families that have lived here for 20, 30, 40 plus years. They can’t afford to go onto the open market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks since the fire, Leeman has been able to move into a new apartment, costing him nearly $500 more a month than his rent-controlled $1,172 rate. Still, he considers himself among the fortunate ones to be able to get settled in that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Coercive at best’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the time of the fire, those who had lived for decades at 50 Golden Gate would have been paying a fraction of market rate because of the city rent ordinance’s cap on annual increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Mosser could stand to make significantly more money by renting the units at market rate, Leeman said he and others are concerned that the company isn’t incentivized to help the current tenants stay in their units after the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The best thing in their financial interest is to have these people displaced,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, he worries his suspicion is correct. In the days directly following the fire, Leeman said Mosser offered to return renters’ security deposits, though the move would end their leases — and therefore their rent-controlled rates.[aside postID=news_12066892 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-Tenderloin-Apartment-Fire-01-KQED.jpg']Residents said they also received an offer from the company to rehouse them in another building while theirs was being renovated, and then return to 50 Golden Gate, but the contract included a provision that would release Mosser from any liability that could arise related to the fire in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This, on the surface, is very coercive at best,” Leeman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mosser did not respond to requests for comment from KQED, but tenants said the company had agreed to pay December’s rent and provide security at the building after reports of possible theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie Tran, who lived in the building for 17 years, said she received the rehousing offer on a Friday and responded the following Monday with a list of at least six of Mosser’s other buildings in which she would be interested in living, but she struggled to get in touch with the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I emailed every day for three days, I left a voicemail every night for three days,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she did hear back, she was told only that there was no vacancy at another of Mosser’s buildings that she hadn’t included on that list. “‘Did you read my email?’” she said. “And ‘Why are you responding to me with this lack of vacancy at a building I didn’t ask to be relocated to?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran said she’s decided not to pursue a new placement in another Mosser building, but she has heard from other residents who have said they’ve been shown single-room occupancy units without kitchens to replace their studios, even as units with kitchens appear as open on the property manager’s site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why is that not being shown to displaced tenants?” Tran asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immediate uncertainty\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While residents have tried to get back on their feet, many have been sheltered in two hotels: Disabled and elderly residents were sent to a Motel 6 in Union Square directly after the fire, while others were placed in a Mosser Hotel in the South of Market neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran said two weeks later, on Christmas Day, she and other residents were almost evicted from the hotels before the city’s Human Services Agency stepped in to extend their stays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, though, that extension could come to an end Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gardenia Zuniga, who previously lived in the building and has been supporting current residents since the fire, said Supervisor Bilal Mahmood’s office was working to secure extended hotel stays for tenants in 15 units who have recently been approved for the city’s short-term housing subsidy. She said four others’ applications were not approved, and others had elected not to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who remain in hotels while they look for longer-term housing are expected to be moved to different spots near Ocean Beach and in South San Francisco while their current hotels are booked due to the upcoming JP Morgan healthcare conference, Zuniga told KQED.[aside postID=news_12050263 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-ShelterFamilies-09-BL_qed.jpg']Some tenants on Tuesday expressed concerns that they didn’t qualify for relief based on their income and assets, while others said documentation they needed to complete the applications — like driver’s licenses, passports and other identification — is still inaccessible in their apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said that the city was permitting digital documentation to ease that concern and had extended the deadline to apply for relief multiple times. Representatives from the Human Services Agency were present at the meeting on Tuesday to help residents complete individual applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katia Padilla, the chief operating officer of the Latino Task Force, said the building’s monolingual Spanish speakers have also struggled to get sufficient translation services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she’s had to help translate for some, though Mahmood said that the Human Services Agency provided translators during the community meeting and to help with individual applications on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents on Tuesday also expressed concerns about security at the building. During the meeting, some said that they believe property they left behind has been removed from their apartments or perhaps stolen. Leeman said people saw via Find My iPhone that their devices had been taken out of the building and accessed off-site, and photos of the building’s roof show that it has been uncovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents have been unable to retrieve their property because authorities have deemed the building unsafe to enter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said his office was helping residents who are concerned about their property to file police reports, and that it is expediting repair permits needed to allow building access, including to fix a broken elevator at risk of collapsing. He expected tenants would be able to get into the building next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our focus has been security and making sure the residents get access [as soon] as possible,” he said. “The next step is making sure they’re going to start scheduling appointments for people to come into the building and get access to the resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Next steps\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tran is among the residents who have been approved for assistance through the city’s short-term subsidy program, which will pay the difference between her $1,275 monthly rent at 50 Golden Gate and a new unit that costs up to $2,845 a month, depending on whether she stays in the city or moves elsewhere in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That subsidy will be in effect for two years, she said, with a possible two-year extension. 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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> supervisor leading the charge to allow cars back on a portion of the Great Highway unveiled on Thursday a draft of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067992/sunset-supervisor-to-back-ballot-measure-to-put-cars-back-on-the-great-highway\">citywide ballot measure\u003c/a> he hopes to put before voters this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fight over the Great Highway has riled up residents across the city, particularly those on the west side who live closest to the road. District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065576/sf-mayor-lurie-appoints-city-college-trustee-alan-wong-as-sunset-district-supervisor\">stepped into office in December 2025\u003c/a>, said he supports reopening the Great Highway to cars during weekdays and keeping it closed as a park on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under the compromise, San Franciscans had the best of both worlds, using the Great Highway as a park on weekends and sharing it with commuters on weekdays during peak traffic times,” Wong said. “The Sunset District is surrounded by recreational areas on three sides, Golden Gate Park, Ocean Beach, Stern Grove and every San Franciscan is just a 10-minute walk to a park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upper portion of the Great Highway closed during the pandemic to make way for social distancing and recreation, and voters decided in 2022 to keep cars off the road on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in November 2024, voters citywide passed Proposition K, which permanently removed cars from the two-mile stretch of the Great Highway to open a beachside park called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035795/sunset-dunes-san-franciscos-controversial-new-park-officially-opens\">Sunset Dunes\u003c/a>. But the majority of residents who live closest to the park voted against removing cars from the road, and the decision helped fuel a successful recall campaign against former Supervisor Joel Engardio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040913\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors are seen during the grand opening of the Sunset Dunes Park along the former Upper Great Highway, in San Francisco, on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wong worked with the city attorney’s office to draft the ballot measure, and he will need the support of three additional supervisors to get it on the ballot for a citywide election. Supervisors Connie Chan, Cheyenne Chen and Shamann Walton have all previously indicated support for such a ballot measure. It would require a simple majority to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference on Thursday, Wong said that traffic jams and injuries have increased since the Great Highway closed and Sunset Dues opened in April 2025. He highlighted data showing traffic injuries in the district increased from 37 between April and September 2024 to 67 between April and December 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The 14,000 daily commuters didn’t just vanish when the highway was closed. They were pushed onto neighborhood streets and other corridors throughout the west side and the rest of the city, which is why any single road may not appear overwhelmed, but the cumulative impacts are undeniable,” said Wong, who voted against Prop K. “Ultimately, I have to prioritize street safety and the needs of those commuting to work, taking their kids to school or going to the Veterans Affairs hospital over weekday recreation.”[aside postID=news_12068774 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/241115-PropKFolo-24-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Wong’s backers include Sunset residents who say the road closure has increased traffic on other nearby avenues and major thoroughfares. However, one study from the San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority found minimal impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisor released the draft ballot measure just days after a San Francisco judge dismissed all claims in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068774/san-francisco-judge-rejects-great-highway-lawsuit\">lawsuit seeking to overturn Prop K\u003c/a>. Plaintiffs said the city failed to conduct an environmental review before opening the park. They have about two months to appeal the judge’s recent ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Arjes, a Sunset resident and plaintiff in the case, said simply shifting cars to another road does little to address the environmental challenges the west side is facing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All we’ve done by closing this is to move emissions somewhere else. We haven’t really addressed anything about how to reduce emissions,” Arjes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park supporters say the road had to change in the near future, regardless of any ballot measure. The lower portion of the Great Highway is already closed off to car traffic due to coastal erosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the ballot measure also point to how there have already been two ballot measures since 2022 over the road and a lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035817\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035817\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-9_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-9_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-9_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-9_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-9_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-9_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-9_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Joel Engardio speaks during the Sunset Dunes Park grand opening on the Upper Great Highway in San Francisco on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Future generations will see this as a silly controversy because the park’s benefits far outweigh the fears of traffic jams that never happened,” Engardio, the recalled supervisor, said in a statement this week. “The coast belongs to everyone, and it won’t be long before a majority everywhere will embrace the wonderful and magical Sunset Dunes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans of the park say it expands recreational space for biking, skating and strolling along the coast, and has created a venue for public art and events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several local businesses told KQED they have seen profits increase since the park opened as a result of more foot traffic in the area and visitors coming from other parts of the city and the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends of Sunset Dunes, a group working to preserve the park and fight the ballot measure, held a forum on Wednesday night about the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12014721 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Great Highway in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Supervisor Wong was unable to explain even the most basic details about his proposal at a town hall last night, including how much it would cost taxpayers to rip out the city’s third most-visited park to replace it with a failing road,” said Friends of Sunset Dunes president Lucas Lux in a statement. “Instead, he willfully misrepresented data about traffic injuries to back up this political stunt rather than engage in thoughtful policymaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the community meeting, Wong defended his decision to introduce the ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want all constituents to know that they can always engage me whether we see eye-to-eye or not,” Wong said in a statement. “During my first three weeks in office, I met with more Sunset Dunes-related organizations than any other and will continue to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporter Eliza Peppel contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> supervisor leading the charge to allow cars back on a portion of the Great Highway unveiled on Thursday a draft of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067992/sunset-supervisor-to-back-ballot-measure-to-put-cars-back-on-the-great-highway\">citywide ballot measure\u003c/a> he hopes to put before voters this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fight over the Great Highway has riled up residents across the city, particularly those on the west side who live closest to the road. District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065576/sf-mayor-lurie-appoints-city-college-trustee-alan-wong-as-sunset-district-supervisor\">stepped into office in December 2025\u003c/a>, said he supports reopening the Great Highway to cars during weekdays and keeping it closed as a park on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under the compromise, San Franciscans had the best of both worlds, using the Great Highway as a park on weekends and sharing it with commuters on weekdays during peak traffic times,” Wong said. “The Sunset District is surrounded by recreational areas on three sides, Golden Gate Park, Ocean Beach, Stern Grove and every San Franciscan is just a 10-minute walk to a park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upper portion of the Great Highway closed during the pandemic to make way for social distancing and recreation, and voters decided in 2022 to keep cars off the road on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in November 2024, voters citywide passed Proposition K, which permanently removed cars from the two-mile stretch of the Great Highway to open a beachside park called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035795/sunset-dunes-san-franciscos-controversial-new-park-officially-opens\">Sunset Dunes\u003c/a>. But the majority of residents who live closest to the park voted against removing cars from the road, and the decision helped fuel a successful recall campaign against former Supervisor Joel Engardio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040913\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors are seen during the grand opening of the Sunset Dunes Park along the former Upper Great Highway, in San Francisco, on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wong worked with the city attorney’s office to draft the ballot measure, and he will need the support of three additional supervisors to get it on the ballot for a citywide election. Supervisors Connie Chan, Cheyenne Chen and Shamann Walton have all previously indicated support for such a ballot measure. It would require a simple majority to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference on Thursday, Wong said that traffic jams and injuries have increased since the Great Highway closed and Sunset Dues opened in April 2025. He highlighted data showing traffic injuries in the district increased from 37 between April and September 2024 to 67 between April and December 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The 14,000 daily commuters didn’t just vanish when the highway was closed. They were pushed onto neighborhood streets and other corridors throughout the west side and the rest of the city, which is why any single road may not appear overwhelmed, but the cumulative impacts are undeniable,” said Wong, who voted against Prop K. “Ultimately, I have to prioritize street safety and the needs of those commuting to work, taking their kids to school or going to the Veterans Affairs hospital over weekday recreation.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Wong’s backers include Sunset residents who say the road closure has increased traffic on other nearby avenues and major thoroughfares. However, one study from the San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority found minimal impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisor released the draft ballot measure just days after a San Francisco judge dismissed all claims in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068774/san-francisco-judge-rejects-great-highway-lawsuit\">lawsuit seeking to overturn Prop K\u003c/a>. Plaintiffs said the city failed to conduct an environmental review before opening the park. They have about two months to appeal the judge’s recent ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Arjes, a Sunset resident and plaintiff in the case, said simply shifting cars to another road does little to address the environmental challenges the west side is facing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All we’ve done by closing this is to move emissions somewhere else. We haven’t really addressed anything about how to reduce emissions,” Arjes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park supporters say the road had to change in the near future, regardless of any ballot measure. The lower portion of the Great Highway is already closed off to car traffic due to coastal erosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the ballot measure also point to how there have already been two ballot measures since 2022 over the road and a lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035817\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035817\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-9_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-9_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-9_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-9_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-9_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-9_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-9_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Joel Engardio speaks during the Sunset Dunes Park grand opening on the Upper Great Highway in San Francisco on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Future generations will see this as a silly controversy because the park’s benefits far outweigh the fears of traffic jams that never happened,” Engardio, the recalled supervisor, said in a statement this week. “The coast belongs to everyone, and it won’t be long before a majority everywhere will embrace the wonderful and magical Sunset Dunes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans of the park say it expands recreational space for biking, skating and strolling along the coast, and has created a venue for public art and events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several local businesses told KQED they have seen profits increase since the park opened as a result of more foot traffic in the area and visitors coming from other parts of the city and the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends of Sunset Dunes, a group working to preserve the park and fight the ballot measure, held a forum on Wednesday night about the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12014721 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Great Highway in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Supervisor Wong was unable to explain even the most basic details about his proposal at a town hall last night, including how much it would cost taxpayers to rip out the city’s third most-visited park to replace it with a failing road,” said Friends of Sunset Dunes president Lucas Lux in a statement. “Instead, he willfully misrepresented data about traffic injuries to back up this political stunt rather than engage in thoughtful policymaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the community meeting, Wong defended his decision to introduce the ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want all constituents to know that they can always engage me whether we see eye-to-eye or not,” Wong said in a statement. “During my first three weeks in office, I met with more Sunset Dunes-related organizations than any other and will continue to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporter Eliza Peppel contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The race to represent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> in the U.S. House of Representatives is truly competitive for the first time in 38 years, after longtime congresswoman Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement. As the battle to represent the famously blue city heats up, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067880/a-san-francisco-political-showdown-who-will-take-pelosis-seat\">the top three candidates\u003c/a>, all Democrats, are starting to draw faint lines differentiating themselves from one another in a bid for frontrunner status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. 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He supported creating a national public bank to finance HIV treatment and other priorities more sustainably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not about appropriation and funding that you have to keep fighting back and forth over. 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He added that he would also push for federal civil rights for LGBTQ people. “That would be a high priority for me to make sure these programs are funded and that we stop with the contraction.”[aside postID=news_12068929 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomAP.jpg']Chan, who currently represents the Richmond District, said she would target President Donald Trump’s attempt to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and attacks on trans youth in school systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to make safe learning environments for the trans and LGBTQ community,” said Chan, who was born in Hong Kong and moved to San Francisco’s Chinatown as a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referencing her work as the city’s budget chair, Chan said she would also seek more funding for schools and community health clinics as “additional options other than health care giants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each candidate listed housing as one of the top three issues they would focus on in Congress, if elected. Slight differences in their approaches to building more housing surfaced in the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener has developed a reputation as a housing advocate at the state level by championing several laws in Sacramento to make it easier for developers to build housing even in the face of pushback from cities. His supporters, which include groups like Yes In My Backyard, have celebrated his efforts to boost housing production, while critics have bemoaned the housing mandates he’s backed and progressives say increasing supply alone doesn’t solve affordability issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a lot more housing of all varieties. Period. Full stop,” the former San Francisco supervisor said. “The federal government used to play a large role in housing in this country, and then it stopped right as homelessness boomed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-37-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-37-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-37-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-37-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan, a candidate for California’s 11th Congressional District, participates in a forum with other candidates at UC Law San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chan, who has gained support from labor groups, took a swing back at Wiener, saying there needs to be a focus on building affordable housing in particular, rather than luxury condos and other market-rate developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to figure out how to amend and repeal the Faircloth Law… and build more middle-class and workforce housing,” said Chan, referring to a 1998 federal law that capped public housing stock and has limited funding for expanding federal housing subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisor recently went to bat at the local level to preserve rent-controlled units as part of the city’s recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065708/san-francisco-supervisors-pass-rezoning-plan-making-way-for-taller-denser-housing\">rezoning plan\u003c/a>, which increased height and density limits in primarily residential parts of San Francisco. Her amendment, which aimed to prevent any rent-controlled units from demolition, failed. However, the plan does exclude buildings with three or more rent-controlled units from demolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the best ways to solve homelessness is to make sure people can stay housed and preserve the rent control housing units we have,” said Chan, a progressive Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069071\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-41-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-41-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-41-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-41-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees watch a forum with candidates running for California’s 11th Congressional District, Saikat Chakrabarti, state Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The race to represent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> in the U.S. House of Representatives is truly competitive for the first time in 38 years, after longtime congresswoman Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement. As the battle to represent the famously blue city heats up, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067880/a-san-francisco-political-showdown-who-will-take-pelosis-seat\">the top three candidates\u003c/a>, all Democrats, are starting to draw faint lines differentiating themselves from one another in a bid for frontrunner status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener, Supervisor Connie Chan and former tech engineer Saikat Chakrabarti took the stage on Wednesday night in the first debate in the race to win California’s 11th Congressional District seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three candidates, all liberal by national standards, were in sync on many issues, from the need for more housing to stronger protections for LGBTQ people and immigrants, to better health care access and taking on MAGA Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a few major differences and details about how the candidates would approach solving those issues emerged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakrabarti, who served as New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff and was part of Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign, gave a sharp presentation as the relative outsider of the three candidates. He supported creating a national public bank to finance HIV treatment and other priorities more sustainably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not about appropriation and funding that you have to keep fighting back and forth over. We need a permanent source of funding,” Chakrabarti said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069059\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069059\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-07-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-07-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-07-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-07-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saikat Chakrabarti, a candidate for California’s 11th Congressional District, participates in a forum with other candidates at UC Law San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Working Families Party, the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club and the Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club hosted the event. Co-moderators and journalists Joe Eskenazi of \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em> and Cynthia Laird of the \u003cem>Bay Area Reporter\u003c/em> asked the candidates how they would defend LGBTQ rights and health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, the only openly gay candidate, has been an outspoken advocate for gay and trans rights, having authored bills protecting trans youth at the state level. In Congress, he said he’d focus on addressing the aging population of HIV survivors and queer foster care youth, who face higher rates of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government has been pulling back on every form of HIV funding,” said Wiener, who is considered the most moderate of the three candidates. He added that he would also push for federal civil rights for LGBTQ people. “That would be a high priority for me to make sure these programs are funded and that we stop with the contraction.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Chan, who currently represents the Richmond District, said she would target President Donald Trump’s attempt to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and attacks on trans youth in school systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to make safe learning environments for the trans and LGBTQ community,” said Chan, who was born in Hong Kong and moved to San Francisco’s Chinatown as a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referencing her work as the city’s budget chair, Chan said she would also seek more funding for schools and community health clinics as “additional options other than health care giants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each candidate listed housing as one of the top three issues they would focus on in Congress, if elected. Slight differences in their approaches to building more housing surfaced in the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener has developed a reputation as a housing advocate at the state level by championing several laws in Sacramento to make it easier for developers to build housing even in the face of pushback from cities. His supporters, which include groups like Yes In My Backyard, have celebrated his efforts to boost housing production, while critics have bemoaned the housing mandates he’s backed and progressives say increasing supply alone doesn’t solve affordability issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a lot more housing of all varieties. Period. Full stop,” the former San Francisco supervisor said. “The federal government used to play a large role in housing in this country, and then it stopped right as homelessness boomed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-37-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-37-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-37-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-37-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan, a candidate for California’s 11th Congressional District, participates in a forum with other candidates at UC Law San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chan, who has gained support from labor groups, took a swing back at Wiener, saying there needs to be a focus on building affordable housing in particular, rather than luxury condos and other market-rate developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to figure out how to amend and repeal the Faircloth Law… and build more middle-class and workforce housing,” said Chan, referring to a 1998 federal law that capped public housing stock and has limited funding for expanding federal housing subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisor recently went to bat at the local level to preserve rent-controlled units as part of the city’s recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065708/san-francisco-supervisors-pass-rezoning-plan-making-way-for-taller-denser-housing\">rezoning plan\u003c/a>, which increased height and density limits in primarily residential parts of San Francisco. Her amendment, which aimed to prevent any rent-controlled units from demolition, failed. However, the plan does exclude buildings with three or more rent-controlled units from demolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the best ways to solve homelessness is to make sure people can stay housed and preserve the rent control housing units we have,” said Chan, a progressive Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069071\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-41-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-41-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-41-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-41-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees watch a forum with candidates running for California’s 11th Congressional District, Saikat Chakrabarti, state Sen. Scott Wiener and San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan, at UC Law San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chakrabarti, who, like Chan, also has the attention of progressives, also called for repealing the Faircloth Amendment and touted his own national housing plan, which he said emphasizes streamlining financing and stockpiling construction supplies in order to build the kinds of affordable housing that cutting red tape alone won’t solve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first step of this is financing. I mentioned the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, this is an agency that could provide low-interest loans to developers to make sure housing gets built,” he said. “Beyond that, it could do things like stockpile lumber and steel to reduce inflation. It did that during the New Deal era. And more than that, it could actually spin off public developers to build housing that private developers aren’t gonna build.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The starkest difference between the three candidates arrived at the very end of the debate during a round of lightning questions. While the three all agreed on banning members of Congress from owning or trading stocks, Medicare for All, and building the state’s high-speed rail without federal funding, they splintered on foreign affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, both Chan and Sakrabarti said yes. Wiener, who is Jewish, did not raise his sign with a “yes” or “no,” eliciting boos and roars from the live audience and in online chat forums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates have six months before the primary election in June, and a general election between the top two candidates, regardless of party, will take place in November 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to the 2023 California Youth Tobacco Survey, most high school respondents who used tobacco reported using flavored tobacco products, and nicotine pouches were the second-most common form of tobacco use among eighth-graders. Experts say the proliferation of flavored tobacco products, which are more attractive to young people, has threatened decades of progress in reducing youth tobacco use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zyn, a Swedish brand of nicotine pouches that has dominated the market, has been around for a decade and was initially marketed to help users kick smoking habits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pillow-shaped pouches, which sit in the mouth between the gum and lip, deliver a head rush or buzz as the bloodstream absorbs the nicotine. The products come in round plastic containers that resemble Ice Breakers mints, and often in a variety of fruit or mint flavors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philip Morris International acquired Zyn in 2022 as part of the tobacco giant’s pivot to smokeless products. Though the pouches don’t contain cancer-causing tobacco, nicotine is addictive, and experts have raised alarm bells about the consequences of nicotine exposure to developing adolescent brains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the hype has been attributed to the role of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/12/meet-the-zynfluencers-how-nicotine-pouches-ignited-a-new-culture-war\">Zynfluencers\u003c/a>,” social media accounts that promote or meme the products’ use. The content, which skews to young men, links the products to masculinity, productivity and skepticism of the medical health establishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right-wing media personality Tucker Carlson, who previously called himself a “Zyn power user” — recently launched his own brand of nicotine pouches, after Zyn said Carlson’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/07/tucker-carlson-nicotine-pouches-00200455\">claims\u003c/a> about the company’s products were not backed up by science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco settlement was announced the day after California \u003ca href=\"https://www.cspdailynews.com/tobacco/california-unveils-unflavored-tobacco-list-enforce-flavored-tobacco-ban\">unveiled\u003c/a> a list of tobacco products that can be legally sold in the state, following a statewide flavored tobacco ban in 2020 that voters upheld in a 2022 referendum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Shamann Walton said in a statement that the settlement sends “a clear message that San Francisco will enforce its flavored tobacco ban and hold corporations accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Flavored nicotine products are designed to attract young people, and we cannot allow online retailers to bypass local protections and put another generation at risk,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"title": "San Francisco’s Historic ‘Relief Cottages,’ Built After the 1906 Earthquake, Are Hidden in Plain Sight",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Cryan walked into a leasing agency on Geary Boulevard in\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\"> San Francisco\u003c/a> just before closing one evening in 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was looking for an apartment that could accommodate her grand piano. The flat she was inquiring about had already been rented, but the agent asked if she’d be interested in a cottage out in the Sunset District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That started everything,” Cryan said. “That, to me, is my golden moment in all my 44 years in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cottage at 1227 24th Ave. felt like her own artist retreat. She moved in and played her grand piano night and day for the first several weeks, happy to have her own space where she could do what she liked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An elderly gentleman from across the street came over and shook his finger at me, and he said, ‘Young lady, do you know that you’re living in a couple of relief houses pasted together?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066194\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-EARTHQUAKECOTTAGES00174_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-EARTHQUAKECOTTAGES00174_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-EARTHQUAKECOTTAGES00174_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-EARTHQUAKECOTTAGES00174_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An earthquake cottage stands on 211 Mullen Ave. in San Francisco on December 4, 2025. The original shelter was built after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and some still house city residents. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cryan was confused. What did he mean by “relief houses?” She had moved from Milwaukee in the 1960s because she was enamored with the Beat Movement and had been writing letters to Jack Kerouac. When she got to San Francisco, all of 18 years old, she threw herself into writing and playing jazz piano, although she made her money as an executive assistant. She’d never heard of the history her neighbor was describing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had lived in the city all those years and never heard of the [19]06 quake or ‘the fire,’ as everybody who survived it called it,” Cryan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was curious to know everything she could about the natural disaster that devastated San Francisco at the start of the 20th century, knocking down 80% of the buildings and displacing thousands of people. She spent nights and weekends obsessively going through newspaper archives to learn all she could about these so-called “relief cottages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The history Cryan discovered\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“After the 1906 Earthquake and fire, more than a quarter of a million people are at least temporarily displaced,” said Woody LaBounty, president and CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfheritage.org/\">San Francisco Heritage\u003c/a>, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving San Francisco history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who had the means left the city to stay with relatives or friends elsewhere. But many poor San Franciscans didn’t have that option. The military temporarily set up tent camps to house refugees in the short term. Women cooked meals on stoves set up in the streets, children went to school in makeshift tent classrooms and people tried to figure out what to do next.[aside postID=news_12065901 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251016-NIMITZHOUSE-38-BL-KQED.jpg']After a few months, city leaders became concerned about sanitation in the tent camps and they worried what would happen when winter rains came. They commissioned union carpenters to build small cottages out of redwood, cedar and fir to house the refugees. They painted the cottages the same green as city park benches, which became known as “park bench green.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You basically are talking about the working class,” LaBounty said. “People who don’t have property, don’t have other resources, and need to find work and find shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overseeing this effort was the San Francisco Relief Corporation, which also coordinated distribution of clothes, food and other aid to the refugees — many of whom the city relied upon to help rebuild the city. The 5,610 cottages were mostly set up in the city’s neighborhood parks like Jefferson Square, Precita Park (then known as Bernal Park) and Portsmouth Square. There were also a large number of cottages where Park Presidio Boulevard is now — back then, it was newly acquired parkland with nothing much around it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/000/1906-earthquake-cottages.htm\">cottages\u003c/a> came in several sizes. The smallest was 10×14 feet — these “Type A” shacks are the most commonly seen today, in part because they are so modular and people combined them to make larger residences. But there were also 14×18 feet and 18×24-feet-sized shacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Relief Corporation charged people a few dollars per month in rent for the cottages, but soon it started receiving pressure from Superintendent of Parks John McLaren and other city residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1950px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/RichmondCamp-SFPL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063864\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/RichmondCamp-SFPL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1950\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/RichmondCamp-SFPL-KQED.jpg 1950w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/RichmondCamp-SFPL-KQED-160x164.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/RichmondCamp-SFPL-KQED-1498x1536.jpg 1498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1950px) 100vw, 1950px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Richmond District, on San Francisco’s northwest side, was largely uninhabited sand dunes at the time of the 1906 earthquake and fires. There was a lot of open space to build refugee cottages like these at the Richmond District refugee camp between Lake and Geary streets. Some surviving earthquake cottages can still be found in the Richmond and Sunset districts. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They wanted their parks back,” LaBounty said. “As other San Franciscans were ready to move on from the disaster, they didn’t like the idea that their parks had a community, a village of working-class people living in the middle of their parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under pressure to move cottages out of the parks as quickly as possible, the Relief Corporation ended up returning all the rent it collected to residents when they moved their cottages out of the parks and onto land somewhere else. And just a year and a half after the earthquake and fire, most cottage camps were gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gave people who never would have dreamed, I think, of owning a home a chance to get into that American dream,” LaBounty said. “So, you get the earthquake cottage, you’re a refugee who has nothing, and now suddenly you buy a lot for 100 bucks in the sand dunes of the Richmond, you have pretty much a free house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/PrecitaPark-SFPL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063862\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/PrecitaPark-SFPL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1545\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/PrecitaPark-SFPL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/PrecitaPark-SFPL-KQED-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/PrecitaPark-SFPL-KQED-1536x1187.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After several months, residents were encouraged to move their cottages out of the parks and onto a plot of land. Here, a horse gets ready to move a shack out of Precita Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the cottages ended up in the Richmond and Sunset districts of San Francisco because of that large camp along Park Presidio and the prevalence of unclaimed land on the western side of the city. Another hot spot for cottages is Bernal Heights, where people moved their cottages from Precita Park at the bottom of the hill, up onto vacant plots on the hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was sort of a stigma of having an earthquake cottage for a few years because it sort of signified you were a refugee, you needed help, you were poor,” LaBounty said. “So, people often quickly tried to hide the pedigree of their houses and cover them with shingles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People built fences around their cottages, added additional rooms and generally tried to \u003ca href=\"https://www.foundsf.org/1906_Earthquake_Shack_Survivors\">personalize\u003c/a> them. Many people painted over that telling park bench green color, hiding the provenance of their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcXCRZEkzx4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city moved on, too. Just nine years after the Great Earthquake and Fire, San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/historyculture/upload/PPIE-Brochure-FINAL-for-Web.pdf\">hosted\u003c/a> the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition to show the city was back and celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a spectacle that spread over much of what is now the Marina District, the Exposition drew more than 18 million visitors and boasted innovations in science, technology and art. Whole buildings were erected for the Exposition, including the Palace of Fine Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An era of ‘shacktivism’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Jane Cryan learned all this history and realized that her little cottage sanctuary was actually three and a half earthquake cottages connected together, she was in awe. She loved that she was living in a piece of San Francisco history, one hidden in plain sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the time of her research, Cryan got word from her landlord that he wanted to sell her cottage — or worse, knock it down and sell the lot.[aside postID=news_12063643 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251008-GirlintheFishbowl-01-BL.jpg']“I had to do something,” Cryan said. So, she called City Hall. “And this is exactly what I said, I said, ‘Can you connect me with somebody at City Hall who can tell me how to save a pair of cottages, very important cottages, that are under threat of demolition.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That call led her to the Landmarks Preservation office. She learned how to apply for a historic landmark designation and brought her research on the importance of the earthquake cottages to the Planning Commission. Along the way, the media caught wind of what she was doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The media came to me, and they made what I was doing one of the most important things that ever hit San Francisco,” Cryan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cryan started a \u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/pdf/libraries/main/sfhistory/archives-and-manuscripts/SPASFRS.pdf\">nonprofit\u003c/a> organization,\u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/pdf/libraries/main/sfhistory/archives-and-manuscripts/SPASFRS.pdf\"> The Society for the Preservation and Appreciation of San Francisco Refugee Shacks\u003c/a>, and made it her mission to educate people about the earthquake shacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, she won historic status for her little 24th Avenue cottage, but it was a bittersweet victory. Because historic status limits what a property owner can do with a building, the planning commission also ruled that Cryan had to move out as compensation. From then on, she moved from apartment to apartment, ultimately finding herself priced out of San Francisco once she was retired. She moved back to Wisconsin, where she is originally from, in 2007 after 44 years in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She continues the fight to save earthquake cottages from afar when developers threaten them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A very San Francisco treasure hunt\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s still possible to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/earthquake-shacks-sf-map/\">find\u003c/a> earthquake cottages when walking around San Francisco. Woody LaBounty suggested looking for a shallow roof line, like a Boy Scout tent. That’s often a good indicator that a small house might be an earthquake cottage. Many other small buildings have much sharper rooflines or flat roofs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaBounty estimates that there are somewhere between \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsidelands.org/shack-list.php\">30 and 50 cottages\u003c/a> sprinkled throughout the city. But it’s hard to know because so many of them have been incorporated into larger houses or are used as sheds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Moving-Cottage-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063861\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Moving-Cottage-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1446\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Moving-Cottage-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Moving-Cottage-KQED-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Moving-Cottage-KQED-1536x1111.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An earthquake cottage being moved through the streets of San Francisco circa 1906. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Historical conservationists \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsidelands.org/kirkham_shacks.php\">successfully\u003c/a> saved several earthquake cottages from demolition over the years. Two of them are owned by the Presidio Trust and used to be open to visitors, although they have recently been moved to an out-of-the-way location. Another is in the San Francisco Zoo, part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfzoo.org/greenies-conservation-corner/\">Greenie’s Conservation Corner\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As San Francisco continues to change, it is this visual touchstone to our past,” LaBounty said. “And not only our past, but the most significant event that happened in our past, outside of maybe the Gold Rush.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I want to talk about architecture for a moment – specifically residential architecture. In San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You expect to see stately Victorian homes with their bright colors and fancy decorative trim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s Marina style homes with their big windows and stucco facades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But sprinkled in amidst these grander homes you might spot a few tiny cottages — the original tiny homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Charity Vargas:\u003c/strong> I did see two over in the sunset. There was like two close together and I thought maybe they might be them, but I’m not sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Charity Vargas, our question asker this week, has seen some of these small dwellings dotted around the Richmond and Sunset districts near her home. And she’s heard that the cottages are holdovers from the Great 1906 earthquake and fire, but wants to know more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Charity Vargas: \u003c/strong>How many earthquake cottages are left and you know, are they still used and where they are?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Today on the show, we’ll dig into the history of San Francisco’s earthquake cottages. We’ll learn how critical they were in sheltering a vulnerable…but vital.. population and learn about modern efforts to save them. I’m Olivia Allen-Price and you’re listening to Bay Curious. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sponsor message\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>We set out to answer Charity’s question by searching for “earthquake shacks”…tiny homes built out of redwood and cedar after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Bay Curious editor and producer Katrina Schwartz found one high on a hill in Bernal Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joan Hunter: \u003c/strong>You want a little tour? Ok, this is our tiny kitchen and I believe this rectangle room is the original earthquake shack and this part is added on, but it’s kind of hard to say exactly. I’m Joan Hunter. I live in Bernal Heights, San Francisco, California in an earthquake cottage or earthquake shack, as some would like to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>I’m standing with Joan in her light filled living room…all that’s left of the original cottage. It’s a modestly sized room, but has tall ceilings and windows that look out over a sweeping view of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What started out as a one room cottage has been expanded quite a bit…it’s about 620 square feet now, still small by modern standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joan Hunter: \u003c/strong>Okay, so this is a little bedroom we have in the front and all of our rooms, this is a theme for the house, everything is small, very, very small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Joan’s got two kids…so the house can feel like a tight squeeze at times. But she fell in love with the history of the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joan Hunter: \u003c/strong>what I do know is that the guy who bought it, he was a little kind of like a bachelor. And he met someone who was also single and they moved together and they got married. And it was just a love story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Joan likes thinking that after they survived the worst natural disaster San Francisco has ever experienced…and been homeless for months because of it…that they finally found some tranquility here, a little piece of San Francisco to call their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music to help us transition\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire leveled 80 percent of San Francisco. The morning of April 18, 1906 Bay Area residents awoke early in the morning to a temblor they’d never forget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of shaking\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kathleen Norris: \u003c/strong>Every picture on the wall is going tack, tack, tack. Everything movable in the house is keeping up that unearthly clatter. You could hear up and down the roads, earthquake. It’s an earthquake. Oh, God help us, it’s an earthquake. of course, it changed the world for all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Kathleen Norris shared her oral history with the Bancroft Library in 1960. There was no audio recorded during the disaster, but anyone who survived it remembered the trauma of it clearly…even fifty years later. Kathleen was in Mill Valley when the earthquake hit…where the damage wasn’t too bad. But she and her brother were curious about how San Francisco had fared…so they found a boat that took them to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joan Hunter: \u003c/strong>It was something to see. The great, heavy, slow rolls of smoke that were joining hands as they went up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Kathleen describes refugees fleeing homes that had been leveled, toting their belongings in baby carriages and wheel barrows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kathleen Norris: \u003c/strong>We walked over the hot, hot rocks of Market Street. And of course, the cable car lines were twisted hairpins. And the houses were all down. There was nothing saved. Nothing was accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>And yet, the image that lingered in her mind…even as the smoke lay heavy over the hills… was of people getting to work to repair their city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kathleen Norris: \u003c/strong>And already there were people helping out and organizing, scraping bricks. The bricks were hot. And they were working away. Nobody felt for an instant, oh, let’s go somewhere else. Everyone knew that the city was going to come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>As indeed it would. Just nine years after the earthquake and fire, San Francisco hosted the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition…the reason the Palace of Fine Arts was built…a spectacle that 18 million people visited by the time it closed.. Headlines trumpeted the achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Voice over reading archival newspaper headline:\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Big Fair is Opened. All eyes on San Francisco. President Flashes Signal\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Fair Draws Myriad; All Records For Crowds Fall\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Marvelous Exhibits From All Parts of the Earth Assembled by 42 Countries for the Hugest Conclave of Nations in History\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>It was a signal to the world that San Francisco was still \u003cem>the most important\u003c/em> city in the West…one full of invention and achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Voice over reading archival newspaper headline: \u003c/strong>Tower of Jewels Wreathed in Flames. But it’s only to thrill visitors\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Art Smith Sets Hearts Leaping: Aviator’s Loop-the-Loops at Night Traced By Trail of Smoke\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>But how did San Francisco go from the absolute devastation of 1906 to showing off the latest advances in science and art on the world stage just nine years later? This is where the earthquake cottages… or shacks as they’re affectionately called…come into the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Woody LaBounty: \u003c/strong>So after the 1906 earthquake and fire, more than a quarter of a million people are at least temporarily displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Woody LaBounty is President and CEO of San Francisco Heritage, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving San Francisco history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Woody LaBounty: \u003c/strong>And now, the powers that be have to decide not only how to take care of all these people, but also who’s gonna rebuild the city?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Immediately after the earthquake and fire, the military stepped in and established tent camps in the city’s parks. But soon a new organization…the San Francisco Relief Corporation…was formed to distribute food, clothes and other aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Woody LaBounty: \u003c/strong>That covered many aspects of what you have to do when people are refugees, but also a specific housing effort, and that was the earthquake relief cottages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Officials were worried about sanitation in the tent camps when winter rains came. So, they decided to build 5,610 relief cottages…built with redwood, fir and cedar… to house people. They were painted “park bench green”…literally the color used on Golden Gate Park benches… and clustered in neighborhood parks like Jefferson Square, Precita Park, and Portsmouth Square. Around 17,000 people lived in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Woody LaBounty: \u003c/strong>If you owned property or you had a property that had been destroyed in the earthquake, you rebuilt or you figured out a way to move on. But there was a vast number of people who didn’t have any other resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>These were San Francisco’s poor, folks who had lived in boarding houses or shared rooms downtown before the fire. City leaders wanted to keep these laborers with the skills to rebuild the city close by. But they didn’t plan to give away the cottages for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Woody LaBounty: \u003c/strong>So for all of wanting to take care of the refugees, there was also a fear at the time of creeping socialism. People in power did not want to give anybody anything for nothing. So they thought it would create indigence. And so you were supposed to pay some sort of rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Here’s how it worked. Shack residents paid monthly rent of a few dollars while their shacks were in the parks. But the relief corporation returned that money when a resident bought some land and moved the shack out of the park and onto their own property.That generosity was spurred by pressure to move refugees and their cottages out of the parks as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Woody LaBounty: \u003c/strong>As other San Franciscans were ready to move on from the disaster, they didn’t like the idea that their parks had a community, a village of working-class people. Living in the middle of their park. They wanted their parks back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>About a year and a half after the earthquake, in the summer of 1907, most of the shacks had been removed from the parks. Newspapers at the time described the surreal image of tiny homes on wagons moving across the city with people still in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Voice over reading archival newspaper excerpt:\u003c/strong> It is a strange sight to see a procession of these refugee cottages moving down fashionable Van Ness Avenue or busy Fillmore Street, faces peering from the windows, and men, women and children going about their household tasks as if their little home was securely perched upon a cement foundation and surrounded by a garden and a fence.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Back in 1907, the Richmond District, a northwestern neighborhood, was mostly undeveloped sand dunes, with lots of empty land. So many shack owners moved their cottages to vacant plots there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woody says the earthquake shack program not only got the city working again…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Woody LaBounty: \u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">I\u003c/span>t also gave people who never would have dreamed, I think, of owning a home a chance to get into that American dream. So you get the earthquake cottage, you’re a refugee who has nothing, and now suddenly you buy a lot for 100 bucks in the sand dunes of the Richmond, you have pretty much a free house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Bernal Heights is another place with many earthquake cottages…people just moved their shacks from Precita Park to open land up the hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some of them are still there…like the house we toured at the beginning of this episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Woody LaBounty: \u003c/strong>The one sort of key touchstone that you can tell about a cottage is the roof line. It has a very shallow pitched roof, kind of like a pup tent, like a Boy Scout tent. And then that is like your first hint because a lot of small buildings you’ll see have very steep pitched or flat roofs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Woody says many shack owners quickly made improvements to their new homes — painting, building fences, adding additional rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Woody LaBounty: \u003c/strong>There was sort of a stigma of having an earthquake cottage for a few years because it sort of signified you were a refugee, you needed help, you were poor. So people often, they quickly tried to hide sort of the pedigree of their houses and cover them with shingles quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>They wanted to hide that telling park bench green color. Most existing earthquake cottages are surrounded by modern additions. Or sometimes they’re a couple shacks placed together. That’s one reason it’s really hard to know how many still exist in San Francisco, they’re hidden. But Woody estimates between 30 and 50 earthquake cottages are dotted across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jane Cryan: \u003c/strong>The cottage in the front is made up of three and a half shacks, and then there’s a free-standing mid-size shack in the backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>This is Jane Cryan. She rented one of these preserved earthquake shacks in the outer Sunset in the 1980s. Jane is best known as a “shacktivist”…fighting to preserve earthquake cottages from development. But if it weren’t for the Beat movement in the 1950s, she never would have moved here in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jane Cryan: \u003c/strong>The only reason I ended up in San Francisco is that Jack Kerouac, with whom I had correspondence from the time I was 16 years old told me that Milwaukee was no place for a poet. You should be in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>By day she was an executive assistant, but writing and jazz piano were her passions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jane Cryan: \u003c/strong>And I moved in and I played piano for about six weeks, day and night, and an elderly gentleman from across the street came over and shook his finger at me and he said, young lady, do you know that you’re living in a couple of relief houses pasted together?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Her three room cottage was actually three earthquake shacks pasted together. This was 1982 and Jane had lived in San Francisco almost 20 years. But she’d never even heard of the 1906 earthquake and fire. Her neighbor’s passing comment sparked her curiosity. She spent nights and weekends obsessively going through old newspaper archives to learn as much as she could about the disaster and the earthquake cottages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, her landlord made it known that he planned to sell her cottage…or worse demolish it and sell the lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jane Cryan: \u003c/strong>Take down our history. So I had to do something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Preserving these cottages — tangible pieces of such important history — became her life’s work. She took inspiration from one of the 1906 earthquake refugees she learned about in her research, a woman named Mary Kelly. Mary was an agitator, constantly questioning how the relief corporation dolled out aid and whether it was fair. She was such a pain to them they eventually evicted her from her cottage. But she refused to leave, famously saying:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Voice over portraying Mary Kelly:\u003c/strong> They can’t bluff me. I’ll stay with the house if they take it to the end of the earth.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>She rode in her cottage as men hauled it onto a wagon and trucked it away. She stayed inside as they dismantled the cottage board by board. Jane finds Mary’s tenacity — and willingness to stand up to power — endearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jane Cryan: \u003c/strong>She was exactly the way I was. If I saw something, I said something. And if I saw something that was not right, I said something louder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Jane started a nonprofit called The Society for the Preservation and Appreciation of San Francisco Refugee Shacks. She fought hard to get the planning commission to designate her little shack a historic landmark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she was successful!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jane Cryan: \u003c/strong>Landmark number 171.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>But it was a bittersweet victory. The commission also said that Jane had to vacate the cottage in order to compensate the landlord for putting restrictions on his property. Jane bounced around from place to place after that, eventually moving back to Wisconsin, where she’s originally from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina in the tape: \u003c/strong>What do you miss most about San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jane Cryan: \u003c/strong>Oh, everything! Oh my god, San Francisco is the queen of the Golden West, for heaven’s sake!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Historian Woody LaBounty says there are probably more earthquake cottages than we know. They’re hiding in people’s backyards, incorporated into bigger houses or used as sheds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Woody LaBounty: \u003c/strong>They’re the last sort of most visible, tangible sign of one of the biggest things that ever happened to the city of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Increasingly these little cottages are being bought and torn down to make room for larger homes. But the ones that remain are a reminder of a refugee relief program that not only got people back on their feet, but made them homeowners. An example of San Franciscans coming together to repair and resurrect a beloved city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> That was Bay Curious editor and producer Katrina Schwartz. Special thanks this week to \u003ca href=\"https://californiarevealed.org/\">California Revealed\u003c/a>, an online database of oral histories and other archival materials. They helped us find Kathleen Norris’ oral history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Right now your membership means more than ever, give at \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/donate\">KQED.org/donate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our show is produced by Gabriela Glueck, Christopher Beale, Katrina Schwartz and me, Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Ethan Toven-Lindsey and everyone on team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Have a wonderful week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cottage at 1227 24th Ave. felt like her own artist retreat. She moved in and played her grand piano night and day for the first several weeks, happy to have her own space where she could do what she liked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An elderly gentleman from across the street came over and shook his finger at me, and he said, ‘Young lady, do you know that you’re living in a couple of relief houses pasted together?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066194\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-EARTHQUAKECOTTAGES00174_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-EARTHQUAKECOTTAGES00174_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-EARTHQUAKECOTTAGES00174_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-EARTHQUAKECOTTAGES00174_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An earthquake cottage stands on 211 Mullen Ave. in San Francisco on December 4, 2025. The original shelter was built after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and some still house city residents. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cryan was confused. What did he mean by “relief houses?” She had moved from Milwaukee in the 1960s because she was enamored with the Beat Movement and had been writing letters to Jack Kerouac. When she got to San Francisco, all of 18 years old, she threw herself into writing and playing jazz piano, although she made her money as an executive assistant. She’d never heard of the history her neighbor was describing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had lived in the city all those years and never heard of the [19]06 quake or ‘the fire,’ as everybody who survived it called it,” Cryan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was curious to know everything she could about the natural disaster that devastated San Francisco at the start of the 20th century, knocking down 80% of the buildings and displacing thousands of people. She spent nights and weekends obsessively going through newspaper archives to learn all she could about these so-called “relief cottages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The history Cryan discovered\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“After the 1906 Earthquake and fire, more than a quarter of a million people are at least temporarily displaced,” said Woody LaBounty, president and CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfheritage.org/\">San Francisco Heritage\u003c/a>, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving San Francisco history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who had the means left the city to stay with relatives or friends elsewhere. But many poor San Franciscans didn’t have that option. The military temporarily set up tent camps to house refugees in the short term. Women cooked meals on stoves set up in the streets, children went to school in makeshift tent classrooms and people tried to figure out what to do next.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>After a few months, city leaders became concerned about sanitation in the tent camps and they worried what would happen when winter rains came. They commissioned union carpenters to build small cottages out of redwood, cedar and fir to house the refugees. They painted the cottages the same green as city park benches, which became known as “park bench green.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You basically are talking about the working class,” LaBounty said. “People who don’t have property, don’t have other resources, and need to find work and find shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overseeing this effort was the San Francisco Relief Corporation, which also coordinated distribution of clothes, food and other aid to the refugees — many of whom the city relied upon to help rebuild the city. The 5,610 cottages were mostly set up in the city’s neighborhood parks like Jefferson Square, Precita Park (then known as Bernal Park) and Portsmouth Square. There were also a large number of cottages where Park Presidio Boulevard is now — back then, it was newly acquired parkland with nothing much around it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/000/1906-earthquake-cottages.htm\">cottages\u003c/a> came in several sizes. The smallest was 10×14 feet — these “Type A” shacks are the most commonly seen today, in part because they are so modular and people combined them to make larger residences. But there were also 14×18 feet and 18×24-feet-sized shacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Relief Corporation charged people a few dollars per month in rent for the cottages, but soon it started receiving pressure from Superintendent of Parks John McLaren and other city residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1950px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/RichmondCamp-SFPL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063864\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/RichmondCamp-SFPL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1950\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/RichmondCamp-SFPL-KQED.jpg 1950w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/RichmondCamp-SFPL-KQED-160x164.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/RichmondCamp-SFPL-KQED-1498x1536.jpg 1498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1950px) 100vw, 1950px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Richmond District, on San Francisco’s northwest side, was largely uninhabited sand dunes at the time of the 1906 earthquake and fires. There was a lot of open space to build refugee cottages like these at the Richmond District refugee camp between Lake and Geary streets. Some surviving earthquake cottages can still be found in the Richmond and Sunset districts. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They wanted their parks back,” LaBounty said. “As other San Franciscans were ready to move on from the disaster, they didn’t like the idea that their parks had a community, a village of working-class people living in the middle of their parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under pressure to move cottages out of the parks as quickly as possible, the Relief Corporation ended up returning all the rent it collected to residents when they moved their cottages out of the parks and onto land somewhere else. And just a year and a half after the earthquake and fire, most cottage camps were gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gave people who never would have dreamed, I think, of owning a home a chance to get into that American dream,” LaBounty said. “So, you get the earthquake cottage, you’re a refugee who has nothing, and now suddenly you buy a lot for 100 bucks in the sand dunes of the Richmond, you have pretty much a free house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/PrecitaPark-SFPL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063862\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/PrecitaPark-SFPL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1545\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/PrecitaPark-SFPL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/PrecitaPark-SFPL-KQED-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/PrecitaPark-SFPL-KQED-1536x1187.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After several months, residents were encouraged to move their cottages out of the parks and onto a plot of land. Here, a horse gets ready to move a shack out of Precita Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the cottages ended up in the Richmond and Sunset districts of San Francisco because of that large camp along Park Presidio and the prevalence of unclaimed land on the western side of the city. Another hot spot for cottages is Bernal Heights, where people moved their cottages from Precita Park at the bottom of the hill, up onto vacant plots on the hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was sort of a stigma of having an earthquake cottage for a few years because it sort of signified you were a refugee, you needed help, you were poor,” LaBounty said. “So, people often quickly tried to hide the pedigree of their houses and cover them with shingles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People built fences around their cottages, added additional rooms and generally tried to \u003ca href=\"https://www.foundsf.org/1906_Earthquake_Shack_Survivors\">personalize\u003c/a> them. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I want to talk about architecture for a moment – specifically residential architecture. In San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You expect to see stately Victorian homes with their bright colors and fancy decorative trim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s Marina style homes with their big windows and stucco facades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But sprinkled in amidst these grander homes you might spot a few tiny cottages — the original tiny homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Charity Vargas:\u003c/strong> I did see two over in the sunset. There was like two close together and I thought maybe they might be them, but I’m not sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Charity Vargas, our question asker this week, has seen some of these small dwellings dotted around the Richmond and Sunset districts near her home. And she’s heard that the cottages are holdovers from the Great 1906 earthquake and fire, but wants to know more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Charity Vargas: \u003c/strong>How many earthquake cottages are left and you know, are they still used and where they are?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Today on the show, we’ll dig into the history of San Francisco’s earthquake cottages. We’ll learn how critical they were in sheltering a vulnerable…but vital.. population and learn about modern efforts to save them. I’m Olivia Allen-Price and you’re listening to Bay Curious. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sponsor message\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>We set out to answer Charity’s question by searching for “earthquake shacks”…tiny homes built out of redwood and cedar after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Bay Curious editor and producer Katrina Schwartz found one high on a hill in Bernal Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joan Hunter: \u003c/strong>You want a little tour? Ok, this is our tiny kitchen and I believe this rectangle room is the original earthquake shack and this part is added on, but it’s kind of hard to say exactly. I’m Joan Hunter. I live in Bernal Heights, San Francisco, California in an earthquake cottage or earthquake shack, as some would like to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>I’m standing with Joan in her light filled living room…all that’s left of the original cottage. It’s a modestly sized room, but has tall ceilings and windows that look out over a sweeping view of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What started out as a one room cottage has been expanded quite a bit…it’s about 620 square feet now, still small by modern standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joan Hunter: \u003c/strong>Okay, so this is a little bedroom we have in the front and all of our rooms, this is a theme for the house, everything is small, very, very small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Joan’s got two kids…so the house can feel like a tight squeeze at times. But she fell in love with the history of the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joan Hunter: \u003c/strong>what I do know is that the guy who bought it, he was a little kind of like a bachelor. And he met someone who was also single and they moved together and they got married. And it was just a love story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Joan likes thinking that after they survived the worst natural disaster San Francisco has ever experienced…and been homeless for months because of it…that they finally found some tranquility here, a little piece of San Francisco to call their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music to help us transition\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire leveled 80 percent of San Francisco. The morning of April 18, 1906 Bay Area residents awoke early in the morning to a temblor they’d never forget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of shaking\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kathleen Norris: \u003c/strong>Every picture on the wall is going tack, tack, tack. Everything movable in the house is keeping up that unearthly clatter. You could hear up and down the roads, earthquake. It’s an earthquake. Oh, God help us, it’s an earthquake. of course, it changed the world for all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Kathleen Norris shared her oral history with the Bancroft Library in 1960. There was no audio recorded during the disaster, but anyone who survived it remembered the trauma of it clearly…even fifty years later. Kathleen was in Mill Valley when the earthquake hit…where the damage wasn’t too bad. But she and her brother were curious about how San Francisco had fared…so they found a boat that took them to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joan Hunter: \u003c/strong>It was something to see. The great, heavy, slow rolls of smoke that were joining hands as they went up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Kathleen describes refugees fleeing homes that had been leveled, toting their belongings in baby carriages and wheel barrows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kathleen Norris: \u003c/strong>We walked over the hot, hot rocks of Market Street. And of course, the cable car lines were twisted hairpins. And the houses were all down. There was nothing saved. Nothing was accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>And yet, the image that lingered in her mind…even as the smoke lay heavy over the hills… was of people getting to work to repair their city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kathleen Norris: \u003c/strong>And already there were people helping out and organizing, scraping bricks. The bricks were hot. And they were working away. Nobody felt for an instant, oh, let’s go somewhere else. Everyone knew that the city was going to come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>As indeed it would. Just nine years after the earthquake and fire, San Francisco hosted the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition…the reason the Palace of Fine Arts was built…a spectacle that 18 million people visited by the time it closed.. Headlines trumpeted the achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Voice over reading archival newspaper headline:\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Big Fair is Opened. All eyes on San Francisco. President Flashes Signal\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Fair Draws Myriad; All Records For Crowds Fall\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Marvelous Exhibits From All Parts of the Earth Assembled by 42 Countries for the Hugest Conclave of Nations in History\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>It was a signal to the world that San Francisco was still \u003cem>the most important\u003c/em> city in the West…one full of invention and achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Voice over reading archival newspaper headline: \u003c/strong>Tower of Jewels Wreathed in Flames. But it’s only to thrill visitors\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Art Smith Sets Hearts Leaping: Aviator’s Loop-the-Loops at Night Traced By Trail of Smoke\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>But how did San Francisco go from the absolute devastation of 1906 to showing off the latest advances in science and art on the world stage just nine years later? This is where the earthquake cottages… or shacks as they’re affectionately called…come into the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Woody LaBounty: \u003c/strong>So after the 1906 earthquake and fire, more than a quarter of a million people are at least temporarily displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Woody LaBounty is President and CEO of San Francisco Heritage, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving San Francisco history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Woody LaBounty: \u003c/strong>And now, the powers that be have to decide not only how to take care of all these people, but also who’s gonna rebuild the city?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Immediately after the earthquake and fire, the military stepped in and established tent camps in the city’s parks. But soon a new organization…the San Francisco Relief Corporation…was formed to distribute food, clothes and other aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Woody LaBounty: \u003c/strong>That covered many aspects of what you have to do when people are refugees, but also a specific housing effort, and that was the earthquake relief cottages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Officials were worried about sanitation in the tent camps when winter rains came. So, they decided to build 5,610 relief cottages…built with redwood, fir and cedar… to house people. They were painted “park bench green”…literally the color used on Golden Gate Park benches… and clustered in neighborhood parks like Jefferson Square, Precita Park, and Portsmouth Square. Around 17,000 people lived in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Woody LaBounty: \u003c/strong>If you owned property or you had a property that had been destroyed in the earthquake, you rebuilt or you figured out a way to move on. But there was a vast number of people who didn’t have any other resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>These were San Francisco’s poor, folks who had lived in boarding houses or shared rooms downtown before the fire. City leaders wanted to keep these laborers with the skills to rebuild the city close by. But they didn’t plan to give away the cottages for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Woody LaBounty: \u003c/strong>So for all of wanting to take care of the refugees, there was also a fear at the time of creeping socialism. People in power did not want to give anybody anything for nothing. So they thought it would create indigence. And so you were supposed to pay some sort of rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Here’s how it worked. Shack residents paid monthly rent of a few dollars while their shacks were in the parks. But the relief corporation returned that money when a resident bought some land and moved the shack out of the park and onto their own property.That generosity was spurred by pressure to move refugees and their cottages out of the parks as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Woody LaBounty: \u003c/strong>As other San Franciscans were ready to move on from the disaster, they didn’t like the idea that their parks had a community, a village of working-class people. Living in the middle of their park. They wanted their parks back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>About a year and a half after the earthquake, in the summer of 1907, most of the shacks had been removed from the parks. Newspapers at the time described the surreal image of tiny homes on wagons moving across the city with people still in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Voice over reading archival newspaper excerpt:\u003c/strong> It is a strange sight to see a procession of these refugee cottages moving down fashionable Van Ness Avenue or busy Fillmore Street, faces peering from the windows, and men, women and children going about their household tasks as if their little home was securely perched upon a cement foundation and surrounded by a garden and a fence.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Back in 1907, the Richmond District, a northwestern neighborhood, was mostly undeveloped sand dunes, with lots of empty land. So many shack owners moved their cottages to vacant plots there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woody says the earthquake shack program not only got the city working again…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Woody LaBounty: \u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">I\u003c/span>t also gave people who never would have dreamed, I think, of owning a home a chance to get into that American dream. So you get the earthquake cottage, you’re a refugee who has nothing, and now suddenly you buy a lot for 100 bucks in the sand dunes of the Richmond, you have pretty much a free house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Bernal Heights is another place with many earthquake cottages…people just moved their shacks from Precita Park to open land up the hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some of them are still there…like the house we toured at the beginning of this episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Woody LaBounty: \u003c/strong>The one sort of key touchstone that you can tell about a cottage is the roof line. It has a very shallow pitched roof, kind of like a pup tent, like a Boy Scout tent. And then that is like your first hint because a lot of small buildings you’ll see have very steep pitched or flat roofs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Woody says many shack owners quickly made improvements to their new homes — painting, building fences, adding additional rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Woody LaBounty: \u003c/strong>There was sort of a stigma of having an earthquake cottage for a few years because it sort of signified you were a refugee, you needed help, you were poor. So people often, they quickly tried to hide sort of the pedigree of their houses and cover them with shingles quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>They wanted to hide that telling park bench green color. Most existing earthquake cottages are surrounded by modern additions. Or sometimes they’re a couple shacks placed together. That’s one reason it’s really hard to know how many still exist in San Francisco, they’re hidden. But Woody estimates between 30 and 50 earthquake cottages are dotted across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jane Cryan: \u003c/strong>The cottage in the front is made up of three and a half shacks, and then there’s a free-standing mid-size shack in the backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>This is Jane Cryan. She rented one of these preserved earthquake shacks in the outer Sunset in the 1980s. Jane is best known as a “shacktivist”…fighting to preserve earthquake cottages from development. But if it weren’t for the Beat movement in the 1950s, she never would have moved here in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jane Cryan: \u003c/strong>The only reason I ended up in San Francisco is that Jack Kerouac, with whom I had correspondence from the time I was 16 years old told me that Milwaukee was no place for a poet. You should be in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>By day she was an executive assistant, but writing and jazz piano were her passions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jane Cryan: \u003c/strong>And I moved in and I played piano for about six weeks, day and night, and an elderly gentleman from across the street came over and shook his finger at me and he said, young lady, do you know that you’re living in a couple of relief houses pasted together?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Her three room cottage was actually three earthquake shacks pasted together. This was 1982 and Jane had lived in San Francisco almost 20 years. But she’d never even heard of the 1906 earthquake and fire. Her neighbor’s passing comment sparked her curiosity. She spent nights and weekends obsessively going through old newspaper archives to learn as much as she could about the disaster and the earthquake cottages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, her landlord made it known that he planned to sell her cottage…or worse demolish it and sell the lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jane Cryan: \u003c/strong>Take down our history. So I had to do something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Preserving these cottages — tangible pieces of such important history — became her life’s work. She took inspiration from one of the 1906 earthquake refugees she learned about in her research, a woman named Mary Kelly. Mary was an agitator, constantly questioning how the relief corporation dolled out aid and whether it was fair. She was such a pain to them they eventually evicted her from her cottage. But she refused to leave, famously saying:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Voice over portraying Mary Kelly:\u003c/strong> They can’t bluff me. I’ll stay with the house if they take it to the end of the earth.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>She rode in her cottage as men hauled it onto a wagon and trucked it away. She stayed inside as they dismantled the cottage board by board. Jane finds Mary’s tenacity — and willingness to stand up to power — endearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jane Cryan: \u003c/strong>She was exactly the way I was. If I saw something, I said something. And if I saw something that was not right, I said something louder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Jane started a nonprofit called The Society for the Preservation and Appreciation of San Francisco Refugee Shacks. She fought hard to get the planning commission to designate her little shack a historic landmark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she was successful!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jane Cryan: \u003c/strong>Landmark number 171.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>But it was a bittersweet victory. The commission also said that Jane had to vacate the cottage in order to compensate the landlord for putting restrictions on his property. Jane bounced around from place to place after that, eventually moving back to Wisconsin, where she’s originally from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina in the tape: \u003c/strong>What do you miss most about San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jane Cryan: \u003c/strong>Oh, everything! Oh my god, San Francisco is the queen of the Golden West, for heaven’s sake!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Historian Woody LaBounty says there are probably more earthquake cottages than we know. They’re hiding in people’s backyards, incorporated into bigger houses or used as sheds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Woody LaBounty: \u003c/strong>They’re the last sort of most visible, tangible sign of one of the biggest things that ever happened to the city of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Increasingly these little cottages are being bought and torn down to make room for larger homes. But the ones that remain are a reminder of a refugee relief program that not only got people back on their feet, but made them homeowners. An example of San Franciscans coming together to repair and resurrect a beloved city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> That was Bay Curious editor and producer Katrina Schwartz. Special thanks this week to \u003ca href=\"https://californiarevealed.org/\">California Revealed\u003c/a>, an online database of oral histories and other archival materials. They helped us find Kathleen Norris’ oral history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Right now your membership means more than ever, give at \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/donate\">KQED.org/donate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our show is produced by Gabriela Glueck, Christopher Beale, Katrina Schwartz and me, Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Ethan Toven-Lindsey and everyone on team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Have a wonderful week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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