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The store’s opening date comes nearly a year after it \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/nintendo-union-square-19476453.php\">first announced its intention\u003c/a> to set up shop in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last five years, scores of major retailers have fled the area — The Gap, Nordstrom, Uniqlo, H&M and Walgreens, to name a few — leaving behind a bleak row of shuttered storefronts and for-lease signs that help fuel speculation of the city’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966281/san-francisco-restaurants-bounce-back-but-downtown-retail-still-struggles\">retail doom loop\u003c/a>.” In the third quarter of 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://cw-gbl-gws-prod.azureedge.net/-/media/cw/marketbeat-pdfs/2024/q4/us-reports/retail/san-francisco_americas_marketbeat_retail_q4-2024.pdf?rev=d489ef3c597744f7a42e4ca44f1b3723\">roughly 22%\u003c/a> of the district’s businesses were vacant, according to a report by the real-estate company Cushman & Wakefield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SF Union Square Store Closures Since 2020\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-aFKng\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/aFKng/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"900\" height=\"540\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m thrilled,” Supervisor Danny Sauter, who represents the district, said of the Nintendo store. “I think this is what we’re all looking for: more reasons to go to Union Square. It really fits with the type of retail that seems to be doing well these days, which is a kind of a space not only to shop but to have an experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sauter, who took office less than three months ago, said he’s confident the neighborhood is “on the upswing,” encouraged by local realtors who have said they’re getting more interest in their properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The narrative on San Francisco is starting to shift,” he added. “People are willing to take a chance on San Francisco again, and it’s remarkable how that was not the case six months ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031843\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250317_Nintendo_MG_0002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250317_Nintendo_MG_0002.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250317_Nintendo_MG_0002-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250317_Nintendo_MG_0002-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250317_Nintendo_MG_0002-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250317_Nintendo_MG_0002-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250317_Nintendo_MG_0002-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Nintendo Store in Union Square, Downtown San Francisco, March 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In another much-needed win for the neighborhood, Ross Dress for Less \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/ross-downtown-sf-renews-lease-19938724.php\">renewed the lease\u003c/a> for its flagship store on Market Street late last year and announced plans to open a new store one block away. Meanwhile, six other businesses set up shop in the neighborhood last year, with another seven announcing plans to open stores in 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/list-union-square-newly-opened-establishments-look-to-revive-downtown-sf/\">according to the Union Square Alliance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the supervisor acknowledged there’s still a very long way to go, noting that the district’s facade began showing cracks several years before the pandemic hit amid broader changes in retail and online shopping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s immediately evident in just the three-block stretch of Powell Street, between Market and Geary streets, leading up to Nintendo’s new store. At least 15 storefronts — many of them vast spaces — currently sit empty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031845\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031845\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250317_Nintendo_MG_0004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250317_Nintendo_MG_0004.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250317_Nintendo_MG_0004-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250317_Nintendo_MG_0004-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250317_Nintendo_MG_0004-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250317_Nintendo_MG_0004-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250317_Nintendo_MG_0004-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An empty commercial space in Union Square, Downtown San Francisco, March 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the latest major blow to the district, Bloomingdale’s in January \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/bloomingdales-closing-flagship-san-francisco-store\">announced plans to shutter\u003c/a> its massive department store in the already half-empty San Francisco Centre mall on Market Street. The store is set to close on April 13. The news comes less than a year after Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s parent company, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11977217/macys-to-close-flagship-san-francisco-union-square-store\">announced the imminent closure\u003c/a> of its flagship Union Square store, likely next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, there’s far too many [vacancies],” Sauter said. “There’s clearly a lot of work to be done. So, let’s celebrate this. But we’ve got to have many more of these wins for Union Square to really be back to where it was 10 years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sauter said it’s now the city’s responsibility to create a healthy business environment that will help keep Nintendo and other businesses rooted in the neighborhood.[aside postID=news_12031268 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00008-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“To make sure that the surrounding blocks are clean and safe and inviting so that everyone can just focus on a good experience at Nintendo,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Monday, several signs with images of Mario, Zelda and other iconic Nintendo characters had already been affixed to the Powell Street storefront. As spurts of intermittent rain pelted the street, a Union Square Alliance ambassador scrubbed poop from the sidewalk directly in front of the store’s main doors, warning passersby to avoid stepping in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wow, they actually do clean the shit off the sidewalk,” one man remarked as he hurried by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iggy DeGuzman, who was attending the Game Developers Conference at the Moscone Center, snapped a photo of the new signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s looking forward to the store opening soon, even though he doesn’t play Nintendo games as fervently as he once did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like it’s going to attract a lot more people,” said DeGuzman, 31, who grew up in San Francisco and now lives several blocks from the store. “It’s one store at a time. I don’t know how San Francisco’s going to revive Union Square, but it’s baby steps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The store’s opening date comes nearly a year after it \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/nintendo-union-square-19476453.php\">first announced its intention\u003c/a> to set up shop in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last five years, scores of major retailers have fled the area — The Gap, Nordstrom, Uniqlo, H&M and Walgreens, to name a few — leaving behind a bleak row of shuttered storefronts and for-lease signs that help fuel speculation of the city’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966281/san-francisco-restaurants-bounce-back-but-downtown-retail-still-struggles\">retail doom loop\u003c/a>.” In the third quarter of 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://cw-gbl-gws-prod.azureedge.net/-/media/cw/marketbeat-pdfs/2024/q4/us-reports/retail/san-francisco_americas_marketbeat_retail_q4-2024.pdf?rev=d489ef3c597744f7a42e4ca44f1b3723\">roughly 22%\u003c/a> of the district’s businesses were vacant, according to a report by the real-estate company Cushman & Wakefield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SF Union Square Store Closures Since 2020\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-aFKng\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/aFKng/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"900\" height=\"540\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m thrilled,” Supervisor Danny Sauter, who represents the district, said of the Nintendo store. “I think this is what we’re all looking for: more reasons to go to Union Square. It really fits with the type of retail that seems to be doing well these days, which is a kind of a space not only to shop but to have an experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sauter, who took office less than three months ago, said he’s confident the neighborhood is “on the upswing,” encouraged by local realtors who have said they’re getting more interest in their properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The narrative on San Francisco is starting to shift,” he added. “People are willing to take a chance on San Francisco again, and it’s remarkable how that was not the case six months ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031843\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250317_Nintendo_MG_0002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250317_Nintendo_MG_0002.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250317_Nintendo_MG_0002-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250317_Nintendo_MG_0002-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250317_Nintendo_MG_0002-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250317_Nintendo_MG_0002-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250317_Nintendo_MG_0002-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Nintendo Store in Union Square, Downtown San Francisco, March 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In another much-needed win for the neighborhood, Ross Dress for Less \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/ross-downtown-sf-renews-lease-19938724.php\">renewed the lease\u003c/a> for its flagship store on Market Street late last year and announced plans to open a new store one block away. 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"content": "\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday is scheduled to consider pausing the collection of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11930303/should-sf-and-berkeley-tax-empty-homes-following-oaklands-lead\">a tax on vacant homes\u003c/a> amidst ongoing litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://thefrisc.com/its-high-time-to-slay-the-myth-of-all-those-vacant-san-francisco-homes-2efd50728d8/\">Supporters\u003c/a> of the tax \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/skw0ub/more_than_40000_vacant_homes_in_san_francisco_20/\">often\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DDkWzxxv1qQ/\">point\u003c/a> to vacancy rates as a contributing factor to the city’s high home prices. And in 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11931327/heres-every-bay-area-housing-measure-on-the-ballot-tomorrow\">voters approved\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"https://sftreasurer.org/business/taxes-fees/empty-homes-tax-eht\">Empty Homes Tax\u003c/a> to open vacant units for new renters and owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would have \u003ca href=\"https://digitalsf.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A218071?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=baca753a092dbebb3e9b&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=0\">levied stiff penalties \u003c/a>for owners holding units vacant, ranging between $2,500 to $5,000 per unit, depending on its size. If the apartment was kept vacant for three or more consecutive years, an owner could pay up to the maximum penalty of $20,000 per unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first filings were slated to be due at the end of April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a few months after voters approved the tax, \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/small-realty-vs-san-francisco-complaint-.pdf\">groups representing property owners sued the city\u003c/a>, claiming it violated their constitutional rights. And, in November, a superior court judge agreed, \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/2e/60/19799276/NORCAL_PropM_unconstitutional_ruling_11-26-24.pdf\">ruling the Empty Homes Tax is unconstitutional\u003c/a> and violates \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=GOV&division=7.&title=1.&part=&chapter=12.75.&article=\">California’s Ellis Act\u003c/a>, which bars any public entity, including a city, from forcing a property owner to offer accommodations for rent or lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The right to exclude people from your property has long been considered one of the most fundamental aspects of property ownership,” said Jeremy Talcott, a property rights attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation. “In essence, this forces people to open up their private property to a third party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031680\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031680\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-22_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-22_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-22_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-22_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-22_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-22_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-22_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view looking west from the 100 Van Ness building rooftop in San Francisco on June 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The court ordered the city to stop enforcing or administering the tax. In a statement, Alex Barrett-Shorter, a spokesperson for City Attorney David Chiu, said the city was “disappointed by the trial court’s decision.” Last year, the city \u003ca href=\"https://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/dockets.cfm?dist=1&doc_id=3119880&doc_no=A172067&request_token=NiIwLSEnTkw%2BWzBFSCFNWE5IIEw6UVxfJCI%2BRzxSQCAgCg%3D%3D\">appealed\u003c/a> and is scheduled to \u003ca href=\"https://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/scheduledActions.cfm?dist=1&doc_id=3119880&doc_no=A172067&request_token=NiIwLSEnTkw%2BWzBFSCFNWE5IIEw6UVxfJCI%2BRzxSQCAgCg%3D%3D\">present opening arguments\u003c/a> in April, even as opponents have vowed to keep fighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors was scheduled to consider pausing the tax until a year after a final decision is made on the tax’s legality, but Supervisor Jackie Fielder asked to continue the item until this week’s meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her staff told KQED she wanted to understand whether the city could start collecting the tax if a lower court ruled in the city’s favor but ultimately decided against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11930303 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59672_017_KQED_BerkeleyMeasureM_10262022-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston, a vocal proponent of the tax, said it was meant to target large corporate landlords and real estate spectators who might purchase homes but hold them off the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The concern of all the advocates behind [the tax] was these properties where the homes just aren’t being used as homes for people,” he said. “They’re being used like shares of stock in the stock market for real estate investors to buy them and hold them for years and then resell them at higher values for profit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an October 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://56a418ca-94d2-476c-9a45-f491ca4a0387.usrfiles.com/ugd/56a418_8ba58b3bef6543b0ad09ce81a0ef037c.pdf\">city report\u003c/a>, which used data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, there were more than 60,000 San Francisco housing units considered vacant in 2021, though that statistic includes homes that are temporarily vacant because a tenant hasn’t moved in yet, the home is undergoing repairs or the property is caught in legal proceedings, among other reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tax \u003ca href=\"https://sftreasurer.org/file/empty-homes-tax-presentation/download?inline\">would have applied to\u003c/a> buildings with three or more units if the unit was kept vacant for more than 182 days in a calendar year. Single-family homes, duplexes and units occupied by travelers or vacationers would be exempt. And it allowed for vacancies during periods of construction, repairs, disasters or if the owner died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031683\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"857\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-800x343.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-1020x437.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-160x69.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-1536x658.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-1920x823.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A row of homes on Capp Street, between 22nd and 23rd streets, in San Francisco’s Mission District. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/BLA.Residential%20Vacancies.013122_final.pdf\">In an earlier report from January 2022 (PDF)\u003c/a>, the city assumed fewer than a fifth of San Francisco’s vacant homes would be subject to the tax, and it could collect a little more than $61 million per year in net revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents argued the tax would ultimately \u003ca href=\"https://www.smallprop.org/press/supervisor-prestons-proposed-vacancy-tax-measure-would-place-a-hefty-tax/\">apply to fewer units\u003c/a> than the city predicted and \u003ca href=\"https://tsfaction.org/prop-m\">wouldn’t address\u003c/a> barriers to constructing new housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Huang, president of the San Francisco Association of Realtors, said the tax was an “unfair punishment on homeowners disallowed by the courts.” The organization was one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The solution at hand is not the right one because the courts said so,” he said. “The right move should be to go back to the drawing board and craft something that actually solves the problem rather than going down a path that they’ve been told is not the right one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031686\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Empty streets in downtown San Francisco on April 7, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Out of the homes that were considered vacant in 2021, the city found that \u003ca href=\"https://56a418ca-94d2-476c-9a45-f491ca4a0387.usrfiles.com/ugd/56a418_8ba58b3bef6543b0ad09ce81a0ef037c.pdf\">more than 16%\u003c/a> were occupied seasonally or recreationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are truly pied-à-terres,” said Sarah Karlinsky, research director with the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley. She authored \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/2014-10/SPUR_Non-Primary_Residences.pdf\">a study on vacancy rates (PDF)\u003c/a> almost a decade before San Francisco voted on the Empty Homes Tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In it, she found that there were nearly 900 homes that were sold but unoccupied in 2012. By 2021, that number had grown to more than 10,270, representing about 2.5% of the city’s total housing stock at the time, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://56a418ca-94d2-476c-9a45-f491ca4a0387.usrfiles.com/ugd/56a418_8ba58b3bef6543b0ad09ce81a0ef037c.pdf\">city’s report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a ton of units, but it’s also not insignificant during a period where we’re having a housing crisis,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s tax was modeled after one Vancouver voters passed in 2016, which reduced the vacancy rate by more than 20% and generated more than $20 million for affordable housing in its first year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/voter-guide/2022-11/sf-prop-m-vacant-homes\">an analysis\u003c/a> by the urban planning think tank, SPUR. The following year, SPUR researchers found that the percentage of vacant homes in Vancouver continued to decrease, albeit at a much lower rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031689\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031689\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/470165429_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/470165429_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/470165429_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/470165429_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/470165429_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/470165429_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/470165429_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bicyclist rides by a row of homes on Feb. 18, 2014, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, when it came to the tax’s impact on housing affordability, Vancouver officials found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-16/taxing-the-rich-do-housing-prices-fall-when-empty-second-homes-are-taxed\">there were fewer vacant units\u003c/a> than they had initially expected, and it didn’t have an impact on housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area cities, including Berkeley and Oakland, have passed similar taxes. \u003ca href=\"https://rentboard.berkeleyca.gov/laws-regulations/city-berkeley-ordinances-affecting-rental-properties/empty-homes-tax\">Berkeley\u003c/a>’s tax, which voters approved the same year as San Francisco’s, has not been billed to property owners yet, though the \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Measure%20M%20-%20November%208%2C%202022%20Election.pdf\">city estimated (PDF)\u003c/a> it could generate up to $5.9 million annually. \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/vacantpropertytax\">Oakland’s tax\u003c/a>, which voters approved in 2018 and covers all properties, levies an annual tax of up to $3,000 per vacant home and $6,000 per parcel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6722176&GUID=40CFF307-9BED-4270-A81A-301C09FE9FD6&Options=&Search=\">As of June 2024\u003c/a>, Oakland had collected an average of $5.53 million per year in revenue, but it has \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6854943&GUID=0A065116-182B-4C8C-A135-1D1BCA26E210&Options=&Search=\">not resulted in a decrease in vacant properties\u003c/a> since 2019, when the city began collecting the tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the legal proceedings, San Francisco hasn’t been able to test whether the tax could impact home prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if a lower court allows the city to start collecting the tax, Amanda Fried, a spokesperson for San Francisco’s Office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector, said the process would still be complicated because many property owners would have to file paperwork for the tax, even if their property isn’t vacant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Similar to your income taxes with the IRS, you’re required to file every year, even if you don’t owe anything,” she said. “It would have been difficult to implement this tax without a lawsuit, but if there’s still uncertainty, trying to convince 80,000 property owners that they need to go online and file a piece of paper that their property isn’t vacant is a lot. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston, a vocal proponent of the tax, said it was meant to target large corporate landlords and real estate spectators who might purchase homes but hold them off the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The concern of all the advocates behind [the tax] was these properties where the homes just aren’t being used as homes for people,” he said. “They’re being used like shares of stock in the stock market for real estate investors to buy them and hold them for years and then resell them at higher values for profit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an October 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://56a418ca-94d2-476c-9a45-f491ca4a0387.usrfiles.com/ugd/56a418_8ba58b3bef6543b0ad09ce81a0ef037c.pdf\">city report\u003c/a>, which used data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, there were more than 60,000 San Francisco housing units considered vacant in 2021, though that statistic includes homes that are temporarily vacant because a tenant hasn’t moved in yet, the home is undergoing repairs or the property is caught in legal proceedings, among other reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tax \u003ca href=\"https://sftreasurer.org/file/empty-homes-tax-presentation/download?inline\">would have applied to\u003c/a> buildings with three or more units if the unit was kept vacant for more than 182 days in a calendar year. Single-family homes, duplexes and units occupied by travelers or vacationers would be exempt. And it allowed for vacancies during periods of construction, repairs, disasters or if the owner died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031683\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"857\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-800x343.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-1020x437.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-160x69.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-1536x658.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-1920x823.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A row of homes on Capp Street, between 22nd and 23rd streets, in San Francisco’s Mission District. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/BLA.Residential%20Vacancies.013122_final.pdf\">In an earlier report from January 2022 (PDF)\u003c/a>, the city assumed fewer than a fifth of San Francisco’s vacant homes would be subject to the tax, and it could collect a little more than $61 million per year in net revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents argued the tax would ultimately \u003ca href=\"https://www.smallprop.org/press/supervisor-prestons-proposed-vacancy-tax-measure-would-place-a-hefty-tax/\">apply to fewer units\u003c/a> than the city predicted and \u003ca href=\"https://tsfaction.org/prop-m\">wouldn’t address\u003c/a> barriers to constructing new housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Huang, president of the San Francisco Association of Realtors, said the tax was an “unfair punishment on homeowners disallowed by the courts.” The organization was one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The solution at hand is not the right one because the courts said so,” he said. “The right move should be to go back to the drawing board and craft something that actually solves the problem rather than going down a path that they’ve been told is not the right one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031686\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Empty streets in downtown San Francisco on April 7, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Out of the homes that were considered vacant in 2021, the city found that \u003ca href=\"https://56a418ca-94d2-476c-9a45-f491ca4a0387.usrfiles.com/ugd/56a418_8ba58b3bef6543b0ad09ce81a0ef037c.pdf\">more than 16%\u003c/a> were occupied seasonally or recreationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are truly pied-à-terres,” said Sarah Karlinsky, research director with the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley. She authored \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/2014-10/SPUR_Non-Primary_Residences.pdf\">a study on vacancy rates (PDF)\u003c/a> almost a decade before San Francisco voted on the Empty Homes Tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In it, she found that there were nearly 900 homes that were sold but unoccupied in 2012. By 2021, that number had grown to more than 10,270, representing about 2.5% of the city’s total housing stock at the time, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://56a418ca-94d2-476c-9a45-f491ca4a0387.usrfiles.com/ugd/56a418_8ba58b3bef6543b0ad09ce81a0ef037c.pdf\">city’s report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a ton of units, but it’s also not insignificant during a period where we’re having a housing crisis,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s tax was modeled after one Vancouver voters passed in 2016, which reduced the vacancy rate by more than 20% and generated more than $20 million for affordable housing in its first year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/voter-guide/2022-11/sf-prop-m-vacant-homes\">an analysis\u003c/a> by the urban planning think tank, SPUR. The following year, SPUR researchers found that the percentage of vacant homes in Vancouver continued to decrease, albeit at a much lower rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031689\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031689\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/470165429_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/470165429_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/470165429_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/470165429_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/470165429_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/470165429_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/470165429_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bicyclist rides by a row of homes on Feb. 18, 2014, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, when it came to the tax’s impact on housing affordability, Vancouver officials found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-16/taxing-the-rich-do-housing-prices-fall-when-empty-second-homes-are-taxed\">there were fewer vacant units\u003c/a> than they had initially expected, and it didn’t have an impact on housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area cities, including Berkeley and Oakland, have passed similar taxes. \u003ca href=\"https://rentboard.berkeleyca.gov/laws-regulations/city-berkeley-ordinances-affecting-rental-properties/empty-homes-tax\">Berkeley\u003c/a>’s tax, which voters approved the same year as San Francisco’s, has not been billed to property owners yet, though the \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Measure%20M%20-%20November%208%2C%202022%20Election.pdf\">city estimated (PDF)\u003c/a> it could generate up to $5.9 million annually. \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/vacantpropertytax\">Oakland’s tax\u003c/a>, which voters approved in 2018 and covers all properties, levies an annual tax of up to $3,000 per vacant home and $6,000 per parcel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6722176&GUID=40CFF307-9BED-4270-A81A-301C09FE9FD6&Options=&Search=\">As of June 2024\u003c/a>, Oakland had collected an average of $5.53 million per year in revenue, but it has \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6854943&GUID=0A065116-182B-4C8C-A135-1D1BCA26E210&Options=&Search=\">not resulted in a decrease in vacant properties\u003c/a> since 2019, when the city began collecting the tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the legal proceedings, San Francisco hasn’t been able to test whether the tax could impact home prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if a lower court allows the city to start collecting the tax, Amanda Fried, a spokesperson for San Francisco’s Office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector, said the process would still be complicated because many property owners would have to file paperwork for the tax, even if their property isn’t vacant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Similar to your income taxes with the IRS, you’re required to file every year, even if you don’t owe anything,” she said. “It would have been difficult to implement this tax without a lawsuit, but if there’s still uncertainty, trying to convince 80,000 property owners that they need to go online and file a piece of paper that their property isn’t vacant is a lot. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-pride\">San Francisco Pride\u003c/a> organizers face a challenging task: raising $3.2 million to cover the total costs of labor, security, insurance and permits required to produce the two-day festival and parade set for June 28–29. However, reaching that goal has become harder as several corporate sponsors have pulled their financial support, SF Pride executive director Suzanne Ford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expected [funding] to increase this year and then the whole world changed on us,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comcast, along with beverage companies Anheuser-Busch and Diageo, were multi-year sponsors but are not supporting this year’s celebration. The news comes after SF Pride \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/san-francisco-pride-2025-meta-excluded-20202757.php\">announced that its relationship with Meta, the parent company of Facebook, had ended\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The world’s changed politically, and the environment for sponsorship has changed dramatically,” she said. “And I think these companies have determined that it’s not a good investment in Pride this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic, SF Pride has faced financial challenges as production costs rise each year. Both the parade and festival are free to attend, making the event, as currently designed, dependent on corporate sponsorships. Admission to other Pride celebrations in the country, \u003ca href=\"https://lapride.org/event/2024-la-pride-in-the-park/\">like Los Angeles Pride in the Park\u003c/a>, can cost up to hundreds of dollars, depending on the type of ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031750\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240630_Pride_GC-35_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240630_Pride_GC-35_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240630_Pride_GC-35_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240630_Pride_GC-35_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240630_Pride_GC-35_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240630_Pride_GC-35_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240630_Pride_GC-35_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two individuals rejoice during the Pride Parade in San Francisco on June 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ensuring SF Pride remains accessible to all is key to the event’s purpose, said Ford, who grew up in Kentucky during the 1970s watching images of San Francisco’s first Pride marches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a city out there somewhere where people were themselves,” she said. “That’s more important than ever this year. I think the whole country, in fact, the world, will be looking to see if San Francisco still has those values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comcast, Anheuser-Busch and Diageo did not respond to KQED’s request for comment. A spokesperson for La Crema, a wine company owned by Jackson Family Wines, said it may not support SF Pride at the same scale as before because of financial trouble in the wine industry. The spokesperson said the company is still negotiating with organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11990430 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-09-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride, which recently announced a partnership with San Francisco International Airport, is now looking for new sponsors. Ford said organizers plan to take a more proactive approach in asking Pride attendees for donations during the celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride’s dependence on corporate sponsorship has been a source of criticism within the city’s LGBTQ+ community for years. Earlier this month, the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club released a statement calling for SF Pride leadership to ban companies that have terminated their diversity, equality and inclusion initiatives and “sold out trans safety in favor of currying political favor with far-right bigots like Donald Trump” from the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride will no longer partner with Meta after CEO Mark Zuckerberg terminated the tech giant’s DEI initiatives and changed its content moderation policies, with some advocates pointing out that now it is easier for users to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrc.org/news/metas-new-policies-how-they-endanger-lgbtq-communities-and-our-tips-for-staying-safe-online\">target and demean\u003c/a> transgender people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do sympathize with SF Pride’s financial situation, but these flimsy sponsorships are really just a testament as to why we should be working to create a Pride celebration that is sustained by people,” said Melissa Hernandez, Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club co-president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SF Pride should be asking itself, what is its purpose?” Hernandez said. “Is it to provide corporations with an outlet to showcase their rainbow branding, or is it to provide LGBTQ+ people from all over the world with an opportunity to feel safe and seen?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The audit also found that in the vast majority of cases, first responders are unable to connect people to services, the reason is a lack of shelter and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Resource referral, connection, and transportation are distinguishing and essential functions of the city’s street teams, but the ability of street teams to fulfill this function is inherently limited by the underlying system of services to which street team members can refer clients,” the report reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the blueprint announced Monday, Lurie is still aiming to reach his 1,500-shelter bed goal within six months. 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"content": "\u003cp>After last week’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030575/bay-area-braces-for-rain-snow-potential-flooding\">conveyor belt of storms\u003c/a>, the Bay Area will see a few chances for showers and some chilly nights this week before making way for a sunny first weekend of spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Light rain that began Sunday night will pass through the South Bay by midmorning Monday, leaving behind clear, if cold, skies and capping off a wintry weather week in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A string of dreary days last week didn’t produce record rainfall in the Bay Area, but the cold temperatures and scattered showers that blew through the region dropped major snow on the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Tuesday marked the snowiest day in two years in the area north of Lake Tahoe — more than 10 inches of powder were recorded at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995954/at-hidden-tahoe-lab-scientists-learn-the-art-of-measuring-snow\">UC Berkeley’s Central Sierra Snow Lab\u003c/a> in Soda Springs. In the last seven days, the area has gotten more than 4 feet of snow, and it’s expecting more Monday, according to Mark Deutschendorf at the weather service’s Reno office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Generally between 2 and 9 inches was the range of snow that fell overnight into early morning,” Deutschendorf said. “We’ll probably see another, maybe 6 to 10 inches for the rest of today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11980519 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244621245_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244621245_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244621245_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244621245_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244621245_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244621245_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow-blanketed South Lake Tahoe in California on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said that a short storm Wednesday into Thursday morning could drop 3 to 6 more inches of snow before the mountains enter a quieter weather period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week’s forecast back in the Bay Area looks to be a mixed bag as weeks of gloomy weather that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026874/bay-area-heavy-rain-flooding-landslides-thousands-without-power\">first hit in February\u003c/a> start to subside. Monday brings a slight chance of thunderstorms as showers on the backside of Sunday’s storm move toward the Central Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday is expected to be dry but cold, with overnight temperatures dipping into the 30s and 40s before rain makes a final return on Wednesday.[aside postID=science_1996323 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/GettyImages-1141101456-1020x680.jpg']That storm doesn’t look to be particularly impactful, with local forecasts predicting a few hundredths to a tenth of an inch of new rainfall, according to the weather service. The Sonoma County coast could see the most significant rains, totaling about half an inch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After midweek, conditions should dry out, and NWS Bay Area meteorologist Nicole Sarment said the weekend looks “sunny and warm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Climate Prediction Center is highlighting us to be above average for temperatures and near normal for precipitation for the next two weeks,” Sarment said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temperatures should get up to the high 60s in San Francisco and the low 70s in the North Bay on Saturday and Sunday, so for the bravest among us, it could be a good time for a polar plunge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Many San Francisco drivers are familiar with the precipitous paved cliffs that double as the city’s roads. In a 40-foot-long vehicle that holds dozens of passengers, this hilly terrain is all the more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On certain \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-muni\">Muni\u003c/a> lines like the 37 Corbett, the road is so narrow that the mirrors of the bus pass over the mirrors of parked cars on either side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s in its own league. Turning the wheel is the least of it,” said Mc Allen, a transit operator for Muni, as he prepared to start a recent shift driving the 44 O’Shaughnessy in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfmta\">San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency\u003c/a> faces a severe budget deficit and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025781/sf-muni-board-says-not-so-fast-proposed-service-cuts\">possibility of service cuts\u003c/a> to several lines, Allen is on a mission to highlight his job and raise awareness of the importance of public transit. He wants people to make a point of riding Muni on Tuesday, with a goal to increase ridership by 10%\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025781/sf-muni-board-says-not-so-fast-proposed-service-cuts\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Allen calls \u003ca href=\"https://www.sftransitoperator.day/\">San Francisco Transit Operator Day\u003c/a> comes the same day that the SFMTA board will discuss those proposed cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12031479 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SF Muni 44 O’Shaughnessy line crosses San Francisco on March 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He got the idea after he heard of a fellow transit operator who had never received a commendation, a kind of formal compliment to operators that members of the public can submit to SFMTA. Allen said his colleague had 14 years of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is one big day for Muni operators to celebrate transit in San Francisco and encourage people to recognize our efforts and our labor,” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also asking members of the public to submit a total of 500 \u003ca href=\"https://sfmta.tfaforms.net/312\">commendations\u003c/a> to drivers and added that the day is not just about recognizing the operators but also the car cleaners, mechanics, schedulers, dispatchers, station agents and other people who help make Muni run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, meanwhile, has introduced a resolution to officially mark March 18 as Transit Operator Day, which the board will vote on that day. (For years, SFMTA has held its own Transit Operator Appreciation Day for staff on March 18.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAHZp3usV4g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think resolutions have an importance of raising awareness for our ‘invisible warriors’ in the city,” Mahmood said. “ Unless the public has awareness of the important role that the Muni operators have, they wouldn’t know that they’re an important part of the line item of the budget that we need to be advocating for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/projects/summer-2025-muni-service-cuts\">Tuesday’s meeting\u003c/a>, the SFMTA board will consider reduced service on the 5 Fulton, 9 San Bruno and 31 Balboa lines — and to combine the 21 Hayes and the 6 Haight-Parnassus lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to SFMTA, the cuts are needed to rein in an approximately $50 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027759/sf-transit-board-says-no-cutting-school-crossing-guards-save-money\">budget deficit\u003c/a> for fiscal year 2025–26, which is set to begin in July — due to lower-than-expected transit and parking revenue and lower-than-expected operating transfers from the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA officials have said these service reductions of about 4% will save the agency $15 million and that it plans to make up the remainder of next fiscal year’s deficit through improvements to fare compliance and its parking program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031472\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF Muni Transit Operator Mc Allen waives at another SF Muni bus as he drives the inbound 44 O’Shaughnessy in San Francisco on March 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. 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Still, transit advocates like Jaime Viloria, the outreach and organizing manager for the nonprofit transit advocacy group San Francisco Transit Riders, said the agency should consider dipping into its financial reserves before cutting service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody loves Muni, but I feel like it’s not being shown a lot of love fiscally,” he said.[aside postID=news_12031387 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_VTASTRIKEDAY2_GC-23-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Viloria is worried that with SFMTA’s budget deficit set to grow in the future, any cuts to service made now could become permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people aren’t using transit, then you don’t have revenue from those fares, and then you won’t have the ridership to justify running those lines,” Viloria said. “And it just spirals out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Transit Riders is among the groups organizing a protest against service cuts outside San Francisco City Hall on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said he also advocated for SFMTA to dip into its reserves to tame the deficit, rather than reduce service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Allen, it’s just a coincidence that his Transit Operator Appreciation Day falls on the same day SFMTA’s board is expected to discuss the ongoing financial challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said service reductions would be “enormously impactful” to operators, meaning fewer buses on the road would strain operators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if you only get around in San Francisco by car, public transit is enormously valuable to you because it’s what keeps congestion in check,” Allen said. “Our street network can’t work if public transit is not there serving the hundreds of thousands of San Franciscans every day, and so whether you ride Muni or not, you benefit from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Many San Francisco drivers are familiar with the precipitous paved cliffs that double as the city’s roads. In a 40-foot-long vehicle that holds dozens of passengers, this hilly terrain is all the more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On certain \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-muni\">Muni\u003c/a> lines like the 37 Corbett, the road is so narrow that the mirrors of the bus pass over the mirrors of parked cars on either side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s in its own league. Turning the wheel is the least of it,” said Mc Allen, a transit operator for Muni, as he prepared to start a recent shift driving the 44 O’Shaughnessy in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfmta\">San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency\u003c/a> faces a severe budget deficit and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025781/sf-muni-board-says-not-so-fast-proposed-service-cuts\">possibility of service cuts\u003c/a> to several lines, Allen is on a mission to highlight his job and raise awareness of the importance of public transit. He wants people to make a point of riding Muni on Tuesday, with a goal to increase ridership by 10%\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025781/sf-muni-board-says-not-so-fast-proposed-service-cuts\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Allen calls \u003ca href=\"https://www.sftransitoperator.day/\">San Francisco Transit Operator Day\u003c/a> comes the same day that the SFMTA board will discuss those proposed cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12031479 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SF Muni 44 O’Shaughnessy line crosses San Francisco on March 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He got the idea after he heard of a fellow transit operator who had never received a commendation, a kind of formal compliment to operators that members of the public can submit to SFMTA. Allen said his colleague had 14 years of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is one big day for Muni operators to celebrate transit in San Francisco and encourage people to recognize our efforts and our labor,” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also asking members of the public to submit a total of 500 \u003ca href=\"https://sfmta.tfaforms.net/312\">commendations\u003c/a> to drivers and added that the day is not just about recognizing the operators but also the car cleaners, mechanics, schedulers, dispatchers, station agents and other people who help make Muni run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, meanwhile, has introduced a resolution to officially mark March 18 as Transit Operator Day, which the board will vote on that day. (For years, SFMTA has held its own Transit Operator Appreciation Day for staff on March 18.)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/fAHZp3usV4g'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/fAHZp3usV4g'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“I think resolutions have an importance of raising awareness for our ‘invisible warriors’ in the city,” Mahmood said. “ Unless the public has awareness of the important role that the Muni operators have, they wouldn’t know that they’re an important part of the line item of the budget that we need to be advocating for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/projects/summer-2025-muni-service-cuts\">Tuesday’s meeting\u003c/a>, the SFMTA board will consider reduced service on the 5 Fulton, 9 San Bruno and 31 Balboa lines — and to combine the 21 Hayes and the 6 Haight-Parnassus lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to SFMTA, the cuts are needed to rein in an approximately $50 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027759/sf-transit-board-says-no-cutting-school-crossing-guards-save-money\">budget deficit\u003c/a> for fiscal year 2025–26, which is set to begin in July — due to lower-than-expected transit and parking revenue and lower-than-expected operating transfers from the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA officials have said these service reductions of about 4% will save the agency $15 million and that it plans to make up the remainder of next fiscal year’s deficit through improvements to fare compliance and its parking program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031472\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF Muni Transit Operator Mc Allen waives at another SF Muni bus as he drives the inbound 44 O’Shaughnessy in San Francisco on March 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Regardless, the deficit is set to balloon to over $300 million in fiscal year 2026–27, when one-time state and federal funding related to the COVID-19 pandemic is exhausted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reductions are a pared-down version of service cuts that SFMTA staff \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014573/sf-muni-dire-need-funding-without-cuts-could-be-devastating\">proposed earlier\u003c/a>. Still, transit advocates like Jaime Viloria, the outreach and organizing manager for the nonprofit transit advocacy group San Francisco Transit Riders, said the agency should consider dipping into its financial reserves before cutting service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody loves Muni, but I feel like it’s not being shown a lot of love fiscally,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Viloria is worried that with SFMTA’s budget deficit set to grow in the future, any cuts to service made now could become permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people aren’t using transit, then you don’t have revenue from those fares, and then you won’t have the ridership to justify running those lines,” Viloria said. “And it just spirals out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Transit Riders is among the groups organizing a protest against service cuts outside San Francisco City Hall on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said he also advocated for SFMTA to dip into its reserves to tame the deficit, rather than reduce service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Allen, it’s just a coincidence that his Transit Operator Appreciation Day falls on the same day SFMTA’s board is expected to discuss the ongoing financial challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said service reductions would be “enormously impactful” to operators, meaning fewer buses on the road would strain operators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if you only get around in San Francisco by car, public transit is enormously valuable to you because it’s what keeps congestion in check,” Allen said. “Our street network can’t work if public transit is not there serving the hundreds of thousands of San Franciscans every day, and so whether you ride Muni or not, you benefit from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Weeks of actions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency meant to tear up regulations, eviscerate its climate research and eliminate any focus on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023983/sf-state-1st-to-require-climate-justice-course-all-students\">environmental justice\u003c/a> have left Bay Area nonprofits reeling and confused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal funding was cut, or at least frozen, for work including planting hundreds of trees, developing local air quality monitoring and bolstering a youth climate collective, but nonprofit leaders in East Palo Alto, West Oakland and South San Francisco have already hired staff to fulfill grants, paid graduate student stipends for research and spent years developing a sweeping range of projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We might have to lay them off,” said Brian Beveridge, co-executive director of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, which hired at least one staff member to help fulfill a grant analyzing local air quality. “There are real impacts for real humans. It’s not just about a bunch of money being thrown around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local nonprofits are scrambling to operate without federal funding and to fulfill their missions — centered on climate science and the health of communities of color — as the Trump administration is pulling grants from organizations grounded in environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is just a wholesale onslaught on anything that has to do with our environment,” U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff said in an interview with KQED. The administration wants “to weaken our clean water, clean air rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012473\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Adam Schiff at the KQED offices in San Francisco on Nov. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week, EPA officials terminated \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/administrator-zeldin-announces-billions-dollars-worth-gold-bars-have-been-located\">$20 billion in grants\u003c/a> issued by the Biden administration, many of which were meant to finance clean energy and climate projects through a green bank. Environmental groups filed a lawsuit in response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administration officials have also targeted diversity, equity and inclusion programs, saying that what they call wasteful spending needs to be cut to align with President Trump’s orders. Over the past few months, the EPA cut or froze hundreds of grants, including some in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also announced it will disassemble all of its environmental justice offices across the country. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the cuts will eliminate “forced discrimination programs” and “serve every American with equal dignity and respect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Environmental justice’ has been used primarily as an excuse to fund left-wing activists instead of actually spending those dollars to directly remediate environmental issues for those communities,” Zeldin said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-terminates-bidens-environmental-justice-dei-arms-agency#:~:text=%E2%80%9CPresident%20Trump%20was%20elected%20with,with%20equal%20dignity%20and%20respect.%E2%80%9D\">statement\u003c/a> on Wednesday announcing the termination of the offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA has not responded to KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Community-focused work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades, EPA environmental justice workers have fought pollution in lower-income communities of color, who experience that burden most acutely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These neighborhoods sprung up along smoggy highways, next to power plants, busy ports and other polluting industries that belch toxic gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031664\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A semi-truck with a label that is labeled ‘Toxic’ stops on 7th Street in West Oakland on March 4, 2022. The route is a popular trucking route to the nearby Port of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their growth largely followed discriminatory redlining by financial institutions that denied people housing opportunities based on race, perpetuating wealth gaps and segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David González, an assistant professor of public health at UC Berkeley, said he wishes Zeldin understood the “long-term persistent life expectancy gaps when we look at different racial and ethnic groups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029553 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/cleaner-1180x787.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t talk about racism, then we can’t address what we see when we look at the data,” he said. “Black people are more likely to have poor health and more likely to have shorter lives. Why does that happen? We need to be able to talk about it so that we can fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya Carrasquillo, a civil and environmental engineering professor at UC Berkeley, said the federal government is sending “a clear message — all puns intended — about whose lives matter and whose lives don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge blow,” she said, adding that this is a moment for California to double down on its support of environmental justice. “So many people are rallying around these organizations, and I hope we’ll continue to rally around them. In the past, we have found creative ways to get the work done. And unfortunately, we’re at the point of having to do that again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrasquillo is part of a team that was awarded an EPA grant that could eventually install tree planters in East Oakland. The federal government froze that money in late January but later restored it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031667\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (WOEIP) offices in Oakland on Sept. 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After Beveridge’s West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project was awarded a $500,000 EPA grant last year to study air quality, he said the federal payment system for grants was frozen and then unfrozen around 36 hours later in January. However, EPA staff aren’t communicating with the group, so they don’t know the status of the invoices, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA also froze and then unfroze a separate $91,000 contract with his organization to improve local air quality monitoring. Still, Beveridge expects the federal government to issue a stop-work order for that project soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students have been working at it for about three months,” he said. “We have paid the students stipends to do research. We have paid our staff to work on the project. So we have commitments there that are outstanding expenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Co-director Brian Beveridge, Co-director Margaret Gordon, and Senior Project Manager Nicole Merino Tsui sit at a table outside the offices of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project in West Oakland on April 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Climate Resilient Communities, based in East Palo Alto, has three EPA grants totaling around $850,000 that are now up in the air — all from the closing environmental justice office. The largest grant of $500,000 would provide air purifiers for children with asthma, said Cade Cannedy, the group’s director of programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group planned to strengthen a youth climate collective, develop a vulnerability assessment for the Belle Haven and North Fair Oaks communities and research the impact of climate change on air quality along the San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stopped billing for them because if it’s not paid for, that is something that would sink our organization,” Cannedy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group holds a fourth EPA grant of $450,000 to study East San José’s watershed that has not formally been revoked, but Cannedy said it might be soon, and “It’s very risky to continue working on it because we aren’t sure if we will get paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031672\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Climate Resilient Communities executive director Violet Wulf-Saena at Cooley Landing Park in East Palo Alto on March 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I hired people six months ago and trained them to lead these projects. Then, when we were about to start, everything went dark,” said Violet Wulf-Saena, the group’s executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wulf-Saena said she has no plans to fire new staff and is allocating their time to other projects, but there has been zero communication about whether the federal government will restore the grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It means we’re borrowing from the future,” she said. “If we use these projects to speed up the work and pay for these people’s time, then next year, we won’t have any funding for those projects. We’re going to run out of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julio Garcia, executive director of Rise South City, said a similar story unfolded in South San Francisco over the past few months. In January, the U.S. Forest Service froze a $600,000 grant for planting and maintaining 700 trees across the city to improve air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031656\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julio Garcia, executive director of Rise South City, stands in front of two recently planted trees in South San Francisco on March 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the U.S. Forest Service declined an interview request and said in an email that the agency doesn’t have specific information on individual contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson also said that on Feb. 24, the service “was able to begin making payments for work that had already been completed on existing contracts and agreements. With that said, we are still reviewing all programs to ensure alignment with the President’s priorities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The freeze surprised Garcia initially, but when the Trump administration flagged hundreds of words for his administration to limit or avoid, like climate science, environmental justice and Latinx, he knew the decision would thwart his work. The group’s mission statement includes at least two banned words: equity and intersectional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031657\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julio Garcia, executive director of Rise South City, examines a recently planted tree in South San Francisco on March 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said the changes on the federal level will likely impact how the organization pitches to private funders because “donors are scared about where they’re donating” and will think twice about funding climate change initiatives or organizations fighting for environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undocumented immigrants and people of color may “go back to not having an opinion” in decision-making, he said because they won’t attend public meetings out of fear of retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a couple of presentations at the end of February, and fewer people showed up,” he said. “Those are the communities more affected by climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The administration wants “to weaken our clean water, clean air rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012473\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Adam Schiff at the KQED offices in San Francisco on Nov. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week, EPA officials terminated \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/administrator-zeldin-announces-billions-dollars-worth-gold-bars-have-been-located\">$20 billion in grants\u003c/a> issued by the Biden administration, many of which were meant to finance clean energy and climate projects through a green bank. Environmental groups filed a lawsuit in response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administration officials have also targeted diversity, equity and inclusion programs, saying that what they call wasteful spending needs to be cut to align with President Trump’s orders. Over the past few months, the EPA cut or froze hundreds of grants, including some in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also announced it will disassemble all of its environmental justice offices across the country. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the cuts will eliminate “forced discrimination programs” and “serve every American with equal dignity and respect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Environmental justice’ has been used primarily as an excuse to fund left-wing activists instead of actually spending those dollars to directly remediate environmental issues for those communities,” Zeldin said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-terminates-bidens-environmental-justice-dei-arms-agency#:~:text=%E2%80%9CPresident%20Trump%20was%20elected%20with,with%20equal%20dignity%20and%20respect.%E2%80%9D\">statement\u003c/a> on Wednesday announcing the termination of the offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA has not responded to KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Community-focused work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades, EPA environmental justice workers have fought pollution in lower-income communities of color, who experience that burden most acutely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These neighborhoods sprung up along smoggy highways, next to power plants, busy ports and other polluting industries that belch toxic gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031664\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A semi-truck with a label that is labeled ‘Toxic’ stops on 7th Street in West Oakland on March 4, 2022. The route is a popular trucking route to the nearby Port of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their growth largely followed discriminatory redlining by financial institutions that denied people housing opportunities based on race, perpetuating wealth gaps and segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David González, an assistant professor of public health at UC Berkeley, said he wishes Zeldin understood the “long-term persistent life expectancy gaps when we look at different racial and ethnic groups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t talk about racism, then we can’t address what we see when we look at the data,” he said. “Black people are more likely to have poor health and more likely to have shorter lives. Why does that happen? We need to be able to talk about it so that we can fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya Carrasquillo, a civil and environmental engineering professor at UC Berkeley, said the federal government is sending “a clear message — all puns intended — about whose lives matter and whose lives don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge blow,” she said, adding that this is a moment for California to double down on its support of environmental justice. “So many people are rallying around these organizations, and I hope we’ll continue to rally around them. In the past, we have found creative ways to get the work done. And unfortunately, we’re at the point of having to do that again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrasquillo is part of a team that was awarded an EPA grant that could eventually install tree planters in East Oakland. The federal government froze that money in late January but later restored it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031667\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (WOEIP) offices in Oakland on Sept. 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After Beveridge’s West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project was awarded a $500,000 EPA grant last year to study air quality, he said the federal payment system for grants was frozen and then unfrozen around 36 hours later in January. However, EPA staff aren’t communicating with the group, so they don’t know the status of the invoices, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA also froze and then unfroze a separate $91,000 contract with his organization to improve local air quality monitoring. Still, Beveridge expects the federal government to issue a stop-work order for that project soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students have been working at it for about three months,” he said. “We have paid the students stipends to do research. We have paid our staff to work on the project. So we have commitments there that are outstanding expenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Co-director Brian Beveridge, Co-director Margaret Gordon, and Senior Project Manager Nicole Merino Tsui sit at a table outside the offices of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project in West Oakland on April 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Climate Resilient Communities, based in East Palo Alto, has three EPA grants totaling around $850,000 that are now up in the air — all from the closing environmental justice office. The largest grant of $500,000 would provide air purifiers for children with asthma, said Cade Cannedy, the group’s director of programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group planned to strengthen a youth climate collective, develop a vulnerability assessment for the Belle Haven and North Fair Oaks communities and research the impact of climate change on air quality along the San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stopped billing for them because if it’s not paid for, that is something that would sink our organization,” Cannedy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group holds a fourth EPA grant of $450,000 to study East San José’s watershed that has not formally been revoked, but Cannedy said it might be soon, and “It’s very risky to continue working on it because we aren’t sure if we will get paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031672\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Climate Resilient Communities executive director Violet Wulf-Saena at Cooley Landing Park in East Palo Alto on March 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I hired people six months ago and trained them to lead these projects. Then, when we were about to start, everything went dark,” said Violet Wulf-Saena, the group’s executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wulf-Saena said she has no plans to fire new staff and is allocating their time to other projects, but there has been zero communication about whether the federal government will restore the grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It means we’re borrowing from the future,” she said. “If we use these projects to speed up the work and pay for these people’s time, then next year, we won’t have any funding for those projects. We’re going to run out of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julio Garcia, executive director of Rise South City, said a similar story unfolded in South San Francisco over the past few months. In January, the U.S. Forest Service froze a $600,000 grant for planting and maintaining 700 trees across the city to improve air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031656\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julio Garcia, executive director of Rise South City, stands in front of two recently planted trees in South San Francisco on March 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the U.S. Forest Service declined an interview request and said in an email that the agency doesn’t have specific information on individual contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson also said that on Feb. 24, the service “was able to begin making payments for work that had already been completed on existing contracts and agreements. With that said, we are still reviewing all programs to ensure alignment with the President’s priorities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The freeze surprised Garcia initially, but when the Trump administration flagged hundreds of words for his administration to limit or avoid, like climate science, environmental justice and Latinx, he knew the decision would thwart his work. The group’s mission statement includes at least two banned words: equity and intersectional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031657\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julio Garcia, executive director of Rise South City, examines a recently planted tree in South San Francisco on March 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said the changes on the federal level will likely impact how the organization pitches to private funders because “donors are scared about where they’re donating” and will think twice about funding climate change initiatives or organizations fighting for environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undocumented immigrants and people of color may “go back to not having an opinion” in decision-making, he said because they won’t attend public meetings out of fear of retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a couple of presentations at the end of February, and fewer people showed up,” he said. “Those are the communities more affected by climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Calling it an unorthodox business strategy is an understatement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal grand jury indicted a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999844/sf-tow-operator-accused-of-scamming-drivers-pleads-not-guilty-to-federal-charges\">San Francisco tow truck operator\u003c/a> this week for allegedly orchestrating a scheme to set fire to trucks owned by his competitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors charged Jose Vicente Badillo on Thursday with conspiracy to commit arson, saying he collaborated with at least four “co-conspirators” in 2023 to torch at least six tow trucks operated by other businesses. All of the incidents occurred in San Francisco, except one in East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Badillo, 29, sought to literally drive more business to his three primary Bay Area towing companies — Auto Towing, Specialty Towing and Jose’s Towing — by “impeding their competitors’ business prospects” and retaliating against “perceived wrongs,” according \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/media/1393391/dl?inline\">to the federal indictment.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation is being conducted by a federal organized crime task force aimed at dismantling “the highest-level drug traffickers, money launderers, gangs, and transnational criminal organizations.” The U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to explain why organized crime investigators are prosecuting Badillo’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322125500-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997008\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322125500-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1675\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322125500-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322125500-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322125500-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322125500-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322125500-1536x1005.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322125500-2048x1340.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322125500-1920x1257.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tow truck is seen towing a vehicle to the Auto Return on 7th Street on Dec. 1, 2015, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If convicted, Badillo faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is scheduled to be arraigned on March 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Badillo, 29, also faces unrelated criminal charges of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999449/sf-tow-operator-faces-insurance-fraud-more-charges-after-fbi-probe\">money laundering and insurance fraud\u003c/a> in two pending federal cases, as well as one case of welfare fraud brought by the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen Sawyer, a Stockton-based attorney representing Badillo in all three cases, said his client maintains his innocence.[aside postID=news_11997360 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240724-SAMMY-HALLAQ-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“There’s been a catastrophic impact on his businesses from this,” Sawyer said. “He’s looking forward to working through this and getting on with his life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Badillo and his business partner, Jessica Elizabeth Najarro, were first arrested in August 2024 — on the same day that the FBI raided his San Francisco office — and charged with conspiracy and mail and wire fraud in connection with two schemes to defraud auto insurance companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Badillo and his wife, Abigail T. Fuentes, with whom he owned his towing businesses, also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002311/charges-pile-up-for-sf-tow-operator-now-accused-of-staging-accident-faking-tow\">face multiple felony charges\u003c/a> brought in 2023 by the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office in connection with an alleged welfare fraud scheme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say Fuentes, who worked for San Francisco’s Human Services Agency, approved Badillo’s applications for public welfare programs without disclosing her relationship to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors alleged the couple falsely claimed they were earning only $1,000 a month while actually netting $2 million a year to qualify for public benefits, including Medi-Cal and CalWorks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s more.[aside postID=news_12031189 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']In early 2024, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996890/predatory-san-francisco-towing-company-barred-from-city-business-for-5-years\">suspended Badillo’s towing operations\u003c/a> from bidding on or receiving city contracts after determining that its workers had illegally towed the cars of non-English speaking residents from a private commercial parking lot, restricted the times vehicles could be retrieved and pressured owners to pay in cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several months later, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqvDedeuCl0\">video\u003c/a> that went viral showed one of Badillo’s Specialty Towing workers attempting to tow a car stuck in traffic on a San Francisco street as the frantic driver tried to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to Badillo’s federal indictment this week, Chiu told KQED he thinks it may be just “the tip of the iceberg” for someone who has repeatedly “demonstrated a clear pattern of predatory behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish I could say that I’m surprised, but I’m not surprised at all,” he said. “From arson to fraud to money laundering, to towing people while they’re in their cars. … We keep learning more about this guy every few months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I can say is in [Badillo’s] case, truth is stranger than fiction,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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