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Defendants, however, make clear that the only check they want is a blank one,” Breyer wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Six months after they first federalized the California National Guard, defendants still retain control of approximately 300 Guardsmen, despite no evidence that execution of federal law is impeded in any way — let alone significantly. What’s more, defendants have sent California Guardsmen into other states, effectively creating a national police force made up of state troops,” he added in his scathing opening remarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California leaders celebrated the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once again, a court has firmly rejected the president’s attempt to make the National Guard a traveling national police force,” said Attorney General Rob Bonta. “The president is not king. And he cannot federalize the National Guard whenever, wherever, and for however long he wants, without justification. This is a good day for our democracy and the strength of the rule of law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058864\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RobBontaTrumpGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RobBontaTrumpGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RobBontaTrumpGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RobBontaTrumpGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta is briefed by members of his Civil Rights Enforcement Section on litigation challenging the Trump administration at his offices in downtown Los Angeles, California, on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Allen J. 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The appeals court later \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/06/9th-circuit-los-angeles-national-guard/\">ruled in favor\u003c/a> of the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appeals court is also considering a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054322/judge-rules-trump-violated-law-by-sending-troops-to-los-angeles\">separate decision\u003c/a> from Breyer that prohibited the administration from using troops to patrol civilians in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Justice declined to comment on the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue in the current ruling is whether Trump had the authority to call up 300 members of the California National Guard over Newsom’s objections in June, amid immigration raids and subsequent protests in L.A. The state sued after that initial deployment. In August, the president extended the deployment through Nov. 4 — Election Day in California — and then, in October, moved again to lengthen the deployment through Feb. 2, 2026.[aside postID=news_12066492 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240212-ImmigrationCourt-31-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg']Loyola Law School professor Jessica Levinson said that although the 9th Circuit might accord the Trump administration more deference on appeal, Breyer’s order painstakingly spells out why the government has not met the necessary standard under the law it used to justify the deployment: that it was unable to execute federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we have here is a decision that basically says the Trump administration doesn’t get to just point to statutory language and say that the conditions are satisfied,” she said. “And Judge Breyer spends a good deal of time in this 35-page decision saying, I think you are able to execute federal law through the regular forces. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Loyola Law School professor Jessica Levinson said that although the 9th Circuit might accord the Trump administration more deference on appeal, Breyer’s order painstakingly spells out why the government has not met the necessary standard under the law it used to justify the deployment: that it was unable to execute federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we have here is a decision that basically says the Trump administration doesn’t get to just point to statutory language and say that the conditions are satisfied,” she said. “And Judge Breyer spends a good deal of time in this 35-page decision saying, I think you are able to execute federal law through the regular forces. And what happened on the ground doesn’t rise to the level of what you need to, as a president, do to take this fairly extraordinary step of federalizing National Guard members — again, when a governor doesn’t want you to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer homed in on that question of whether there was an ongoing inability to execute federal laws in L.A., noting that in mid-August, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “announced that the immigration enforcement mission had succeeded: the administration had ‘Removed the Worst of the Worst Illegal Aliens,’ arresting ‘4,481 illegal aliens in the Los Angeles area’ since June 6.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In August of 2025, the situation in Los Angeles was calm,” Breyer wrote, adding that the administration at that point justified the extension of the deployment through Election Day by citing the June protests and a July incident in Ventura County — 50 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The October extension order, he wrote, was similarly justified based on past events, minor recent incidents and the situation in another state, Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052297\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/NationalGuardLAAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1328\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/NationalGuardLAAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/NationalGuardLAAP-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/NationalGuardLAAP-1536x1020.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters stand off against California National Guard soldiers at the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles during a “No Kings” protest on June 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Richard Vogel/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breyer noted that the law cited by the Trump administration states that the president may call up National Guard troops when he “is unable” to execute federal law, writing that it’s clear “that the word ‘is’ conveys the present tense,” and that mere risk of future violence cannot justify something as serious as using military troops to police civilians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is also a core right of the people to be able to gather in protest of their government and its policies — even when doing so is provocative, and even when doing so causes inconvenience,” Breyer wrote. “It is profoundly un-American to suggest that people peacefully exercising their fundamental right to protest constitute a risk justifying the federalization of military forces. Such logic, if accepted, would dangerously water down this precondition for federalization and run headfirst into the First Amendment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has also deployed troops to Illinois, Oregon and Washington, D.C., over local objections. Lawsuits related to those cases are pending; the Illinois case is before the U.S. Supreme Court. California has filed in support of all of those cases, and also secured a ruling in October blocking the deployment of California National Guard troops to Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinson said those cases will remain separate because the legality of the deployment hinges on the facts on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So these cases can’t really be consolidated,” she said. “This is not just a question of what does the law say. It’s a question of what does the law allow under different circumstances. … And so, what we see in all of these cases is federal judges looking at what’s actually happening. Are these protests turning violent? Can ICE agents execute immigration law?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Surmiche “Memi” Vaughn had doubts about opening up her home to a stranger who had been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/formerly-incarcerated\">formerly incarcerated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I was super skeptical,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Vaughn was a single mother of twins who were headed to college, and wanted her kids to graduate with no student debt. She said her father suggested she sign up for The Homecoming Project, which offers $50 a day to people who are willing to rent out a room to someone who has recently been released from prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was three years ago. Since then, Vaughn said she and her husband have hosted 19 formerly incarcerated participants between her two homes in Oakland, and her kids, now in their third year of college, haven’t had to take out any loans. Vaughn said the partnership is a two-way street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ It’s funny because they always say that they learn a lot from me, and I say that I’ve learned a lot from them,” Vaughn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251113-SFHOMECOMINGPROJECT-24-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251113-SFHOMECOMINGPROJECT-24-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251113-SFHOMECOMINGPROJECT-24-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251113-SFHOMECOMINGPROJECT-24-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Memi Vaughn (center), a Homecoming Project host, listens to speakers during a press conference about the launch of the Homecoming Project in San Francisco at the San Francisco Public Defender’s office on Nov. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Homecoming Project launched in Alameda County in 2018 and has since expanded into Contra Costa and Los Angeles counties. Its growing footprint now includes San Francisco — thanks to new funding from the state of California, the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation and the Menorah Park Community Impact Fund, according to Bernadette Butler, director of the Housing Lab at Impact Justice, the nonprofit that runs The Homecoming Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office partnered with The Homecoming Project to find housing for formerly incarcerated people. Until now, this meant they could only place people with hosts in other counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t ever, as San Franciscans want to say, ‘we are looking to other counties for services that our families here in San Francisco need,” said Danielle Harris, an attorney with the city’s Public Defender’s Office.[aside postID=news_12055960 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-01-BL-KQED.jpg']During the program, participants receive case management to help them find a job and a more permanent place of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is at the heart a way to address homelessness, and homelessness and reentry are overlapping issues,” Butler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She cited a grim statistic from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/housing.html\">2018 report\u003c/a> by the Prison Policy Initiative: Formerly incarcerated people are nearly ten times more likely to experience homelessness than the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a real way for community members to help solve this issue by opening up their homes, and they’re also able to do something, and that’s transformative and really help someone,” Butler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 200 people have graduated from the Homecoming Project since its inception, and the program claims that 98% of participants have graduated with either a job or an “education opportunity” and that none have returned to prison while in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Homecoming Project is now looking for hosts in San Francisco. The organization said no one living in the city has signed up yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12066211 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251113-SFHOMECOMINGPROJECT-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251113-SFHOMECOMINGPROJECT-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251113-SFHOMECOMINGPROJECT-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251113-SFHOMECOMINGPROJECT-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philippe Kelly, a Homecoming Project participant, speaks during a press conference about the launch of the Homecoming Project in San Francisco at the San Francisco Public Defender’s office on Nov. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Philippe Kelly, who was incarcerated for six years at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, was placed in transitional housing in Oakland after release. He said he wasn’t happy with that living arrangement, so he’s grateful he was able to find housing through The Homecoming Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly said the first step involved touring potential homes and meeting the hosts. He recalled being pleasantly surprised that he would actually get a say in where he might live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives you an opportunity to engage with the host to see if it’s gonna be a good fit or not, versus, we’ll just stick you here without another option, because if it doesn’t work out, what happens then?” Kelly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After touring a house that wasn’t a good fit, he met Vaughn and her husband. 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The organization said no one living in the city has signed up yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12066211 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251113-SFHOMECOMINGPROJECT-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251113-SFHOMECOMINGPROJECT-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251113-SFHOMECOMINGPROJECT-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251113-SFHOMECOMINGPROJECT-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philippe Kelly, a Homecoming Project participant, speaks during a press conference about the launch of the Homecoming Project in San Francisco at the San Francisco Public Defender’s office on Nov. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Philippe Kelly, who was incarcerated for six years at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, was placed in transitional housing in Oakland after release. He said he wasn’t happy with that living arrangement, so he’s grateful he was able to find housing through The Homecoming Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly said the first step involved touring potential homes and meeting the hosts. He recalled being pleasantly surprised that he would actually get a say in where he might live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives you an opportunity to engage with the host to see if it’s gonna be a good fit or not, versus, we’ll just stick you here without another option, because if it doesn’t work out, what happens then?” Kelly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After touring a house that wasn’t a good fit, he met Vaughn and her husband. He told the couple he was an aspiring audio engineer and producer — a craft he hoped to pursue during the homestay — and he found the couple to be supportive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066207\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251113-SFHOMECOMINGPROJECT-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251113-SFHOMECOMINGPROJECT-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251113-SFHOMECOMINGPROJECT-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251113-SFHOMECOMINGPROJECT-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees listen during a press conference about the launch of the Homecoming Project in San Francisco at the San Francisco Public Defender’s office on Nov. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ I thought, this is where I want to be, because they understood the needs that I had at the time, and were going to allow me to explore those things and make my situation in their home that much easier,” Kelly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly now lives in a separate house owned by Vaughn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, I pay rent now,” he said, laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly said he has a job, and he’s still pursuing audio engineering on the side. He credits his success to the work he’s done on himself and having a welcoming home to help his transition back into society after incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be able to live in a place where you can walk outside your door and just breathe the fresh air, you can look around, feel safe, comfortable and happy means a lot,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco could see taller and more dense buildings in the city’s north and west side after the Board of Supervisors approved Mayor Daniel Lurie’s ‘Family Zoning’ plan last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some believe it will lead to more housing and lower rents, while others worry that new construction will change their neighborhoods and lead to displacement. But how soon — and how much — could it really change the city?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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/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=KQINC4340668956&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:45] \u003c/em>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. You’ve probably noticed that there are some parts of San Francisco that are just much taller than others. Like downtown with its high-rises and skyscrapers, versus neighborhoods like The Richmond and Sunset, with its rows of single-family homes and views of Ocean Beach. And that is by design. Since the late 70s, San Francisco has had strict limits on how tall buildings could be in the city’s north and west sides. Limits that some argue have made it hard to build enough housing and keep rents from skyrocketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Daniel Lurie: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:36] \u003c/em>Even though our needs have changed, our zoning didn’t today. We write a new chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:44] \u003c/em>San Francisco supervisors approved Mayor Daniel Lurie’s new family zoning plan, one that paves the way for taller and denser buildings in parts of the city that haven’t been upzoned for decades. Some hope it’ll lead to more housing and lower rents, while others are afraid of what these changes will mean for their neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Justine Escalada: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:10] \u003c/em>No, we don’t want these giant high rises to to take over. Like what about the the charm of the the buildings, the businesses? Like it’s gonna be all No soul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Darya Bolgovia: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:21] \u003c/em>So like it’s a city, like we should look like a city. It’s okay. Like the houses are nice and cute, but we can keep some and then like build up for the rest of the people to enjoy it too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:32] \u003c/em>Today, how San Francisco’s new rezoning plan could change the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:44] \u003c/em>The rezoning plan is intended to actually make it easier for the city to build taller buildings in certain areas in neighborhoods where they’re frankly just not permitted right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:00] \u003c/em>Sydney Johnson is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:04] \u003c/em>Rezoning is really just one slice of the pie for the city to meet its housing goals. There still are height limits even in those residential areas, so it’s like you’re not gonna see a giant skyscraper in between two single family homes in in the Richmond, but you could see a multi story, you know, apartment building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:31] \u003c/em>I guess why is this zoning change happening now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:34] \u003c/em>So there’s a couple of reasons. One of the biggest and you know, probably most obvious is the state is requiring it. So California has said that cities, including San Francisco, have to make way for more housing because for decades in certain parts of the city, and and this is true, you know, in cities all across the state, there have been rules and restrictions that make it harder to build housing. And places have been downzoned in the past for a variety of reasons, you know, to preserve neighborhood character or in some cases for environmental protections. But what that has also meant is that it’s made way for a housing crunch in places like San Francisco. And so the state has said you need to come up with a plan to make room for thousands of more units. The state of California has said that San Francisco has to build 82,000 new homes by 2031. That includes some tens of thousands of units that have actually already been approved but haven’t been built yet. But this plan in particular is designed to make way for around 36,000 new housing units in San Francisco. So, you know, most of the plan to increase height limits is concentrated in areas like The sunset, the Richmond, closer to the Marina and some parts of Nobb Hill, but also North Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:10] \u003c/em>Are there any parts of the plan that specify, I mean, what kind of housing should be built where? Like I mean i whether any of it has to be affordable, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:23] \u003c/em>The people who wrote this plan estimate that out of the 82,000 new units that the city is mandated to build, over 30,000 should be affordable to low income families, which for a family of four in San Francisco earns less than $156,000. But there’s nothing in this plan that says you need to build housing that’s affordable for this income level, you know, on this corner. That is it the plan does not get into those kind of specifics at all, really.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:53] \u003c/em>Well, that’s probably a great transition into the arguments for and against this plan. Because it seems like it was a a little controversial. This was I mean, to start Mayor Daniel Lurie’s first really big policy fight, right? And he was probably the biggest champion for passing this new rezoning plan. What were his arguments for passing this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:17] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean, just to echo what you said, I I have been following this mayor’s administration, you know, from the campaign trail and and I really do believe that this was probably one of the most controversial, you know, more or less difficult things he had to get through so far and and was a real test for our new mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Daniel Lurie: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:35] \u003c/em>People in San Francisco have built the future. They’ve created businesses, families, and diverse and vibrant neighborhoods. But that promise to build a life and belong to your community is slipping away for far too many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:53] \u003c/em>He has been out in public forums and community meetings and you know, sometimes appearing at actual board of supervisors meetings to make the case that San Francisco needs to do this in order to increase housing supply to make it affordable for future generations. That’s kind of the big reason why is is folks are saying, Hey, like I grew up in this city and I can’t afford to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Daniel Lurie: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:18] \u003c/em>At the heart of family zoning is a simple idea. Families deserve to live in San Francisco. Not just visit, not just commute, but live here, grow here and thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:31] \u003c/em>You know, he had a lot of support from groups like SF Yumby and the Chamber of Commerce and you know, other groups that said we need this housing, you know, more housing might mean more customers and more foot traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Daniel Lurie: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:43] \u003c/em>Even though our needs have changed, our zoning didn’t. Today we write a new chapter. We want to build enough housing so kids growing up here will be able to raise their own families here in San Francisco. We want businesses to stay and grow, confident that their employees can afford to live here. We want firefighters, police officers, teachers, and nurses to live in the communities in which they serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:14] \u003c/em>He and other supporters have stressed that this is something that the state is mandating and that if the city doesn’t pass this plan, that we could risk losing essential funding. The city already faced a huge budget deficit this year and had to make a lot of cuts. We’re facing more cuts from the federal government. And so any, you know, potential further loss of funding, I think, you know, is sort of like putting up the alarm signals of like, hey, we have to do this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Daniel Lurie: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:45] \u003c/em>The state has given us a clear mandate, and if we don’t ask, we risk losing funding and our ability to decide what gets built here. Our plan it keeps control right here where it belongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:00] \u003c/em>And I know that you and our colleague Adhiti Bandlamudi spoke with residents of some of these areas that would be most impacted by this new zoning plan. What’s your sense of how residents who live in these areas are feeling about this? I mean, presumably they’ll be the most impacted. Does anyone think this is a good idea?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:21] \u003c/em>Sure, you know, I think there are plenty of people, you know, regardless of whether or not they support this plan that recognize that San Francisco and really the Bay Area as a region needs more housing and specifically needs more affordable housing. I’ve been doing a lot of reporting with our colleague Aditi, who actually lives on one of the streets that is slated to be upzoned, and she spoke with a resident named Darya Bulgova about this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Darya Bolgovia: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:48] \u003c/em>Like like it’s so many people who teach in the city commute into the city from somewhere else. It’s like super messed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:57] \u003c/em>And she actually supports upzoning and says that the city needs to make room for more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Darya Bolgovia: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:03] \u003c/em>Like yes, we we even joke whenever people ask what neighborhood we live in, when we say Sunset we’re like, It’s the ‘burbs of San Francisco. But I I think, yeah, at the end of the day, like we should make the city more accessible and whatever way we get there is is better. So like it’s a city, like we should look like a city, it’s okay.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:29] \u003c/em>Coming up, the people and the arguments against the rezoning plan. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:30] \u003c/em>Let’s dive a little bit more into the arguments against this plan. It didn’t pass easily by the Board of Supervisors. Who was really coming out against this, especially on the city side of things?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:42] \u003c/em>So supervisors like Connie Chan and residents and neighborhood groups that have opposed this plan are concerned that it’s not gonna actually lead to more affordable housing, but that it actually might just lead to real estate speculation, you know, drive up the rent in certain areas and displace families who have been here for a long time while not actually guaranteeing to include and build that affordable housing that the city still desperately needs. One main concern is the fate of rent-controlled units. Because when you upzone, you can open up the possibility of old buildings getting torn down or redeveloped. And that can include possibly rent-controlled units. And some people are really worried about that. There was an amendment that was incorporated into this plan that actually removed any buildings that have three or more rent-controlled units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Connie Chan: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:42] \u003c/em>I’m disappointed. I’m disappointed where we’re at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:46] \u003c/em>Chan, who represents the Richmond, said, I actually believe that there should be no rent-controlled units that are at risk of demolition under this plan. You know, she put forward an amendment that would have excluded potentially all rent-controlled buildings. That did not ultimately get incorporated. But she was saying that it doesn’t make sense to remove buildings that have rent-controlled units where people already have kind of that security baked into their living situation and potentially, you know, bulldoze and then develop a a building that they wouldn’t be able to afford potentially after it got completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Connie Chan: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:25] \u003c/em>My mother, a single mother, an immigrant, longtime worker in Chinatown, she was able to work and live in Chinatown boarding North Beach area because of the rent control units where she reside for three decades, where I grew up until she passed in 2021. People, San Franciscans, need housing, both existing and new. We know that our existing housing stock, especially rent control housing, is our most valuable and affordable housing stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:57] \u003c/em>It sort of sounds like the impact that this could have on rent control apartments is one of the big sticking points, but also it sounds like people are just concerned that this is just gonna make way for more buildings that actually don’t make the city more affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:14] \u003c/em>Yeah, that seems to be one of the most salient, you know, criticisms of this plan is like, sure, even if it does lead the way for more housing, what part of this plan is actually guaranteeing that that will be affordable to folks who are low income or even, you know, have the average median income? And then of course there are small business owners that have shops in these corridors that are also slated to be upzoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Justine Escalada: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:40] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean definitely more construction is not — we we really dislike it.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:47] \u003c/em>I spoke with Justine Escalada. She runs a vintage shop over in the inner Richmond. And she was there working with her partner and their little baby sleeping in a stroller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Justine Escalada: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:58] \u003c/em>Like but prior to this I was a preschool teacher and like very involved in the families’ lives as in there as well and like a lot of them were even like having to leave the city. So I don’t know if this would just continue it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:13] \u003c/em>She was worried that if the building owner, you know, decides one day to sell to a developer to, you know, build more housing on that block, she said that they would probably have to move and and potentially even leave the city entirely because they don’t have this, you know, stack of cash that can keep them afloat during that construction process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Justine Escalada: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:37] \u003c/em>So I think it would drive away a lot of people who have been a part of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:46] \u003c/em>For every person that said, Yes, let’s build more housing, there’ll be more foot traffic, there’ll be more nightlife. There was also someone out there that said, I don’t want to have to, you know, drive around my block ten times before I can find parking. Or, you know, it’s already expensive. How is this going to, you know, help keep my rents down? And then also just frankly, from some folks who said, you know, I bought this home 20 years ago for the neighborhood and and the way that it looks, and I don’t want that to change. Or, you know, I moved here six months ago and I’m starting a family and and you know, I don’t want this neighborhood to change. You know, that is that is still very much an opinion that is out there too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:34] \u003c/em>Well, I mean, as we were just talking about Zini, this was a pretty contentious plan, and that the Board of Supervisors ultimately had to vote on. How did the board vote?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:45] \u003c/em>This was a pretty long discussion. I mean, I’ve been following this for months now and and have sat through some hours and hours of public comment. There was no public comment at this particular meeting because it was one of the final votes. But each supervisor went around and shared their thoughts about why they support it and don’t and it got, you know, pretty heated. Ultimately it came down to a seven to four vote in support of the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:16] \u003c/em>I mean, Sydney, I feel like there’s a lot of concern around how much this plan can change San Francisco or p big parts of the city. I mean, how much could this plan on its own actually change San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:32] \u003c/em>You know, there’s been actually a couple analyzes of this that have come out. One from the city’s economist actually said that because of constraints in the market, you know, construction cost, financing that is or is not available and funding, that the number of units that could actually be built as a result of this plan is, you know, pretty shy of what the plan’s goal is. So for better or for worse, this, you know, may not actually result in 36,000 new units, and it certainly won’t right away. Actually, it was really interesting going to some of these public forums and hearing the city’s planning commission and and representatives from the mayor’s office talk to people who were concerned about their neighborhoods, you know, just being transformed and and looking radically different from the place that they moved to and and love, you know, saying things like, actually this plan isn’t gonna change that much. And these are the people who are actually, you know, supporting the plan and saying we need to pass this, but are also kind of being like, Well, realistically, we know that this isn’t gonna like dramatically change the city. So.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:42] \u003c/em>Cause It doesn’t change the fact that it just takes a long time to build in the state of California, period. Right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:52] \u003c/em>Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:52] \u003c/em>And I mean, San Francisco is not the only city in the state that is really under pressure from the state of California to build more, right? But but why do you think what is happening in San Francisco around housing and around its rezoning plan is important to watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:11] \u003c/em>I think San Francisco is a really interesting place to watch because we brand ourselves as a sanctuary city. You know, we brand ourselves as this place that is welcoming to all. But when it comes down to it, we’re one of the most unaffordable and difficult places to live. It’s not the same as it was, you know, back in the 60s, where you could, you know, move here and start a new life so easily. It’s actually really hard to do that. So I think that, you know, this plan is a really interesting test case of our values of a city. Is that gonna actually work? Is that gonna actually like lead to more housing and and particularly lead to housing that can be affordable to future generations? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:45] \u003c/em>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. You’ve probably noticed that there are some parts of San Francisco that are just much taller than others. Like downtown with its high-rises and skyscrapers, versus neighborhoods like The Richmond and Sunset, with its rows of single-family homes and views of Ocean Beach. And that is by design. Since the late 70s, San Francisco has had strict limits on how tall buildings could be in the city’s north and west sides. Limits that some argue have made it hard to build enough housing and keep rents from skyrocketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Daniel Lurie: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:36] \u003c/em>Even though our needs have changed, our zoning didn’t today. We write a new chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:44] \u003c/em>San Francisco supervisors approved Mayor Daniel Lurie’s new family zoning plan, one that paves the way for taller and denser buildings in parts of the city that haven’t been upzoned for decades. Some hope it’ll lead to more housing and lower rents, while others are afraid of what these changes will mean for their neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Justine Escalada: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:10] \u003c/em>No, we don’t want these giant high rises to to take over. Like what about the the charm of the the buildings, the businesses? Like it’s gonna be all No soul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Darya Bolgovia: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:21] \u003c/em>So like it’s a city, like we should look like a city. It’s okay. Like the houses are nice and cute, but we can keep some and then like build up for the rest of the people to enjoy it too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:32] \u003c/em>Today, how San Francisco’s new rezoning plan could change the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:44] \u003c/em>The rezoning plan is intended to actually make it easier for the city to build taller buildings in certain areas in neighborhoods where they’re frankly just not permitted right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:00] \u003c/em>Sydney Johnson is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:04] \u003c/em>Rezoning is really just one slice of the pie for the city to meet its housing goals. There still are height limits even in those residential areas, so it’s like you’re not gonna see a giant skyscraper in between two single family homes in in the Richmond, but you could see a multi story, you know, apartment building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:31] \u003c/em>I guess why is this zoning change happening now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:34] \u003c/em>So there’s a couple of reasons. One of the biggest and you know, probably most obvious is the state is requiring it. So California has said that cities, including San Francisco, have to make way for more housing because for decades in certain parts of the city, and and this is true, you know, in cities all across the state, there have been rules and restrictions that make it harder to build housing. And places have been downzoned in the past for a variety of reasons, you know, to preserve neighborhood character or in some cases for environmental protections. But what that has also meant is that it’s made way for a housing crunch in places like San Francisco. And so the state has said you need to come up with a plan to make room for thousands of more units. The state of California has said that San Francisco has to build 82,000 new homes by 2031. That includes some tens of thousands of units that have actually already been approved but haven’t been built yet. But this plan in particular is designed to make way for around 36,000 new housing units in San Francisco. So, you know, most of the plan to increase height limits is concentrated in areas like The sunset, the Richmond, closer to the Marina and some parts of Nobb Hill, but also North Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:10] \u003c/em>Are there any parts of the plan that specify, I mean, what kind of housing should be built where? Like I mean i whether any of it has to be affordable, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:23] \u003c/em>The people who wrote this plan estimate that out of the 82,000 new units that the city is mandated to build, over 30,000 should be affordable to low income families, which for a family of four in San Francisco earns less than $156,000. But there’s nothing in this plan that says you need to build housing that’s affordable for this income level, you know, on this corner. That is it the plan does not get into those kind of specifics at all, really.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:53] \u003c/em>Well, that’s probably a great transition into the arguments for and against this plan. Because it seems like it was a a little controversial. This was I mean, to start Mayor Daniel Lurie’s first really big policy fight, right? And he was probably the biggest champion for passing this new rezoning plan. What were his arguments for passing this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:17] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean, just to echo what you said, I I have been following this mayor’s administration, you know, from the campaign trail and and I really do believe that this was probably one of the most controversial, you know, more or less difficult things he had to get through so far and and was a real test for our new mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Daniel Lurie: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:35] \u003c/em>People in San Francisco have built the future. They’ve created businesses, families, and diverse and vibrant neighborhoods. But that promise to build a life and belong to your community is slipping away for far too many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:53] \u003c/em>He has been out in public forums and community meetings and you know, sometimes appearing at actual board of supervisors meetings to make the case that San Francisco needs to do this in order to increase housing supply to make it affordable for future generations. That’s kind of the big reason why is is folks are saying, Hey, like I grew up in this city and I can’t afford to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Daniel Lurie: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:18] \u003c/em>At the heart of family zoning is a simple idea. Families deserve to live in San Francisco. Not just visit, not just commute, but live here, grow here and thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:31] \u003c/em>You know, he had a lot of support from groups like SF Yumby and the Chamber of Commerce and you know, other groups that said we need this housing, you know, more housing might mean more customers and more foot traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Daniel Lurie: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:43] \u003c/em>Even though our needs have changed, our zoning didn’t. Today we write a new chapter. We want to build enough housing so kids growing up here will be able to raise their own families here in San Francisco. We want businesses to stay and grow, confident that their employees can afford to live here. We want firefighters, police officers, teachers, and nurses to live in the communities in which they serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:14] \u003c/em>He and other supporters have stressed that this is something that the state is mandating and that if the city doesn’t pass this plan, that we could risk losing essential funding. The city already faced a huge budget deficit this year and had to make a lot of cuts. We’re facing more cuts from the federal government. And so any, you know, potential further loss of funding, I think, you know, is sort of like putting up the alarm signals of like, hey, we have to do this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Daniel Lurie: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:45] \u003c/em>The state has given us a clear mandate, and if we don’t ask, we risk losing funding and our ability to decide what gets built here. Our plan it keeps control right here where it belongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:00] \u003c/em>And I know that you and our colleague Adhiti Bandlamudi spoke with residents of some of these areas that would be most impacted by this new zoning plan. What’s your sense of how residents who live in these areas are feeling about this? I mean, presumably they’ll be the most impacted. Does anyone think this is a good idea?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:21] \u003c/em>Sure, you know, I think there are plenty of people, you know, regardless of whether or not they support this plan that recognize that San Francisco and really the Bay Area as a region needs more housing and specifically needs more affordable housing. I’ve been doing a lot of reporting with our colleague Aditi, who actually lives on one of the streets that is slated to be upzoned, and she spoke with a resident named Darya Bulgova about this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Darya Bolgovia: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:48] \u003c/em>Like like it’s so many people who teach in the city commute into the city from somewhere else. It’s like super messed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:57] \u003c/em>And she actually supports upzoning and says that the city needs to make room for more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Darya Bolgovia: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:03] \u003c/em>Like yes, we we even joke whenever people ask what neighborhood we live in, when we say Sunset we’re like, It’s the ‘burbs of San Francisco. But I I think, yeah, at the end of the day, like we should make the city more accessible and whatever way we get there is is better. So like it’s a city, like we should look like a city, it’s okay.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:29] \u003c/em>Coming up, the people and the arguments against the rezoning plan. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:30] \u003c/em>Let’s dive a little bit more into the arguments against this plan. It didn’t pass easily by the Board of Supervisors. Who was really coming out against this, especially on the city side of things?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:42] \u003c/em>So supervisors like Connie Chan and residents and neighborhood groups that have opposed this plan are concerned that it’s not gonna actually lead to more affordable housing, but that it actually might just lead to real estate speculation, you know, drive up the rent in certain areas and displace families who have been here for a long time while not actually guaranteeing to include and build that affordable housing that the city still desperately needs. One main concern is the fate of rent-controlled units. Because when you upzone, you can open up the possibility of old buildings getting torn down or redeveloped. And that can include possibly rent-controlled units. And some people are really worried about that. There was an amendment that was incorporated into this plan that actually removed any buildings that have three or more rent-controlled units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Connie Chan: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:42] \u003c/em>I’m disappointed. I’m disappointed where we’re at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:46] \u003c/em>Chan, who represents the Richmond, said, I actually believe that there should be no rent-controlled units that are at risk of demolition under this plan. You know, she put forward an amendment that would have excluded potentially all rent-controlled buildings. That did not ultimately get incorporated. But she was saying that it doesn’t make sense to remove buildings that have rent-controlled units where people already have kind of that security baked into their living situation and potentially, you know, bulldoze and then develop a a building that they wouldn’t be able to afford potentially after it got completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Connie Chan: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:25] \u003c/em>My mother, a single mother, an immigrant, longtime worker in Chinatown, she was able to work and live in Chinatown boarding North Beach area because of the rent control units where she reside for three decades, where I grew up until she passed in 2021. People, San Franciscans, need housing, both existing and new. We know that our existing housing stock, especially rent control housing, is our most valuable and affordable housing stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:57] \u003c/em>It sort of sounds like the impact that this could have on rent control apartments is one of the big sticking points, but also it sounds like people are just concerned that this is just gonna make way for more buildings that actually don’t make the city more affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:14] \u003c/em>Yeah, that seems to be one of the most salient, you know, criticisms of this plan is like, sure, even if it does lead the way for more housing, what part of this plan is actually guaranteeing that that will be affordable to folks who are low income or even, you know, have the average median income? And then of course there are small business owners that have shops in these corridors that are also slated to be upzoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Justine Escalada: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:40] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean definitely more construction is not — we we really dislike it.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:47] \u003c/em>I spoke with Justine Escalada. She runs a vintage shop over in the inner Richmond. And she was there working with her partner and their little baby sleeping in a stroller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Justine Escalada: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:58] \u003c/em>Like but prior to this I was a preschool teacher and like very involved in the families’ lives as in there as well and like a lot of them were even like having to leave the city. So I don’t know if this would just continue it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:13] \u003c/em>She was worried that if the building owner, you know, decides one day to sell to a developer to, you know, build more housing on that block, she said that they would probably have to move and and potentially even leave the city entirely because they don’t have this, you know, stack of cash that can keep them afloat during that construction process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Justine Escalada: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:37] \u003c/em>So I think it would drive away a lot of people who have been a part of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:46] \u003c/em>For every person that said, Yes, let’s build more housing, there’ll be more foot traffic, there’ll be more nightlife. There was also someone out there that said, I don’t want to have to, you know, drive around my block ten times before I can find parking. Or, you know, it’s already expensive. How is this going to, you know, help keep my rents down? And then also just frankly, from some folks who said, you know, I bought this home 20 years ago for the neighborhood and and the way that it looks, and I don’t want that to change. Or, you know, I moved here six months ago and I’m starting a family and and you know, I don’t want this neighborhood to change. You know, that is that is still very much an opinion that is out there too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:34] \u003c/em>Well, I mean, as we were just talking about Zini, this was a pretty contentious plan, and that the Board of Supervisors ultimately had to vote on. How did the board vote?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:45] \u003c/em>This was a pretty long discussion. I mean, I’ve been following this for months now and and have sat through some hours and hours of public comment. There was no public comment at this particular meeting because it was one of the final votes. But each supervisor went around and shared their thoughts about why they support it and don’t and it got, you know, pretty heated. Ultimately it came down to a seven to four vote in support of the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:16] \u003c/em>I mean, Sydney, I feel like there’s a lot of concern around how much this plan can change San Francisco or p big parts of the city. I mean, how much could this plan on its own actually change San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:32] \u003c/em>You know, there’s been actually a couple analyzes of this that have come out. One from the city’s economist actually said that because of constraints in the market, you know, construction cost, financing that is or is not available and funding, that the number of units that could actually be built as a result of this plan is, you know, pretty shy of what the plan’s goal is. So for better or for worse, this, you know, may not actually result in 36,000 new units, and it certainly won’t right away. Actually, it was really interesting going to some of these public forums and hearing the city’s planning commission and and representatives from the mayor’s office talk to people who were concerned about their neighborhoods, you know, just being transformed and and looking radically different from the place that they moved to and and love, you know, saying things like, actually this plan isn’t gonna change that much. And these are the people who are actually, you know, supporting the plan and saying we need to pass this, but are also kind of being like, Well, realistically, we know that this isn’t gonna like dramatically change the city. So.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:42] \u003c/em>Cause It doesn’t change the fact that it just takes a long time to build in the state of California, period. Right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:52] \u003c/em>Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:52] \u003c/em>And I mean, San Francisco is not the only city in the state that is really under pressure from the state of California to build more, right? 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"content": "\u003cp>Nine years after filmmaker and journalist \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12255111/kevin-epps-documentary-filmmaker-arrested-in-glen-park-homicide\">Kevin Epps\u003c/a> shot and killed a man in his San Francisco home, it is now up to a jury to decide whether the act was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064918/supporters-rally-for-sf-filmmaker-kevin-epps-on-trial-for-murder-after-2016-shooting\">self-defense or murder\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the events that took place before Epps fatally shot Marcus Polk, his sister-in-law’s ex-husband, on Oct. 24, 2016, aren’t in question. Polk, who was unhoused and frequently visited his ex-wife, Starr Gul, and her kids at the house, was turned away at the door the night before the shooting. He returned the next day, inebriated, and entered the home despite being told again to leave. Moments later, Epps shot him twice, and he died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, jurors will have to determine why Epps fired a gun at Polk that day. Over the monthlong trial, defense attorneys argued that Epps feared for his life and those of the four other people in the house, while the district attorney’s office has posited that Epps was motivated by growing tension over Polk’s frequent visits to the family’s Glen Park home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During closing statements on Monday, Epps’ attorney, Darlene Comstedt, told jurors that he was legally justified to act in self-defense after Polk entered the house, threatening him and neighborhood maintenance workers he’d just gotten into a spat with outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Marcus Polk came at Kevin Epps in Kevin Epps’ home, and he shot in self-defense. He’s not guilty,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That narrative was widely accepted in the years after the shooting. Epps’ supporters say he is being targeted because of his race and background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996169\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1207\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco-1020x641.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco-1536x966.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Superior Court of California and San Francisco City Hall. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though Epps was briefly arrested after the shooting, then-District Attorney George Gascón did not charge him, citing a lack of evidence. He wasn’t charged until three years later, after controversial 3D-generated images that recreated the shooting raised questions about the validity of Epps’ self-defense claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors now allege that Epps’ use of force wasn’t justifiable. Polk was unarmed, hadn’t been physically violent and was allegedly faced away from Epps when he was struck, Assistant District Attorney Jonathan Schmidt said in his closing argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a word, it just wasn’t necessary,” Schmidt said. He has posited that instead, Epps was motivated by malice. “Shooting over a verbal argument about when is a good time to visit is like amputating … for a paper cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Self-defense or malice?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The night before the shooting, on Oct. 23, 2016, witnesses say that Polk came to the house late after recently being jailed on a parole violation. After banging on the door, he was turned away by Epps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He came back the following day under the influence of methamphetamine and cannabis, according to a toxicology report conducted after his death. He was again told to leave and appeared to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after, though, Maryam Jhan, Epps’ partner, was alerted that Polk had gotten into an argument with two housing authority maintenance workers outside the home. They accused him of putting trash in another resident’s bin and told him to leave.[aside postID=news_12064918 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251120-KEVIN-EPPS-TRIAL-ADE-01-KQED.jpg']The argument drew Epps, Jhan and Gul outside. Jhan told the workers that Polk wasn’t her guest, and Epps and Gul again told Polk to leave, according to court documents. Then, Polk barged into the home and became “erratic,” threatening to “air out” Epps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense said Jhan went downstairs to call her neighbor for help while “the situation upstairs escalated, and Mr. Epps, believing his life and others’ lives to be in danger, fired two shots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polk was shot from at least two feet away and struck in the left arm and left side of his torso, according to court filings. The prosecution said he was attempting to turn on the TV at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epps has maintained that he shot in self-defense, and a witness testified that he said Polk “came at” him. California law allows people to use force intended to cause death against a person who unlawfully or forcefully enters their residence if they fear imminent danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in May 2019, San Francisco police arrested Epps based on new evidence that suggested Polk was facing away when he was shot, throwing into question whether his self-defense claim was justified. Epps was charged with murder and illegal possession of a firearm as a felon. He had had multiple run-ins with law enforcement in his younger years and a prior nonviolent felony conviction from 2001, 15 years before the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said three-dimensional computer-generated images revealed multiple scenarios that could have led up to the shooting, including one that showed Polk’s back to Epps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That narrative was corroborated by Gul, the shooting’s sole witness, who said in a 2019 preliminary hearing and again on the stand last month that Polk was standing in the living room facing the television when Epps shot from behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 3D image evidence was ultimately withdrawn over objections by the defense, and court records state that SFPD investigators determined that it wasn’t possible to trace the trajectory of the bullets, but Gul’s testimony has been key to the prosecution’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Competing narratives\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout the trial, Schmidt argued that the shooting was motivated by the “simmering dispute” between Epps and Polk over his frequent presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texts between Epps and Jhan appeared to highlight his dislike for the arrangement, and Polk’s daughter Melina, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, testified last month that Epps often seemed frustrated with his presence and complained that he didn’t “have any responsibilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was an irritant, but being an irritant doesn’t justify [deadly force],” Schmidt said during closing arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11145474\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11145474 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/11145473-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco filmmaker Kevin Epps was arrested in connection to a homicide in Glen Park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/11145473-thumb.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/11145473-thumb-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/11145473-thumb-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/11145473-thumb-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/11145473-thumb-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco filmmaker Kevin Epps. \u003ccite>(Kevin Epps/Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schmidt described Polk as a regular at the Glen Park residence, where he often came to shower and hang out, since Gul and their children were often over at her sister’s home. He said he was familial with Jhan and Gul, and helped around the house, cleaning bathrooms and pitching in with housework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In closing statements, Schmidt said in the months before the shooting, Polk was visiting even more regularly. He alleged that Epps, on the other hand, had moved out of the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her closing statement, though, Comstedt insisted that Epps did live at the residence and highlighted more complicated family dynamics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the description of Polk as a “family man who’s present at Christmas celebrations … or births of kids … might have been true at one time, but not in 2016.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polk was a methamphetamine user, and it wasn’t uncommon for him to be turned away from the house, Melina testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has prior convictions for domestic abuse against Gul, as well as for lewd acts with a child, second-degree robbery and drug possession, according to court documents published by Mission Local. He is a registered sex offender. His criminal history was not permitted to be revealed to the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comstedt also said Gul was contradicted by evidence and by her own previous statements on the events that led to the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the course of her multi-day testimony, Gul changed her description of how Epps and Polk were standing when Epps fired the gun. She first indicated that the men were facing each other head-on after the first shot was fired, but after repeated questioning, she told prosecutors that Polk was angled slightly away, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-kevin-epps-murder-eyewitness-starr-gul/\">\u003cem>Mission Local \u003c/em>reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gul also offered a different description of how she acted when Polk came into the house. In prior interviews, she said she had told Polk to leave, but on the stand, she said she was silent when he came inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, in one of the biggest revelations of her testimony, Gul alleged for the first time publicly that during the altercation the night before the shooting, Epps pulled a gun on Polk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was new,” Comstedt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comstedt closed by reiterating that Epps was reasonably afraid of death or bodily injury when he shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Community calls for justice\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the years since his arrest and throughout the trial, Epps has garnered strong community support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the shooting, he’d risen to local fame for his series of documentaries about the experience of Black San Franciscans, including \u003cem>Straight Outta Hunters Point \u003c/em>(2003), which highlighted the poverty, violence and struggles of the neighborhood where he grew up.[aside postID=news_12065877 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-VALLEYFAIRCHARGE-JG-3_qed.jpg']In 2020, more than 600 people signed a petition urging a judge to allow him bail, and dozens of letters, including from Supervisor Matt Haney and Jhan, requested the same. When Judge Christine Van Aken granted that request, which is highly unusual in a murder case, supporters helped raise $250,000 for his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last month, Epps received the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists’ Silver Heart award, and during his trial, supporters have rallied outside the courthouse on his behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I know that Kevin is a very honorable man,” Carol McGruder, a longtime friend, said during a rally on Nov. 20. “I don’t think that he’s just shooting and killing people for no good reason at all. It’s a tragic event, but I’m here to support him. He is a valued community member, a father and we want to get this behind us, have justice and have him be exonerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I think we really need to question when prosecutors decide to bring someone like Kevin Epps to trial, if they have a problem accepting that somebody with his background, with his color skin from the neighborhood that he’s from, acted in self-defense instead of malice,” said Julian Davis, a spokesperson for Epps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During prosecutors’ final statements before the jury on Tuesday, more than a dozen supporters gathered in the courtroom. Throughout the proceedings, a few got up and left the courtroom while yelling out in protest, alleging “prosecutorial misconduct” and “lies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/adahlstromeckman\">\u003cem>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During closing statements on Monday, Epps’ attorney, Darlene Comstedt, told jurors that he was legally justified to act in self-defense after Polk entered the house, threatening him and neighborhood maintenance workers he’d just gotten into a spat with outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Marcus Polk came at Kevin Epps in Kevin Epps’ home, and he shot in self-defense. He’s not guilty,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That narrative was widely accepted in the years after the shooting. Epps’ supporters say he is being targeted because of his race and background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996169\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1207\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco-1020x641.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco-1536x966.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Superior Court of California and San Francisco City Hall. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though Epps was briefly arrested after the shooting, then-District Attorney George Gascón did not charge him, citing a lack of evidence. He wasn’t charged until three years later, after controversial 3D-generated images that recreated the shooting raised questions about the validity of Epps’ self-defense claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors now allege that Epps’ use of force wasn’t justifiable. Polk was unarmed, hadn’t been physically violent and was allegedly faced away from Epps when he was struck, Assistant District Attorney Jonathan Schmidt said in his closing argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a word, it just wasn’t necessary,” Schmidt said. He has posited that instead, Epps was motivated by malice. “Shooting over a verbal argument about when is a good time to visit is like amputating … for a paper cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Self-defense or malice?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The night before the shooting, on Oct. 23, 2016, witnesses say that Polk came to the house late after recently being jailed on a parole violation. After banging on the door, he was turned away by Epps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He came back the following day under the influence of methamphetamine and cannabis, according to a toxicology report conducted after his death. He was again told to leave and appeared to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after, though, Maryam Jhan, Epps’ partner, was alerted that Polk had gotten into an argument with two housing authority maintenance workers outside the home. They accused him of putting trash in another resident’s bin and told him to leave.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The argument drew Epps, Jhan and Gul outside. Jhan told the workers that Polk wasn’t her guest, and Epps and Gul again told Polk to leave, according to court documents. Then, Polk barged into the home and became “erratic,” threatening to “air out” Epps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense said Jhan went downstairs to call her neighbor for help while “the situation upstairs escalated, and Mr. Epps, believing his life and others’ lives to be in danger, fired two shots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polk was shot from at least two feet away and struck in the left arm and left side of his torso, according to court filings. The prosecution said he was attempting to turn on the TV at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epps has maintained that he shot in self-defense, and a witness testified that he said Polk “came at” him. California law allows people to use force intended to cause death against a person who unlawfully or forcefully enters their residence if they fear imminent danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in May 2019, San Francisco police arrested Epps based on new evidence that suggested Polk was facing away when he was shot, throwing into question whether his self-defense claim was justified. Epps was charged with murder and illegal possession of a firearm as a felon. He had had multiple run-ins with law enforcement in his younger years and a prior nonviolent felony conviction from 2001, 15 years before the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said three-dimensional computer-generated images revealed multiple scenarios that could have led up to the shooting, including one that showed Polk’s back to Epps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That narrative was corroborated by Gul, the shooting’s sole witness, who said in a 2019 preliminary hearing and again on the stand last month that Polk was standing in the living room facing the television when Epps shot from behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 3D image evidence was ultimately withdrawn over objections by the defense, and court records state that SFPD investigators determined that it wasn’t possible to trace the trajectory of the bullets, but Gul’s testimony has been key to the prosecution’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Competing narratives\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout the trial, Schmidt argued that the shooting was motivated by the “simmering dispute” between Epps and Polk over his frequent presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texts between Epps and Jhan appeared to highlight his dislike for the arrangement, and Polk’s daughter Melina, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, testified last month that Epps often seemed frustrated with his presence and complained that he didn’t “have any responsibilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was an irritant, but being an irritant doesn’t justify [deadly force],” Schmidt said during closing arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11145474\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11145474 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/11145473-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco filmmaker Kevin Epps was arrested in connection to a homicide in Glen Park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/11145473-thumb.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/11145473-thumb-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/11145473-thumb-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/11145473-thumb-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/11145473-thumb-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco filmmaker Kevin Epps. \u003ccite>(Kevin Epps/Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schmidt described Polk as a regular at the Glen Park residence, where he often came to shower and hang out, since Gul and their children were often over at her sister’s home. He said he was familial with Jhan and Gul, and helped around the house, cleaning bathrooms and pitching in with housework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In closing statements, Schmidt said in the months before the shooting, Polk was visiting even more regularly. He alleged that Epps, on the other hand, had moved out of the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her closing statement, though, Comstedt insisted that Epps did live at the residence and highlighted more complicated family dynamics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the description of Polk as a “family man who’s present at Christmas celebrations … or births of kids … might have been true at one time, but not in 2016.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polk was a methamphetamine user, and it wasn’t uncommon for him to be turned away from the house, Melina testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has prior convictions for domestic abuse against Gul, as well as for lewd acts with a child, second-degree robbery and drug possession, according to court documents published by Mission Local. He is a registered sex offender. 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"content": "\u003cp>With a smile, Brittanie Hernandez-Wilson, 38, closes her eyes when she says her friend’s name. She pauses. A tear rolls down her cheek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a real level of rage that I feel around Alice’s death,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13983848/alice-wong-disability-rights-activist-obituary\"> a month\u003c/a> since disability activist and author \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101912041/remembering-disability-activist-alice-wong\">Alice Wong\u003c/a> died in San Francisco. Since her passing, KQED has spoken with many of Wong’s friends and collaborators in the Bay Area to better understand what motivated her decades of organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her writings and public appearances, Wong spoke of the need for disabled people to advocate loudly for their health needs. This mission brought together a bold and effective network of advocates living with different disabilities. But now, folks are preparing for the biggest challenge yet: more than a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicaid and other social services in the coming decade, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058930/medicaid-cuts-could-put-services-for-disabled-californians-at-risk\">slashing a lifeline\u003c/a> for disabled people nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alice fought like hell to exist in her body and mind every day,” said Hernandez-Wilson, who works for a nonprofit that advocates for domestic workers and caretakers. “There is a larger system at play that dictates if we are worthy enough of getting care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raised in rural Minnesota, Hernandez-Wilson was the only student with a disability in her class and one of the few students of color in her entire school. “I was afraid that if I was labeled as a certain type of disabled person, I would be locked away in a classroom … that deep internalized ableism can really mess with your mind,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an adult, she picked up \u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/617802/disability-visibility-by-alice-wong/\">\u003cem>Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an anthology edited by Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy Ho, left, and Brittanie Hernandez-Wilson, right, hold hands at Lake Merritt in Oakland on Nov. 24, 2025. Hernandez-Wilson and Ho, who both worked closely with disability justice leader Alice Wong, are mourning their loss, yet continuing their fight for disability justice. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was the first time in my entire life that I really saw disabled people who looked like me embody self-love, embracing their body and mind,” she said. “It was like a hug from the universe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Hernandez-Wilson moved to the Bay Area last year, Wong became her mentor and friend. They shared jokes, stories of old crushes and how each managed their health. Born with spinal muscular atrophy, Wong dealt with chronic health issues throughout her life. After a series of medical emergencies in 2022, she began communicating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201601143471/alice-wong-i-still-have-a-voice-2\">through text-to-speech technology\u003c/a> and her family confirmed that her death was due to an infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the systems weren’t the way they are, many of our people would still be here,” said Hernandez-Wilson. But even after Wong’s passing, she said, a generation of activists mentored by her is ready to push forward a bolder vision of liberation for all disabled people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Centering the most marginalized\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gifted with radiant charm and a disarming sense of humor, Wong, who was 51, built coalitions between different disabled communities. Cross-disability solidarity is \u003ca href=\"https://sinsinvalid.org/10-principles-of-disability-justice/\">a core principle of disability justice\u003c/a>, a framework developed over the last decade by queer and trans disabled activists of color in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 20th century, the primary objective for many disabled activists was securing equal employment, political participation and economic self-sufficiency — as outlined in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065194\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and founder of the Disability Visibility Project, sits in the courtyard at the Disability Cultural Center on Aug. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This organizing was rooted in the Bay Area: the independent living movement \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/news/2017-04-05/berkeley-disability-activists-took-cues-from-the-civil-rights-era-and-sparked-a-national-movement\">took off here in the 1970s\u003c/a>; activists in Berkeley created the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/they-took-sledgehammers-sidewalks-heres-why-curb-cut-effect/\">first sidewalk curb cuts\u003c/a>; and in 1977, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13966861/judith-heumann-disability-rights-uc-berkeley-center-independent-living\">more than 100 disabled protesters\u003c/a> occupied the San Francisco Federal Building to demand implementation of the rule that prohibited discrimination based on disability in federally funded programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of disability justice maintain that ableism affects everyone — particularly those living with disabilities — and call for a future free of all systems that oppress disabled people. This fight, Wong said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2003809/episodes/10799918-making-the-world-brighter-sassier-and-more-colorful-alice-wong-on-disability-justice\">a 2022 podcast\u003c/a>, “must center on the most marginalized.” Nowhere is this more necessary, she added, than in a post-COVID world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While cities and states rushed to loosen pandemic restrictions, Wong pushed back and demanded hospitals — including her own care provider, UCSF — continue \u003ca href=\"https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/25/n95s4ucsf-call-to-action/\">requiring face masks\u003c/a> and expand \u003ca href=\"https://nursing.ucsf.edu/news/disability-and-health-care-conversation-activist-alice-wong\">research into treatments\u003c/a> for those living with long COVID.[aside postID=news_11984990 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/Featured-photo-horizontal-Alice-Wong-1020x574.png']That’s how she met Charlie McCone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before contracting COVID in 2020, McCone, 35, said he had never experienced a serious health problem before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you go from biking 10 miles a day to work to being housebound indefinitely, losing your job and not having any answers from the medical system, it is absolutely devastating,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/long-covid\">Long COVID\u003c/a> — a chronic condition that follows many coronavirus infections and still confounds researchers — permanently altered McCone’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Searching for answers to his condition, he joined Twitter (now known as X). From his San Francisco home, he shared his experiences online, hoping more people would take long COVID seriously. But after two years, “I came to the realization that otherwise good and reasonable people are still completely unfazed by the fact that their next COVID infection could cause extreme harm to them or their family,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started to feel rage at the injustices he saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People disabled by this virus and those already disabled prior to the pandemic are being completely disregarded and considered disposable by the general public,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Preparing for cuts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While others recommended he temper his emotions online, Wong encouraged McCone to lean into them. They met in person for the first time in 2023 over tea and soon got to work: over the next year, their online network launched \u003ca href=\"https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/02/disabled-outrage-and-podsavejon/\">a massive social media campaign\u003c/a> to pressure federal lawmakers to address the needs of those with long COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their efforts would bear fruit in January 2024 when Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) held the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/20/1225862790/advocates-push-for-greater-investment-in-long-covid-research-at-senate-hearing\">first Congressional hearing\u003c/a> on long COVID. Patients and doctors testified and called for long-term investments in research. Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006894/bay-areas-long-covid-community-celebrates-moonshot-bill-for-10-billion-in-funding\">later proposed $10 billion\u003c/a> in funding for research, treatment and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052187\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Eli Gelardin, Director of the Mayor’s Office on Disability, speaks with Alice Wong, a disability rights activist, and Debbie Kaplan, Deputy Director of Programmatic Access, at the Disability Cultural Center on Aug. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Alice could make incredibly meaningful change through media,” McCone said, adding that folks living with long COVID need to keep sharing their stories — now more than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation to fund long COVID research has stalled since Republicans took control of Congress, but the Trump administration is moving quickly to implement \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997707/how-will-trumps-mega-bill-impact-health-care-in-california\">major health care reforms\u003c/a> outlined in the sweeping legislation known as the One Big Beautiful Bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill establishes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047647/trumps-health-law-spurs-big-medi-cal-changes-what-californians-need-to-know\">new eligibility rules for Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, the state’s Medicaid program that covers over 15 million low-income Californians. State health officials predict that up to 3.4 million Medi-Cal recipients could lose their coverage in the coming years under new rules that include more frequent eligibility screenings and work requirements for certain groups. While the White House \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/myth-vs-fact-the-one-big-beautiful-bill/\">insists\u003c/a> that the bill will not take coverage away from Americans with disabilities, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058930/medicaid-cuts-could-put-services-for-disabled-californians-at-risk\">independent policy experts note\u003c/a> that California will lose matching federal funds as residents lose their Medi-Cal coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers could respond by \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/history-repeats-faced-medicaid-cuts-states-reduced-support-older-adults-and-disabled\">cutting home and community-based services\u003c/a>, which allow people with disabilities to receive treatment, care and job training in their own communities rather than in institutions like nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you really want people with disabilities to get jobs, then you don’t cut the health care that allows people to stay well enough to work,” said Silvia Yee, public policy director at the Berkeley-based Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund. “You don’t cut the services that help people with disabilities navigate hiring and settling into a job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides Medicaid changes, Yee noted that the One Big Beautiful Bill also failed to extend subsidies for people who bought health insurance through Affordable Care Act marketplaces like Covered California. Many people with a disability or chronic illness have an ACA insurance plan and will have to pay more to receive necessary care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These all seem like different cuts, but they affect the same pool of people,” Yee said. “All of this together makes it incredibly hard for people with disabilities to participate and live as part of the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The weight of carrying out disability justice’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The future can quite often feel precarious when you’re disabled, said Sandy Ho, one of Wong’s closest friends and executive director of the Disability and Philanthropy Forum. Ho, originally from Boston, met Wong 15 years ago online. They didn’t meet in person until Ho moved to Oakland, but the bond of their friendship endured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are always forces trying to take away our health care, and Alice understood that on a level that emboldened her to just say, ‘F— it all, either you’re with me, or you’re not,’” said Ho, who Wong tasked with carrying forward some of her unfinished projects, including her next book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065498\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy Ho, a disability justice activist, poses for a portrait at Lake Merritt in Oakland on Nov. 24, 2025. Ho worked closely with Alice Wong, a disability justice leader who died in November. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So many of us got to witness her life and be a part of it on so many different levels,” she said, adding that Wong loved organizing dinner parties for her friends, bringing together artists, organizers, researchers and health care workers. “She is our future — the future looks like getting fed really well because disabled people deserve delicious things. Disabled people deserve joy, to have fun and create.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year also saw the death of another leader in the disabled community: Patty Berne — co-founder of the Bay Area-based performance group \u003ca href=\"https://sinsinvalid.org/about-sins/\">Sins Invalid\u003c/a> and one of the minds behind the disability justice framework — \u003ca href=\"https://19thnews.org/2025/08/patty-berne-obituary-disability-justice-movement/\">died last May in Berkeley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that I have unfortunately experienced a lot in the disability community is grief,” said Rosemary McDonnell-Horita, a Berkeley-based writer who was a friend to Wong and Berne. “The depths of love also come with the depths of grief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaigns both online and in Sacramento \u003ca href=\"https://dredf.org/oppose-cuts-to-medi-cal/\">are already underway\u003c/a> to protect Medi-Cal funding that serves disabled Californians. Other friends of Wong are \u003ca href=\"https://llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong-was-crips-for-esims-for\">continuing her call\u003c/a> to help provide disabled Palestinians in Gaza with cellular data. And McDonnell-Horita plans to keep working on a project that Wong loudly cheered: a cookbook for disabled people by disabled people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all now bear the weight of carrying out disability justice to the best of our ability,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alice fought like hell to exist in her body and mind every day,” said Hernandez-Wilson, who works for a nonprofit that advocates for domestic workers and caretakers. “There is a larger system at play that dictates if we are worthy enough of getting care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raised in rural Minnesota, Hernandez-Wilson was the only student with a disability in her class and one of the few students of color in her entire school. “I was afraid that if I was labeled as a certain type of disabled person, I would be locked away in a classroom … that deep internalized ableism can really mess with your mind,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an adult, she picked up \u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/617802/disability-visibility-by-alice-wong/\">\u003cem>Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an anthology edited by Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy Ho, left, and Brittanie Hernandez-Wilson, right, hold hands at Lake Merritt in Oakland on Nov. 24, 2025. Hernandez-Wilson and Ho, who both worked closely with disability justice leader Alice Wong, are mourning their loss, yet continuing their fight for disability justice. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was the first time in my entire life that I really saw disabled people who looked like me embody self-love, embracing their body and mind,” she said. “It was like a hug from the universe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Hernandez-Wilson moved to the Bay Area last year, Wong became her mentor and friend. They shared jokes, stories of old crushes and how each managed their health. Born with spinal muscular atrophy, Wong dealt with chronic health issues throughout her life. After a series of medical emergencies in 2022, she began communicating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201601143471/alice-wong-i-still-have-a-voice-2\">through text-to-speech technology\u003c/a> and her family confirmed that her death was due to an infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the systems weren’t the way they are, many of our people would still be here,” said Hernandez-Wilson. But even after Wong’s passing, she said, a generation of activists mentored by her is ready to push forward a bolder vision of liberation for all disabled people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Centering the most marginalized\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gifted with radiant charm and a disarming sense of humor, Wong, who was 51, built coalitions between different disabled communities. Cross-disability solidarity is \u003ca href=\"https://sinsinvalid.org/10-principles-of-disability-justice/\">a core principle of disability justice\u003c/a>, a framework developed over the last decade by queer and trans disabled activists of color in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 20th century, the primary objective for many disabled activists was securing equal employment, political participation and economic self-sufficiency — as outlined in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065194\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and founder of the Disability Visibility Project, sits in the courtyard at the Disability Cultural Center on Aug. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This organizing was rooted in the Bay Area: the independent living movement \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/news/2017-04-05/berkeley-disability-activists-took-cues-from-the-civil-rights-era-and-sparked-a-national-movement\">took off here in the 1970s\u003c/a>; activists in Berkeley created the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/they-took-sledgehammers-sidewalks-heres-why-curb-cut-effect/\">first sidewalk curb cuts\u003c/a>; and in 1977, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13966861/judith-heumann-disability-rights-uc-berkeley-center-independent-living\">more than 100 disabled protesters\u003c/a> occupied the San Francisco Federal Building to demand implementation of the rule that prohibited discrimination based on disability in federally funded programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of disability justice maintain that ableism affects everyone — particularly those living with disabilities — and call for a future free of all systems that oppress disabled people. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That’s how she met Charlie McCone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before contracting COVID in 2020, McCone, 35, said he had never experienced a serious health problem before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you go from biking 10 miles a day to work to being housebound indefinitely, losing your job and not having any answers from the medical system, it is absolutely devastating,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/long-covid\">Long COVID\u003c/a> — a chronic condition that follows many coronavirus infections and still confounds researchers — permanently altered McCone’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Searching for answers to his condition, he joined Twitter (now known as X). From his San Francisco home, he shared his experiences online, hoping more people would take long COVID seriously. But after two years, “I came to the realization that otherwise good and reasonable people are still completely unfazed by the fact that their next COVID infection could cause extreme harm to them or their family,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started to feel rage at the injustices he saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People disabled by this virus and those already disabled prior to the pandemic are being completely disregarded and considered disposable by the general public,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Preparing for cuts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While others recommended he temper his emotions online, Wong encouraged McCone to lean into them. They met in person for the first time in 2023 over tea and soon got to work: over the next year, their online network launched \u003ca href=\"https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/02/disabled-outrage-and-podsavejon/\">a massive social media campaign\u003c/a> to pressure federal lawmakers to address the needs of those with long COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their efforts would bear fruit in January 2024 when Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) held the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/20/1225862790/advocates-push-for-greater-investment-in-long-covid-research-at-senate-hearing\">first Congressional hearing\u003c/a> on long COVID. Patients and doctors testified and called for long-term investments in research. Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006894/bay-areas-long-covid-community-celebrates-moonshot-bill-for-10-billion-in-funding\">later proposed $10 billion\u003c/a> in funding for research, treatment and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052187\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Eli Gelardin, Director of the Mayor’s Office on Disability, speaks with Alice Wong, a disability rights activist, and Debbie Kaplan, Deputy Director of Programmatic Access, at the Disability Cultural Center on Aug. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Alice could make incredibly meaningful change through media,” McCone said, adding that folks living with long COVID need to keep sharing their stories — now more than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation to fund long COVID research has stalled since Republicans took control of Congress, but the Trump administration is moving quickly to implement \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997707/how-will-trumps-mega-bill-impact-health-care-in-california\">major health care reforms\u003c/a> outlined in the sweeping legislation known as the One Big Beautiful Bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill establishes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047647/trumps-health-law-spurs-big-medi-cal-changes-what-californians-need-to-know\">new eligibility rules for Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, the state’s Medicaid program that covers over 15 million low-income Californians. State health officials predict that up to 3.4 million Medi-Cal recipients could lose their coverage in the coming years under new rules that include more frequent eligibility screenings and work requirements for certain groups. While the White House \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/myth-vs-fact-the-one-big-beautiful-bill/\">insists\u003c/a> that the bill will not take coverage away from Americans with disabilities, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058930/medicaid-cuts-could-put-services-for-disabled-californians-at-risk\">independent policy experts note\u003c/a> that California will lose matching federal funds as residents lose their Medi-Cal coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers could respond by \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/history-repeats-faced-medicaid-cuts-states-reduced-support-older-adults-and-disabled\">cutting home and community-based services\u003c/a>, which allow people with disabilities to receive treatment, care and job training in their own communities rather than in institutions like nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you really want people with disabilities to get jobs, then you don’t cut the health care that allows people to stay well enough to work,” said Silvia Yee, public policy director at the Berkeley-based Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund. “You don’t cut the services that help people with disabilities navigate hiring and settling into a job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides Medicaid changes, Yee noted that the One Big Beautiful Bill also failed to extend subsidies for people who bought health insurance through Affordable Care Act marketplaces like Covered California. 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They didn’t meet in person until Ho moved to Oakland, but the bond of their friendship endured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are always forces trying to take away our health care, and Alice understood that on a level that emboldened her to just say, ‘F— it all, either you’re with me, or you’re not,’” said Ho, who Wong tasked with carrying forward some of her unfinished projects, including her next book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065498\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy Ho, a disability justice activist, poses for a portrait at Lake Merritt in Oakland on Nov. 24, 2025. 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