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This is the third complaint the workers have lodged with Cal/OSHA over excessive heat since last August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kitchen can get so hot that [Tagle] feels suffocated like he cannot get enough air, and [Arrano] feels like it is often hotter inside than it is outside,” the complaint reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It alleges that management told employees the air conditioner in KFC and Taco Bell’s shared kitchen was repaired following the initial complaints, but temperatures remain high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Taco Bell told KQED that “the safety and well-being of team members is our top priority at Taco Bell. The franchise owner and operator of this location is currently looking into and working to address any team member concerns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989997\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989997\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/tacobell2.png\" alt='Two workers at a Taco Bell-KFC stand outside the location protesting unsafe working conditions. They hold signs that read, \"Huelga, Huelga, Huela\" and \"On Strike.\"' width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/tacobell2.png 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/tacobell2-160x213.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcelo Tagle (left) and Daisy Arrano (right) stand outside of a Taco Bell-KFC location in San José on June 12. The workers allege that unsafe heat conditions have made them feel suffocated and resulted in visibly red and clammy skin. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the California Fast Food Workers Union)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The franchise owners, Harman Management Corp. and KFC did not immediately respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walkout comes as a California safety board is \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/oshsb/documents/agendaJun2024.pdf\">set to vote\u003c/a> next week on new indoor heat illness prevention rules. The standards from the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board would prohibit workplaces from having indoor temperatures exceeding 87 degrees Fahrenheit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These standards have been expected since 2019, when state workplace safety regulators were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983396/prison-workers-excluded-from-indoor-heat-protections-by-california-regulators\">supposed\u003c/a> to propose a set of rules to protect tens of thousands of workers at risk of heat hazards at warehouses, restaurants, packing houses and other indoor workplaces. They missed that deadline, and the debate surrounding the rules has continued for five years since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the board was expected to finally vote on protections, but it delayed a decision due to last-minute cost estimates. If the standards pass on June 20, workplaces will be required to maintain lower indoor temperatures and provide cooling zones when temperatures are over 82 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ask those officials to vote in support of those rules because they’re very important for us workers,” Tagle told KQED. “A lot of people think working in a restaurant is easy, but it’s a job that’s difficult, and you often have to deal with uncomfortable temperatures because owners don’t put enough attention into the problems in their companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heat illness, when the body struggles to cope with high temperatures, can lead to cramps, exhaustion, dizziness, stroke and even death. In California, at least \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA1386-1.html\">seven workers died\u003c/a> from causes related to indoor heat exposure between 2010 and 2017.[aside postID=news_11989885 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240322-INDOOR-HEAT-GETTY-02-KQED-1020x623.jpg']The Taco Bell employees are requesting repairs to the store’s air conditioner, cooling and water breaks, and training to prevent, identify, and respond to heat-related illnesses. Their complaint also calls on Cal/OSHA to investigate a potential gas leak the employees have detected, citing a smell of gas near the kitchen’s water heater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are also calling for their work hours to be restored. A second complaint against the same location was filed Monday with San José’s Office of Equality Assurance, accusing KFC of reducing employees’ hours while hiring four new workers. Tagle and Luis Mendez allege that their hours have been cut since shortly after California raised the statewide \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1228\">minimum wage\u003c/a> for fast-food workers to $20 an hour in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expected our incomes would go up,” the complaint states. “Management cut our schedules and illegally gave our hours to newly-hired workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tagle said that his schedule has been gradually reduced from 25 hours a week to just one day a week since April, while four new employees have recently been hired at the location. He and Mendez believe that it violates San José’s “Opportunity to Work” ordinance for current employees to not be offered increased hours before hiring new staff or to have their hours reduced while the restaurant takes on new employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s walkout comes just two days after employees at a McDonald’s in San José \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAFastFoodUnion/status/1800235720495559090\">walked off the job\u003c/a>, also protesting hours reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/a> contributed to this report \u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/fjhabvala\">Farida Jhabvala Romero\u003c/a> contributed to this report\u003c/span>\u003c/i>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San José’s City Council approved a budget on Tuesday with a landmark shift in unhoused spending — delivering a signature victory to Mayor Matt Mahan in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979482/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-calls-for-urgent-action-on-homelessness-in-city-budget-plan\">effort to change the city’s strategy\u003c/a> for reducing its unsheltered population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the earmarked unhoused funding in the $5.3 billion spending plan will now be spent on constructing interim housing and establishing sanctioned lots for residents to live in RVs or tents — instead of building affordable apartments. Mahan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">failed to pass a similar spending pivot in last year’s budget\u003c/a>. But a year later, with the same council, he secured a unanimous vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the most strategic investment we’ve ever made in ending unsheltered homelessness, this era of encampments we’ve been plagued with in San José,” Mahan told KQED after the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affordable housing advocates expressed feeling whiplash. In 2020, San José voters approved Measure E, a tax on the transfer of real estate valued at $2 million or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the funding was technically unrestricted, the council initially earmarked 90% of the tax revenue for building new affordable housing. Now, 65% of Measure E revenue, projected at $30.7 million in the coming year, will go toward interim housing and shelter. Just a quarter, or $12 million, will go toward affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s historic, and it’s devastating,” said Jennifer Loving, CEO of Destination: Home, a South Bay housing nonprofit. “Even worse, I think we did this in three years, maybe four [since the passage of Measure E]? We got here fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, big-city mayors have shifted\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11953006/sf-san-jose-mayors-push-to-fund-shelters-as-pressure-builds-on-encampments\"> their focus toward housing unsheltered residents\u003c/a> who are visibly experiencing homelessness on sidewalks and along local waterways — often at the expense of building new affordable units. Few have been as deliberate in this approach as Mahan, who won \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/election-2024#matt-mahan-sails-to-second-term-as-mayor-of-san-jose\">two elections in the span of 16 months\u003c/a> with a call to focus city dollars on short-term solutions to unsheltered living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first year in office, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949797/in-controversial-plan-san-jose-mayor-seeks-to-use-homelessness-dollars-to-build-more-temporary-shelters-instead-of-permanent-housing\">Mahan’s calls for a seismic shift in city unhoused spending\u003c/a> were met with organized resistance from housing advocates and local progressives. The council rejected his Measure E proposal last June and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">instead approved a modest increase in funding for temporary housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As mayor, Mahan initiates the budget process but has only one vote on the final spending plan, and any change to Measure E spending requires an eight-vote supermajority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A turning point in the debate came in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board rejected a piece of San José’s stormwater permit for the third time, decreeing that the city was not doing enough to prevent trash and human waste from encampments from entering local waterways. Mahan argued that a pivot toward funding shelter was necessary to avoid potential lawsuits or fines.[aside postID=news_11988728 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7876_qut-1020x765.jpg']A new water permit was only recently accepted “when we laid out very clearly through the budget process what we were going to do to get people out of unmanaged encampments near our waterways,” Mahan said Tuesday. “They wanted to see that plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city manager estimated that compliance with the permit would cost nearly $27 million in the fiscal year beginning July 1: to abate existing encampments, establish managed encampments (known as safe sleeping sites) and maintain police patrols along the Coyote Creek and Guadalupe River trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a surprise that we had to deal with immediately because it’s critical we obtain a stormwater permit and then we avoid any future penalties,” Councilmember Pam Foley said. “The pressure on us was really from the stormwater permit, and that was an unexpected expense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further supporting Mahan’s case was the council’s commitment to fund the operation of its temporary housing units, known as emergency interim housing, through the general fund. As the program expands, so too does the cost to the city, which could reach $70 million by 2029.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the entire budget, the shortfall facing the council was a manageable $4.5 million. However, the council needed to solve for a $50 million shortfall when taking into account the needed stormwater investments and several programs with funding set to expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although a recent uptick in local sales tax revenue led city analysts to brighten their projections and increase funding for affordable housing, critics of the plan said cuts still fell disproportionately on those programs. Funding for the construction of rental housing will be $23.6 million less than under the previous Measure E spending formula. Advocates argue the funding loss will leave approved projects stuck in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was the mayor’s campaign promise, he’s been able to change Measure E,” Loving said. “It’s not rooted in policy or research or data that this is an effective strategy in the absence of affordable housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Peter Ortiz offered the sharpest critiques, saying the stormwater issue “twisted our arms and forced us to cough up funding to implement this plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The current strategy of prioritizing EIHs [emergency interim housing] over affordable housing isn’t ending the crisis of homelessness, it’s hiding it,” Ortiz said. “Let’s call it what it is, it is a bridge to nowhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz co-authored an amendment to reinstate Measure E’s previous emphasis on affordable housing when the council enters next year’s budget planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A new water permit was only recently accepted “when we laid out very clearly through the budget process what we were going to do to get people out of unmanaged encampments near our waterways,” Mahan said Tuesday. “They wanted to see that plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city manager estimated that compliance with the permit would cost nearly $27 million in the fiscal year beginning July 1: to abate existing encampments, establish managed encampments (known as safe sleeping sites) and maintain police patrols along the Coyote Creek and Guadalupe River trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a surprise that we had to deal with immediately because it’s critical we obtain a stormwater permit and then we avoid any future penalties,” Councilmember Pam Foley said. “The pressure on us was really from the stormwater permit, and that was an unexpected expense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further supporting Mahan’s case was the council’s commitment to fund the operation of its temporary housing units, known as emergency interim housing, through the general fund. As the program expands, so too does the cost to the city, which could reach $70 million by 2029.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the entire budget, the shortfall facing the council was a manageable $4.5 million. However, the council needed to solve for a $50 million shortfall when taking into account the needed stormwater investments and several programs with funding set to expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although a recent uptick in local sales tax revenue led city analysts to brighten their projections and increase funding for affordable housing, critics of the plan said cuts still fell disproportionately on those programs. Funding for the construction of rental housing will be $23.6 million less than under the previous Measure E spending formula. Advocates argue the funding loss will leave approved projects stuck in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was the mayor’s campaign promise, he’s been able to change Measure E,” Loving said. “It’s not rooted in policy or research or data that this is an effective strategy in the absence of affordable housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Peter Ortiz offered the sharpest critiques, saying the stormwater issue “twisted our arms and forced us to cough up funding to implement this plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The current strategy of prioritizing EIHs [emergency interim housing] over affordable housing isn’t ending the crisis of homelessness, it’s hiding it,” Ortiz said. “Let’s call it what it is, it is a bridge to nowhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz co-authored an amendment to reinstate Measure E’s previous emphasis on affordable housing when the council enters next year’s budget planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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There’s no statewide data tallying these homes — the term has become shorthand for everything from rudimentary sheds to multi-story modular housing — but cities across California, from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiMzVmZDBjYTctNjQ0OS00ZDE3LTg2ODAtNGM2MjkwMDgzODY1IiwidCI6IjBiYWU1NDliLTUyZDgtNGEzYi1hYTE5LWQ1MDY2MmIzMDg5NyIsImMiOjZ9&pageName=ReportSection\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Los Angeles\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to Sacramento to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/city-of-oakland-opens-100-bed-cabin-shelter-program-at-wood-street\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, have each added scores of them in recent years. 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He’s serving the remainder of the term of former House Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969228/kevin-mccarthy-surprise-resignation-sets-off-mad-scramble-to-replace-him\">Kevin McCarthy\u003c/a> in the 20th Congressional District.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988728/should-california-double-down-on-building-tiny-homes-for-people-experiencing-homelessness\">\u003cb>Should California Double Down on Building Tiny Homes for People Experiencing Homelessness?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">More than 1,600 people have lived in a tiny home in San Jose — a city that has embraced this type of temporary housing more aggressively than nearly any other in the state. There’s no statewide data tallying the homes — the term has become shorthand for everything from rudimentary sheds to multi-story modular housing — but cities across California, from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiMzVmZDBjYTctNjQ0OS00ZDE3LTg2ODAtNGM2MjkwMDgzODY1IiwidCI6IjBiYWU1NDliLTUyZDgtNGEzYi1hYTE5LWQ1MDY2MmIzMDg5NyIsImMiOjZ9&pageName=ReportSection\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Los Angeles\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to Sacramento to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/city-of-oakland-opens-100-bed-cabin-shelter-program-at-wood-street\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, have each added scores of them in recent years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom signaled his support for the approach when \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987494/newsom-promised-1200-tiny-homes-for-unhoused-californians-but-a-year-later-none-have-opened\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">he promised\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to distribute 1,200 more to select cities, including San Jose. But that promise \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/05/tiny-homes-not-filled/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">has not come to fruition.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now lawmakers are considering a plan to expedite their construction. A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1395\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">proposed state law\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, SB 1395, would make it easier to build tiny home villages by clearing some of the red tape that slows new projects.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988823/state-board-upholds-uc-workers-right-to-strike-over-response-to-campus-protests\">\u003cb>State Board Upholds UC Workers’ Right to Strike Over Response to Campus Protest\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cb>s\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">State regulators denied the University of California’s claim that recent academic workers’ strikes are illegal, clearing the way for thousands of graduate teaching assistants, researchers and others to continue walking off the job as the union expands its strikes this week.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When 48-year-old Carlos Ruben Jacobo was living on the streets, he preferred to sleep in the park than take a bed at one of San José’s group shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were just too many horror stories for me to go there — staff robbing you, people robbing you,” he said. “Bad people there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, when a caseworker offered him a spot at one of the city’s newest tiny home villages, he was skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He changed his mind when he learned he’d get his own room with a bathroom and air conditioning, and when he saw photos of the colorful shipping container-like buildings arranged around a courtyard with shaded tables, gated dog runs and a communal kitchen that offered three free meals a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once I got in here, I [felt] safe,” he said. “It really feels like home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobo is one of more than 1,600 people who’ve lived in a tiny home in San José — a city that has embraced this type of temporary housing more aggressively than nearly any other in the state. There’s no statewide data tallying the homes — the term has become shorthand for everything from rudimentary sheds to multi-story modular housing — but cities across California, from \u003ca href=\"https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiMzVmZDBjYTctNjQ0OS00ZDE3LTg2ODAtNGM2MjkwMDgzODY1IiwidCI6IjBiYWU1NDliLTUyZDgtNGEzYi1hYTE5LWQ1MDY2MmIzMDg5NyIsImMiOjZ9&pageName=ReportSection\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> to Sacramento to \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/city-of-oakland-opens-100-bed-cabin-shelter-program-at-wood-street\">Oakland\u003c/a>, have each added scores of them in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom signaled his support for the approach when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987494/newsom-promised-1200-tiny-homes-for-unhoused-californians-but-a-year-later-none-have-opened\">he promised\u003c/a> to distribute 1,200 more to select cities, including San José. Supporters have heralded the individual accommodations as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943746/newsom-will-mobilize-national-guard-to-deliver-1200-tiny-homes-to-address-homelessness-crisis\">faster, cheaper, and more humane\u003c/a> way to whisk people off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a moment when unsheltered homelessness in California has reached epidemic proportions, and the devastating mental and \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2023.01039\">physical consequences\u003c/a> of living outdoors have never been more clear, tiny homes offer an alternative to group shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now lawmakers are considering a plan to expedite their construction. A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1395\">proposed state law\u003c/a>, SB 1395, would make it easier to build tiny home villages by clearing some of the red tape that slows new projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen this dramatic increase in people dying on our streets,” said state Sen. Josh Becker (D-Menlo Park), who introduced the bill. “We have to get people off the streets. This is an extremely cost effective way to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988811\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988811\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A site with multiple grey tiny homes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shipping containers converted to homes line the perimeter of Evans Lane housing, an interim housing facility located on city-owned land, in San Jose on Jan. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there are longstanding concerns surrounding the model. Data around outcomes is mixed, with rates of success at getting people into permanent homes varying from city to city and site to site. And skeptics are wary that tiny homes risk normalizing substandard housing, arguing they do nothing to either prevent homelessness or solve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982237/california-audit-questions-state-homelessness-spending-san-jose\">a recent state audit\u003c/a> blasted the Newsom administration, along with local governments, for failing to track whether the $24 billion spent on reducing homelessness in recent years is actually working — calling into question whether tiny homes like the one where Jacobo lives are worth their cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If half of American renters can’t pay their rent, is a tiny home the answer?” said Jennifer Loving, CEO of Destination Home, a Silicon Valley organization, \u003ca href=\"https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/americas-rental-housing-2024\">referring to a recent report\u003c/a> from Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. “It’s better than somebody being on the streets, but it’s not an answer to homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The promise\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The tiny home village where Jacobo lives in San José, called the Guadalupe Emergency Interim Housing site, employs many of the field’s best practices, gleaned from \u003ca href=\"https://www.pdx.edu/homelessness/sites/homelessness.web.wdt.pdx.edu/files/2022-04/PSU%20HRAC%20Village%20Research%20%26%20How-To%20Guide%20-%2004%204%202022%20copy%202.pdf\">studies of existing sites\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DOC__ReimaginingInterimHousing_StagesActionAreas_FINAL.pdf\">focus groups\u003c/a> with people who’ve experienced homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 96-room village was designed with input from formerly unhoused people who told developers it should be colorful, dog friendly and free of curfews or limits on how long people can live there. Case managers help clients track down documents, access benefits, and find jobs and housing. Many residents are enrolled in an employment training program run by Goodwill of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the model that is going to be the most successful anywhere,” said Jocelyn Michelsen, associate vice president of LifeMoves, the nonprofit that operates the site and others across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988815\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11988815 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young man with sunglasses and a plaid shirt poses for a photo, with a housing complex in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Ruben Jacobo at the Guadalupe Emergency Interim Housing site in San José on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jacobo has been in his tiny home for about a year, longer than what Michelsen said is the typical stay of around nine months. Here, he plans to take advantage of job training he hopes will prepare him to work as a security guard. In the meantime, Jacobo said his city-assigned case manager is helping him apply for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m nervous because it’s a new journey,” he said. “But I’m excited at the same time because I want financial independence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan credits the city’s tiny homes with \u003ca href=\"https://news.santaclaracounty.gov/news-release/county-santa-clara-and-city-san-jose-release-preliminary-results-2023-point-time\">reducing unsheltered homelessness by 10%\u003c/a> from 2022 to 2023, even as it \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/an-update-on-homelessness-in-california/#:~:text=Among%20the%2029%20CoCs%20reporting,was%2012.8%25%20higher%20in%202023.\">increased by roughly the same amount\u003c/a> statewide and nationally over that period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city doesn’t keep tabs on how often people accept offers of shelter at tiny home sites, but a city spokesperson said there’s a waitlist. And other research has demonstrated that people are more likely to accept offers of shelter at tiny homes, motels, or similar accommodations when residents get an individual room and the privacy it affords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988816\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988816\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A row of small white houses on an semi-developed site, with a larger apartment building in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of tiny homes line Lakeview Village, a community that can house 71 people in Oakland near Lake Merritt on Nov. 3, 2021. The tiny home community will provide transitional housing for unhoused people in the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.abtglobal.com/prk\">One study\u003c/a> noted that it enabled some to get health care treatment for the first time since becoming unhoused. Another found that motel or hotel rooms lowered the mortality rate among residents, including from overdoses, and reduced interpersonal conflicts, police responses and \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2794705\">hospital stays.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But enhanced privacy comes with a higher price tag. Pallet, a leading producer of tiny homes that has sold over 1,900 units in California over the past four years, has seen increasing interest from cities in units with ensuite bathrooms, according to CEO Amy King. But, she noted, individual plumbing hikes prices significantly.[aside label=\"more housing coverage\" tag=\"affordable-housing\"]“[Cities] are not following through with purchases of those unit types, with us or other vendors, at scale,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José, each new tiny home costs between $75,000 and $175,000 to build, according to Mackenzie Mossing, Mahan’s chief policy officer. The price tags vary depending on unit size and whether bathrooms are private or shared, among other factors. That’s significantly more than new congregate shelters in the Bay Area, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.allhomeca.org/2023/03/20/strengthening-interim-housing/\">average around $43,000\u003c/a> per bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while they are often more costly to build, they can be less costly to operate than traditional shelters. San José’s tiny homes range from just over $10,000 to nearly $29,000 per bed annually. By comparison, most of the local congregate shelters cost the county between around $17,000 and $35,000 per bed each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Different sites, disparate outcomes\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When it comes to how likely residents are to move out of these communities and into permanent homes, the data is inconclusive: Figures vary dramatically across cities and even across different tiny home sites within the same city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/calich/landscape_assessment/\">state-commissioned study\u003c/a> released last year, UC Berkeley Terner Center researcher Ryan Finnigan visited tiny home sites across the state, surveyed service providers and talked to people experiencing homelessness. He found some tiny house communities offer robust services, while others are understaffed; their reputations varied accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just such variation in the model,” Finnigan said. “Sometimes people have just heard bad things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, John Janosko has few good things to say about the Wood Street Community Cabins, where he lived for almost a year. He said the shared bathroom facilities were frequently broken, and while he was grateful for free meals, he said the site provided paltry services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the city pointed out the site was designed with input from future residents and said officials are working with the nonprofit that manages the program to address concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen everyone’s mental state, their emotional state, their spiritual state, their physical state deteriorate,” Janosko said of his fellow residents, who he lived with in an encampment before moving into the cabins. “There’s nothing here to keep them … afloat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988818\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988818\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A tiny home being transported on a trailer by a tow truck.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tiny home is trucked into the Wood Street Cabin Community, a planned 100-bed shelter program on the second portion of the Game Changer lot located at 2601 Wood Street, in Oakland on Dec. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland got a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/03/11/oakland-nabs-1-million-in-homelessness-funds-to-fix-poor-outcomes-at-tiny-homes/\">$1 million grant last year\u003c/a> for one of its cabin community sites to quickly transition its residents to permanent housing after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandauditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/20220919_Performance-Audit_The-City-of-Oaklands-Homelessness-Services_Final.pdf\">audit\u003c/a> found that fewer than one in three residents left the sites for a permanent home. That’s an improvement over group shelters serving single adults in Oakland — though some years, only modestly. During the same time period, the proportion of people leaving group shelters for permanent housing ranged from a high of 24% in fiscal year 2018 to a low of 7% in fiscal year 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janosko said more support would make a difference. “These villages, they need people supporting them 24 hours a day, wraparound services,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, even at San José’s Guadalupe site, the outcomes are not much better. Since the site opened a year ago, only about 30% of residents who have left the facility moved into permanent housing. Over a quarter returned to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And since 2020, across San José’s six city-funded tiny home communities, the percentage of people who ended up in permanent homes varies widely, from a low of 18% at the Felipe Avenue site, to a high of 77% at its tiny home village for families, called Evans Lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988819\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988819\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A row of grey tiny homes, with a child's red and yellow push car sitting in the walkway.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shipping containers converted to homes line the perimeter of Evans Lane housing, an interim housing facility located on city-owned land, in San José on Jan. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City staff point out that the site with the worst outcomes requires people to leave after four months, unlike the others, where people can stay longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there isn’t an affordable home for residents to move to, service providers say many simply return to the streets. But it’s not just about the availability of housing, it’s also how to pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://destinationhomesv.org/documents/2024/02/2023-year-end-progress-report.pdf/\">Three out of four people\u003c/a> who leave temporary housing in Santa Clara County for permanent homes do so using federal vouchers for subsidized rent. But those vouchers are scarce: The waiting list in Santa Clara County has around 37,000 people on it. The county housing authority estimates it’s able to serve about one in six eligible residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if the tiny home facility is amazing, it’s hard for [residents] to move into housing if there’s no housing to move into,” Finnigan said, adding that success “depends as much on the availability of permanent housing as it does on what the shelter does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Doubling down on tiny homes \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the varying outcomes across tiny home sites in San José, Mayor Mahan is on track to more than double the number of tiny home beds in the city. As he does, he’s coming under fire for pushing to use money earmarked for permanent affordable housing to pay for the temporary units. The city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/111495/638504154810170000\">most recent budget proposal\u003c/a> could divert the entirety of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/housing/resource-library/housing-investment-plans-and-policy/measure-e-real-property-transfer-tax\">Measure E fund\u003c/a> away from new housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consuelo Hernandez, director of the Santa Clara County Office of Supportive Housing, is bracing for the impact. Without a strong investment in new affordable housing, she said, “We are just putting people in these little boxes with no plan. … People need an exit strategy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shifting funds toward temporary solutions has also meant less money for prevention efforts. The county \u003ca href=\"https://osh.sccgov.org/sites/g/files/exjcpb671/files/documents/2023-year-end-progress-report.pdf\">saw a spike in the number of new people\u003c/a> falling into homelessness last year, and some observers note that trend corresponded with a decision by city leaders to fund more temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988820\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing sunglasses stands outside the door of a grey tiny home.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Mora stands outside of her temporary home at Evans Lane housing, an interim housing facility located on city-owned land, in San José on Jan. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Mahan wants other cities to follow his lead. He’s co-sponsoring SB 1395, the state bill that would help clear the way for more tiny home projects. The bill would ensure such projects are eligible for streamlined zoning under the Shelter Crisis Act, which allows for expedited development, and free up state money for this type of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan argues the change is needed to accelerate the time it takes to develop the projects, which has stretched from around four months to about a year, he said, ever since emergency provisions that expedited development during the pandemic were dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To remedy this, the City Council last year backed him in \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6378017&GUID=E71DE1F2-BA21-4419-8CA2-8E2B84D78C48\">declaring a shelter emergency\u003c/a> that tweaked land-use rules and building codes, changes expected to shrink construction time significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the loosened rules in San José, \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12367591&GUID=BB074D4B-D265-4ED4-95EF-BF2F3EDAFC6B\">sites aren’t required to have running water\u003c/a>, just mobile showers and portable toilets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That raises concerns for some observers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are meant to be really short-term emergency spaces where folks quickly move into permanent housing,” Finnigan, of the Terner Center, said. But given the reality that people may spend months or even years living in them, “There’s a real need to make the spaces where people are living for much longer than a couple of months dignified and healthy and stable and safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Becker points out that any tiny house is subject to state building codes, and is an improvement over the status quo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill passed out of the Senate earlier this month with broad support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t wait for that to solve the problem,” Becker said. “Sometimes you get in this area where you have the perfect get in the way of the great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction (June 4): The original version of this story stated that since 2020, only about 30% of residents who have left the Guadalupe Emergency Interim Housing site have moved into permanent housing. That is incorrect, as the site only opened about a year ago. In that time 26% of residents exited to homelessness, not nearly 40%. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction (June 13): The original version of this story misspelled Ryan Finnigan’s surname. It is Finnigan, not Finnegan. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When 48-year-old Carlos Ruben Jacobo was living on the streets, he preferred to sleep in the park than take a bed at one of San José’s group shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were just too many horror stories for me to go there — staff robbing you, people robbing you,” he said. “Bad people there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, when a caseworker offered him a spot at one of the city’s newest tiny home villages, he was skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He changed his mind when he learned he’d get his own room with a bathroom and air conditioning, and when he saw photos of the colorful shipping container-like buildings arranged around a courtyard with shaded tables, gated dog runs and a communal kitchen that offered three free meals a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once I got in here, I [felt] safe,” he said. “It really feels like home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobo is one of more than 1,600 people who’ve lived in a tiny home in San José — a city that has embraced this type of temporary housing more aggressively than nearly any other in the state. There’s no statewide data tallying the homes — the term has become shorthand for everything from rudimentary sheds to multi-story modular housing — but cities across California, from \u003ca href=\"https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiMzVmZDBjYTctNjQ0OS00ZDE3LTg2ODAtNGM2MjkwMDgzODY1IiwidCI6IjBiYWU1NDliLTUyZDgtNGEzYi1hYTE5LWQ1MDY2MmIzMDg5NyIsImMiOjZ9&pageName=ReportSection\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> to Sacramento to \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/city-of-oakland-opens-100-bed-cabin-shelter-program-at-wood-street\">Oakland\u003c/a>, have each added scores of them in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom signaled his support for the approach when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987494/newsom-promised-1200-tiny-homes-for-unhoused-californians-but-a-year-later-none-have-opened\">he promised\u003c/a> to distribute 1,200 more to select cities, including San José. Supporters have heralded the individual accommodations as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943746/newsom-will-mobilize-national-guard-to-deliver-1200-tiny-homes-to-address-homelessness-crisis\">faster, cheaper, and more humane\u003c/a> way to whisk people off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a moment when unsheltered homelessness in California has reached epidemic proportions, and the devastating mental and \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2023.01039\">physical consequences\u003c/a> of living outdoors have never been more clear, tiny homes offer an alternative to group shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now lawmakers are considering a plan to expedite their construction. A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1395\">proposed state law\u003c/a>, SB 1395, would make it easier to build tiny home villages by clearing some of the red tape that slows new projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen this dramatic increase in people dying on our streets,” said state Sen. Josh Becker (D-Menlo Park), who introduced the bill. “We have to get people off the streets. This is an extremely cost effective way to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988811\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988811\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A site with multiple grey tiny homes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shipping containers converted to homes line the perimeter of Evans Lane housing, an interim housing facility located on city-owned land, in San Jose on Jan. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there are longstanding concerns surrounding the model. Data around outcomes is mixed, with rates of success at getting people into permanent homes varying from city to city and site to site. And skeptics are wary that tiny homes risk normalizing substandard housing, arguing they do nothing to either prevent homelessness or solve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982237/california-audit-questions-state-homelessness-spending-san-jose\">a recent state audit\u003c/a> blasted the Newsom administration, along with local governments, for failing to track whether the $24 billion spent on reducing homelessness in recent years is actually working — calling into question whether tiny homes like the one where Jacobo lives are worth their cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If half of American renters can’t pay their rent, is a tiny home the answer?” said Jennifer Loving, CEO of Destination Home, a Silicon Valley organization, \u003ca href=\"https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/americas-rental-housing-2024\">referring to a recent report\u003c/a> from Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. “It’s better than somebody being on the streets, but it’s not an answer to homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The promise\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The tiny home village where Jacobo lives in San José, called the Guadalupe Emergency Interim Housing site, employs many of the field’s best practices, gleaned from \u003ca href=\"https://www.pdx.edu/homelessness/sites/homelessness.web.wdt.pdx.edu/files/2022-04/PSU%20HRAC%20Village%20Research%20%26%20How-To%20Guide%20-%2004%204%202022%20copy%202.pdf\">studies of existing sites\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DOC__ReimaginingInterimHousing_StagesActionAreas_FINAL.pdf\">focus groups\u003c/a> with people who’ve experienced homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 96-room village was designed with input from formerly unhoused people who told developers it should be colorful, dog friendly and free of curfews or limits on how long people can live there. Case managers help clients track down documents, access benefits, and find jobs and housing. Many residents are enrolled in an employment training program run by Goodwill of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the model that is going to be the most successful anywhere,” said Jocelyn Michelsen, associate vice president of LifeMoves, the nonprofit that operates the site and others across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988815\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11988815 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young man with sunglasses and a plaid shirt poses for a photo, with a housing complex in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Ruben Jacobo at the Guadalupe Emergency Interim Housing site in San José on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jacobo has been in his tiny home for about a year, longer than what Michelsen said is the typical stay of around nine months. Here, he plans to take advantage of job training he hopes will prepare him to work as a security guard. In the meantime, Jacobo said his city-assigned case manager is helping him apply for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m nervous because it’s a new journey,” he said. “But I’m excited at the same time because I want financial independence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan credits the city’s tiny homes with \u003ca href=\"https://news.santaclaracounty.gov/news-release/county-santa-clara-and-city-san-jose-release-preliminary-results-2023-point-time\">reducing unsheltered homelessness by 10%\u003c/a> from 2022 to 2023, even as it \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/an-update-on-homelessness-in-california/#:~:text=Among%20the%2029%20CoCs%20reporting,was%2012.8%25%20higher%20in%202023.\">increased by roughly the same amount\u003c/a> statewide and nationally over that period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city doesn’t keep tabs on how often people accept offers of shelter at tiny home sites, but a city spokesperson said there’s a waitlist. And other research has demonstrated that people are more likely to accept offers of shelter at tiny homes, motels, or similar accommodations when residents get an individual room and the privacy it affords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988816\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988816\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A row of small white houses on an semi-developed site, with a larger apartment building in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of tiny homes line Lakeview Village, a community that can house 71 people in Oakland near Lake Merritt on Nov. 3, 2021. The tiny home community will provide transitional housing for unhoused people in the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.abtglobal.com/prk\">One study\u003c/a> noted that it enabled some to get health care treatment for the first time since becoming unhoused. Another found that motel or hotel rooms lowered the mortality rate among residents, including from overdoses, and reduced interpersonal conflicts, police responses and \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2794705\">hospital stays.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But enhanced privacy comes with a higher price tag. Pallet, a leading producer of tiny homes that has sold over 1,900 units in California over the past four years, has seen increasing interest from cities in units with ensuite bathrooms, according to CEO Amy King. But, she noted, individual plumbing hikes prices significantly.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“[Cities] are not following through with purchases of those unit types, with us or other vendors, at scale,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José, each new tiny home costs between $75,000 and $175,000 to build, according to Mackenzie Mossing, Mahan’s chief policy officer. The price tags vary depending on unit size and whether bathrooms are private or shared, among other factors. That’s significantly more than new congregate shelters in the Bay Area, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.allhomeca.org/2023/03/20/strengthening-interim-housing/\">average around $43,000\u003c/a> per bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while they are often more costly to build, they can be less costly to operate than traditional shelters. San José’s tiny homes range from just over $10,000 to nearly $29,000 per bed annually. By comparison, most of the local congregate shelters cost the county between around $17,000 and $35,000 per bed each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Different sites, disparate outcomes\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When it comes to how likely residents are to move out of these communities and into permanent homes, the data is inconclusive: Figures vary dramatically across cities and even across different tiny home sites within the same city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/calich/landscape_assessment/\">state-commissioned study\u003c/a> released last year, UC Berkeley Terner Center researcher Ryan Finnigan visited tiny home sites across the state, surveyed service providers and talked to people experiencing homelessness. He found some tiny house communities offer robust services, while others are understaffed; their reputations varied accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just such variation in the model,” Finnigan said. “Sometimes people have just heard bad things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, John Janosko has few good things to say about the Wood Street Community Cabins, where he lived for almost a year. He said the shared bathroom facilities were frequently broken, and while he was grateful for free meals, he said the site provided paltry services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the city pointed out the site was designed with input from future residents and said officials are working with the nonprofit that manages the program to address concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen everyone’s mental state, their emotional state, their spiritual state, their physical state deteriorate,” Janosko said of his fellow residents, who he lived with in an encampment before moving into the cabins. “There’s nothing here to keep them … afloat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988818\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988818\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A tiny home being transported on a trailer by a tow truck.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tiny home is trucked into the Wood Street Cabin Community, a planned 100-bed shelter program on the second portion of the Game Changer lot located at 2601 Wood Street, in Oakland on Dec. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland got a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/03/11/oakland-nabs-1-million-in-homelessness-funds-to-fix-poor-outcomes-at-tiny-homes/\">$1 million grant last year\u003c/a> for one of its cabin community sites to quickly transition its residents to permanent housing after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandauditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/20220919_Performance-Audit_The-City-of-Oaklands-Homelessness-Services_Final.pdf\">audit\u003c/a> found that fewer than one in three residents left the sites for a permanent home. That’s an improvement over group shelters serving single adults in Oakland — though some years, only modestly. During the same time period, the proportion of people leaving group shelters for permanent housing ranged from a high of 24% in fiscal year 2018 to a low of 7% in fiscal year 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janosko said more support would make a difference. “These villages, they need people supporting them 24 hours a day, wraparound services,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, even at San José’s Guadalupe site, the outcomes are not much better. Since the site opened a year ago, only about 30% of residents who have left the facility moved into permanent housing. Over a quarter returned to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And since 2020, across San José’s six city-funded tiny home communities, the percentage of people who ended up in permanent homes varies widely, from a low of 18% at the Felipe Avenue site, to a high of 77% at its tiny home village for families, called Evans Lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988819\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988819\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A row of grey tiny homes, with a child's red and yellow push car sitting in the walkway.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shipping containers converted to homes line the perimeter of Evans Lane housing, an interim housing facility located on city-owned land, in San José on Jan. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City staff point out that the site with the worst outcomes requires people to leave after four months, unlike the others, where people can stay longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there isn’t an affordable home for residents to move to, service providers say many simply return to the streets. But it’s not just about the availability of housing, it’s also how to pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://destinationhomesv.org/documents/2024/02/2023-year-end-progress-report.pdf/\">Three out of four people\u003c/a> who leave temporary housing in Santa Clara County for permanent homes do so using federal vouchers for subsidized rent. But those vouchers are scarce: The waiting list in Santa Clara County has around 37,000 people on it. The county housing authority estimates it’s able to serve about one in six eligible residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if the tiny home facility is amazing, it’s hard for [residents] to move into housing if there’s no housing to move into,” Finnigan said, adding that success “depends as much on the availability of permanent housing as it does on what the shelter does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Doubling down on tiny homes \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the varying outcomes across tiny home sites in San José, Mayor Mahan is on track to more than double the number of tiny home beds in the city. As he does, he’s coming under fire for pushing to use money earmarked for permanent affordable housing to pay for the temporary units. The city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/111495/638504154810170000\">most recent budget proposal\u003c/a> could divert the entirety of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/housing/resource-library/housing-investment-plans-and-policy/measure-e-real-property-transfer-tax\">Measure E fund\u003c/a> away from new housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consuelo Hernandez, director of the Santa Clara County Office of Supportive Housing, is bracing for the impact. Without a strong investment in new affordable housing, she said, “We are just putting people in these little boxes with no plan. … People need an exit strategy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shifting funds toward temporary solutions has also meant less money for prevention efforts. The county \u003ca href=\"https://osh.sccgov.org/sites/g/files/exjcpb671/files/documents/2023-year-end-progress-report.pdf\">saw a spike in the number of new people\u003c/a> falling into homelessness last year, and some observers note that trend corresponded with a decision by city leaders to fund more temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988820\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing sunglasses stands outside the door of a grey tiny home.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Mora stands outside of her temporary home at Evans Lane housing, an interim housing facility located on city-owned land, in San José on Jan. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Mahan wants other cities to follow his lead. He’s co-sponsoring SB 1395, the state bill that would help clear the way for more tiny home projects. The bill would ensure such projects are eligible for streamlined zoning under the Shelter Crisis Act, which allows for expedited development, and free up state money for this type of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan argues the change is needed to accelerate the time it takes to develop the projects, which has stretched from around four months to about a year, he said, ever since emergency provisions that expedited development during the pandemic were dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To remedy this, the City Council last year backed him in \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6378017&GUID=E71DE1F2-BA21-4419-8CA2-8E2B84D78C48\">declaring a shelter emergency\u003c/a> that tweaked land-use rules and building codes, changes expected to shrink construction time significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the loosened rules in San José, \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12367591&GUID=BB074D4B-D265-4ED4-95EF-BF2F3EDAFC6B\">sites aren’t required to have running water\u003c/a>, just mobile showers and portable toilets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That raises concerns for some observers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are meant to be really short-term emergency spaces where folks quickly move into permanent housing,” Finnigan, of the Terner Center, said. But given the reality that people may spend months or even years living in them, “There’s a real need to make the spaces where people are living for much longer than a couple of months dignified and healthy and stable and safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Becker points out that any tiny house is subject to state building codes, and is an improvement over the status quo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill passed out of the Senate earlier this month with broad support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t wait for that to solve the problem,” Becker said. “Sometimes you get in this area where you have the perfect get in the way of the great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction (June 4): The original version of this story stated that since 2020, only about 30% of residents who have left the Guadalupe Emergency Interim Housing site have moved into permanent housing. That is incorrect, as the site only opened about a year ago. In that time 26% of residents exited to homelessness, not nearly 40%. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The company that owns the Regional Medical Center of San José says it plans to close the hospital’s trauma center on August 12. The trauma center is the only one of its kind on Santa Clara County’s east side.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, local leaders, patient advocates, and even some doctors from the hospital want the state to intervene, warning that this closure will have devastating ripple effects on the entire region.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC5886912034\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987665/advocates-urge-state-to-intervene-in-closure-of-san-jose-trauma-center\">Advocates Urge State to Intervene in Closure of San Jose Trauma Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the bay. Local news to keep you rooted. The regional medical center of San Jose is months away from losing its trauma center. It’s the only place of its kind treating severe and unexpected medical emergencies. On the east side of Santa Clara County. And community members are warning that its planned closure this August is a matter of life and death for the county’s low income communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Raj Gupta: \u003c/strong>And if you take this lifeline of where would these people go? Every day, there’ll be at least 5 to 7 patients who will either have increased mortality or morbidity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>South Bay leaders, advocates and health care workers are now asking the state to step in. Today, what the trauma centers closure could mean for the entire county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>Trauma centers in general. While each case can be different, they provide care for people who are in traumatic injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Joseph Geha is a South Bay digital editor for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>They are dealing with life threatening and serious injuries that can sometimes result from major car accidents or a shooting or other kinds of calamities that are generally unexpected but very severe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Joseph, I wonder if you can just first describe for me in broad strokes the role that the regional medical center in San Jose plays in the health care ecosystem of Santa Clara County?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>It’s situated near East San Jose in the eastern part of Santa Clara County. And it serves a lot of patients in a lot of different capacities. This is where historically there have been communities of color, people who have been underserved by other parts of public life. The trauma center handles about 2450 trauma patients annually, according to a county report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>And that’s about a quarter of all the trauma cases for the trauma system in the county. They also handle a considerable portion of stroke patients in the county with no insurance. It’s about 65%. 20% of all stroke cases in the county arrive at Regional Medical Center. It’s the only comprehensive stroke center on the northeast, east and southeast side of the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This medical center plays a really significant role in the health care ecosystem there. But there are some pretty big changes coming to the hospital. Right? What’s happening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So the hospital’s ownership, it’s a company called Hospital Corporation of America, and the parent company is HCA Health Care. And the owners of this hospital are proposing some closures and some cuts at the hospital. So while the hospital itself will remain open, they are proposing a closure of their level two trauma center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>They are also proposing to eliminate their serious heart attack treatment program. It’s called the Stemi program. It stands for Elevation Myocardial Infarction. It’s essentially a very severe heart attack that requires specialized, quick treatment. And they’re going to eliminate that from their service portfolio as well. And they’re talking about reducing their stroke services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>Essentially, what they’re talking about is lessening the specialization of their stroke care. So they’re going from what is called a comprehensive stroke center to a primary stroke center. So as of now, the date that HCA health care has announced for these closures to take effect and for these cuts to take effect is August 12th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, why is the hospital making this change? Like, why did they decide to do this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>What HCA Healthcare has said in its limited public statements about this is that this is about seeing less patients in their trauma center at Regional Medical Center and seeing less patients making use of or needing the care of their severe heart attack program for their stroke services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>They haven’t really said whether or not those patient numbers are dropping, but it seems that in general, most of the cuts and closures that HCA is proposing and has done in the past, they are attributing them to less patients using those services. And so it appears to be a cost saving measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>You just described, Joseph. How important of a role regional medical center plays and these really big changes that are coming as a result? I mean, what’s been the reaction to the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>Since Regional Medical Center and HCA health care announced this planned closure? Alarm bells have been going off around the county. People are raising major concerns about this and they’re not being shy about speaking to what they believe will be a very severe impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>You have everybody from patient advocates to county leaders like Supervisor Cindy Chavez has been very outspoken about this. The county board of supervisors themselves has been hearing reports in public about the severe potential impact of this closures and cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>And then you’ve got doctors themselves just very recently last week, doctors who work at this hospital standing 100 yards from the entrance, decrying what they call shameful and irresponsible closures and cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Raj Gupta: \u003c/strong>Is a big, big step backwards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>One of the doctors who spoke very extensively about his concerns was Dr. Raj Gupta, who’s the director of stroke and neuroscience services at Regional Medical Center, speaking against his own hospital’s decision to go for these closures and cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Raj Gupta: \u003c/strong>If you look at all the studies, when any major trauma center is closed, the mortality mortality in the population increases by 29%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>And he said it’s going to greatly impact the health of patients who would otherwise be coming to this hospital, who now might have to be driven farther afield to Valley Medical Center, a county hospital about eight miles away and maybe 15 or 20 minutes away in in good traffic, or Stanford Medical Center up the peninsula. And, you know, more than 20 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Raj Gupta: \u003c/strong>A regional medical center. It is covering one third of the population of the county, almost 600,000 population. And if you look at the west side of the town, you’re covering 1.2 million and you have eight hospitals. It’s such an unequal distribution of resources to begin with. And if you take this lifeline of where would these people go?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>He called this irresponsible and shameful, and he said it’s going to greatly impact the health of patients who would otherwise be coming to this hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Raj Gupta: \u003c/strong>We do believe in first rule in medicine to not harm. And this action will harm our patients, our community. It’s everybody is impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And you mentioned elected officials are really worried about this, too. What are they saying and what are they hoping to do about this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>You have a major figure in Santa Clara County and South Bay politics supervisor Cindy Chavez, who’s been around for a long time and has a long record of experience and has overseen other major health issues in the county health system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cindy Chavez \u003c/strong>We are one of the largest municipal areas in the country, and we will have fewer trauma center rooms and trauma center beds than any other major metropolitan area in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>And she is so concerned about what’s happening that, you know, she has taken part in a rally recently asking Attorney General Rob Bonta to step in and stop this proposed closure and cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cindy Chavez \u003c/strong>We’re asking Attorney General Rob Bonta to investigate the predatory practices of HCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>And, you know, she’s gone as far as to say that if what they’re doing is not against the law herself and other advocates need to be working to make it against the law, because she characterized this move as putting people’s lives at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, what advocates and local leaders want Attorney General Rob Bonta to do about this. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>How exactly do they want to see Attorney General Rob Bonta step in? What do they want him to actually do in response to the potential closure of this trauma center?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>The advocates and the elected leaders are hoping that Attorney General Bonta will use his authority, which they say he has, because this hospital was once a nonprofit hospital before it was bought by HCA in 2002. They are saying that Attorney General Rob Bonta has the authority to step in and stop these cuts and closures because they would have a discriminatory impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>So this isn’t the first action that leaders and advocates have taken to get a higher authority involved. In April, the entire county Board of Supervisors sent a case to the California Department of Public Health to ask them to step in and deny this closure of the trauma center and these cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, how has the Hospital Corporation of America responded to these criticisms by patient advocates and and local leaders?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>HCA has been kind of quiet about this. What they’re saying is we have evaluated our options carefully and this is what we think is best to continue serving the community. They’ve also recently reacted to these calls by people like Supervisor Cindy Chavez in a negative fashion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>A spokesperson said that they were disappointed by the actions of supervisor Cindy Chavez and City Council member Peter Ortiz for rallying outside of the hospital and decrying the HCA, as, you know, proposed cuts. They have noted that over the past decade, HCA claims it has invested $186 million in emergency services in this community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>And a spokesperson said the Hospital Regional Medical Center intends to spend an additional 10 million this year to grow its emergency department from 43 beds to 63 beds. So there they’re pointing to some other investments they’re making to say, look, we’re not completely divesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>However, those other investments that they’re making have not changed. The concerns that have been raised by the people, like the advocates and the city and county leaders who are saying the services that you are choosing to cut are going to have a greater impact despite these other expansions or these other past investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Joseph, what is next here? 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What I’m hearing from folks who live in this area who are most concerned, who are raising the alarms, is that they are going to literally have their lives put up for sale, essentially. They are going to see a much greater struggle to get immediate and necessary emergency and other traumatic kind of health care needs addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>They’re going to have to travel farther distances. They might lose precious minutes in the time that is needed for their immediate treatment. And they’re worried in general about the members of their community who live and work in this area. They’re worried that people are going to die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Joseph, thank you so much for joining us on the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>Thank you for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Joseph Geha, who covers the South Bay for KQED. This 33 minute conversation with Joseph was cut down and edited by Tamuna Chkareuli and senior editor Alan Montecillo. Maria Esquinca scored this episode and added all the tape music courtesy of the audio network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>By the way, before we go, today is producer Maria Esquinca’s last day working with us. Maria is one of three folks who work on this show every day. So when someone leaves, it’s a really, really, really big deal for us here. 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Every day, there’ll be at least 5 to 7 patients who will either have increased mortality or morbidity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>South Bay leaders, advocates and health care workers are now asking the state to step in. Today, what the trauma centers closure could mean for the entire county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>Trauma centers in general. While each case can be different, they provide care for people who are in traumatic injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Joseph Geha is a South Bay digital editor for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>They are dealing with life threatening and serious injuries that can sometimes result from major car accidents or a shooting or other kinds of calamities that are generally unexpected but very severe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Joseph, I wonder if you can just first describe for me in broad strokes the role that the regional medical center in San Jose plays in the health care ecosystem of Santa Clara County?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>It’s situated near East San Jose in the eastern part of Santa Clara County. And it serves a lot of patients in a lot of different capacities. This is where historically there have been communities of color, people who have been underserved by other parts of public life. The trauma center handles about 2450 trauma patients annually, according to a county report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>And that’s about a quarter of all the trauma cases for the trauma system in the county. They also handle a considerable portion of stroke patients in the county with no insurance. It’s about 65%. 20% of all stroke cases in the county arrive at Regional Medical Center. It’s the only comprehensive stroke center on the northeast, east and southeast side of the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This medical center plays a really significant role in the health care ecosystem there. But there are some pretty big changes coming to the hospital. Right? What’s happening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So the hospital’s ownership, it’s a company called Hospital Corporation of America, and the parent company is HCA Health Care. And the owners of this hospital are proposing some closures and some cuts at the hospital. So while the hospital itself will remain open, they are proposing a closure of their level two trauma center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>They are also proposing to eliminate their serious heart attack treatment program. It’s called the Stemi program. It stands for Elevation Myocardial Infarction. It’s essentially a very severe heart attack that requires specialized, quick treatment. And they’re going to eliminate that from their service portfolio as well. And they’re talking about reducing their stroke services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>Essentially, what they’re talking about is lessening the specialization of their stroke care. 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The county board of supervisors themselves has been hearing reports in public about the severe potential impact of this closures and cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>And then you’ve got doctors themselves just very recently last week, doctors who work at this hospital standing 100 yards from the entrance, decrying what they call shameful and irresponsible closures and cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Raj Gupta: \u003c/strong>Is a big, big step backwards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>One of the doctors who spoke very extensively about his concerns was Dr. Raj Gupta, who’s the director of stroke and neuroscience services at Regional Medical Center, speaking against his own hospital’s decision to go for these closures and cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Raj Gupta: \u003c/strong>If you look at all the studies, when any major trauma center is closed, the mortality mortality in the population increases by 29%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>And he said it’s going to greatly impact the health of patients who would otherwise be coming to this hospital, who now might have to be driven farther afield to Valley Medical Center, a county hospital about eight miles away and maybe 15 or 20 minutes away in in good traffic, or Stanford Medical Center up the peninsula. 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What are they saying and what are they hoping to do about this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>You have a major figure in Santa Clara County and South Bay politics supervisor Cindy Chavez, who’s been around for a long time and has a long record of experience and has overseen other major health issues in the county health system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cindy Chavez \u003c/strong>We are one of the largest municipal areas in the country, and we will have fewer trauma center rooms and trauma center beds than any other major metropolitan area in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>And she is so concerned about what’s happening that, you know, she has taken part in a rally recently asking Attorney General Rob Bonta to step in and stop this proposed closure and cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cindy Chavez \u003c/strong>We’re asking Attorney General Rob Bonta to investigate the predatory practices of HCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>And, you know, she’s gone as far as to say that if what they’re doing is not against the law herself and other advocates need to be working to make it against the law, because she characterized this move as putting people’s lives at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, what advocates and local leaders want Attorney General Rob Bonta to do about this. 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In April, the entire county Board of Supervisors sent a case to the California Department of Public Health to ask them to step in and deny this closure of the trauma center and these cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, how has the Hospital Corporation of America responded to these criticisms by patient advocates and and local leaders?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>HCA has been kind of quiet about this. What they’re saying is we have evaluated our options carefully and this is what we think is best to continue serving the community. They’ve also recently reacted to these calls by people like Supervisor Cindy Chavez in a negative fashion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>A spokesperson said that they were disappointed by the actions of supervisor Cindy Chavez and City Council member Peter Ortiz for rallying outside of the hospital and decrying the HCA, as, you know, proposed cuts. They have noted that over the past decade, HCA claims it has invested $186 million in emergency services in this community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>And a spokesperson said the Hospital Regional Medical Center intends to spend an additional 10 million this year to grow its emergency department from 43 beds to 63 beds. So there they’re pointing to some other investments they’re making to say, look, we’re not completely divesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>However, those other investments that they’re making have not changed. The concerns that have been raised by the people, like the advocates and the city and county leaders who are saying the services that you are choosing to cut are going to have a greater impact despite these other expansions or these other past investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Joseph, what is next here? Any response from Attorney General Rob Bonta at this time about whether he will, in fact, step in?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>It’s unclear. We’ve reached out to him for comment, but haven’t heard back. But one of the advocates who signed on to a letter to Attorney General Bonta suggested that he was receptive to it and that he had committed to them in a phone call that he would do what is right and that he would do what he needs to do to protect the community health in this area. But what that outcome might look like and how deep those commitments are, you know, it’s it’s too soon to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>If Bonta doesn’t agree to intervene. There is still this request that county leaders made to the State Department of Public Health. I mean, what’s going on with that? And like what other options are on the table?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>There are other options still on the table. And one of them, though it might be a big step, is that the county could potentially try to purchase this hospital from HCA health care and make it part of the county health care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>What’s unclear, though, is whether or not regional medical center is open to a purchase offer. There have been discussions between regional medical center officials and county officials, but those are happening behind closed doors because they’re confidential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>So it’s unclear how serious the county is at this moment about potentially purchasing this hospital to keep these critical services in the community and to continue to ensure that there is a a lifeline, a literal lifeline for East San Jose and East Santa Clara County residents in this area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, I do want to come back to what this all means for the residents of this area. I mean, let’s say August rolls around and this trauma center does close. I mean, if you’re someone living nearby and you need health care immediately, I mean, what does that mean for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>If these closures and these cuts are to take effect? What I’m hearing from folks who live in this area who are most concerned, who are raising the alarms, is that they are going to literally have their lives put up for sale, essentially. They are going to see a much greater struggle to get immediate and necessary emergency and other traumatic kind of health care needs addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>They’re going to have to travel farther distances. They might lose precious minutes in the time that is needed for their immediate treatment. And they’re worried in general about the members of their community who live and work in this area. They’re worried that people are going to die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Joseph, thank you so much for joining us on the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha: \u003c/strong>Thank you for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Joseph Geha, who covers the South Bay for KQED. This 33 minute conversation with Joseph was cut down and edited by Tamuna Chkareuli and senior editor Alan Montecillo. Maria Esquinca scored this episode and added all the tape music courtesy of the audio network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>By the way, before we go, today is producer Maria Esquinca’s last day working with us. Maria is one of three folks who work on this show every day. So when someone leaves, it’s a really, really, really big deal for us here. We appreciate all the work Maria has done for this show in the last two years, especially her episodes during National Poetry Month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Maria As we set you back out into the world as one of the few people who know what it really takes to make this show, we wish you all the best on your next adventure. The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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At that point, the government will either present the court with a resolution or the government will indict. But that will be the end of the line,” Tartakovsky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the reason for the extensions in the case is “differences in the government’s and the defendant’s views of the facts,” Segovia’s attorney, Will Edelman, wrote in a court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edelman, citing health issues and personal difficulties, is withdrawing from the case and Segovia will be represented by attorney Adam Gasner. Edelman noted in his filing that finding a new attorney for Segovia and transitioning the case to Gasner required additional time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, “the parties have engaged in extensive back-and-forth discussions about such potential resolutions, including multiple meetings, presentations, and detailed correspondence,” Edelman wrote. 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While the shipping information for the packages claimed they contained things like “Wedding Party Favors,” “Gift Makeup,” or “Chocolate and Sweets,” investigators believe they contained drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Between July 2019 and January 2023, officials intercepted and opened five of these shipments and found that they contained thousands of pills of controlled substances, including the synthetic opioids Tramadol and Tapentadol,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Investigators seized drugs at both her home and office, including hundreds of Tapentadol pills at her police union office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators said Segovia used CashApp and PayPal to send money to people in various countries and WhatsApp to send and receive hundreds of logistics messages and photos to a person with an Indian country code phone number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one image she allegedly sent showing a PayPal payment confirmation of $999.99, her work computer monitor can be seen along with a San José Police Officers’ Association letter opener and one of her police union business cards below the monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11945256,news_11983119,news_11983106\"]When initially confronted about the alleged drug shipments, federal investigators said Segovia lied to them about her activities and tried to shift blame onto her housekeeper. Though Segovia is not a police officer and was an administrative employee for the union representing roughly 1,100 San José police officers, investigators said she claimed at one point to “work for the police department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia is alleged to have continued ordering drugs after being interviewed by federal authorities in February 2023. A package sent from China in March 2023 addressed to her and labeled as containing a “clock” was seized by federal agents in Kentucky. The attorney’s office said the package actually contained valeryl fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys in the case have not commented on what a possible deal might look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where a case involves serious drugs, that involves any kind of distribution, somebody is often looking at prison time,” Jayne said. She noted the amounts of drugs involved and mitigating issues like addiction could also factor into any potential deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the roughly 14 months after Segovia’s first court hearing, federal judges approved some travel for her, allowing her to attend family events out of state and go on vacation. She was not permitted to travel internationally, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was fired by the police union on April 7, 2023, after an initial internal investigation by police union executives. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Villareal then reloaded his gun and ran north through the apartment complex lot, where he encountered additional officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The suspect then pointed his firearm at one of the responding officers while aggressively advancing towards him. This prompted a separate officer to discharge his firearm, striking the suspect,” Joseph said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villareal was arrested at 4:21 p.m., Joseph said, noting that Villareal has an “extensive criminal history” and is on active probation, and is prohibited from owning a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of his prior convictions was for assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer while also being in possession of a shotgun and a stolen vehicle, Joseph said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officials did not name the three officers who shot their weapons. All three have been placed on paid administrative leave while the case is being investigated by the department and the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan lauded the officers for their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our residents called for help, and our officers responded quickly and bravely to ensure everyone was kept safe. I’m deeply grateful for their courage,” Mahan said at Monday’s briefing. “They’re part of an exceptional police department full of selfless people who sacrifice their own safety in pursuit of a safer city for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">This is the third police shooting in San José this year. Earlier this month, two officers were wounded in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/sanfrancisco/news/san-jose-police-shooting-officer-critically-hurt-san-ignacio-avenue/\">shootout with a man at a South San José hotel\u003c/a> while responding to a domestic violence call. The man was also wounded and arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">One of the officers in that incident is still hospitalized, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Katie DeBenedetti.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California Assemblymember Evan Low claimed second place in the primary election for California’s 16th Congressional District on Wednesday by five votes after the completion of a recount that broke a historic tie between him and Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low (D-Campbell) will now face fellow Democrat Sam Liccardo, the former mayor of San José, in the November general election to fill the seat long held by Rep. 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I’m disappointed because I couldn’t deliver a win for the oh-so-many folks who gave their time, effort, energy and resources to our campaign,” Simitian said. “And frankly, I’m disappointed because I won’t have the opportunity to bring a fresh take to our nation’s capital— where we urgently need a renewed sense of purpose and a commitment to maintaining and sustaining our democracy.”[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"evan-low,joe-simitian\"]The recount was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982501/requests-for-recount-could-upend-silicon-valley-race-for-congress\">requested last month\u003c/a> by Jonathan Padilla, a tech entrepreneur and former Liccardo campaign staffer, who donated $1,000 to Liccardo’s congressional campaign in December. Those ties led to criticisms from Low and his allies that Liccardo and his supporters were orchestrating the recount to narrow the field to two candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla said his efforts, which included helping to start a political committee to raise money for the recount’s costs, were intended to both ensure a proper count and to prevent a three-way general election in which a candidate could claim the seat with less than 50% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have not spoken to Mr. Liccardo about this. I have not spoken to anybody in the campaign about this,” Padilla told KQED early in the recount. “I’ve had no meaningful contact with anybody in the Liccardo campaign since I made my donation at the end of December.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent expenditure committee that Padilla helped create, called Count the Vote, paid over $300,000 for a machine recount in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, as California does not have a law to trigger an automatic government-funded recount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla requested the recount on behalf of Low, even though the candidate said he opposed the effort. Lawyers for California’s Secretary of State’s office ruled last week that Padilla could not recoup his costs even if Low finished ahead of Simitian because Low would already be heading to the general election by virtue of the tie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of lawyers with the Santa Clara County Government Attorneys Association filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission last week, arguing that recount backers coordinated their efforts with Liccardo without disclosing their activities as in-kind contributions to Liccardo’s campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recount committee has until July 15 to report its donors, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/eac_assets/1/6/EMG_chapt_15_august_26_2010.pdf\">per federal guidelines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo’s campaign has denied any involvement in the recount. On Tuesday, Liccardo \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseinside.com/opinion/sam-liccardo-its-the-counting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote in an op-ed in San Jose Inside, \u003c/a>“Neither I nor anyone in my campaign has communicated with Padilla or his donors about the recount.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that Padilla is a supporter of mine is not remarkable; every independent expenditure committee in history has been created by a candidate’s supporter,” Liccardo added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo commended election officials on Wednesday for working to ensure an accurate result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Election officials\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982871/evan-low-joe-simitian-recount-16th-congressional-district\"> began the process\u003c/a> of recounting ballots earlier this month, which involved running them back through counting machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla’s lawyers also challenged a number of ballots that were left out of the initial count after being deemed ineligible by election officials. 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Leaders say the ALPRs from Atlanta-based Flock Safety are a critical support for investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has already proven an incredible tool for our thinly staffed police department,” Mahan said Tuesday during a press conference in East San José where a new ALPR was being installed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the network of cameras in 2023 alone helped recover $2 million worth of stolen vehicles and led to the arrests of nearly 200 people suspected of crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting Police Chief Paul Joseph said the ALPRs have been invaluable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These cameras make a difference by helping to identify and apprehend suspects, curbing criminal activity and providing crime victims with a feeling of closure and justice,” Joseph said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some privacy advocates and residents say the cameras aren’t actually effective at reducing crime and instead create massive logs about the movements of locals and visitors. They worry about the amount of data police are keeping, the length of time it’s retained, and how it is shared across law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Complicated issues like safety deserve really well thought out and focused solutions,” said Nick Hidalgo, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Installing hundreds of expensive devices that effectively turn San José into a surveillance city is like using a bazooka instead of a fly swatter. It’s expensive, unnecessary, ineffective and does a lot more harm than good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Flock devices capture not only license plates but also a car’s make and model and other characteristics like customizations or bumper stickers. Flock’s software pings police when a car matching a “hotlist” crosses the path of the cameras, and police can also search the data logs for specific cars and plates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say the cameras do not have facial recognition features, nor do they photograph inside a car. City officials said they are proud of the data privacy protections San José follows and noted that the data, under state law requirements, is only shared with other California law enforcement agencies and is prohibited from being used for immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danny Garza, a 65-year resident of East San José’s Plata Arroyo neighborhood, trusted the police to handle the information securely and said he and others have requested cameras be put up in the area for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re asking that these license plate readers help protect layer upon layer of community gains,” Garza said. “All we’re interested in is community safety. 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Nobody knows where they went.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though police leaders say the technology is effective and has helped capture people suspected of car theft, rape, and homicide, among other crimes, the department declined to use a specific metric to measure the success of the program over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984099\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08.jpg\" alt=\"A white middle aged man speaks into microphones wearing a blue suit and a white collared shirt with no tie.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan during a press conference in East San José where a new ALPR was being installed on Tuesday, April 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We like to measure our success in terms of usefulness in our pursuit of public safety by solving and reducing crime,” Sgt. 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The total scans will only increase as the city’s arsenal of cameras more than doubles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It casts a net over the entire community, tracking where drivers go and allowing law enforcement to, if they chose, create maps of where drivers work, live, worship, seek medical care, and travel,” said Hidalgo of ACLU Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His research into San José’s ALPR program from 2022 showed that more than 99.99% of the plates scanned do not match any hotlists for police. If the car or plate is not implicated in an investigation, the SJPD then keeps every plate scanned for a year before purging it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many law enforcement agencies using similar Flock systems purge license plate data every 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hidalgo said it’s not just invasive that police track that much data on people who aren’t suspected of any crimes, but by keeping it for a year, the city puts the data at further risk for misuse or to be inadvertently disclosed in a data breach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph, the police chief, said the department keeps the data for one year based on the recommendation of the city attorney’s office, indicating the law requires it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11983106,news_11983119,news_11966615\"]Albert Gehami, San José’s privacy officer, said the city is aware other agencies do not keep similar data for as long as San José does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it has nothing to do with an investigation, a year is excessive,” Gehami said of the data. “Police departments up and down, everyone that we speak to, [say] there is no need for that information. It is strictly what our attorney’s office has decided is the current interpretation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Attorney Nora Frimann said the retention period has been in place for more than a decade, going back to when the police department trialed other license plate reader technology and before the state required cities to have formal ALPR policies in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just made sense to keep it for a year,” Frimann said. 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It’s expensive, unnecessary, ineffective and does a lot more harm than good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Flock devices capture not only license plates but also a car’s make and model and other characteristics like customizations or bumper stickers. Flock’s software pings police when a car matching a “hotlist” crosses the path of the cameras, and police can also search the data logs for specific cars and plates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say the cameras do not have facial recognition features, nor do they photograph inside a car. City officials said they are proud of the data privacy protections San José follows and noted that the data, under state law requirements, is only shared with other California law enforcement agencies and is prohibited from being used for immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danny Garza, a 65-year resident of East San José’s Plata Arroyo neighborhood, trusted the police to handle the information securely and said he and others have requested cameras be put up in the area for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re asking that these license plate readers help protect layer upon layer of community gains,” Garza said. “All we’re interested in is community safety. We’ve had shootings in the past, and they’ve gotten away. 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He has also run a law firm and headed up a college public safety department and risk management department in Tacoma, Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am honored and privileged to assume the role of your next independent police auditor,” Aubrey said in the city statement. “I look forward to the opportunity to engage with the diverse communities in San José, advancing police accountability and enhancing police services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aubrey, during a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, addressed potential concern over a former police officer taking the lead role in police oversight in San José. He said his commitment is to fair and unbiased oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My demonstrated history shows that I have held officers accountable. Officers have been terminated; they have been suspended,” he said. He also noted officers in other cases he worked on were exonerated. “So they have a 15-year track record to look at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan said in a statement that Aubrey will help maintain trust between residents and the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re incredibly fortunate to have a new independent police auditor with extensive experience both working within and overseeing the conduct of law enforcement agencies,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aubrey said he grew up with an African American father and a Korean mother in South Central Los Angeles and was on the police force during the violence and civil unrest taking place after the police beating of Rodney King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m looking at my neighborhood burned down, shots being fired, in the middle of the night, cars [are being] overturned,” he said. “And I asked myself, ‘Am I doing enough in the role of police officer?’ I said, ‘I’m doing a lot, but I can do a lot more.’ And that’s what made me decide that I wanted to change and be a lawyer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aubrey will replace interim Independent Police Auditor Karyn Sinunu-Towery, who has held the position since last summer, a time of turmoil for the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sinunu-Towery, a former 30-year prosecutor in Santa Clara County, was appointed to the temporary role following former IPA Shivaun Nurre’s unexpected retirement in June after nearly five years in the role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was later revealed that just before she retired, Nurre got into a heated verbal argument with a San José police officer at a public event while she was drunk. [aside postID=news_11983106 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SanJosePolice01-1020x680.jpg']A few months later, the assistant IPA, Eva Roa, resigned and wrote a letter lambasting city management and officials for largely ignoring the IPA’s office and criticizing Sinunu-Towery for being too trusting of police department investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Nurre’s retirement, she advocated for the city to grant expanded powers to the IPA’s office, including the right to directly conduct civilian investigations into alleged police misconduct instead of only auditing internal police investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Mayor Sam Liccardo backed the proposal but later stalled without enough support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November last year, the City Council voted 8–2 against expanding the IPA’s powers. 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She attributed her report’s differences, compared to prior-year reports, to a difference in “style.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sinunu-Towery, a former 30-year Santa Clara County prosecutor, was appointed last summer to replace Shivaun Nurre, a longtime IPA employee who helmed the office from 2018 through June 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurre’s unexpected retirement came about without much public notice, raising questions about her departure. 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