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But there is no place for them to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982492\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11982492\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240409-SJEncampmentBan-019-BL_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Pink and blue paint on an RV with a sign that says 'Welcome'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240409-SJEncampmentBan-019-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240409-SJEncampmentBan-019-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240409-SJEncampmentBan-019-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240409-SJEncampmentBan-019-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240409-SJEncampmentBan-019-BL_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An RV is decorated with a ‘Welcome’ sign in East San José on April 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The council voted unanimously in favor of the restrictions, though for them to become official, a second reading of the rules needs to be approved at the April 23 council meeting. Officials said they would take effect 30 days after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new local laws, the city will ban all homeless encampments within 150 feet of K-12 schools citywide by establishing “School Clearance Zones.” Officials said the rules formalize and slightly expand on a similar policy the city already has in place. City staff reports said anyone violating the rule would not be subject to any “criminal enforcement” but would be given a $0 administrative citation.[aside tag=\"housing\" label=\"More Housing Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council’s action also gives the police and other city workers broad power to tow or remove large vehicles, such as RVs, when they are parked in areas the council designates as prohibited. But first, city officials must complete a traffic study to determine if the vehicles cause safety hazards in a given area and would need to post “no overnight parking” or “no large vehicle parking” signs before any enforcement could take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said the city would start with a pilot program to enforce RV restrictions around three schools: KIPP San José Collegiate, which is on the campus of Independence High School; Shirakawa Elementary School; and Challenger School in Berryessa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules could be expanded and enforced in more areas if the council decides and if the budget for enforcement and planning can be allocated, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982454\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11982454\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240409-SJEncampmentBan-013-BL_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sweeps the sidewalk near an RV while a dog stands nearby.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240409-SJEncampmentBan-013-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240409-SJEncampmentBan-013-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240409-SJEncampmentBan-013-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240409-SJEncampmentBan-013-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240409-SJEncampmentBan-013-BL_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Lilia Guerrero, 37, takes her dog, Duke, outside the RV where she lives in East San José near Independence High School on April 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ana Lilia Guerrero, 37, lives in an RV near Independence High School in East San José. She has been living in the RV for a year and a half after she lost a job cleaning homes and her apartment rent increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Living in an RV makes everyday necessities like cooking, cleaning and bathing harder to manage, Guerrero said in Spanish through an interpreter, and the new rules won’t make anything easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re gonna have to scatter out, another difficulty for us to find a place to go,” Guerrero told KQED. 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"content": "\u003cp>California is not doing enough to track and evaluate efforts to address homelessness — despite billions of dollars spent to address the crisis, a state auditor found in a report released Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit looked at spending in fiscal years 2020 through 2023 across California, as well as within the cities of San José and San Diego. It found a revolving door of homelessness, with most people who access services placed in interim housing. Of those, just 13% ended up with a permanent place to live, while 44% returned to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Dave Cortese (D-San José) \u003ca href=\"https://sd15.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-cortese-and-supervisor-chavez-initiate-audit-request-state-funding-san-joses-homeless\">requested the audit \u003c/a>in November 2022 after touring a sprawling San José encampment that has since been cleared. The audit request was approved in March 2023.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"California Sen. Dave Cortese, D-San José, who requested the audit\"]‘There are not clear plans in place even at the local level to establish goals that would eradicate homelessness.’[/pullquote]On Tuesday, he said the audit revealed a “data desert” and added that there clearly wasn’t enough capacity — either planned or built — to ensure that people living on the streets could get permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are not clear plans in place even at the local level to establish goals that would eradicate homelessness … on a bed-by-bed, project-by-project level,” Cortese said. “Basically, you have a system where cities are putting money out … but not based on a concrete plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report comes as homelessness in the state reached new heights. California now accounts for a third of the country’s unhoused population and half of its unsheltered homeless citizens. \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huduser.gov%2Fportal%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2F2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">Over 181,000 Californians were unhoused (DOC)\u003c/a> in 2023, a nearly 20% uptick since 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s despite an unprecedented nearly \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/socservices/2023/2023-24-Budget-Housing-Homelessness-Proposed-Budget-Changes-032923.pdf\">$24 billion in state spending on homelessness over the same period (PDF)\u003c/a>, in addition to local and federal investments, according to the audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is facing a concerning paradox: despite an exorbitant amount of dollars spent, the state’s homeless population is not slowing down,” Sen. Roger Niello (R-Fair Oaks), vice chair of the Senate Budget Committee, said in a statement. “These audit results are a wake-up call for a shift toward solutions that prioritize self-sufficiency and cost-effectiveness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"California's Homeless Population, In Thousands\" aria-label=\"Column Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-gPa5h\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/gPa5h/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"487\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the state level, the auditor’s office focused on the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) and reviewed five state-funded homelessness programs to assess cost-effectiveness. The review found the state lacks information in three of the five programs about how much they cost and whether or not they’re working — and doesn’t even have a consistent system for collecting this information for individual programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor’s office found the Department of Housing and Community Development’s Homekey program and the California Department of Social Services’ CalWORKs Housing Support Program is cost‑effective but couldn’t determine whether the other three programs it studied — the State Rental Assistance Program, the Encampment Resolution Funding Program, and the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Grant Program — were because the state hasn’t collected enough data on outcomes.[aside postID=news_11981737 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/vallejo-nav-center-rendering-2-1020x680.jpg']“In the absence of this information, the State cannot determine whether these programs represent the best use of its funds,” the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the local level, neither city studied could account for all of its homelessness-related funding and spending despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the report. The auditor blames a failure to establish a system for tracking and reporting spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The absence of such a mechanism limits the transparency and accountability of the cities’ uses of funding to address homelessness,” State Auditor Grant Parks wrote in a letter to the governor and legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cities weren’t tracking how effective their contracts with service providers were or holding them to clear performance measures, the audit found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, despite clear evidence that placing people in permanent housing leads to better outcomes, both cities have invested heavily in developing temporary shelters and still lack the capacity to house their homeless residents at those sites. While both cities are developing permanent housing, neither “has a clear, long‑term plan to ensure that they have the housing necessary,” according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susannah Parsons, director of policy and legislation for All Home, a Bay Area-based nonprofit, said that without ongoing funding to build housing at scale for people exiting homelessness, cities will continue to fall short. She was heartened, she said, by a proposed $10-$20 billion regional affordable housing bond for the Bay Area that \u003ca href=\"https://bayareahousingforall.org/frequently-asked-questions/\">could appear on the November ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without the ability to really fund more permanent housing solutions, folks will be stuck waiting outside for that permanent housing solution, or they will be moving inside to interim solutions, but without anywhere to go,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Some other report findings included:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The state agency in charge of coordinating and tracking the effectiveness of its programs — the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) — has not tracked or reported on the state’s funding for homelessness programs since 2023, when it issued a report covering fiscal years 2018 through 2021. Currently, it has no plans to perform a similar assessment in the future, according to the report.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cal ICH’s actions are not aligned with goals mandated by the Legislature. The report notes that without this alignment, the agency “lacks assurance that the actions it takes will effectively enable it to reach those goals.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cal ICH has no consistent method for gathering information on homelessness programs’ costs and outcomes. “As a result,” the report noted, “the state lacks information that would allow it to make data‑driven policy decisions and identify gaps in services.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cal ICH doesn’t know whether the data it gathers is accurate, nor has it used that data to evaluate whether programs to address homelessness are working.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The report found that 86% of people placed in housing statewide moved into interim housing rather than permanent housing.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When people left interim housing, only 13% moved into permanent housing. By contrast, 44% of the people who left interim housing returned to homelessness.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When people were placed in permanent housing, they returned to homelessness 4% of the time.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As street homelessness becomes increasingly visible, public skepticism of the state’s response has grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A demonstration of that skepticism came during the March election, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980236/california-voters-pass-proposition-1-requiring-counties-to-fund-programs-tackling-homelessness\">voters approved Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest effort to tackle the homelessness crisis by the thinnest margins\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom raised more than $13 million promoting Proposition 1, which will compel county behavioral health departments to spend some of their funding on housing and drug treatment programs.[aside postID=news_11981595 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS37791__DSC0888-qut-1020x681.jpg']Californians continue to name homelessness as one of their \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-february-2024/\">top concerns in polls\u003c/a>, and officials are increasingly responding to the pressure with calls for greater accountability over spending. Newsom has paired new funding with demands for greater oversight, while a federal judge in Los Angeles is \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-08/federal-judge-seeks-audit-of-mayors-signature-program-inside-safe\">seeking an audit\u003c/a> of homelessness programs in the city, and auditors in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981767/audit-finds-sf-homeless-housing-provider-misspent-taxpayer-money\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/report-finds-homeless-service-provider-dema-unable-to-account-for-about-40/\">Sonoma County\u003c/a> recently investigated homeless services providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/domestic-news-domestic-news-general-news-dac338003e3f78986bc9369430cddd0b\">scathing 2021 audit\u003c/a> found California’s management of homelessness was disjointed and lacked a centralized way to track spending or determine where efforts are duplicative. The report recommended California follow the example of other states in assigning oversight to a single entity tasked with developing a statewide strategic plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José, where more than 6,000 people are unhoused, Mayor Matt Mahan and his predecessor Sam Liccardo have pushed for the city to invest in interim housing as a way to quickly move unhoused residents off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sheltered and Unsheltered Homelessness in San Jose\" aria-label=\"Stacked Bars\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Dw8zM\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Dw8zM/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"385\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness increased in San José between 2015 to 2022, from just over 4,000 to 6,650. The population dipped slightly in 2023 to 6,340 — an accomplishment Mahan attributes to the city’s investment in interim housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his budget proposal last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979482/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-calls-for-urgent-action-on-homelessness-in-city-budget-plan\">Mahan proposed an increase in funding for temporary housing\u003c/a> and shelter, a shift that could result in fewer investments in building affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">similar effort from the mayor was met with some resistance \u003c/a>from the council last year, but Mahan argued that a new mandate from regional water officials to clear encampments from the city’s river beds added urgency to his focus on short-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"housing,homeless\" label=\"More Housing Stories\"]“More than anything, it seems like the audit calls for us to do more,” said Ray Bramson, chief operating officer for Destination Home, a research and advocacy organization that helps implement Santa Clara County’s plan to end homelessness. “That costs money, and at a time where we’re seeing the funds that we’re getting be reduced or cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While local taxes and bonds have raised money in recent years, Bramson pointed out that federal housing and homelessness funding has been stagnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been decades and decades of disinvestment in our poorest residents at both the state and the federal levels,” he said, reiterating a common refrain calling for ongoing — as opposed to one-time — state funding. “While there’s been more investments recently, we really need some permanent, reliable sources if we’re going to implement these big system changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit report recommended the Legislature amend state law to require Cal ICH, by March 2025, to mandate reporting by state agencies on the costs and outcomes of its programs related to homelessness. To do that, Cal ICH has to establish guidelines for the agency to follow when it collects that information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ray Bramson, chief operating officer, Destination Home\"]‘While there’s been more investments recently, we really need some permanent, reliable sources if we’re going to implement these big system changes.’[/pullquote]The audit also recommends Cal ICH determine how much it would cost to collect and publish this information annually and request the necessary funding. By September 2025, the agency should begin publishing this data on costs and outcomes annually and create a scorecard showing how well each program is doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is facing an estimated $73 billion budget, according to the Legislative Analysts’ Office. But despite this shortfall, Cortese said now was not the time to hold back on funding for homelessness programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That said, it’s really really important that this [data] system that the state stood up last year starts delivering to us immediately the state’s analysis of the effectiveness of those dollars,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, Cal ICH Executive Officer Meghan Marshall said the agency “generally agrees” with the auditor’s recommendations and “will take appropriate measures to implement where possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED correspondent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gmarzorati\">Guy Marzorati\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On Tuesday, he said the audit revealed a “data desert” and added that there clearly wasn’t enough capacity — either planned or built — to ensure that people living on the streets could get permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are not clear plans in place even at the local level to establish goals that would eradicate homelessness … on a bed-by-bed, project-by-project level,” Cortese said. “Basically, you have a system where cities are putting money out … but not based on a concrete plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report comes as homelessness in the state reached new heights. California now accounts for a third of the country’s unhoused population and half of its unsheltered homeless citizens. \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huduser.gov%2Fportal%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2F2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">Over 181,000 Californians were unhoused (DOC)\u003c/a> in 2023, a nearly 20% uptick since 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s despite an unprecedented nearly \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/socservices/2023/2023-24-Budget-Housing-Homelessness-Proposed-Budget-Changes-032923.pdf\">$24 billion in state spending on homelessness over the same period (PDF)\u003c/a>, in addition to local and federal investments, according to the audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is facing a concerning paradox: despite an exorbitant amount of dollars spent, the state’s homeless population is not slowing down,” Sen. Roger Niello (R-Fair Oaks), vice chair of the Senate Budget Committee, said in a statement. “These audit results are a wake-up call for a shift toward solutions that prioritize self-sufficiency and cost-effectiveness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"California's Homeless Population, In Thousands\" aria-label=\"Column Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-gPa5h\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/gPa5h/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"487\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the state level, the auditor’s office focused on the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) and reviewed five state-funded homelessness programs to assess cost-effectiveness. The review found the state lacks information in three of the five programs about how much they cost and whether or not they’re working — and doesn’t even have a consistent system for collecting this information for individual programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor’s office found the Department of Housing and Community Development’s Homekey program and the California Department of Social Services’ CalWORKs Housing Support Program is cost‑effective but couldn’t determine whether the other three programs it studied — the State Rental Assistance Program, the Encampment Resolution Funding Program, and the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Grant Program — were because the state hasn’t collected enough data on outcomes.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“In the absence of this information, the State cannot determine whether these programs represent the best use of its funds,” the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the local level, neither city studied could account for all of its homelessness-related funding and spending despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the report. The auditor blames a failure to establish a system for tracking and reporting spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The absence of such a mechanism limits the transparency and accountability of the cities’ uses of funding to address homelessness,” State Auditor Grant Parks wrote in a letter to the governor and legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cities weren’t tracking how effective their contracts with service providers were or holding them to clear performance measures, the audit found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, despite clear evidence that placing people in permanent housing leads to better outcomes, both cities have invested heavily in developing temporary shelters and still lack the capacity to house their homeless residents at those sites. While both cities are developing permanent housing, neither “has a clear, long‑term plan to ensure that they have the housing necessary,” according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susannah Parsons, director of policy and legislation for All Home, a Bay Area-based nonprofit, said that without ongoing funding to build housing at scale for people exiting homelessness, cities will continue to fall short. She was heartened, she said, by a proposed $10-$20 billion regional affordable housing bond for the Bay Area that \u003ca href=\"https://bayareahousingforall.org/frequently-asked-questions/\">could appear on the November ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without the ability to really fund more permanent housing solutions, folks will be stuck waiting outside for that permanent housing solution, or they will be moving inside to interim solutions, but without anywhere to go,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Some other report findings included:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The state agency in charge of coordinating and tracking the effectiveness of its programs — the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) — has not tracked or reported on the state’s funding for homelessness programs since 2023, when it issued a report covering fiscal years 2018 through 2021. Currently, it has no plans to perform a similar assessment in the future, according to the report.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cal ICH’s actions are not aligned with goals mandated by the Legislature. The report notes that without this alignment, the agency “lacks assurance that the actions it takes will effectively enable it to reach those goals.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cal ICH has no consistent method for gathering information on homelessness programs’ costs and outcomes. “As a result,” the report noted, “the state lacks information that would allow it to make data‑driven policy decisions and identify gaps in services.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cal ICH doesn’t know whether the data it gathers is accurate, nor has it used that data to evaluate whether programs to address homelessness are working.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The report found that 86% of people placed in housing statewide moved into interim housing rather than permanent housing.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When people left interim housing, only 13% moved into permanent housing. By contrast, 44% of the people who left interim housing returned to homelessness.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When people were placed in permanent housing, they returned to homelessness 4% of the time.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As street homelessness becomes increasingly visible, public skepticism of the state’s response has grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A demonstration of that skepticism came during the March election, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980236/california-voters-pass-proposition-1-requiring-counties-to-fund-programs-tackling-homelessness\">voters approved Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest effort to tackle the homelessness crisis by the thinnest margins\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom raised more than $13 million promoting Proposition 1, which will compel county behavioral health departments to spend some of their funding on housing and drug treatment programs.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Californians continue to name homelessness as one of their \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-february-2024/\">top concerns in polls\u003c/a>, and officials are increasingly responding to the pressure with calls for greater accountability over spending. Newsom has paired new funding with demands for greater oversight, while a federal judge in Los Angeles is \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-08/federal-judge-seeks-audit-of-mayors-signature-program-inside-safe\">seeking an audit\u003c/a> of homelessness programs in the city, and auditors in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981767/audit-finds-sf-homeless-housing-provider-misspent-taxpayer-money\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/report-finds-homeless-service-provider-dema-unable-to-account-for-about-40/\">Sonoma County\u003c/a> recently investigated homeless services providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/domestic-news-domestic-news-general-news-dac338003e3f78986bc9369430cddd0b\">scathing 2021 audit\u003c/a> found California’s management of homelessness was disjointed and lacked a centralized way to track spending or determine where efforts are duplicative. The report recommended California follow the example of other states in assigning oversight to a single entity tasked with developing a statewide strategic plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José, where more than 6,000 people are unhoused, Mayor Matt Mahan and his predecessor Sam Liccardo have pushed for the city to invest in interim housing as a way to quickly move unhoused residents off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sheltered and Unsheltered Homelessness in San Jose\" aria-label=\"Stacked Bars\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Dw8zM\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Dw8zM/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"385\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness increased in San José between 2015 to 2022, from just over 4,000 to 6,650. The population dipped slightly in 2023 to 6,340 — an accomplishment Mahan attributes to the city’s investment in interim housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his budget proposal last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979482/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-calls-for-urgent-action-on-homelessness-in-city-budget-plan\">Mahan proposed an increase in funding for temporary housing\u003c/a> and shelter, a shift that could result in fewer investments in building affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">similar effort from the mayor was met with some resistance \u003c/a>from the council last year, but Mahan argued that a new mandate from regional water officials to clear encampments from the city’s river beds added urgency to his focus on short-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“More than anything, it seems like the audit calls for us to do more,” said Ray Bramson, chief operating officer for Destination Home, a research and advocacy organization that helps implement Santa Clara County’s plan to end homelessness. “That costs money, and at a time where we’re seeing the funds that we’re getting be reduced or cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While local taxes and bonds have raised money in recent years, Bramson pointed out that federal housing and homelessness funding has been stagnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been decades and decades of disinvestment in our poorest residents at both the state and the federal levels,” he said, reiterating a common refrain calling for ongoing — as opposed to one-time — state funding. “While there’s been more investments recently, we really need some permanent, reliable sources if we’re going to implement these big system changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit report recommended the Legislature amend state law to require Cal ICH, by March 2025, to mandate reporting by state agencies on the costs and outcomes of its programs related to homelessness. To do that, Cal ICH has to establish guidelines for the agency to follow when it collects that information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The audit also recommends Cal ICH determine how much it would cost to collect and publish this information annually and request the necessary funding. By September 2025, the agency should begin publishing this data on costs and outcomes annually and create a scorecard showing how well each program is doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is facing an estimated $73 billion budget, according to the Legislative Analysts’ Office. But despite this shortfall, Cortese said now was not the time to hold back on funding for homelessness programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That said, it’s really really important that this [data] system that the state stood up last year starts delivering to us immediately the state’s analysis of the effectiveness of those dollars,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, Cal ICH Executive Officer Meghan Marshall said the agency “generally agrees” with the auditor’s recommendations and “will take appropriate measures to implement where possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED correspondent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gmarzorati\">Guy Marzorati\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Days after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/election-2024#matt-mahan-sails-to-second-term-as-mayor-of-san-jose\">winning reelection to a four-year term beginning next year\u003c/a>, San José Mayor Matt Mahan doubled down on his push to spend more city dollars to move residents experiencing homelessness into temporary housing and shelter — potentially at the cost of funding permanent affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget plan unveiled by Mahan on Wednesday is likely to breathe new life into the debate over the best approach to reducing homelessness in San José. That fight was central to budget discussions last year when the council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">agreed to shift some funds from building apartments to standing up\u003c/a> interim housing facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under San José’s governance structure, the mayor has one vote on ordinances before the council but has broader powers in the budget process to shape city spending. Mahan’s budget proposal, which lays out his spending vision, will go before the council for a vote next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared to other large cities around the Bay Area, San José is in good fiscal shape. City analysts projected a small $3.4 million deficit in the budget year beginning on July 1. But Mahan and the council could face some complications: the city manager said an urgent $25 million cleanup of homeless encampments is needed to avoid fines from water regulators, and many city programs that were funded on a one-time basis last year, to the tune of $23.5 million, are not included in this year’s base budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan sat down with KQED’s Politics & Government Correspondent Guy Marzorati to discuss his spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: It seemed like the budget was more or less balanced, and then the city manager said there has to be immediate action taken at a cost of potentially up to $25 million to reduce pollutants coming from encampments into waterways. What has to be done now, and what’s at stake for the city in this? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan: \u003c/strong>Well, there’s a lot at stake, Guy. The regional board [San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board] has told us that we are not on track to being compliant with the requirements of our stormwater permit. This is serious business. This is about whether or not we’re complying with the nation’s Clean Water Act. If we are found over time to be out of compliance, the board can actually fine us up to $60,000 per day per pollutant found in the waterway. And what they pointed to in this latest rejection of our plan was the encampments along the waterways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our own independent analysis shows that about 90% of the trash and biowaste going into the waterways is due to unmanaged encampments. And so essentially, the water board is going to force us to do what I think is the right thing. It will not be easy. It will not be cheap. But, I frankly welcome the accountability because we have got to do a better job of providing safe, managed alternatives to encampments for the homeless residents in our community. And this, I hope, is the push that we needed, that our county, water district and other partners needed to scale up basic, dignified shelter and require that people come indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In this budget proposal, you are putting forward a potential shift within a pot of money dedicated to reducing homelessness — the Measure E transfer tax — from paying for permanent housing to interim housing and shelter. This \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11953006/sf-san-jose-mayors-push-to-fund-shelters-as-pressure-builds-on-encampments\">\u003cstrong>was a huge debate in the budget process last year\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>. From a policy perspective, but then also maybe from a tactical or political perspective, how are you approaching this differently this year?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I’m trying to do is give the council a genuine choice. There are different ways to fund the urgent action we need on homelessness. If the council prefers to reduce service levels in other departments and cut other city programs, depending on what those are, that may be something I can support and maybe the direction that we collectively go in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"San José Mayor Matt Mahan\"]‘There are a lot of other things we need to put money into, but I think that we have to treat the homelessness crisis truly as a crisis and take emergency action.’[/pullquote]The alternative, as I pointed out last year, is to take the dollars we already have for addressing homelessness and use them in more efficient and scalable ways. And don’t get me wrong, these trade-offs aren’t easy. We need more affordable housing. We need more money for prevention. There are a lot of other things we need to put money into, but I think that we have to treat the homelessness crisis truly as a crisis and take emergency action. We have to scale up basic, dignified shelter and get people indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I suppose the third option would be raising revenue, but frankly, for most forms of new revenue, you have to go to the voters, and the community already feels that they’re overtaxed and maybe not getting as much impact and the outcomes they want for the dollars that they’re already sending government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You’re also proposing a safe sleeping site in this budget, known in some forms as a managed encampment. I wonder if that’s an implicit acknowledgment that interim housing, which you and other supporters have referred to as “quick-build,” is maybe not getting built quickly enough? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, it’s a lot quicker than what we were doing. So what we’ve been spending most of our money on is brand new apartment buildings, which unfortunately take $1 million a door of public subsidy and over five years to build. So that’s about as slow as it gets. Then we pivoted to these modular units, but they still take a year easily, sometimes longer. And when you’re all in with the site development, utility hookups, parking, common space, it can easily be $100,000 a door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979494\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979494\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/231219-Homeless-Deaths-Data-MD-11_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white middle-aged man stands in a moment of silence with mural behind him outdoors under a tent.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/231219-Homeless-Deaths-Data-MD-11_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/231219-Homeless-Deaths-Data-MD-11_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/231219-Homeless-Deaths-Data-MD-11_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/231219-Homeless-Deaths-Data-MD-11_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/231219-Homeless-Deaths-Data-MD-11_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan attends a memorial at the Home First offices in San José commemorating the 201 unhoused people who died in Santa Clara County in 2023 on Dec. 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And when you look at the scale of the crisis, if we’re going to truly treat this as an emergency and say, ‘We need to triage the situation, get people stabilized, give people access to services, including basic sanitation, a safe place to sleep at night,’ [then] we need solutions that are on the scale of thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truth is, we need more scalable forms of shelter. And we have to look at things like safe sleeping and safe parking. We cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When it comes to safe sleeping sites or sanctioned encampments, won’t you face the same challenges in finding sites that you do for interim housing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, we will. I think the reality is that we don’t have a choice if we’re going to come into compliance with the Clean Water Act and retain our stormwater permit and not face what would be crippling fines and liability; we are going to have to find places for people to go as we move folks away from the waterways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have two choices. As a community, we can either simply say, you can’t live along the waterways and good luck, and you’ll end up in neighborhoods and parks, commercial districts, industrial districts, wherever else. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The alternative, as I pointed out last year, is to take the dollars we already have for addressing homelessness and use them in more efficient and scalable ways. And don’t get me wrong, these trade-offs aren’t easy. We need more affordable housing. We need more money for prevention. There are a lot of other things we need to put money into, but I think that we have to treat the homelessness crisis truly as a crisis and take emergency action. We have to scale up basic, dignified shelter and get people indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I suppose the third option would be raising revenue, but frankly, for most forms of new revenue, you have to go to the voters, and the community already feels that they’re overtaxed and maybe not getting as much impact and the outcomes they want for the dollars that they’re already sending government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You’re also proposing a safe sleeping site in this budget, known in some forms as a managed encampment. I wonder if that’s an implicit acknowledgment that interim housing, which you and other supporters have referred to as “quick-build,” is maybe not getting built quickly enough? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, it’s a lot quicker than what we were doing. So what we’ve been spending most of our money on is brand new apartment buildings, which unfortunately take $1 million a door of public subsidy and over five years to build. So that’s about as slow as it gets. Then we pivoted to these modular units, but they still take a year easily, sometimes longer. 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"content": "\u003cp>In March 2023, Gov. Gavin Newsom gathered with the mayors of San José and Sacramento at Cal Expo, home of the state fair, to announce a generous gift \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943746/newsom-will-mobilize-national-guard-to-deliver-1200-tiny-homes-to-address-homelessness-crisis\">to alleviate homelessness\u003c/a> in the state’s largest cities. The Newsom administration would send four jurisdictions a total of 1,200 tiny homes — pre-modular sheds that could serve as a stepping stone for unhoused individuals on the path from tents to permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the best part of the deal for cities like San José: the homes would arrive already built, free of charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The California National Guard will assist in the preparation and delivery of 1,200 small homes to Los Angeles, San Diego County, San José and Sacramento, free of charge and ready for occupancy,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/03/16/governor-newsom-announces-1-billion-in-homelessness-funding-launches-states-largest-mobilization-of-small-homes/\">read a press release from Newsom’s office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nearly a year later, the governor’s promise is coming with new costs for San José taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A memo reviewed by the city council last week revealed that the governor’s office no longer plans to construct or deliver the 200 prefabricated homes to San José. Instead, the administration will send the city a fixed payment of $12.7 million that city officials estimate won’t cover the full cost of constructing the interim housing. The change in plans leaves the city on the hook for new costs and could further stretch the timeline of opening a long-delayed homeless housing site in north San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11964985 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-08-1020x680.jpg']“We’re going to roll with the punches,” San José Mayor Matt Mahan said in an interview. “We need the interim units, and I’m grateful to the state for kicking in most of the cost, and we’re going to fill that gap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city planned to put the units at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s Cerone Yard, near Highway 237 and Zanker Road. Mahan has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11953155/california-mayors-increasingly-turn-to-temporary-housing-solutions\">championed the interim housing program as a way to provide shelter\u003c/a> for people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in the city — a population last tallied at 4,411, according to the city’s 2023 point-in-time count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s office did not respond directly to questions of why the state was sending San José a payment instead of the 200 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the governor’s office said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972474/newsom-administration-makes-progress-on-tiny-home-promise\">the Department of General Services reached agreements with several small home vendors\u003c/a>, which will allow cities like San José to purchase the homes at the state-negotiated rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state has supplied the framework, leverage, and financial support for our local partners to deliver their share of small homes for people experiencing homelessness,” the spokesperson said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José officials said they first learned in December that the state was changing its plan. Now, the city will need to source the units for the Cerone site as it works to build a handful of other short-term housing sites approved by the city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The $12.7 million from the state will not be sufficient to construct units for 200 people at Cerone,” said the memo from city staff. “While staff continues to evaluate building and design options, additional financial contributions likely ranging from $5 to $10 million from the city or other funding sources will be necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for new funds to build short-term housing at the Cerone site comes as the city is confronting the rising costs of providing temporary housing and shelter to people experiencing homelessness. Recent city estimates put the cost of San Jose’s Emergency Interim Housing program at $38 million in the upcoming budget year, rising to $70 million by 2028–29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In north San José, efforts to build interim housing have hit repeated speed bumps. After an earlier proposal was squashed due to neighborhood opposition, the city council signed off on the Cerone site in November 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months of negotiations with the VTA ensued as transit employee unions voiced concerns about hosting formerly unhoused individuals at their work site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, in October, \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/kqed-newscast-f0f0921e-c32d-4b74-a5a8-254f0339113e?t=47s\">the VTA board of directors signed off on the housing plan\u003c/a>, and on Tuesday, the San José council voted to move ahead with a lease agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Cerone site is really important in our long-term plans to address street homelessness,” District 4 City Councilmember David Cohen said. “We need a site in north San José in order to offer places to people that are living in our part of the city to move away from creeks and neighborhoods and off of our roads and into something better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen said it’s unclear whether the Newsom administration’s pivot away from direct delivery of the housing could lengthen the timeline to opening the Cerone site — or whether the city will save time by handling the design and construction of the site without state involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just slightly concerned that given that the city public works department is engineering three different [interim housing] sites all at the same time, that if the state wasn’t there to help with the engineering at the site, then there may be a slippage in timeline,” Cohen added. “But that remains to be seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, the Newsom administration \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-gavin-newsom-tiny-homes-4ff201e339631cfb6190c78a5014774e\">announced late last year that 175 tiny homes will be placed in an abandoned office park\u003c/a> — the first batch of units to be delivered through the Small Homes Initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Vice President Kamala Harris’ push to rally voters in San José around support for reproductive rights ran headlong into protests Monday, demanding an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas War in Gaza. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris\"]‘Let me say, in a real democracy, everyone has a right to have their voice heard. The President and I are working on that every single day.’[/pullquote]At times, protest chants of “cease-fire now” broke out during the rally, interrupting Harris’ speech at least four times. Outside, dozens of protesters lined up along King Road and Alum Rock Avenue, waving signs outside Mexican Heritage Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let me say, in a real democracy, everyone has a right to have their voice heard,” Harris told the crowd after protests broke out inside, adding “We all want this conflict to end as soon as possible and the president and I are working on that every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The colliding forces at the Harris rally exposed a key election year challenge for Democrats: many of the younger, progressive voters who the party hopes to win over with a platform of protecting abortion rights are deeply dissatisfied with the Biden administration’s support of Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974090\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt='Dozens of protesters with signs calling for a \"cease-fire.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seema Badar (center) and others chant ‘cease-fire now’ outside of Mexican Heritage Plaza in San José, where Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to speak on Jan. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Holding signs and banners bearing “Free Palestine” and “End U.S. Aid to Israel,” members from the Council on American-Islamic Relations joined a coalition of multi-faith, multiracial organizations with other supporters to demand a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allie Felker said she was invited to the Harris event for her work advocating for prenatal care to prevent stillbirths.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Allie Felker, advocate who attended the event\"]‘I can’t come here and advocate for reproductive justice without also standing with Palestine, standing with the women and children of Gaza …’[/pullquote]But less than three minutes into Harris’ on-stage conversation with actress and activist Sophia Bush, Felker stood up and joined in calls for a cease-fire. Felker told KQED she was motivated by the risks to pregnant women caused by the Israeli invasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t come here and advocate for reproductive justice without also standing with Palestine, standing with the women and children of Gaza and saying that the reproductive justice we’re seeking in this country needs to also be equated with what’s happening in Gaza,” Felker told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ stop in San José was a part of her nationwide “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour. Democrats are hoping to continue their run of electoral success on the issue of reproductive rights after the 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned a constitutional right to an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974147\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A protestor holds up a Palestinian flag in red, black, white and green colors inside an event where the Vice President was speaking in San Jose.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters interrupted Vice President Kamala Harris during an event at Mexican Heritage Plaza in San José to demand a cease-fire in Gaza on Jan. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than 500 people lined up around the plaza for a chance to hear from the vice president. Dozens more were turned away at the door after the theater was filled to capacity. Supporters of the vice president chanted “M-V-P” (Madam Vice President) and “Four more years!” to drown out the pro-cease-fire protests. [aside postID=news_11973881 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-13-BL-1020x680.jpg'] “She’s a woman, specifically, who can speak to this,” said Vanessa Grijalva, a board member with the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley. “We’ve had so many men speak on women’s health and our bodies and things like that, so I think it’s just important for her to come out here … and it’s so important for us people of color to come out and to rock the vote this year and for her doing that in our community, it just highlights the importance of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the court overturned Roe v. Wade, ballot measures to protect abortion rights have passed in states from California to Kansas, and Democrats were able to use the issue to blunt Republican gains in the 2022 midterm elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue has also galvanized the young voters Biden and Harris will need to keep the White House. \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/246206/abortion-trends-age.aspx\">Polling by Gallup shows\u003c/a> that the share of voters under age 30 who identify as “pro-choice” has risen to 64%, while the share of those young voters identifying as “pro-life” has fallen to 29%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Harris warned that state protections in liberal areas of the country might not withstand Republican victories at the ballot box. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> “She’s a woman, specifically, who can speak to this,” said Vanessa Grijalva, a board member with the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley. “We’ve had so many men speak on women’s health and our bodies and things like that, so I think it’s just important for her to come out here … and it’s so important for us people of color to come out and to rock the vote this year and for her doing that in our community, it just highlights the importance of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the court overturned Roe v. Wade, ballot measures to protect abortion rights have passed in states from California to Kansas, and Democrats were able to use the issue to blunt Republican gains in the 2022 midterm elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue has also galvanized the young voters Biden and Harris will need to keep the White House. \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/246206/abortion-trends-age.aspx\">Polling by Gallup shows\u003c/a> that the share of voters under age 30 who identify as “pro-choice” has risen to 64%, while the share of those young voters identifying as “pro-life” has fallen to 29%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Harris warned that state protections in liberal areas of the country might not withstand Republican victories at the ballot box. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As 2023 draws to a close, we look back on a year that has been nothing short of \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">extraordinary. In our annual “Year in Photos” feature, we invite you to journey through the moments, both monumental and minute, that have defined the past 12 months. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across the nine Bay Area counties and beyond, our team captured glimpses of the vivid tapestry of life in Northern California — flooded streets in San Francisco, an East Oakland track team in the Junior Olympics, jam-packed stalls at the Berryessa Flea Market, the Bay Bridge blocked by protesters. At times, we documented celebrations of the joy and resilience of communities — and at times, we witnessed devastation and loss. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each image reminds us of the challenges we’ve faced and the milestones we’ve celebrated. These photographs not only reflect the events of 2023 but also the emotions and experiences that will shape our region for years to come.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970045\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/022_KQED_StormSanFrancisco_01102023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two people stand in deep water working with long tools in an urban setting.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/022_KQED_StormSanFrancisco_01102023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/022_KQED_StormSanFrancisco_01102023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/022_KQED_StormSanFrancisco_01102023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/022_KQED_StormSanFrancisco_01102023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/022_KQED_StormSanFrancisco_01102023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two Mission District residents work to open a clogged drain on Mission and 21st Streets in San Francisco on Jan. 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970081\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos: On the left, a large group of people marches holding signs at night. On the right, a large group of people marches holding signs at during the day.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-1-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-1-KQED-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-1-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-1-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-1-KQED-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-1-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-1-KQED-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Sloane Noel-Johnson, with the Black Organizing Project, marches with demonstrators against the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. Right: Faye Crosley, center left, walks down Highland Ave in Richmond, California, with a group of friends, neighbors and family to protest her eviction from her home of several decades on Feb. 12, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/ KQED; Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944322\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman wearing a pink jumpsuit stands with both hands raised among several people who are seated in a building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debra Chambers, 56, bows her head during the First African Methodist Episcopal Church congregation’s Sunday service, temporarily being held at Temple Beth Abraham in Oakland on March 12, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944304\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944304\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63704_03192023_kqed_pajarobridge-107-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand behind police caution tape.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63704_03192023_kqed_pajarobridge-107-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63704_03192023_kqed_pajarobridge-107-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63704_03192023_kqed_pajarobridge-107-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63704_03192023_kqed_pajarobridge-107-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63704_03192023_kqed_pajarobridge-107-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents of Pajaro, the unincorporated area in Monterey County that flooded due to a levee breach, gather just across the river in Watsonville, on March 19, 2023, waiting for authorities to let them return home. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970047\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/04282023_pajaroupdate-599-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young person wearing rubber boots stands in a small galley kitchen, where appliances on piled on the counter, looking at a mud-caked floor and beside an older person looking at the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/04282023_pajaroupdate-599-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/04282023_pajaroupdate-599-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/04282023_pajaroupdate-599-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/04282023_pajaroupdate-599-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/04282023_pajaroupdate-599-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denia Escutia and her mother, Carla, pose for a portrait inside the family’s home in Pajaro on April 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970083\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos: On the left, a person with long hair is interviewed by reporters in front of a large official-looking building. On the right, bright purple flowers bloom on a hillside.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-2-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-2-KQED-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-2-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-2-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-2-KQED-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-2-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-2-KQED-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao speaks to reporters in front of city hall during a city-led “Welcome Back Wednesday” event to promote the recovery of the city’s downtown area on April 5, 2023. Right: Stems of purple lupine blossom along Grizzly Peak Boulevard in Berkeley on April 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946233\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/029_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with short, black hair and a purple bandana tied around her forehead looks distraught as tears stream down her cheeks. A crowd of blurred faces are in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/029_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/029_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/029_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/029_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/029_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street resident Mayana Sparks cries while watching the city of Oakland begin to evict the encampment in West Oakland on April 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970048\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/027_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person speaks at a podium beside a large body of water set in a mountainous area.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/027_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/027_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/027_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/027_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/027_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks during a centennial celebration of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park on May 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970084\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos: On the left, A group of colorfully dressed people ride a cable care waving pride flags. On the right, A crowd of people pack a city street.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-3-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-3-KQED-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-3-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-3-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-3-KQED-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-3-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-3-KQED-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: San Francisco Mayor London Breed, center, waves a Pride flag from the side of a cable car as the 2023 Pride parade passes down Market Street in downtown San Francisco on June 25, 2023. Right: Bay to Breakers participants surge down Hayes Street in San Francisco on May 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970057\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970057\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/013_KQED_LongCOVIDCharlieMcCone_05182023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with light brown curly hair and eyeglasses has a steam inhaler in his mouth as he laws reclines against a sofa in his living room.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/013_KQED_LongCOVIDCharlieMcCone_05182023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/013_KQED_LongCOVIDCharlieMcCone_05182023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/013_KQED_LongCOVIDCharlieMcCone_05182023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/013_KQED_LongCOVIDCharlieMcCone_05182023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/013_KQED_LongCOVIDCharlieMcCone_05182023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Long COVID patient Charlie McCone uses a steam inhaler at his home in San Francisco on May 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950737\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut.jpg\" alt=\"African American men carry a white coffin to a hearse outside a church.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calvin Breedlove, Banko Brown’s cousin, and other pallbearers escort Brown’s coffin out of the historic Third Baptist Church in San Francisco on May 25, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970085\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970085\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos: On the left, a person with long hair standing in the doorway to a restaurant. On the right, a person with a bald head and blue jumpsuit stands beside a door in front of a large gate covered in concertina wire.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-4-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-4-KQED-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-4-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-4-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-4-KQED-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-4-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-4-KQED-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Lena Turner, 93, poses for a portrait in her restaurant, Chika and Sake, in San Francisco’s Japantown on Thursday, July 27, 2023. Right: Steve Brooks, Editor in Chief of San Quentin News, stands outside of the media center at San Quentin State Prison on July 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED; Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970058\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230720-HEINOLDS-MHN-08-KQED-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A bar tender speaks to two customers from behind a slanted bar.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230720-HEINOLDS-MHN-08-KQED-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230720-HEINOLDS-MHN-08-KQED-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230720-HEINOLDS-MHN-08-KQED-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230720-HEINOLDS-MHN-08-KQED-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230720-HEINOLDS-MHN-08-KQED-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauren Barrett tends the bar at Heinold’s First and Last Chance Saloon in Oakland on July 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957360\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67667_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people stand in front of a stall full of wares.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67667_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67667_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67667_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67667_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67667_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67667_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hector Garcia (left) and Lizeth Valtierra (right) working at the BayFresh Piñateria, located in the Berryessa Flea Market in San José on July 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Raphaël Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957050\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957050\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67509_230730-MariachiBonitasWedding-63-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Women wearing ornate white outfits and holding instruments in an indoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67509_230730-MariachiBonitasWedding-63-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67509_230730-MariachiBonitasWedding-63-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67509_230730-MariachiBonitasWedding-63-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67509_230730-MariachiBonitasWedding-63-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67509_230730-MariachiBonitasWedding-63-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67509_230730-MariachiBonitasWedding-63-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The group Mariachi Bonitas line up on a staircase for a group photo during a break from playing a wedding at Grand Island Mansion in Walnut Grove, Calif., on July 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970086\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970086\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos: On the left, an adult helps a child lace up their shots. On the right, the shadows of two children running are seen on a racetrack.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-5-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-5-KQED-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-5-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-5-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-5-KQED-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-5-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-5-KQED-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: East Oakland Track Gems Coach Traivon Soto-Johnson (right) helps Kayden Thompson (left) tie his shoes at Castlemont High School in Oakland on July 31, 2023. Right: Kaden Remson (left) and John Howard III (right) run a drill on the track at Castlemont High School in Oakland on July 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957034\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67469_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-43-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A boy poses for a photo with medals hanging from around his neck.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67469_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-43-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67469_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-43-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67469_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-43-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67469_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-43-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67469_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-43-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67469_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-43-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaden Remson, 9, poses for a portrait with his track medals during track practice at Castlemont High School in Oakland on July 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970060\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20230826-BonPop-45-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"People dance in KOHO’s BonPop Obon in the Japantown Peace Plaza in San Francisco on Saturday, August 26, 2023. This is KOHO’s second year holding Obon in Japantown, a traditional Japanese holiday that honors one’s ancestors.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20230826-BonPop-45-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20230826-BonPop-45-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20230826-BonPop-45-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20230826-BonPop-45-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20230826-BonPop-45-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People dance in KOHO’s BonPop Obon in the Japantown Peace Plaza in San Francisco on Aug. 26, 2023. This is KOHO’s second year holding Obon in Japantown, a traditional Japanese holiday that honors one’s ancestors. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970087\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11970087 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos: On the left, a group of people strikes expressive poses as they dance outdoors. On the right, a group of people wearing ornate clothing dances outdoors.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-6-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-6-KQED-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-6-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-6-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-6-KQED-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-6-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-6-KQED-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Partygoers dancing in front of the Lake Merritt Pergola at Days Like This in Oakland on Aug. 25, 2023. Right: Linus Lancaster (left) and Mari Lancaster (center) dance at KOHO’s BonPop Obon in the Japantown Peace Plaza in San Francisco on Aug. 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Raphael Timmons/KQED; Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970064\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230830-BeyonceFans-21-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person wears a disco ball on their head with a white sequined body suit.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230830-BeyonceFans-21-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230830-BeyonceFans-21-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230830-BeyonceFans-21-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230830-BeyonceFans-21-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230830-BeyonceFans-21-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">West Walker, also known as the Disco Cowboy of San Francisco and ‘Wild West,’ kicks a sequined boot into the air before getting in line for Beyoncé at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on Aug. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A boy holds his hands together in prayer while sitting in a large group of people doing the same indoors.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyler Neang (center) prays alongside his family at the Fresno Cambodian Buddhist Society temple on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963112\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-TULUWAT-ISLAND-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people stand together in an outdoor setting looking at the camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-TULUWAT-ISLAND-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-TULUWAT-ISLAND-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-TULUWAT-ISLAND-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-TULUWAT-ISLAND-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-TULUWAT-ISLAND-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-TULUWAT-ISLAND-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl Seidner (right) and her grand-niece Hilanea Wilkinson in Loleta on Sept. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hootnick for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11962031\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230920-OAKLAND-AIR-QUALITY-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A city shrouded in haze.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230920-OAKLAND-AIR-QUALITY-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230920-OAKLAND-AIR-QUALITY-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230920-OAKLAND-AIR-QUALITY-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230920-OAKLAND-AIR-QUALITY-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230920-OAKLAND-AIR-QUALITY-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230920-OAKLAND-AIR-QUALITY-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown Oakland is seen through the wildfire-caused haze on Sept. 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963467\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231004-Feinstein-Lying-in-State-006-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt='A large group of people salute a casket draped in an American flag as it enters a building with the words \"City Hall\" over the door.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231004-Feinstein-Lying-in-State-006-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231004-Feinstein-Lying-in-State-006-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231004-Feinstein-Lying-in-State-006-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231004-Feinstein-Lying-in-State-006-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231004-Feinstein-Lying-in-State-006-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231004-Feinstein-Lying-in-State-006-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The body of Sen. Dianne Feinstein is carried into City Hall to lie in state in San Francisco on Oct. 4, 2023. Feinstein was the longest-serving female senator and longest-serving senator from California before her passing. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970088\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970088\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-7-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos: On the left, A person in a blue sport coat cries in front of a flag-draped casket. On the right, a flag draped casket in a large darkened room.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-7-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-7-KQED-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-7-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-7-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-7-KQED-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-7-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-7-KQED-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi holds her hands to her face as she pays respect to Sen. Dianne Feinstein as she lies in state for public viewing at City Hall in San Francisco on Oct. 4, 2023. Right: The body of Senator Dianne Feinstein lies in state at City Hall in San Francisco on Oct. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED; Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970066\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231008-ZUMBI-VIGIL-MD-04-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a baseball cap looks down at a candle in their hands while standing in a large group of people.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231008-ZUMBI-VIGIL-MD-04-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231008-ZUMBI-VIGIL-MD-04-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231008-ZUMBI-VIGIL-MD-04-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231008-ZUMBI-VIGIL-MD-04-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231008-ZUMBI-VIGIL-MD-04-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Grouch (right), a collaborator of the rapper Zumbi, who died in 2021 at the hands of Alta Bates staff and security, attends a vigil in front of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11970067 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/E-40-81-qut.jpg\" alt='An African American man holds a sign up that says \"E-40 Way.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/E-40-81-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/E-40-81-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/E-40-81-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/E-40-81-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/E-40-81-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earl “E-40” Stevens stands for a portrait outside his childhood home in Magazine St, aka E-40 Way, after the honorary ceremony on Oct. 21, 2023, in Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Michaela Vatcheva for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970068\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231019-MYCHAL-THREETS-MD-04-qut.jpg\" alt='A person with their hair in an afro stands in front of a building with the word \"Library\" written over the entrance.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231019-MYCHAL-THREETS-MD-04-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231019-MYCHAL-THREETS-MD-04-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231019-MYCHAL-THREETS-MD-04-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231019-MYCHAL-THREETS-MD-04-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231019-MYCHAL-THREETS-MD-04-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mychal Threets at the Fairfield Civic Center Library in Fairfield on Oct. 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970089\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"hold signs and mark. On the right, a person with a beard holds up a sign in front of a large building.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-8-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-8-KQED-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-8-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-8-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-8-KQED-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-8-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-8-KQED-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Kaiser workers strike in front of the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Oct. 4, 2023. Right: Michael Jones and others strike at the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Oct. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967609\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231116-BayBridgeShutdown-003-BL-1.jpg\" alt=\"A woman yells into megaphone surrounding by protesters on a bridge. Police are in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231116-BayBridgeShutdown-003-BL-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231116-BayBridgeShutdown-003-BL-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231116-BayBridgeShutdown-003-BL-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231116-BayBridgeShutdown-003-BL-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231116-BayBridgeShutdown-003-BL-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters demanding a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza block all westbound lanes of the Bay Bridge, unfurling banners reading “stop genocide” and “no US military aid to Israel” on Nov. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970091\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos: On the left, a large group of people waving flags and holding signs. On the right, the reflection of a large group of people in the sunglasses of a person wearing a clear full face mask.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-9-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-9-KQED-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-9-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-9-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-9-KQED-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-9-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-9-KQED-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Amaani Cassim marches in Downtown San Francisco on Nov. 12, 2023, in opposition to the APEC international economic summit. Right: Protesters demanding a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza are seen reflected in the glasses of a law enforcement officer as they block all westbound lanes of the Bay Bridge Nov. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970069\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231129-PALESTINE-SOLIDARITY-DAY-MD-07-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people marches through the high-rises of an urban area.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231129-PALESTINE-SOLIDARITY-DAY-MD-07-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231129-PALESTINE-SOLIDARITY-DAY-MD-07-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231129-PALESTINE-SOLIDARITY-DAY-MD-07-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231129-PALESTINE-SOLIDARITY-DAY-MD-07-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231129-PALESTINE-SOLIDARITY-DAY-MD-07-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emad Abdulrahim (center) marches through downtown San Francisco on the International Day of Solidarity With the Palestinian People to demand a permanent cease-fire between Israel and Hamas on Nov. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231202-SFIsADrag-25-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A drag performer in a white dress singing on a traffic island as cars go by.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231202-SFIsADrag-25-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231202-SFIsADrag-25-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231202-SFIsADrag-25-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231202-SFIsADrag-25-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231202-SFIsADrag-25-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dulce De Leche performs on Columbus Avenue during the San Francisco is a Drag! event on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"headline": "2023 in Photos: Moments That Shaped the Bay Area and Beyond",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As 2023 draws to a close, we look back on a year that has been nothing short of \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">extraordinary. In our annual “Year in Photos” feature, we invite you to journey through the moments, both monumental and minute, that have defined the past 12 months. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across the nine Bay Area counties and beyond, our team captured glimpses of the vivid tapestry of life in Northern California — flooded streets in San Francisco, an East Oakland track team in the Junior Olympics, jam-packed stalls at the Berryessa Flea Market, the Bay Bridge blocked by protesters. At times, we documented celebrations of the joy and resilience of communities — and at times, we witnessed devastation and loss. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each image reminds us of the challenges we’ve faced and the milestones we’ve celebrated. These photographs not only reflect the events of 2023 but also the emotions and experiences that will shape our region for years to come.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970045\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/022_KQED_StormSanFrancisco_01102023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two people stand in deep water working with long tools in an urban setting.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/022_KQED_StormSanFrancisco_01102023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/022_KQED_StormSanFrancisco_01102023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/022_KQED_StormSanFrancisco_01102023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/022_KQED_StormSanFrancisco_01102023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/022_KQED_StormSanFrancisco_01102023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two Mission District residents work to open a clogged drain on Mission and 21st Streets in San Francisco on Jan. 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970081\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos: On the left, a large group of people marches holding signs at night. On the right, a large group of people marches holding signs at during the day.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-1-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-1-KQED-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-1-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-1-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-1-KQED-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-1-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-1-KQED-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Sloane Noel-Johnson, with the Black Organizing Project, marches with demonstrators against the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. Right: Faye Crosley, center left, walks down Highland Ave in Richmond, California, with a group of friends, neighbors and family to protest her eviction from her home of several decades on Feb. 12, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/ KQED; Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944322\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman wearing a pink jumpsuit stands with both hands raised among several people who are seated in a building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63633_03122023_kqed_fameservice-256-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debra Chambers, 56, bows her head during the First African Methodist Episcopal Church congregation’s Sunday service, temporarily being held at Temple Beth Abraham in Oakland on March 12, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944304\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944304\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63704_03192023_kqed_pajarobridge-107-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand behind police caution tape.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63704_03192023_kqed_pajarobridge-107-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63704_03192023_kqed_pajarobridge-107-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63704_03192023_kqed_pajarobridge-107-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63704_03192023_kqed_pajarobridge-107-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63704_03192023_kqed_pajarobridge-107-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents of Pajaro, the unincorporated area in Monterey County that flooded due to a levee breach, gather just across the river in Watsonville, on March 19, 2023, waiting for authorities to let them return home. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970047\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/04282023_pajaroupdate-599-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young person wearing rubber boots stands in a small galley kitchen, where appliances on piled on the counter, looking at a mud-caked floor and beside an older person looking at the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/04282023_pajaroupdate-599-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/04282023_pajaroupdate-599-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/04282023_pajaroupdate-599-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/04282023_pajaroupdate-599-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/04282023_pajaroupdate-599-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denia Escutia and her mother, Carla, pose for a portrait inside the family’s home in Pajaro on April 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970083\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos: On the left, a person with long hair is interviewed by reporters in front of a large official-looking building. On the right, bright purple flowers bloom on a hillside.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-2-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-2-KQED-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-2-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-2-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-2-KQED-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-2-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-2-KQED-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao speaks to reporters in front of city hall during a city-led “Welcome Back Wednesday” event to promote the recovery of the city’s downtown area on April 5, 2023. Right: Stems of purple lupine blossom along Grizzly Peak Boulevard in Berkeley on April 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946233\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/029_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with short, black hair and a purple bandana tied around her forehead looks distraught as tears stream down her cheeks. A crowd of blurred faces are in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/029_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/029_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/029_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/029_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/029_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street resident Mayana Sparks cries while watching the city of Oakland begin to evict the encampment in West Oakland on April 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970048\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/027_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person speaks at a podium beside a large body of water set in a mountainous area.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/027_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/027_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/027_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/027_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/027_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks during a centennial celebration of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park on May 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970084\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos: On the left, A group of colorfully dressed people ride a cable care waving pride flags. On the right, A crowd of people pack a city street.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-3-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-3-KQED-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-3-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-3-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-3-KQED-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-3-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-3-KQED-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: San Francisco Mayor London Breed, center, waves a Pride flag from the side of a cable car as the 2023 Pride parade passes down Market Street in downtown San Francisco on June 25, 2023. Right: Bay to Breakers participants surge down Hayes Street in San Francisco on May 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970057\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970057\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/013_KQED_LongCOVIDCharlieMcCone_05182023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with light brown curly hair and eyeglasses has a steam inhaler in his mouth as he laws reclines against a sofa in his living room.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/013_KQED_LongCOVIDCharlieMcCone_05182023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/013_KQED_LongCOVIDCharlieMcCone_05182023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/013_KQED_LongCOVIDCharlieMcCone_05182023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/013_KQED_LongCOVIDCharlieMcCone_05182023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/013_KQED_LongCOVIDCharlieMcCone_05182023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Long COVID patient Charlie McCone uses a steam inhaler at his home in San Francisco on May 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950737\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut.jpg\" alt=\"African American men carry a white coffin to a hearse outside a church.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calvin Breedlove, Banko Brown’s cousin, and other pallbearers escort Brown’s coffin out of the historic Third Baptist Church in San Francisco on May 25, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970085\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970085\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos: On the left, a person with long hair standing in the doorway to a restaurant. On the right, a person with a bald head and blue jumpsuit stands beside a door in front of a large gate covered in concertina wire.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-4-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-4-KQED-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-4-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-4-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-4-KQED-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-4-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-4-KQED-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Lena Turner, 93, poses for a portrait in her restaurant, Chika and Sake, in San Francisco’s Japantown on Thursday, July 27, 2023. Right: Steve Brooks, Editor in Chief of San Quentin News, stands outside of the media center at San Quentin State Prison on July 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED; Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970058\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230720-HEINOLDS-MHN-08-KQED-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A bar tender speaks to two customers from behind a slanted bar.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230720-HEINOLDS-MHN-08-KQED-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230720-HEINOLDS-MHN-08-KQED-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230720-HEINOLDS-MHN-08-KQED-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230720-HEINOLDS-MHN-08-KQED-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230720-HEINOLDS-MHN-08-KQED-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauren Barrett tends the bar at Heinold’s First and Last Chance Saloon in Oakland on July 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957360\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67667_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people stand in front of a stall full of wares.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67667_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67667_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67667_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67667_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67667_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67667_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hector Garcia (left) and Lizeth Valtierra (right) working at the BayFresh Piñateria, located in the Berryessa Flea Market in San José on July 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Raphaël Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957050\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957050\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67509_230730-MariachiBonitasWedding-63-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Women wearing ornate white outfits and holding instruments in an indoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67509_230730-MariachiBonitasWedding-63-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67509_230730-MariachiBonitasWedding-63-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67509_230730-MariachiBonitasWedding-63-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67509_230730-MariachiBonitasWedding-63-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67509_230730-MariachiBonitasWedding-63-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67509_230730-MariachiBonitasWedding-63-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The group Mariachi Bonitas line up on a staircase for a group photo during a break from playing a wedding at Grand Island Mansion in Walnut Grove, Calif., on July 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970086\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970086\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos: On the left, an adult helps a child lace up their shots. On the right, the shadows of two children running are seen on a racetrack.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-5-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-5-KQED-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-5-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-5-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-5-KQED-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-5-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-5-KQED-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: East Oakland Track Gems Coach Traivon Soto-Johnson (right) helps Kayden Thompson (left) tie his shoes at Castlemont High School in Oakland on July 31, 2023. Right: Kaden Remson (left) and John Howard III (right) run a drill on the track at Castlemont High School in Oakland on July 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957034\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67469_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-43-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A boy poses for a photo with medals hanging from around his neck.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67469_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-43-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67469_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-43-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67469_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-43-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67469_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-43-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67469_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-43-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67469_20230731-EastOaklandTrackGems-43-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaden Remson, 9, poses for a portrait with his track medals during track practice at Castlemont High School in Oakland on July 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970060\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20230826-BonPop-45-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"People dance in KOHO’s BonPop Obon in the Japantown Peace Plaza in San Francisco on Saturday, August 26, 2023. This is KOHO’s second year holding Obon in Japantown, a traditional Japanese holiday that honors one’s ancestors.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20230826-BonPop-45-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20230826-BonPop-45-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20230826-BonPop-45-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20230826-BonPop-45-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20230826-BonPop-45-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People dance in KOHO’s BonPop Obon in the Japantown Peace Plaza in San Francisco on Aug. 26, 2023. This is KOHO’s second year holding Obon in Japantown, a traditional Japanese holiday that honors one’s ancestors. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970087\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11970087 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos: On the left, a group of people strikes expressive poses as they dance outdoors. On the right, a group of people wearing ornate clothing dances outdoors.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-6-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-6-KQED-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-6-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-6-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-6-KQED-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-6-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-6-KQED-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Partygoers dancing in front of the Lake Merritt Pergola at Days Like This in Oakland on Aug. 25, 2023. Right: Linus Lancaster (left) and Mari Lancaster (center) dance at KOHO’s BonPop Obon in the Japantown Peace Plaza in San Francisco on Aug. 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Raphael Timmons/KQED; Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970064\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230830-BeyonceFans-21-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person wears a disco ball on their head with a white sequined body suit.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230830-BeyonceFans-21-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230830-BeyonceFans-21-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230830-BeyonceFans-21-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230830-BeyonceFans-21-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230830-BeyonceFans-21-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">West Walker, also known as the Disco Cowboy of San Francisco and ‘Wild West,’ kicks a sequined boot into the air before getting in line for Beyoncé at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on Aug. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A boy holds his hands together in prayer while sitting in a large group of people doing the same indoors.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyler Neang (center) prays alongside his family at the Fresno Cambodian Buddhist Society temple on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963112\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-TULUWAT-ISLAND-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people stand together in an outdoor setting looking at the camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-TULUWAT-ISLAND-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-TULUWAT-ISLAND-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-TULUWAT-ISLAND-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-TULUWAT-ISLAND-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-TULUWAT-ISLAND-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-TULUWAT-ISLAND-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl Seidner (right) and her grand-niece Hilanea Wilkinson in Loleta on Sept. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hootnick for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11962031\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230920-OAKLAND-AIR-QUALITY-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A city shrouded in haze.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230920-OAKLAND-AIR-QUALITY-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230920-OAKLAND-AIR-QUALITY-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230920-OAKLAND-AIR-QUALITY-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230920-OAKLAND-AIR-QUALITY-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230920-OAKLAND-AIR-QUALITY-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230920-OAKLAND-AIR-QUALITY-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown Oakland is seen through the wildfire-caused haze on Sept. 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963467\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231004-Feinstein-Lying-in-State-006-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt='A large group of people salute a casket draped in an American flag as it enters a building with the words \"City Hall\" over the door.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231004-Feinstein-Lying-in-State-006-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231004-Feinstein-Lying-in-State-006-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231004-Feinstein-Lying-in-State-006-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231004-Feinstein-Lying-in-State-006-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231004-Feinstein-Lying-in-State-006-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231004-Feinstein-Lying-in-State-006-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The body of Sen. Dianne Feinstein is carried into City Hall to lie in state in San Francisco on Oct. 4, 2023. Feinstein was the longest-serving female senator and longest-serving senator from California before her passing. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970088\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970088\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-7-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos: On the left, A person in a blue sport coat cries in front of a flag-draped casket. On the right, a flag draped casket in a large darkened room.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-7-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-7-KQED-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-7-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-7-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-7-KQED-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-7-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-7-KQED-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi holds her hands to her face as she pays respect to Sen. Dianne Feinstein as she lies in state for public viewing at City Hall in San Francisco on Oct. 4, 2023. Right: The body of Senator Dianne Feinstein lies in state at City Hall in San Francisco on Oct. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED; Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970066\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231008-ZUMBI-VIGIL-MD-04-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a baseball cap looks down at a candle in their hands while standing in a large group of people.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231008-ZUMBI-VIGIL-MD-04-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231008-ZUMBI-VIGIL-MD-04-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231008-ZUMBI-VIGIL-MD-04-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231008-ZUMBI-VIGIL-MD-04-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231008-ZUMBI-VIGIL-MD-04-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Grouch (right), a collaborator of the rapper Zumbi, who died in 2021 at the hands of Alta Bates staff and security, attends a vigil in front of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11970067 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/E-40-81-qut.jpg\" alt='An African American man holds a sign up that says \"E-40 Way.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/E-40-81-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/E-40-81-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/E-40-81-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/E-40-81-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/E-40-81-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earl “E-40” Stevens stands for a portrait outside his childhood home in Magazine St, aka E-40 Way, after the honorary ceremony on Oct. 21, 2023, in Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Michaela Vatcheva for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970068\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231019-MYCHAL-THREETS-MD-04-qut.jpg\" alt='A person with their hair in an afro stands in front of a building with the word \"Library\" written over the entrance.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231019-MYCHAL-THREETS-MD-04-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231019-MYCHAL-THREETS-MD-04-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231019-MYCHAL-THREETS-MD-04-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231019-MYCHAL-THREETS-MD-04-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231019-MYCHAL-THREETS-MD-04-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mychal Threets at the Fairfield Civic Center Library in Fairfield on Oct. 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970089\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"hold signs and mark. On the right, a person with a beard holds up a sign in front of a large building.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-8-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-8-KQED-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-8-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-8-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-8-KQED-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-8-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-8-KQED-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Kaiser workers strike in front of the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Oct. 4, 2023. Right: Michael Jones and others strike at the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Oct. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967609\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231116-BayBridgeShutdown-003-BL-1.jpg\" alt=\"A woman yells into megaphone surrounding by protesters on a bridge. Police are in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231116-BayBridgeShutdown-003-BL-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231116-BayBridgeShutdown-003-BL-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231116-BayBridgeShutdown-003-BL-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231116-BayBridgeShutdown-003-BL-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231116-BayBridgeShutdown-003-BL-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters demanding a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza block all westbound lanes of the Bay Bridge, unfurling banners reading “stop genocide” and “no US military aid to Israel” on Nov. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970091\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos: On the left, a large group of people waving flags and holding signs. On the right, the reflection of a large group of people in the sunglasses of a person wearing a clear full face mask.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-9-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-9-KQED-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-9-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-9-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-9-KQED-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-9-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231215-2023-YIP-9-KQED-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Amaani Cassim marches in Downtown San Francisco on Nov. 12, 2023, in opposition to the APEC international economic summit. Right: Protesters demanding a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza are seen reflected in the glasses of a law enforcement officer as they block all westbound lanes of the Bay Bridge Nov. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970069\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231129-PALESTINE-SOLIDARITY-DAY-MD-07-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people marches through the high-rises of an urban area.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231129-PALESTINE-SOLIDARITY-DAY-MD-07-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231129-PALESTINE-SOLIDARITY-DAY-MD-07-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231129-PALESTINE-SOLIDARITY-DAY-MD-07-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231129-PALESTINE-SOLIDARITY-DAY-MD-07-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231129-PALESTINE-SOLIDARITY-DAY-MD-07-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emad Abdulrahim (center) marches through downtown San Francisco on the International Day of Solidarity With the Palestinian People to demand a permanent cease-fire between Israel and Hamas on Nov. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231202-SFIsADrag-25-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A drag performer in a white dress singing on a traffic island as cars go by.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231202-SFIsADrag-25-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231202-SFIsADrag-25-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231202-SFIsADrag-25-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231202-SFIsADrag-25-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231202-SFIsADrag-25-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dulce De Leche performs on Columbus Avenue during the San Francisco is a Drag! event on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003cem>Read a transcript of this episode. \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing in the Bay Area is a \u003cem>hot\u003c/em> topic, so it’s no wonder that \u003ca href=\"https://baycurious.org/\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> gets a lot of listener questions about it. Why is it so expensive? How do middle-class people afford homes here? Is the housing shortage really an overpopulation problem? While we’ve answered some of these over the years, we often direct people to KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/soldout\">Sold Out podcast\u003c/a>, a seasonal show focused specifically on these issues. Today, we’re presenting an episode from their latest season, which examines the intersection of the housing crisis and climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This episode answers the question: What is San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> doing about urban sprawl?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can read \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966342/how-the-bay-areas-biggest-city-wants-to-overcome-its-sprawl\">Sold Out’s web story here\u003c/a>, or listen to the episode and read our episode transcript below.\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=KQINC8701615319&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hey everyone, Olivia Allen-Price here and this is Bay Curious. We’re starting off this week in San José. It’s \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> most populated city in the Bay Area … one million people live within city limits. That’s more than twice the population of Oakland. And yet, for a city its size … it’s remarkably spread out. It doesn’t \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">feel\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> like a big city when you’re walking around…\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That’s largely because of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">when \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San José had its biggest development boom…\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Archival audio: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is now possible to have the individual styling every family wants in its home. And still have all the benefits of mass production.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the years after World War II, millions of soldiers returned home, got married, and started looking to buy property… you know, that whole American Dream thing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Archival audio: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Homebuilders anticipated the needs of newlyweds and young families. They built new suburbs that appealed to countless first time homebuyers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Up until then about two-thirds of Americans lived in cities. That’s where the jobs were. But with the availability of spacious, new homes — at least for white buyers — people left those cities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Archival audio: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the center … an efficient kitchen … serving of meals.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And all of this was made possible with another big change. The interstate highway system.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Archival audio: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most of these roads will be four, six, even eight lane expressways. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">These two ideas — suburbs and highways — went hand in hand. A perfect cocktail for the kind of urban sprawl we see in cities like San José. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That kind of sprawl that has turned out to have some pretty big problems. First off, all that driving has not been good for climate change. Cars and trucks account for nearly half of California’s total carbon emissions. And then there’s another problem. Once all the single family lots are full, how can you house a population that’s still growing?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Today, we are presenting an episode from KQED’s podcast: SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America. We’ll look at how leaders in San José are trying to reimagine how residents live … and how they get around. We’ll be right back with that story. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SPONSOR MESSAGE\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San José was built for single family homes and cars. Housing reporter Adhiti Bandlamudi walks us through how they’re now trying to build for a denser, greener future …\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ambient sound from Berryessa BART station\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s a warm evening and I’m hanging at the BART train station in San José. For the past few weeks, I’ve been looking to interview someone who thinks a lot about housing and public transit. And I keep striking out. Either people are too busy or they see my big microphone and just walk the other way. But then, I spot Monika Rivera. She rides into the station, dressed all in black, on a shiny gray bike. And she doesn’t run away from me when I approach her.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Honestly, I tell people making your commute, like either biking or walking, it makes such a big difference in how you feel throughout the day. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She’s still facing a 45 minute commute on the train, but she’s so energetic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It makes you feel like more connected to the community, too, because you’re like biking by businesses, you like are biking by your neighbors and you just see more people. And when you’re in the car, you’re just you’re not as focused on like what’s going on around you.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A couple days a week, Monika wakes up at 5:30, bikes from her apartment to the train station, takes the train to San José and then bikes to City Hall, where she helps manage the city’s recycling program. It sounds like a lot to me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> To me, it makes a big difference for the environment, knowing that I’m not putting all those pollutants into the air every day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Monika and I are a lot alike. We’re both 29, recently married. We care about the environment, love being outside. And we both want to settle down in the same kind of house, in the same kind neighborhood.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I would want a home that’s in a neighborhood that’s walking distance to things like we could go to a restaurant or a coffee shop or like a grocery store, you know, and be able to be within like a ten minute walk, um ideally be close to whatever job I have.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She and her husband have been trying to find that in the Bay Area, but homes in those kinds of neighborhoods are way out of her price range. The homes they can afford aren’t much bigger than the studio apartment they’re renting. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> If we buy a home, I don’t want to go just from one tiny place to another tiny place.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Buying a home is really important to Monika because of how she grew up. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I grew up in a small– like with my family and my sibling– like a tiny two bedroom house that they were renting.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So she and her husband started looking for a place to buy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I wanted to prove to myself, you know, that I could reach that.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> After months of house hunting, she found a home in Lathrop, about a 2 hour drive from San José in California’s Central Valley. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s three bedrooms, two baths, it has a nice backyard, has some grass, some trees and plants. We have an orange tree and a lemon tree, which is really nice. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She said it was a relief to finally sign the papers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It felt good. Yeah, it felt really good. I mean, I’ve been saving for years now, and, like, just all of the sacrifices that we’ve made.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But she had to compromise – because biking to work, walking around her neighborhood– she can’t really do that in Lathrop. Nothing is within walking distance. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even being able to go to like a coffee shop in the morning, or if you forget something at the store, you have to get in the car to go.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> When she did live in the Bay Area, she loved going to the city everyday or to the beach on the weekends.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Now it’s like to reach any of those destinations. I have to add like an hour, which is a small price to pay. You know, like you need to make sacrifices, but it’s still just something that I’m going to have to get used to.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Another thing she’s getting used to: the heat. For the past few years, Lathrop has seen record high temperatures in the summer. Soon after they moved in, Monika got COVID.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Oh, I was sick in 100 degree heat. We, like, didn’t have blinds on our windows yet, and it was just a nightmare. I’m not used to it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Here’s the paradox: cities like Lathrop are one of the few places in California where housing is being built– housing that’s affordable for people like Monika. But at the same time, temperatures in California’s Central Valley are soaring higher and higher each summer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Lathrop wasn’t Monika’s first choice. She was really hoping to find a place where she could keep riding her bike and taking the train, but with what she could afford, Lathrop felt like her only choice.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Why? Why is our society like, encouraging this or allowing it to happen?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is an urgent problem. As the housing crisis pushes people further away from big cities, they drive more and emit more carbon. That makes climate change worse. So, instead of continuing to sprawl, why not build more homes in the city? Close to public transit and in neighborhoods where people could walk more? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I used to live in San José, so when I heard the city was trying to make this a reality, I was really curious about it. Before I moved there from the East Coast, I had this image of a bustling metropolis. But it’s actually pretty quiet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A lot of people live there, but they’re all spread out. So, what would it mean if this city made good on this promise? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music fades out. Ambient sound of Facchino district.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’d love to just sort of get a lay of the land. Like what? You know what it’s going to look like one day from here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Erik Schoennauer points toward an old wooden fence surrounding a big vacant lot \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And what is inside of the site right now? Just trucks and equipment.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Erik’s technical title is land use consultant. For more than 20 years, he’s been working with developers and the city to build more housing in San José. And he wants to transform this area into a thriving urban neighborhood. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">High density housing, high density jobs, retail, parks, mixed use neighborhoods.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Three years ago, BART opened a train station nearby\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">– \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">where I met Monika. And the city figured it would be the perfect place for more\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">housing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have to everywhere make cities that are not reliant on fossil fuels to get around.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is all part of San José’s larger goal to combat sprawl. More than 10 years ago, city officials noticed that too many people were getting priced out. City workers had commutes up to 2 hours long. So they came up with a plan to build 60 urban villages across San José. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> State Assembly Member Ash Kalra represents the city and was one of the loudest advocates for the plan. Here he is selling the idea in a promotional video.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sam Liccardo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Urban villages have a lot of benefits. First of all, by bringing people together, both in terms of their housing and their jobs and the stores and restaurants they go to, you’re being much more efficient with your use of land.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Imagine tall apartment buildings with shops on the bottom and a train line running through the middle. A pedestrian’s paradise.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This new housing would be a big change for San José. It’s the 12th largest city in the country, but it feels like a giant suburb– all the homes are spread out.And that’s because of its history. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Between the 1950s and 1970s, highway expansion set the tone for city planning. Sam Assefa runs California’s Office for Planning and Research — that’s basically the state’s own think tank to solve its toughest problems, like sprawl.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sam Assefa:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Sprawl was literally on steroids with single family developments quickly gobbling up farmland, open space and spreading out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In the early 1900s, San José was a small city of only 17 square miles. Today it’s 181 square miles. And most of it is dominated by single family homes — a house that’s home to only one family. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sam Assefa:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is the American dream. And we know that single family homes generally perpetuate sprawl.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> More than 90% of San José’s land is zoned for single family homes. For decades, it was illegal to build other kinds of housing — like apartments and duplexes — in most of the city.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That history created a lot of housing inequity. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Starting in the early 1950s, white families were moving into San José from bigger cities like San Francisco and Oakland. Fair housing laws hadn’t been passed yet, so a lot of the new homes were off limits to practically anyone who wasn’t white.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Scars from that history are still visible today. Black and Latinx residents of San José are far less likely to own their homes than white and Asian residents. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San José wants to right some of those wrongs. And the urban villages could help. They are supposed to include some affordable housing, bring more jobs and give more people the opportunity to live here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sound of walking around Berryessa Urban Village\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But this whole urban village dream is really slow going. It’s been more than 10 years since San José officials said they wanted urban villages all over the city. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So far, only a handful have been built. There’s already part of an urban village next to the BART Station.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s a tall apartment building with hundreds of units. But walking around that area…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi (in the field): \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So I just had to cross a one, two, three, four, five, six lane road to get to the other side.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s just not that easy. This is one obstacle San José is up against. It’s trying to build a pedestrian-friendly neighborhood in a place planned around cars. Sidewalks run alongside the apartment building, but it’s just not very welcoming to walk next to a busy road. There is a Safeway and a Dunkin Donuts, but you have to cross a huge parking lot and another four-lane road to get there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The apartment building was built with shop and restaurant space on the ground floor, to make it more convenient and interesting to live here — but it’s mostly vacant. That’s partly because demand is down post pandemic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> There’s barely anyone walking around. I finally run into Juan Carlos Navarro. He lives in a townhome a few blocks away and is out with his dogs. I’m so excited to see someone, I’m fumbling over myself. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi, in the field interviewing Carlos Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How do you feel about all of this new development coming and the…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carlos Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And let me call you back, okay? (hangs up phone) Oh, sorry.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> He says this area used to be a bit of a ghost town, but that’s starting to change.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carlos Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We definitely like it because it’s uh– we feel better. We feel secure now walking along the block because this was all empty before. And it wasn’t– it wasn’t as good as it is now. So we definitely like it.\u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> He hopes it becomes more lively as more housing gets built and more shops get filled. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carlos Navarro: I hope to see more people, more, you know, entertainment areas, stores and [00:10:40] I would hope to see that. \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> As San José tries to make good on its urban village promise, it’s kinda handcuffed by some of its own policies. And you can see it in the plans for Erik Schoennauer’s development. He has a vision for tall apartment buildings, but what’s the first thing he’s going to build?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Single family and townhomes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah. The first thing Erik is going to build is more standalone houses. That’s because the neighborhood around the empty lot is already full of single family homes. And city policy doesn’t allow tall buildings to be built right next to them. Because it might cast a shadow. So Erik has to build a buffer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Put a row of lower density housing units up against the existing single family and put the taller buildings more internal on the site.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Cities across California have laws like these which protect single family homes and prevent denser housing like apartments and condos from being built nearby.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> What’s more, apartment buildings are riskier because developers have to build the whole thing before they can rent or sell any of the units.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>Whereas single family and townhomes, you can build and sell as you go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even though the city wants to see more dense development, they’re not the ones building it — it’s up to developers. And it has to make sense to their bottom line. Right now, it doesn’t. Interest rates and construction costs have soared and there’s less demand for office and retail space. Erik hopes another developer will eventually build the apartments — but he’s uncertain as to when that might happen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I believe it’s an inevitable evolution to move towards denser, more mixed use development. It’s all evolving in the right direction, but it takes time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fade Music Out Here\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Evolution takes a long time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s just waiting. I mean, everyone’s waiting. There’s no- it’s not happening.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Kelly Snider has been living in San José since 1999. She teaches Real Estate Development at San Jose State and is really frustrated with the city’s progress with their urban village plan. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She thinks there’s a different way to get more housing built. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I meet her in a quiet neighborhood filled with small bungalows, each with their own front lawn. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, where are we? Where are we right now? We are in downtown San José, outskirts of downtown San José.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s a little brown house with bright blue accents around the windows. It’s got three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a big backyard. At the end of the block, there’s a train station where you can catch a ride to downtown San José. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have a fantastic public elementary school on this corner. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This house is Kelly’s pilot project. She bought it from Raul Lozano, a local activist who wanted to see more housing built here. He wanted to split his home into two separate units, but was struggling with the process. And at the same time, Kelly, who is an experienced developer, wanted to help. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This front unit is a one bedroom, so it’s got a living room and a nice kitchen, a full bathroom, and then a nice bedroom. And we charge $1500 a month for this. And that includes utilities.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> $1,500 for all that is a steal in the Bay Area. And Kelly didn’t stop there. She also built a small two bedroom house in the backyard, where Raul lived until he passed away in February. It’s now home to two of Raul’s friends who were dealing with housing insecurity. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They would often, you know, spend time with family in the valley and then sleep in their cars one or two nights a week here. We approached the mother and said, Would you like to move into this house? And she said, yes. And she and her son live here now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That small house is technically called an ADU, or an accessory dwelling unit. You might know it as a granny flat or a casita. And it’s the hottest thing in California housing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Recent state and local laws have made them easier to build. There are even grant programs that will cover some of the costs. And San José has really embraced them. Last year, the city issued over 500 permits to build new ADUs. There’s still some space on Kelly’s lot. And she wants to build a duplex there — so even more homes on a plot of land that used to just have one. Kelly knows there are skeptics. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the reasons why I wanted to do this is because every time I bring someone here they’re like, Well, that’s just a tiny little lot. You can’t fit a whole new house on there. And I’m like, Oh, I can fit a whole house on there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even if she can build it, not everyone wants it. Many of the people who moved to San José came for the backyard and the quiet neighborhood with tree-lined streets.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Kelly wants to show people, you can still have that and add more housing. After buying Raul’s place, she formed a company to help more people split their homes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everyone who comes to see it says, Oh, I didn’t know it would look this nice. I didn’t know you could fit all of this.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And for what it’s worth, it doesn’t feel crowded. This is still a quiet street and there isn’t a tall building in sight. Kelly thinks San José is moving in the right direction with ADUs and just needs to keep making it cheaper and easier to build them.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They know the knob to switch and they’ve already started twisting it. They just need to twist it further.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I know I’ve been picking on San José, but the thing is, it’s like a lot of cities in California. They were all built on an idea that sounded great at the time — a spacious home with a yard of your own. A car that could take you anywhere. But that idea has led California into its housing and climate crisis. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So, maybe it’s time to embrace some new ideas for how our cities are built and how we’ll create a sustainable future. It might mean living closer to each other, driving less, walking more. And, if you ask me, that actually sounds pretty great. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: That was KQED housing reporter Adhiti Bandlamudi. This story is from the KQED podcast: SOLD OUT, Rethinking Housing in America. Their latest season explores the intersection of climate and the housing crisis. Another episode you might enjoy is called “Electric Avenue” and it follows a group of neighbors in Oakland who are working together to make their homes more efficient and climate resilient. Find Sold Out wherever you listen.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: This story was edited by Erika Kelly and Kevin Stark. Sold Out is hosted by Erin Baldassari. Jen Chien was a contributing editor. Sound engineering by Brendan Willard. Cedric Wilson wrote the Sold Out theme song. Thanks also to Katie Sprenger, Cesar Saldaña, Maha Sanad, Ethan Toven-Lindsey, Holly Kernan, Otis Taylor Jr., Molly Solomon, Amanda Font, Christopher Beale and the whole KQED Family.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Bay Curious is going to be dark next week for the Thanksgiving holiday, so I’ll say this now… We are so thankful that you listen to our show … it is truly an honor and privilege. And we hope you have a joy-filled week, whatever that looks like to you. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Have a good one.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music fades\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hey everyone, Olivia Allen-Price here and this is Bay Curious. We’re starting off this week in San José. It’s \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> most populated city in the Bay Area … one million people live within city limits. That’s more than twice the population of Oakland. And yet, for a city its size … it’s remarkably spread out. It doesn’t \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">feel\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> like a big city when you’re walking around…\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That’s largely because of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">when \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San José had its biggest development boom…\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Archival audio: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is now possible to have the individual styling every family wants in its home. And still have all the benefits of mass production.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the years after World War II, millions of soldiers returned home, got married, and started looking to buy property… you know, that whole American Dream thing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Archival audio: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Homebuilders anticipated the needs of newlyweds and young families. They built new suburbs that appealed to countless first time homebuyers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Up until then about two-thirds of Americans lived in cities. That’s where the jobs were. But with the availability of spacious, new homes — at least for white buyers — people left those cities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Archival audio: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the center … an efficient kitchen … serving of meals.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And all of this was made possible with another big change. The interstate highway system.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Archival audio: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most of these roads will be four, six, even eight lane expressways. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">These two ideas — suburbs and highways — went hand in hand. A perfect cocktail for the kind of urban sprawl we see in cities like San José. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That kind of sprawl that has turned out to have some pretty big problems. First off, all that driving has not been good for climate change. Cars and trucks account for nearly half of California’s total carbon emissions. And then there’s another problem. Once all the single family lots are full, how can you house a population that’s still growing?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Today, we are presenting an episode from KQED’s podcast: SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America. We’ll look at how leaders in San José are trying to reimagine how residents live … and how they get around. We’ll be right back with that story. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SPONSOR MESSAGE\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San José was built for single family homes and cars. Housing reporter Adhiti Bandlamudi walks us through how they’re now trying to build for a denser, greener future …\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ambient sound from Berryessa BART station\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s a warm evening and I’m hanging at the BART train station in San José. For the past few weeks, I’ve been looking to interview someone who thinks a lot about housing and public transit. And I keep striking out. Either people are too busy or they see my big microphone and just walk the other way. But then, I spot Monika Rivera. She rides into the station, dressed all in black, on a shiny gray bike. And she doesn’t run away from me when I approach her.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Honestly, I tell people making your commute, like either biking or walking, it makes such a big difference in how you feel throughout the day. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She’s still facing a 45 minute commute on the train, but she’s so energetic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It makes you feel like more connected to the community, too, because you’re like biking by businesses, you like are biking by your neighbors and you just see more people. And when you’re in the car, you’re just you’re not as focused on like what’s going on around you.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A couple days a week, Monika wakes up at 5:30, bikes from her apartment to the train station, takes the train to San José and then bikes to City Hall, where she helps manage the city’s recycling program. It sounds like a lot to me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> To me, it makes a big difference for the environment, knowing that I’m not putting all those pollutants into the air every day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Monika and I are a lot alike. We’re both 29, recently married. We care about the environment, love being outside. And we both want to settle down in the same kind of house, in the same kind neighborhood.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I would want a home that’s in a neighborhood that’s walking distance to things like we could go to a restaurant or a coffee shop or like a grocery store, you know, and be able to be within like a ten minute walk, um ideally be close to whatever job I have.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She and her husband have been trying to find that in the Bay Area, but homes in those kinds of neighborhoods are way out of her price range. The homes they can afford aren’t much bigger than the studio apartment they’re renting. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> If we buy a home, I don’t want to go just from one tiny place to another tiny place.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Buying a home is really important to Monika because of how she grew up. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I grew up in a small– like with my family and my sibling– like a tiny two bedroom house that they were renting.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So she and her husband started looking for a place to buy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I wanted to prove to myself, you know, that I could reach that.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> After months of house hunting, she found a home in Lathrop, about a 2 hour drive from San José in California’s Central Valley. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s three bedrooms, two baths, it has a nice backyard, has some grass, some trees and plants. We have an orange tree and a lemon tree, which is really nice. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She said it was a relief to finally sign the papers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It felt good. Yeah, it felt really good. I mean, I’ve been saving for years now, and, like, just all of the sacrifices that we’ve made.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But she had to compromise – because biking to work, walking around her neighborhood– she can’t really do that in Lathrop. Nothing is within walking distance. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even being able to go to like a coffee shop in the morning, or if you forget something at the store, you have to get in the car to go.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> When she did live in the Bay Area, she loved going to the city everyday or to the beach on the weekends.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Now it’s like to reach any of those destinations. I have to add like an hour, which is a small price to pay. You know, like you need to make sacrifices, but it’s still just something that I’m going to have to get used to.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Another thing she’s getting used to: the heat. For the past few years, Lathrop has seen record high temperatures in the summer. Soon after they moved in, Monika got COVID.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Oh, I was sick in 100 degree heat. We, like, didn’t have blinds on our windows yet, and it was just a nightmare. I’m not used to it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Here’s the paradox: cities like Lathrop are one of the few places in California where housing is being built– housing that’s affordable for people like Monika. But at the same time, temperatures in California’s Central Valley are soaring higher and higher each summer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Lathrop wasn’t Monika’s first choice. She was really hoping to find a place where she could keep riding her bike and taking the train, but with what she could afford, Lathrop felt like her only choice.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Why? Why is our society like, encouraging this or allowing it to happen?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is an urgent problem. As the housing crisis pushes people further away from big cities, they drive more and emit more carbon. That makes climate change worse. So, instead of continuing to sprawl, why not build more homes in the city? Close to public transit and in neighborhoods where people could walk more? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I used to live in San José, so when I heard the city was trying to make this a reality, I was really curious about it. Before I moved there from the East Coast, I had this image of a bustling metropolis. But it’s actually pretty quiet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A lot of people live there, but they’re all spread out. So, what would it mean if this city made good on this promise? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music fades out. Ambient sound of Facchino district.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’d love to just sort of get a lay of the land. Like what? You know what it’s going to look like one day from here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Erik Schoennauer points toward an old wooden fence surrounding a big vacant lot \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And what is inside of the site right now? Just trucks and equipment.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Erik’s technical title is land use consultant. For more than 20 years, he’s been working with developers and the city to build more housing in San José. And he wants to transform this area into a thriving urban neighborhood. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">High density housing, high density jobs, retail, parks, mixed use neighborhoods.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Three years ago, BART opened a train station nearby\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">– \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">where I met Monika. And the city figured it would be the perfect place for more\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">housing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have to everywhere make cities that are not reliant on fossil fuels to get around.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is all part of San José’s larger goal to combat sprawl. More than 10 years ago, city officials noticed that too many people were getting priced out. City workers had commutes up to 2 hours long. So they came up with a plan to build 60 urban villages across San José. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> State Assembly Member Ash Kalra represents the city and was one of the loudest advocates for the plan. Here he is selling the idea in a promotional video.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sam Liccardo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Urban villages have a lot of benefits. First of all, by bringing people together, both in terms of their housing and their jobs and the stores and restaurants they go to, you’re being much more efficient with your use of land.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Imagine tall apartment buildings with shops on the bottom and a train line running through the middle. A pedestrian’s paradise.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This new housing would be a big change for San José. It’s the 12th largest city in the country, but it feels like a giant suburb– all the homes are spread out.And that’s because of its history. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Between the 1950s and 1970s, highway expansion set the tone for city planning. Sam Assefa runs California’s Office for Planning and Research — that’s basically the state’s own think tank to solve its toughest problems, like sprawl.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sam Assefa:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Sprawl was literally on steroids with single family developments quickly gobbling up farmland, open space and spreading out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In the early 1900s, San José was a small city of only 17 square miles. Today it’s 181 square miles. And most of it is dominated by single family homes — a house that’s home to only one family. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sam Assefa:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is the American dream. And we know that single family homes generally perpetuate sprawl.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> More than 90% of San José’s land is zoned for single family homes. For decades, it was illegal to build other kinds of housing — like apartments and duplexes — in most of the city.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That history created a lot of housing inequity. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Starting in the early 1950s, white families were moving into San José from bigger cities like San Francisco and Oakland. Fair housing laws hadn’t been passed yet, so a lot of the new homes were off limits to practically anyone who wasn’t white.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Scars from that history are still visible today. Black and Latinx residents of San José are far less likely to own their homes than white and Asian residents. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San José wants to right some of those wrongs. And the urban villages could help. They are supposed to include some affordable housing, bring more jobs and give more people the opportunity to live here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sound of walking around Berryessa Urban Village\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But this whole urban village dream is really slow going. It’s been more than 10 years since San José officials said they wanted urban villages all over the city. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So far, only a handful have been built. There’s already part of an urban village next to the BART Station.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s a tall apartment building with hundreds of units. But walking around that area…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi (in the field): \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So I just had to cross a one, two, three, four, five, six lane road to get to the other side.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s just not that easy. This is one obstacle San José is up against. It’s trying to build a pedestrian-friendly neighborhood in a place planned around cars. Sidewalks run alongside the apartment building, but it’s just not very welcoming to walk next to a busy road. There is a Safeway and a Dunkin Donuts, but you have to cross a huge parking lot and another four-lane road to get there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The apartment building was built with shop and restaurant space on the ground floor, to make it more convenient and interesting to live here — but it’s mostly vacant. That’s partly because demand is down post pandemic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> There’s barely anyone walking around. I finally run into Juan Carlos Navarro. He lives in a townhome a few blocks away and is out with his dogs. I’m so excited to see someone, I’m fumbling over myself. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi, in the field interviewing Carlos Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How do you feel about all of this new development coming and the…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carlos Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And let me call you back, okay? (hangs up phone) Oh, sorry.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> He says this area used to be a bit of a ghost town, but that’s starting to change.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carlos Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We definitely like it because it’s uh– we feel better. We feel secure now walking along the block because this was all empty before. And it wasn’t– it wasn’t as good as it is now. So we definitely like it.\u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> He hopes it becomes more lively as more housing gets built and more shops get filled. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carlos Navarro: I hope to see more people, more, you know, entertainment areas, stores and [00:10:40] I would hope to see that. \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> As San José tries to make good on its urban village promise, it’s kinda handcuffed by some of its own policies. And you can see it in the plans for Erik Schoennauer’s development. He has a vision for tall apartment buildings, but what’s the first thing he’s going to build?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Single family and townhomes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah. The first thing Erik is going to build is more standalone houses. That’s because the neighborhood around the empty lot is already full of single family homes. And city policy doesn’t allow tall buildings to be built right next to them. Because it might cast a shadow. So Erik has to build a buffer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Put a row of lower density housing units up against the existing single family and put the taller buildings more internal on the site.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Cities across California have laws like these which protect single family homes and prevent denser housing like apartments and condos from being built nearby.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> What’s more, apartment buildings are riskier because developers have to build the whole thing before they can rent or sell any of the units.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>Whereas single family and townhomes, you can build and sell as you go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even though the city wants to see more dense development, they’re not the ones building it — it’s up to developers. And it has to make sense to their bottom line. Right now, it doesn’t. Interest rates and construction costs have soared and there’s less demand for office and retail space. Erik hopes another developer will eventually build the apartments — but he’s uncertain as to when that might happen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I believe it’s an inevitable evolution to move towards denser, more mixed use development. It’s all evolving in the right direction, but it takes time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fade Music Out Here\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Evolution takes a long time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s just waiting. I mean, everyone’s waiting. There’s no- it’s not happening.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Kelly Snider has been living in San José since 1999. She teaches Real Estate Development at San Jose State and is really frustrated with the city’s progress with their urban village plan. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She thinks there’s a different way to get more housing built. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I meet her in a quiet neighborhood filled with small bungalows, each with their own front lawn. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, where are we? Where are we right now? We are in downtown San José, outskirts of downtown San José.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s a little brown house with bright blue accents around the windows. It’s got three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a big backyard. At the end of the block, there’s a train station where you can catch a ride to downtown San José. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have a fantastic public elementary school on this corner. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This house is Kelly’s pilot project. She bought it from Raul Lozano, a local activist who wanted to see more housing built here. He wanted to split his home into two separate units, but was struggling with the process. And at the same time, Kelly, who is an experienced developer, wanted to help. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This front unit is a one bedroom, so it’s got a living room and a nice kitchen, a full bathroom, and then a nice bedroom. And we charge $1500 a month for this. And that includes utilities.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> $1,500 for all that is a steal in the Bay Area. And Kelly didn’t stop there. She also built a small two bedroom house in the backyard, where Raul lived until he passed away in February. It’s now home to two of Raul’s friends who were dealing with housing insecurity. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They would often, you know, spend time with family in the valley and then sleep in their cars one or two nights a week here. We approached the mother and said, Would you like to move into this house? And she said, yes. And she and her son live here now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That small house is technically called an ADU, or an accessory dwelling unit. You might know it as a granny flat or a casita. And it’s the hottest thing in California housing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Recent state and local laws have made them easier to build. There are even grant programs that will cover some of the costs. And San José has really embraced them. Last year, the city issued over 500 permits to build new ADUs. There’s still some space on Kelly’s lot. And she wants to build a duplex there — so even more homes on a plot of land that used to just have one. Kelly knows there are skeptics. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the reasons why I wanted to do this is because every time I bring someone here they’re like, Well, that’s just a tiny little lot. You can’t fit a whole new house on there. And I’m like, Oh, I can fit a whole house on there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even if she can build it, not everyone wants it. Many of the people who moved to San José came for the backyard and the quiet neighborhood with tree-lined streets.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Kelly wants to show people, you can still have that and add more housing. After buying Raul’s place, she formed a company to help more people split their homes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everyone who comes to see it says, Oh, I didn’t know it would look this nice. I didn’t know you could fit all of this.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And for what it’s worth, it doesn’t feel crowded. This is still a quiet street and there isn’t a tall building in sight. Kelly thinks San José is moving in the right direction with ADUs and just needs to keep making it cheaper and easier to build them.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They know the knob to switch and they’ve already started twisting it. They just need to twist it further.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I know I’ve been picking on San José, but the thing is, it’s like a lot of cities in California. They were all built on an idea that sounded great at the time — a spacious home with a yard of your own. A car that could take you anywhere. But that idea has led California into its housing and climate crisis. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So, maybe it’s time to embrace some new ideas for how our cities are built and how we’ll create a sustainable future. It might mean living closer to each other, driving less, walking more. And, if you ask me, that actually sounds pretty great. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: That was KQED housing reporter Adhiti Bandlamudi. This story is from the KQED podcast: SOLD OUT, Rethinking Housing in America. Their latest season explores the intersection of climate and the housing crisis. Another episode you might enjoy is called “Electric Avenue” and it follows a group of neighbors in Oakland who are working together to make their homes more efficient and climate resilient. Find Sold Out wherever you listen.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: This story was edited by Erika Kelly and Kevin Stark. Sold Out is hosted by Erin Baldassari. Jen Chien was a contributing editor. Sound engineering by Brendan Willard. Cedric Wilson wrote the Sold Out theme song. Thanks also to Katie Sprenger, Cesar Saldaña, Maha Sanad, Ethan Toven-Lindsey, Holly Kernan, Otis Taylor Jr., Molly Solomon, Amanda Font, Christopher Beale and the whole KQED Family.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Bay Curious is going to be dark next week for the Thanksgiving holiday, so I’ll say this now… We are so thankful that you listen to our show … it is truly an honor and privilege. And we hope you have a joy-filled week, whatever that looks like to you. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Have a good one.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music fades\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>San José Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11962814/matt-mahan-on-zuckerbergs-advice-and-homeless-housing-in-san-jose\">Matt Mahan’s first year in office\u003c/a> has been marked by a series of confrontations with his opponents, chiefly the city’s powerful labor unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those groups denounced Mahan’s proposal to hold special elections to fill vacant City Council seats, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">decried his plan to redirect affordable housing funding toward homeless shelters\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958290/san-jose-city-council-approves-agreements-with-unions-to-avoid-strike\">castigated his vote against raises\u003c/a> for city employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now it seems increasingly likely that they could let Mahan waltz into a second term in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With just over three weeks until the deadline to file, no high-profile candidate has stepped forward to challenge Mahan in the March 5 mayoral election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José’s recent mayoral contests have typically pitted a progressive candidate supported by labor unions against a more moderate candidate supported by the business community. But at this point, few local labor-aligned politicians have the name recognition to quickly stand up a campaign — and changes to the election calendar have truncated the timeline to raise money and orchestrate a citywide campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some political observers in the city think Mahan’s opponents are forfeiting their best opportunity to halt the mayor’s political rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think, for me, it would be easier to put up a challenge against Matt because he’s only two years in,” said Lan Diep, a former city council member. “It’s tougher once he’s had another four years under his belt because he will have a longer record, he’ll have done more for the community, he’ll have built deeper ties to neighborhoods all across the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many progressives hoped Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez, a household name in the South Bay labor movement, would seek a rematch against Mahan after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932432/cindy-chavez-concedes-race-for-san-jose-mayor-to-matt-mahan\">losing last year’s tightly-contested mayoral election\u003c/a>. But earlier this month, Chavez told her supporters she would not make a third run for San José’s top job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prospective candidates still have until Dec. 8 to launch a campaign, and Jean Cohen, executive officer of the South Bay Labor Council, said she expects someone to challenge Mahan on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"matt-mahan\"]“I think because there is so much dissatisfaction, there is a great desire to ensure a public dialog occurs as voters determine who they want to select as mayor next year,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the window to launch an effective challenge is closing. Voting will begin in early February, giving any new candidates less than a month after the holidays to make their case to voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That compressed election calendar is partly of labor’s own making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, in an effort to boost turnout in future mayoral elections, unions in the city successfully pushed a ballot measure that moved future races for San José mayor to align with presidential elections. But labor leaders didn’t expect the beneficiary of those changes to be Mahan, who will be back on the ballot just two years after his initial upset victory and could then have the opportunity to run for a second four-year term in 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to the time pressure is California’s early primary in presidential election years. While a labor-backed candidate could be bolstered by outside spending from union super PACs, South Bay political strategist Brian Parvizshahi said few candidates have the connections to raise the $1 million to $2 million he estimates they’ll need before March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fundraising started in August, and traditionally, this season right now is the hardest time to raise any type of funds,” Parvizshahi said. “So it is a very short turnaround time for any candidate that would run for office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Mahan returns to voters after a year as something of a happy warrior who has often eschewed compromise and sought to draw clear contrasts with his opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I go back before voters, the message is that we are following through on my promise of being more focused,” Mahan said. “That was the number one thing I ran on — was that we were going to focus on reducing unsheltered homelessness, making the city safer and making the city cleaner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I’m not really running a campaign so much as focusing on solving problems and doing my day job, which is getting San José back on track,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12403808&GUID=A44BACA2-6E84-405C-A658-6E1B925214BC\">dashboard of statistics\u003c/a> piloted by Mahan in late October showed mixed results on his top priorities. The report highlighted new public safety investments, such as license-plate readers, and showcased survey data showing that most residents feel safe. But it also showed that San José’s police department continues to be plagued with a high vacancy rate, particularly in field patrol and traffic enforcement units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan has touted a decrease in the number of unhoused people on San José streets. And the city’s most recent annual \u003ca href=\"https://news.santaclaracounty.gov/news-release/county-santa-clara-and-city-san-jose-release-preliminary-results-2023-point-time\">point-in-time homeless survey\u003c/a>, released in May, shows that city programs to prevent homelessness appear to be working: Roughly 95% of households receiving aid to avoid homelessness retained their housing a year later. And a similar share of households who moved from the streets into permanent or temporary shelters remained housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that count reflects work done before Mahan took office in January. And the mayor’s push to open new temporary shelters has moved painfully slow. To date, Mahan has only reached about 30% of his goal to create 1,000 new shelter spaces in 2023 — and is only about halfway toward his related goal of opening 1,000 temporary housing units by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But without a tough reelection fight, as appears increasingly likely, Mahan can turn his attention to toppling the labor-backed majority on the council, said Diep, the former city council member. Competitive seats in the North San José and Evergreen neighborhoods are up for grabs, and labor groups are eyeing an opportunity to win the District 6 seat in Willow Glen, currently held by termed-out Councilmember Dev Davis, a moderate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This election is going to be about picking up allies so he can finally get around to doing the things that the voters have sort of put him there to do,” Diep said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I think because there is so much dissatisfaction, there is a great desire to ensure a public dialog occurs as voters determine who they want to select as mayor next year,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the window to launch an effective challenge is closing. Voting will begin in early February, giving any new candidates less than a month after the holidays to make their case to voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That compressed election calendar is partly of labor’s own making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, in an effort to boost turnout in future mayoral elections, unions in the city successfully pushed a ballot measure that moved future races for San José mayor to align with presidential elections. But labor leaders didn’t expect the beneficiary of those changes to be Mahan, who will be back on the ballot just two years after his initial upset victory and could then have the opportunity to run for a second four-year term in 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to the time pressure is California’s early primary in presidential election years. While a labor-backed candidate could be bolstered by outside spending from union super PACs, South Bay political strategist Brian Parvizshahi said few candidates have the connections to raise the $1 million to $2 million he estimates they’ll need before March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fundraising started in August, and traditionally, this season right now is the hardest time to raise any type of funds,” Parvizshahi said. “So it is a very short turnaround time for any candidate that would run for office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Mahan returns to voters after a year as something of a happy warrior who has often eschewed compromise and sought to draw clear contrasts with his opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I go back before voters, the message is that we are following through on my promise of being more focused,” Mahan said. “That was the number one thing I ran on — was that we were going to focus on reducing unsheltered homelessness, making the city safer and making the city cleaner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I’m not really running a campaign so much as focusing on solving problems and doing my day job, which is getting San José back on track,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12403808&GUID=A44BACA2-6E84-405C-A658-6E1B925214BC\">dashboard of statistics\u003c/a> piloted by Mahan in late October showed mixed results on his top priorities. The report highlighted new public safety investments, such as license-plate readers, and showcased survey data showing that most residents feel safe. But it also showed that San José’s police department continues to be plagued with a high vacancy rate, particularly in field patrol and traffic enforcement units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan has touted a decrease in the number of unhoused people on San José streets. And the city’s most recent annual \u003ca href=\"https://news.santaclaracounty.gov/news-release/county-santa-clara-and-city-san-jose-release-preliminary-results-2023-point-time\">point-in-time homeless survey\u003c/a>, released in May, shows that city programs to prevent homelessness appear to be working: Roughly 95% of households receiving aid to avoid homelessness retained their housing a year later. And a similar share of households who moved from the streets into permanent or temporary shelters remained housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that count reflects work done before Mahan took office in January. And the mayor’s push to open new temporary shelters has moved painfully slow. To date, Mahan has only reached about 30% of his goal to create 1,000 new shelter spaces in 2023 — and is only about halfway toward his related goal of opening 1,000 temporary housing units by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But without a tough reelection fight, as appears increasingly likely, Mahan can turn his attention to toppling the labor-backed majority on the council, said Diep, the former city council member. Competitive seats in the North San José and Evergreen neighborhoods are up for grabs, and labor groups are eyeing an opportunity to win the District 6 seat in Willow Glen, currently held by termed-out Councilmember Dev Davis, a moderate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As red states pass laws targeting transgender rights and LGBTQ-inclusive education, conservatives in the South Bay have formed their own strategy: focusing on local, nonpartisan school board races.\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=KQINC7626700938\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Hey, it’s Ericka. Quick little note. The bay is looking for an intern. This is a 16 hour a week paid opportunity to help us make this show. The internship runs from January through June of 2024. So if you’ve got love for local news, the Bay Area and podcasting. Let’s chat. The deadline to apply is November 17th. We’ll leave you a link to the application in our show notes. All right. Here’s the show. I’m Ericka Cruz GuevarRa and welcome to the bay. Local news to keep you rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Back in August, a group of people gathered inside a local church, a little south of Willow Glen in San Jose. They opened the meeting with a prayer. But this wasn’t a church meeting. It was a gathering hosted by the Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women about what’s getting taught in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>*audio from meeting*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The prayer was part of a call to bring like minded conservatives together and prepare them for public office in particular, to try and encourage more conservatives to get into the management and oversight of public schools in the South Bay. By running for school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, the conservative groups in the South Bay who want to take control of public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>What really fascinated me about the meeting was it kind of gave a peek behind the curtain of how these groups are talking, you know, behind closed doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Guy Marzorati is a political correspondent for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>So at the meeting, you had Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women, some of the successful conservative school board candidates in the South Bay. And then this leader of a local group that’s called Informed Parents of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, tell me about them. I know they were there. Who was there representing that group and what was he talking about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Right. So you had Larry Pegram, who’s the head of informed Parents of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Larry Pegram: \u003c/strong>We are here to restore parental rights, to regain parental control, to oppose, CRT, to oppose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>He’s a former San Jose City Council member who served in the seventies and really for the decades since has been a big activist locally against gay rights. He fought against anti-discrimination ordinances in the eighties. He fought against gay marriage. And so his group right now is focused on encouraging parents to opt their kids out of sex ed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Larry Pegram: \u003c/strong>We do support health based sex education, and that teaches the reproductive cycle. Biology. Is a concept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Not only was he there encouraging and supporting people to run for office, but he kind of really laid out the link between what his group was doing around curriculum and then getting people to run for school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Larry Pegram: \u003c/strong>The Importance of parents organizations. Hugely important because when this gentleman and this gentleman decide that they want to stand up and be a school board member, they need help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>And Pegram said his hope is that all these parents kind of connect and then form local groups in their district, these parent groups. And then when a conservative candidate runs for office, these parent groups are going to kind of serve as a backbone for the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Larry Pegram: \u003c/strong>And here’s the one I like. You have to create a volunteer army.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I know one candidate who’d actually won a school board seat. Linda Chavez, was at this meeting. Who is she and what did she have to say at the meeting?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>So Linda Chavez is basically an example of someone who has built political power at the school board level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Linda Chavez: \u003c/strong>You are only running against yourself. You can either win or lose. And I guess what I’m like losing. I’m a sore loser. I hate losting, losing if for losers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>She won a seat as a trustee in the Alamo Park Elementary School District on San Jose’s East Side back in 2018. So she’s been kind of a success story of this local conservative movement. When Chavez ran, she had three priorities. Number one, focus on student achievement. Number two, rebuild the trust of our community. And number three, work with everyone toward a common goal. That sounds pretty innocuous. It sounds like, you know, everyone could get behind those three priorities. But when she was speaking at the meeting to potential candidates and talking about why she had run in the first place, she said it was the, quote, gay stuff that was happening in the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Linda Chavez: \u003c/strong>So I decided I’m going to run. Why? Because they were hurting the children. They had just finished passing all of this stuff. And this is one of the first districts did it. And I looked around and says, this is all going to go this way. Not on my watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So, Guy, these groups are having meetings like this to try and rally folks of similar minds and goals to run for school board seats. But why school board seats?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>I think there’s no doubt that it’s been a national effort among conservatives to build power at the school board level. This is especially a focus in California, because, look, conservatives have not done well electorally in this state writ large. But the thing about school board is it’s not a partizan race. You’re not running with an R next your name or a D next to your name. So the state Republican Party has made a concerted effort to win school board seats, really, because there’s an opening in which conservatives can, you know, get on the ballot in a low information election. It’s not something people are particularly paying attention to and they’re not weighed down by the designation of being a Republican candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, based on what we heard from the meeting, these organizations and these candidates sound very hostile to LGBTQ people. I mean, talking about passing all this, quote unquote, gay stuff. What do these groups have to say about that and what are they advocating for in public?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah, so informed parents of Silicon Valley. Their stated goal is to teach parents about their ability to remove kids from classes they view as inappropriate. And what they’re really targeting is comprehensive sex education, which in California also includes like LGBTQ class, inclusive language, and also HIV AIDS prevention education. That’s really where they’re trying to say, like parents, try to opt your kids out of these classes. 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I’ve experienced the struggle of of of trying to be proud of who I am in the face of adversity. And I stand here crying not only as a council member, but as a human who has been the target of hate solely because of my sexual orientation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, what ultimately was the result of the meeting and what does it mean exactly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Ultimately, on a unanimous vote, the council approved this resolution. The meeting itself showed that, you know, these elected officials wanted to put these conservative groups in the spotlight. They wanted to bring out, you know, supporters of the LGBTQ community in the city to speak in public comment, which happens. And I think this is really going to be kind of setting the stage for school board campaigns in 2024, which is perhaps an effort by, you know, allies of the of San Jose’s and the South Bay’s LGBTQ community to really spotlight these school board races and what’s happening in schools. Oftentimes school board elections go under the radar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>And I think the council wanted to make sure they were kind of planting the flag. And to me, it kind of set the stage for the kind of confrontations, because there were folks who came to the meeting and spoke in support of some of these conservative groups, setting up the kind of confrontations we might see on the ballot next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, guys, it strikes me that this is sort of, I guess, the Bay Area’s version of what we’ve seen in red states with, you know, the passage of all these anti LGBTQ laws, many of them targeted at schools and kids. And like, what do you think this ultimately means for voters as we were thinking about, you know, 2024?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I mean, I think what you’re seeing happening on the school board level in the Bay Area is, you know, in the minds of some just the latest iteration of pushback against the LGBTQ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Melissa Michelson: \u003c/strong>It’s the same playbook that was used to say gay people are scary. We don’t want people grooming our children to think that they’re gay or lesbian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>I talked to Dr. Melissa Michelson, who is a political science professor at Menlo College, and she laid it out as the latest iteration of the culture wars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Melissa Michelson: \u003c/strong>The culture wars are all about finding that new thing that divides and tries to, you know, to pull away from the opposition’s coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>She compared it to, you know, the pushback against gay rights and gay marriage more than a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Melissa Michelson: \u003c/strong>It’s old, it’s new, and things are always kind of more susceptible to being exploited as a culture war issue when it comes to vulnerable populations like small children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>What’s going on in schools? What books are available in school libraries? What’s the curriculum that’s being taught? How are we treating transgender students? That’s become kind of the new frontier that can inflame parents are ultimately inflame voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Guy, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>My pleasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Guy Marzorati, a political correspondent for KQED. This 26 minute conversation with Guy was cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. Alan Montecillo is our senior editor. He scored this episode and added all the tape music courtesy of the audio network. The Bay is a production of member supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, thanks for listening. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Local news to keep you rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Back in August, a group of people gathered inside a local church, a little south of Willow Glen in San Jose. They opened the meeting with a prayer. But this wasn’t a church meeting. It was a gathering hosted by the Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women about what’s getting taught in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>*audio from meeting*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The prayer was part of a call to bring like minded conservatives together and prepare them for public office in particular, to try and encourage more conservatives to get into the management and oversight of public schools in the South Bay. By running for school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, the conservative groups in the South Bay who want to take control of public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>What really fascinated me about the meeting was it kind of gave a peek behind the curtain of how these groups are talking, you know, behind closed doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Guy Marzorati is a political correspondent for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>So at the meeting, you had Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women, some of the successful conservative school board candidates in the South Bay. And then this leader of a local group that’s called Informed Parents of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, tell me about them. I know they were there. 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They look kind of like bookmarks that were encouraging parents to pull their kids out of sex ed. But the bookmarks had really harsh language on them, saying things like, your children are at risk. Schools are teaching gender confusion. And that’s when the backlash against these groups really, you know, kicked off and went to another level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>So a couple weeks ago, the San Jose City Council met to take up a resolution that on its face was about supporting the city’s LGBTQ plus community. But once the discussion really started, it was clear that the real purpose and genesis of this resolution was to denounce the Informed parents group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pam Foley: \u003c/strong>We must not let them win or even think they win. These fliers contain misinformation and hateful dog whistles that target our LGBTQ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>So you had Pam Foley, a councilmember who co-wrote the resolution, really speaking out about the canvasing activity of inform parents, the ways in which they distributed this literature, the ways in which they described what was happening in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pam Foley: \u003c/strong>I’ve asked the clerk to project the two sided pamphlets that were being passed out by these individuals at Bagby. One says Your children are at risk. Talks about teachers indoctrinating children. I was on the school board for 14 years. That isn’t true. And to all the teachers in the room, I know that’s not true. The schools are a safe place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I know one council member in particular was actually really emotional about this issue. Can you tell me about City council member Omar Torres?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Omar Torres is the first openly gay Latino councilmember in San Jose’s history. He also coauthored this resolution. And a few times he just was overwhelmed when he began to speak on this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Omar Torres: \u003c/strong>I’m trying to regain my composure, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>I think you had other council members kind of going over to him on the dais and like patting him on the back, consoling him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Ultimately, he he spoke and he spoke really personally about the issue and the ways in which he sees these efforts by conservative groups as an effort to push LGBTQ students, as he put it, back into the closet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Omar Torres: \u003c/strong>As a gay brown male. I’ve experienced the struggle of of of trying to be proud of who I am in the face of adversity. And I stand here crying not only as a council member, but as a human who has been the target of hate solely because of my sexual orientation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, what ultimately was the result of the meeting and what does it mean exactly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Ultimately, on a unanimous vote, the council approved this resolution. The meeting itself showed that, you know, these elected officials wanted to put these conservative groups in the spotlight. They wanted to bring out, you know, supporters of the LGBTQ community in the city to speak in public comment, which happens. And I think this is really going to be kind of setting the stage for school board campaigns in 2024, which is perhaps an effort by, you know, allies of the of San Jose’s and the South Bay’s LGBTQ community to really spotlight these school board races and what’s happening in schools. Oftentimes school board elections go under the radar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>And I think the council wanted to make sure they were kind of planting the flag. And to me, it kind of set the stage for the kind of confrontations, because there were folks who came to the meeting and spoke in support of some of these conservative groups, setting up the kind of confrontations we might see on the ballot next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, guys, it strikes me that this is sort of, I guess, the Bay Area’s version of what we’ve seen in red states with, you know, the passage of all these anti LGBTQ laws, many of them targeted at schools and kids. And like, what do you think this ultimately means for voters as we were thinking about, you know, 2024?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I mean, I think what you’re seeing happening on the school board level in the Bay Area is, you know, in the minds of some just the latest iteration of pushback against the LGBTQ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Melissa Michelson: \u003c/strong>It’s the same playbook that was used to say gay people are scary. We don’t want people grooming our children to think that they’re gay or lesbian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>I talked to Dr. Melissa Michelson, who is a political science professor at Menlo College, and she laid it out as the latest iteration of the culture wars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Melissa Michelson: \u003c/strong>The culture wars are all about finding that new thing that divides and tries to, you know, to pull away from the opposition’s coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>She compared it to, you know, the pushback against gay rights and gay marriage more than a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Melissa Michelson: \u003c/strong>It’s old, it’s new, and things are always kind of more susceptible to being exploited as a culture war issue when it comes to vulnerable populations like small children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>What’s going on in schools? What books are available in school libraries? What’s the curriculum that’s being taught? How are we treating transgender students? That’s become kind of the new frontier that can inflame parents are ultimately inflame voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Guy, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>My pleasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Guy Marzorati, a political correspondent for KQED. This 26 minute conversation with Guy was cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. Alan Montecillo is our senior editor. He scored this episode and added all the tape music courtesy of the audio network. The Bay is a production of member 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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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of the third season of KQED’s podcast Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America. You can \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/soldout\">\u003cem>find that series here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and read about why \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984697/why-kqed-focused-a-season-of-its-housing-podcast-on-climate-change#:~:text=Sold%20Out%20Is%20Back%20With%20Season%203&text=Host%20Erin%20Baldassari%20leads%20a,an%20affordable%20place%20to%20live.\">\u003cem>KQED chose to focus a season of its housing podcast on climate change\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monika Rivera really enjoys her commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though she has to wake up at 5:30 a.m. and travel an hour and 15 minutes to get from her apartment in Hayward, a city east of San Francisco, to her job in San José, she’s turned it into a routine. She pops in her earbuds, blasts Taylor Swift’s \u003cem>Maroon,\u003c/em> and rides her gray, Specialized bike to the train station for the rest of her commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ditching her car has been liberating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes such a big difference in how you feel throughout the day. It makes you feel more connected to the community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 29-year-old environmental services worker never thought she’d be a bike commuter. Now, she doesn’t want to give it up. Biking and taking BART, the Bay Area’s commuter train, to work has made Rivera happier. She exercises more often, and it makes her feel like she’s doing her part for the environment, “knowing that I’m not putting all those pollutants into the air every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The small actions you can take can make a big difference, and just changing your lifestyle, making those habits, are really important,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she’s willing to give up that lifestyle to become a homeowner, a lifelong goal she’s been working for years to achieve. To do that, she and her husband recently purchased a home two hours away in the Central Valley city of Lathrop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I looked [in the Bay Area], and what I could find wasn’t what I wanted,” she said. “I was thinking to myself, I wanted a home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Matthew Lewis, communications director, California YIMBY.\"]‘At the end of the day, it’s really a geometry problem. The amount of land you have in a city is finite, and if you use all of it for single-unit homes, you’re going to quickly run out of land to house the people who want to live there.’[/pullquote]A former agricultural city, Lathrop \u003ca href=\"https://dof.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/352/Forecasting/Demographics/Documents/E-1_2023PressRelease.pdf\">has a population that’s grown 11% in the past year (PDF)\u003c/a> as workers priced out of the Bay Area flocked to the area for its relatively affordable housing. But as they do, those workers commute farther into the cities for their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area now has the \u003ca href=\"https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/traffic-trains-or-teleconference-the-changing-american-commute\">largest share of super commuters nationwide\u003c/a>, commuters who spend more than 90 minutes traveling to work or back each day, according to an Apartment List study. Transportation now accounts for \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/about/core-responsibility-fact-sheets/transforming-transportation\">nearly half\u003c/a> of the state’s carbon emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s housing and climate officials hope to combat these emissions by encouraging — or, in some cases, forcing — cities to allow more apartment buildings to be built near train stations and along major bus routes. In San José, a Silicon Valley city with sprawling single-family neighborhoods and highways that run through the middle, housing advocates and urban planners are trying to redesign its suburban streets into compact, walkable neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, it’s really a geometry problem,” said Matthew Lewis, the communications director for the housing advocacy group California YIMBY. “The amount of land you have in a city is finite, and if you use all of it for single-unit homes, you’re going to quickly run out of land to house the people who want to live there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the shift from suburban to urban hasn’t been easy, partially because many of the city’s policies favor sprawl and work against the changes planners want to see. Some argue the city’s proposals are too ambitious and its development requirements are overly bureaucratic for apartments and commercial spaces to be built quickly and within budget. Housing advocates are pushing for gentler options, like adding smaller homes to existing single-family lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San José tries to dramatically reduce its carbon emissions and build more housing simultaneously, the lessons it learns are relevant nationwide as other cities seek to do the same.\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=KQINC3494938610&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The urban village plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>More than a decade ago, officials in San José adopted a plan to transform underused lots near train stations into thriving neighborhoods called “urban villages.” State officials say this kind of development is the way forward for California to meet its ambitious housing and climate goals to add 2.5 million new homes to the housing stock and to cut its carbon emissions in half by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the persistent housing crisis California faces, we know that we’re not going to build our way out of that crisis by building single-family homes,” said Sam Assefa, director of the Governor’s Office for Planning and Research. “More compact, transit-oriented development is the sensible way to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"juxtapose\" width=\"100%\" height=\"580\" src=\"https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=0508465c-783d-11ee-b5be-6595d9b17862\" scrolling=\"yes\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>San José’s urban village plan wants to transform underused lots into vibrant, urban neighborhoods. In this artist’s rendition of what the Berryessa BART Urban Village could look like, the Berryessa Flea Market would be replaced with more housing, outdoor parks and room for cyclists and pedestrians.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the city council envisioned 60 of these urban villages spread across the city — tall apartment buildings with stores and restaurants on the ground floor, all built near train stations or along major bus routes. Two years after the city passed the plan, it partnered with local climate advocacy group The Greenbelt Alliance to release a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81uSC06nDQI&ab_channel=GreenbeltAlliance\">video\u003c/a> championing the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They promote community, the opportunity to enjoy an outdoor cafe in a public space, meet new people, engage in new conversations, and ultimately build relationships in the community,” former mayor Sam Liccardo said in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"juxtapose\" width=\"100%\" height=\"580\" src=\"https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=1cbb72a6-783d-11ee-b5be-6595d9b17862\" scrolling=\"yes\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>One of the most highly anticipated urban villages to be built would surround the city’s first BART station once completed. Note: this illustration is an artist’s rendition of what the development could look like once completed, but the design could change once a developer takes over the project.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the 12-year-old plan has been slow to come to fruition. So far, only 12 of the 60 villages have been approved, and only a handful of those have been completed. According to a 2019 report from the housing advocacy group SPUR, \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/2020-03/SPUR_It_Takes_a_Village.pdf\">developers have admitted to actively avoiding urban village projects (PDF)\u003c/a> due to their cost and the complicated approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This kind of dense housing is more expensive to build, and the biggest barrier right now — not just for urban villages, but for anything — is the cost of construction,” said Michael Brilliot, deputy director of citywide planning for San José. “Cost of construction continues to go up year after year. Interest rates have gone up, so these projects no longer pencil out [for developers].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berryessa BART Urban Village, one of the most highly anticipated pieces of this plan, illustrates the many problems developers and city planners are running up against when trying to bring this urban village vision to life. Situated adjacent to the city’s first BART station, which opened in 2020, the development is expected to add more than a thousand new homes and acres of retail space to the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers have built a 551-unit apartment complex with retail and restaurant space on the ground floor. But two years after the complex opened, the commercial space is mostly vacant, driven by lower demand for retail space since the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope to see more people, more entertainment areas, stores — I would hope to see that soon,” said Juan Carlos Navarro, who has lived in this neighborhood for the past two decades. “This [block] was all empty before [the apartments were built].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, advocates for pedestrian-friendly design argue that the urban village is still too focused on cars. A large parking lot serving a strip mall with a Safeway, a Dunkin Donuts and a CVS next door to the apartment complex is rarely full, and the apartments’ residents have to cross a busy, four-lane thoroughfare to get there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a lot to re-imagine here in terms of reusing some of the car lanes into places that can better serve people,” said Erika Pinto from the housing advocacy group SPUR. “Imagine if the bike lane was better protected so that bicyclists felt safer moving around. Imagine if the sidewalk was increased to allow people to walk by, for vendors to set up shop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s policies, which have historically favored single-family housing and office space, restrict where tall apartments can be built and, in some ways, counteract efforts to make the neighborhood less suburban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11964985,news_11962814,news_11957907\"]At the Berryessa BART Urban Village, for instance, developers are preparing to start construction on another section that promises 850 new homes along with commercial and retail space. But city law requires developers to build a row of single-family homes and townhomes to act as a buffer between the low- and high-density neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I represent urban development, so I’d put a high-rise on every corner,” said Erik Schoennauer, a land-use consultant working with developers on this project. “But it’s not my decision. We are simply implementing what the city told us to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s urban village plan also requires developers to build office space along with housing. But even before the pandemic, demand for new offices declined, Schoennauer said. After the pandemic, that demand is even lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes no financial sense to invest $100 million in overall infrastructure for a new neighborhood, when half of the site has no development potential as office,” Schoennauer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other housing developments oriented around transit in San José are making progress, however. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority is pursuing\u003ca href=\"https://www.vta.org/transit-oriented-communities-projects\"> a number of mixed-use housing projects\u003c/a> that could add more than 900 new homes to San José, with more than 400 of them considered affordable for lower- and middle-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While these projects aim to serve environmentally conscious home-seekers like Rivera, the units aren’t coming to the market fast enough. And Rivera is skeptical about whether those homes will be truly affordable for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I find the areas of mostly any city that are affordable are always the ones far away from the nice restaurants or coffee shops,” she said. “I always see new construction and condos going up close to BART. That’s the selling point. And those are always the more pricey condos or apartments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Making the most out of San José’s land \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the city focuses on increasing housing around transit, housing advocates argue it’s missing another opportunity: adding smaller homes to existing single-family lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/planning-building-code-enforcement/planning-division/citywide-planning/opportunity-housing#:~:text=In%20San%20Jos%C3%A9%2C%20approximately%2094,designated%20for%20single%2Dfamily%20houses.\">More than 90%\u003c/a> of the city’s residential land is zoned for single-family homes, which means for decades, only one home could be built on each lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Kelly Snider, director, San José State Real Estate Development Certificate program\"]‘The resource we have [in San José] is big lots with a bunch of unusable parking [and] garages being used as storage containers. Turn that garage into an ADU, and we can double our housing stock.’[/pullquote]That changed around 2015 after state and local laws started to ease restrictions to build accessory dwelling units — often called granny flats, casitas or in-law units — which housing advocates say empower homeowners to make the most out of their single-family lots by renting out the backyard cottages or converted garages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their popularity soared after the state passed a series of laws over the past five years requiring cities to make it easier to build them. San José has embraced the concept, passing local measures that streamline the approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Snider, a developer and the director of San José State’s Real Estate Development Certificate program, has advocated for more ADUs and other smaller-scale solutions for adding housing. Snider said this approach, often called “gentle density” by housing advocates, offers a grassroots alternative to the developer-driven urban village model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966319\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-005-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with long hair sits on the stairs in front of a red home and smiles.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-005-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-005-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-005-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-005-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-005-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-005-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly Snider sits for a portrait on the steps of the front unit at her property in San José, on Nov. 2, 2023. Snider originally built an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) on the property behind the front unit for her partner, but rented the unit out after his passing. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The resource we have [in San José] is big lots with a bunch of unusable parking [and] garages being used as storage containers,” Snider said. “Turn that garage into an ADU, and we can double our housing stock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because ADUs don’t require a homeowner to purchase new land or pay for major new infrastructure, parking or elevators, they are often cheaper to build than apartments, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-and-research/accessory-dwelling-units\">according to California’s Department of Housing and Community Development.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has taken steps to make the permitting process easier. In 2021, San José officials created a process that allows homeowners to select a pre-approved ADU design and receive a permit the same day. This year, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 1332, which takes that local initiative statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some argue that ADUs don’t make a meaningful dent in the city’s housing shortage because not all enter the rental market. But Snider argues they could still help create an influx of new housing San José has struggled to add over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we build 30,000 [ADUs] and half of them are turned into home offices and gyms, that’s still 15,000 more new homes,” Snider said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, she partnered with Raul Lozano, a local food justice activist who was frustrated by the process of trying to split his San José home into two units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966322\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966322\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-019-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A red house and its yard.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-019-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-019-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-019-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-019-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-019-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-019-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The main building on Kelly Snider’s property is seen in San Jose on Nov. 2, 2023. The unit is converted into two separate units, with an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) in the back. Snider has been advocating for the city to make it easier for homeowners to build ADUs in their backyard. The concept has taken off among San José residents after the city streamlined the approval process. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was introduced to Raul, and he was like, ‘Yeah, whatever you can do, I would love it if other young families could live here,’” Snider said. “It was his dream that started it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She bought Lozano’s house in 2021 and built a two-bedroom ADU in the backyard where Lozano lived until he passed away in February. Two of his colleagues, who had previously been living in their cars, have moved into the ADU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main house has been converted into two apartments, one of which Snider rents out for $1,500 a month, far below San José’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/santa-clara-county/san-jose/\"> $3,000 median rent\u003c/a>. 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After purchasing a home near downtown San José, Snider split the single-family home into two separate units for rent. She also built a two-bedroom ADU in the backyard. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m just charging a rent that covers my costs,” Snider said. “It is a revenue source for me, but I’m not charging the highest possible rents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspired by her experience with Lozano, Snider started Inca Homes, a company that aims to help homeowners build ADUs and split their homes into separate units to add more housing in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stuff San José has done to ease ADU restrictions is good,” Snider said. “They can do that more and get more results. They know the knob, and they’ve already started twisting it. They just need to twist it further. We have to mine housing out of the resource we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A former agricultural city, Lathrop \u003ca href=\"https://dof.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/352/Forecasting/Demographics/Documents/E-1_2023PressRelease.pdf\">has a population that’s grown 11% in the past year (PDF)\u003c/a> as workers priced out of the Bay Area flocked to the area for its relatively affordable housing. But as they do, those workers commute farther into the cities for their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area now has the \u003ca href=\"https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/traffic-trains-or-teleconference-the-changing-american-commute\">largest share of super commuters nationwide\u003c/a>, commuters who spend more than 90 minutes traveling to work or back each day, according to an Apartment List study. Transportation now accounts for \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/about/core-responsibility-fact-sheets/transforming-transportation\">nearly half\u003c/a> of the state’s carbon emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s housing and climate officials hope to combat these emissions by encouraging — or, in some cases, forcing — cities to allow more apartment buildings to be built near train stations and along major bus routes. In San José, a Silicon Valley city with sprawling single-family neighborhoods and highways that run through the middle, housing advocates and urban planners are trying to redesign its suburban streets into compact, walkable neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, it’s really a geometry problem,” said Matthew Lewis, the communications director for the housing advocacy group California YIMBY. “The amount of land you have in a city is finite, and if you use all of it for single-unit homes, you’re going to quickly run out of land to house the people who want to live there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the shift from suburban to urban hasn’t been easy, partially because many of the city’s policies favor sprawl and work against the changes planners want to see. Some argue the city’s proposals are too ambitious and its development requirements are overly bureaucratic for apartments and commercial spaces to be built quickly and within budget. Housing advocates are pushing for gentler options, like adding smaller homes to existing single-family lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San José tries to dramatically reduce its carbon emissions and build more housing simultaneously, the lessons it learns are relevant nationwide as other cities seek to do the same.\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=KQINC3494938610&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The urban village plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>More than a decade ago, officials in San José adopted a plan to transform underused lots near train stations into thriving neighborhoods called “urban villages.” State officials say this kind of development is the way forward for California to meet its ambitious housing and climate goals to add 2.5 million new homes to the housing stock and to cut its carbon emissions in half by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the persistent housing crisis California faces, we know that we’re not going to build our way out of that crisis by building single-family homes,” said Sam Assefa, director of the Governor’s Office for Planning and Research. “More compact, transit-oriented development is the sensible way to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"juxtapose\" width=\"100%\" height=\"580\" src=\"https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=0508465c-783d-11ee-b5be-6595d9b17862\" scrolling=\"yes\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>San José’s urban village plan wants to transform underused lots into vibrant, urban neighborhoods. In this artist’s rendition of what the Berryessa BART Urban Village could look like, the Berryessa Flea Market would be replaced with more housing, outdoor parks and room for cyclists and pedestrians.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the city council envisioned 60 of these urban villages spread across the city — tall apartment buildings with stores and restaurants on the ground floor, all built near train stations or along major bus routes. Two years after the city passed the plan, it partnered with local climate advocacy group The Greenbelt Alliance to release a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81uSC06nDQI&ab_channel=GreenbeltAlliance\">video\u003c/a> championing the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They promote community, the opportunity to enjoy an outdoor cafe in a public space, meet new people, engage in new conversations, and ultimately build relationships in the community,” former mayor Sam Liccardo said in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"juxtapose\" width=\"100%\" height=\"580\" src=\"https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=1cbb72a6-783d-11ee-b5be-6595d9b17862\" scrolling=\"yes\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>One of the most highly anticipated urban villages to be built would surround the city’s first BART station once completed. Note: this illustration is an artist’s rendition of what the development could look like once completed, but the design could change once a developer takes over the project.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the 12-year-old plan has been slow to come to fruition. So far, only 12 of the 60 villages have been approved, and only a handful of those have been completed. According to a 2019 report from the housing advocacy group SPUR, \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/2020-03/SPUR_It_Takes_a_Village.pdf\">developers have admitted to actively avoiding urban village projects (PDF)\u003c/a> due to their cost and the complicated approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This kind of dense housing is more expensive to build, and the biggest barrier right now — not just for urban villages, but for anything — is the cost of construction,” said Michael Brilliot, deputy director of citywide planning for San José. “Cost of construction continues to go up year after year. Interest rates have gone up, so these projects no longer pencil out [for developers].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berryessa BART Urban Village, one of the most highly anticipated pieces of this plan, illustrates the many problems developers and city planners are running up against when trying to bring this urban village vision to life. Situated adjacent to the city’s first BART station, which opened in 2020, the development is expected to add more than a thousand new homes and acres of retail space to the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers have built a 551-unit apartment complex with retail and restaurant space on the ground floor. But two years after the complex opened, the commercial space is mostly vacant, driven by lower demand for retail space since the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope to see more people, more entertainment areas, stores — I would hope to see that soon,” said Juan Carlos Navarro, who has lived in this neighborhood for the past two decades. “This [block] was all empty before [the apartments were built].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, advocates for pedestrian-friendly design argue that the urban village is still too focused on cars. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That changed around 2015 after state and local laws started to ease restrictions to build accessory dwelling units — often called granny flats, casitas or in-law units — which housing advocates say empower homeowners to make the most out of their single-family lots by renting out the backyard cottages or converted garages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their popularity soared after the state passed a series of laws over the past five years requiring cities to make it easier to build them. San José has embraced the concept, passing local measures that streamline the approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Snider, a developer and the director of San José State’s Real Estate Development Certificate program, has advocated for more ADUs and other smaller-scale solutions for adding housing. Snider said this approach, often called “gentle density” by housing advocates, offers a grassroots alternative to the developer-driven urban village model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966319\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-005-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with long hair sits on the stairs in front of a red home and smiles.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-005-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-005-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-005-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-005-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-005-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-005-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly Snider sits for a portrait on the steps of the front unit at her property in San José, on Nov. 2, 2023. Snider originally built an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) on the property behind the front unit for her partner, but rented the unit out after his passing. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The resource we have [in San José] is big lots with a bunch of unusable parking [and] garages being used as storage containers,” Snider said. “Turn that garage into an ADU, and we can double our housing stock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because ADUs don’t require a homeowner to purchase new land or pay for major new infrastructure, parking or elevators, they are often cheaper to build than apartments, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-and-research/accessory-dwelling-units\">according to California’s Department of Housing and Community Development.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has taken steps to make the permitting process easier. In 2021, San José officials created a process that allows homeowners to select a pre-approved ADU design and receive a permit the same day. This year, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 1332, which takes that local initiative statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some argue that ADUs don’t make a meaningful dent in the city’s housing shortage because not all enter the rental market. But Snider argues they could still help create an influx of new housing San José has struggled to add over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we build 30,000 [ADUs] and half of them are turned into home offices and gyms, that’s still 15,000 more new homes,” Snider said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, she partnered with Raul Lozano, a local food justice activist who was frustrated by the process of trying to split his San José home into two units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966322\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966322\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-019-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A red house and its yard.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-019-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-019-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-019-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-019-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-019-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-019-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The main building on Kelly Snider’s property is seen in San Jose on Nov. 2, 2023. The unit is converted into two separate units, with an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) in the back. Snider has been advocating for the city to make it easier for homeowners to build ADUs in their backyard. The concept has taken off among San José residents after the city streamlined the approval process. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was introduced to Raul, and he was like, ‘Yeah, whatever you can do, I would love it if other young families could live here,’” Snider said. “It was his dream that started it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She bought Lozano’s house in 2021 and built a two-bedroom ADU in the backyard where Lozano lived until he passed away in February. Two of his colleagues, who had previously been living in their cars, have moved into the ADU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main house has been converted into two apartments, one of which Snider rents out for $1,500 a month, far below San José’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/santa-clara-county/san-jose/\"> $3,000 median rent\u003c/a>. She plans to turn the other apartment into a daycare center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966320\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966320\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-012-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A small kitchen space.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-012-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-012-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-012-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-012-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-012-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231102-San-Jose-ADU-012-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The kitchen of the main unit on Kelly Snider’s property is seen in San José on Nov. 2, 2023. After purchasing a home near downtown San José, Snider split the single-family home into two separate units for rent. She also built a two-bedroom ADU in the backyard. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m just charging a rent that covers my costs,” Snider said. “It is a revenue source for me, but I’m not charging the highest possible rents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspired by her experience with Lozano, Snider started Inca Homes, a company that aims to help homeowners build ADUs and split their homes into separate units to add more housing in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stuff San José has done to ease ADU restrictions is good,” Snider said. “They can do that more and get more results. They know the knob, and they’ve already started twisting it. They just need to twist it further. We have to mine housing out of the resource we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a Saturday morning in late August, the Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women hosted a meeting to recruit candidates for local school board races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gathering at Calvary Chapel on Hillsdale Avenue in San José began with a prayer from the group’s vice president, Mingi Bodine. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mingi Bodine, vice president, Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women\"]‘Father, we are asking not only for your forgiveness of our sins, but rescuing the children, who have been under the most evil public school system America has ever seen.’[/pullquote]“Father, we are asking not only for your forgiveness of our sins but rescuing the children, who have been under the most evil public school system America has ever seen,” Bodine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next two hours, advocates implored potential candidates to pursue school board seats under the banner of “parents’ rights” — with the goal of policing textbooks and transgender expression and countering the influence of teacher unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leader of one local parents’ rights group, Informed Parents of Silicon Valley, shared his plans to encourage parents to opt their children out of sex ed classes. And conservatives who had won seats on South Bay school boards offered unvarnished explanations for their leap into politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided I’m going to run. Why? Because they were hurting the children,” said Linda Chavez, who was elected to the board of the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District, in East San José, in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had just finished passing all of this gay stuff,” Chavez said. “And this is one of the first districts who did it, and I looked around and said, this is all going to go this way — not on my watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, Chavez and three other candidates backed by the Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women won school board seats in the South Bay. A year later — as clashes over transgender rights, Pride flags, and LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum have spread across California and the nation — conservative organizations in liberal Santa Clara County are redoubling their efforts to gain a foothold on local school boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they are facing growing pushback from opponents who are raising alarms about the groups’ collective aims. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San José City Councilmember Omar Torres\"]‘Right-wing individuals and organizations have made it clear to me, to our transgender community, to our LGBTQ community that we should be retreating back into the closet to hide our true selves and to conform to a version of society that denies me to be my true authentic self.’[/pullquote]On Tuesday, members of San José’s City Council denounced Informed Parents of Silicon Valley for using anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric in their campaign to remove kids from sex-ed. In response, the council unanimously passed a resolution “affirming support of the transgender and broader LGBTQ+ communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Omar Torres, the city’s first openly gay Latino councilmember, co-authored the resolution. He was overcome with emotion as he attempted to speak from the dais — twice asking for more time to collect his thoughts, as other council members walked over to embrace him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I stand here crying not only as a councilmember but as a human who has been the target of hate solely because of my sexual orientation,” Torres said. “Right-wing individuals and organizations have made it clear to me, to our transgender community, to our LGBTQ community that we should be retreating back into the closet to hide our true selves and to conform to a version of society that denies me to be my true authentic self.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the council and their allies vowed to counter the influence of the conservative organizations — drawing battle lines ahead of what could be a more significant confrontation on school board ballots in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you don’t want to have happen is that everybody stays quiet,” said Ken Yeager, a professor of political science at San José State and the first openly gay elected official in Santa Clara County. “Then, these evangelicals think, ‘Oh, OK, the political climate has changed, we can be much more bold in our actions because there isn’t going to be any type of reaction to it.” [aside postID=news_11962571 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-CHINO-TRANSGENDER-SCHOOL-BOARD-Getty-DM-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Informed Parents caught the attention of the council last month when their volunteers distributed literature outside of schools in the Cambrian, Franklin-McKinney and San José Unified school districts, which declared “Your children are at risk!” and accused local schools of teaching “Gender confusion and gender transitioning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Pam Foley called the literature “inappropriate and totally unnecessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These fliers contain misinformation and hateful dog whistles that target our LGBTQ community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Pegram, the founder of Informed Parents of Silicon Valley, defended his group’s outreach to parents and said their agenda is not anti-LGBTQ+.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We welcome anyone and everyone who’s interested in asserting parental rights over their children’s education,” said Pegram, a former San José councilmember, told KQED. “Whether those parents are gay, trans, cisgendered, or anything else really doesn’t matter to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A core goal of the group’s opt-out campaign, Pegram said, is to teach parents about their ability to remove their children from classes they consider inappropriate, such as comprehensive sex education (which includes LGBTQ+ inclusive language) and HIV/AIDS prevention education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2015 California law requires students to receive sex ed once in middle school and once in high school, although it can be taught earlier. School districts are required to notify parents about the instruction and inform them about their ability to excuse their child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All that we are doing is helping parents know what their rights are and make a decision as to whether or not they want to opt their children out of these various activities,” Pegram said. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Larry Pegram, founder, Informed Parents of Silicon Valley\"]‘If we can create parent organizations at the various school districts, we’ve got the army. So that when someone stands up and says, ‘Yes, I want to run,’ we’ve got an army. … and we can begin to use that army for all of the labor needs that occur in a political campaign’[/pullquote]Pegram told KQED his group is not involved in politics. But at the August church meeting for prospective school board candidates, Pegram offered extensive guidance to candidates about campaigning, fundraising and messaging, saying, “If you want to see a change in curriculum in the schools, you have to make a change in the face of the people that are running the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our organization, Informed Parents of Silicon Valley, is dedicated to helping you candidates get elected,” Pegram said before adding, “Now, we’re a 501(c)(3) organization. We don’t — I’m doing this for the tape — we do not endorse any candidates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pegram said his group’s distribution of the “opt-out bookmarks” will encourage like-minded parents to form organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can create parent organizations at the various school districts, we’ve got the army. So that when someone stands up and says, ‘Yes, I want to run,’ we’ve got an army … and we can begin to use that army for all of the labor needs that occur in a political campaign,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of Informed Parents see the group as Pegram’s latest effort to target LGBTQ+ rights in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeager, who detailed the history of local LGBTQ+ politics in his book \u003cem>Run!, \u003c/em>recounted Pegram’s opposition to ordinances protecting the city’s gay residents from discrimination in 1980. Later, Pegram was a local advocate for Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage statewide in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The focus is always on children,” Yeager said. “But obviously, their main aim is really to sort of take over politics and to sort of deprive LGBTQ people of the same rights as everybody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pegram maintained that his own political history is “irrelevant” to the current work of Informed Parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Melissa Michelson, a political science professor at Menlo College, said she sees a similar playbook at work in the current debates playing out over LGBTQ+ issues in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The culture wars are all about finding that new thing that divides and tries to, you know, to pull away from the opposition’s coalition. And so maybe 10, 15 years ago, it was marriage equality,” said Michelson, who studies LGBTQ+ politics and transgender rights. “And now the focus has turned to what’s going on in schools, what’s going on in school libraries, what’s going on in school curriculums.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelson said school board elections present a unique opportunity for small groups of well-organized activists. The races are often low-information contests, and candidates don’t run as a member of a political party, leaving voters without a partisan cue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also a strategic move in a blue state like California, where anti-LGBTQ+ legislation is unlikely to succeed at the state level. Instead, California’s Republican Party has made a concerted effort to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922860/california-republicans-are-betting-big-on-local-school-board-races\">invest in school board candidates as a way of building political power\u003c/a> at the local level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women supported more than a dozen candidates for school board across Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of those candidates won: Marc Cooper in the Franklin-McKinley School District; Pamela Gardiner in the Morgan Hill Unified School District; Jim Zito in the Evergreen School District; and Linda Chavez, in her bid for reelection in the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their ties to conservative parents’ rights groups have created divisions at the local level. Cooper was censured last month by his board colleagues for appearing on a flier promoting his presence at an event organized by Informed Parents. The group was \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/kqed-newscast-f7e7b8f6-de8e-4fa1-b10d-7c41d2c291df\">forced to apologize to San José councilmember Bien Doan\u003c/a> for featuring his image on the same flier without his knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions were already high leading into Tuesday’s council meeting. The resolution had initially called for the explicit condemnation of Informed Parents and accused the group of harassing families in their attempts to distribute opt-out literature. But after legal threats from the group, Informed Parents’ name was removed from the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the meeting, about two dozen residents showed up to testify — many sharing personal experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Rivera, a teacher and president of the teachers union in Alum Rock, told the council about raising a transgender son in local schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As my son navigated who he was, it was through educators here in San José and in safe spaces created by them that helped him feel safe exploring his gender,” Rivera said. “Groups such as Informed Parents of Silicon Valley are wolves in sheep’s clothing trying to justify hate.” [aside label='More Stories on LGBTQ+ Discrimination' tag='lgbtq-discrimination']Other parents showed up to support Informed Parents and blasted the school board for condemning the group. Ha Tran, a San José parent of two, said the resolution was full of “false claims and should be discarded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These groups are there because schools are not doing their jobs,” Tran added. “These schools are biased and promote LGBQT+ and cause kids to be confused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelson said that on its face, Informed Parents’ campaign to opt children out of sex ed classes is a far cry from efforts to out transgender students and ban books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for most people, that’s where it crosses the line — versus telling people, ‘Hey, just a reminder, you can opt your kid out of this curriculum,’” Michelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Informed Parents’ fear-mongering rhetoric and political activity, Michelson added, could undermine their stated goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re going to give it up that easy and people are going to know that that’s what you’re really doing, then you’re going to have to expect some backlash,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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So that when someone stands up and says, ‘Yes, I want to run,’ we’ve got an army … and we can begin to use that army for all of the labor needs that occur in a political campaign,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of Informed Parents see the group as Pegram’s latest effort to target LGBTQ+ rights in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeager, who detailed the history of local LGBTQ+ politics in his book \u003cem>Run!, \u003c/em>recounted Pegram’s opposition to ordinances protecting the city’s gay residents from discrimination in 1980. Later, Pegram was a local advocate for Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage statewide in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The focus is always on children,” Yeager said. “But obviously, their main aim is really to sort of take over politics and to sort of deprive LGBTQ people of the same rights as everybody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pegram maintained that his own political history is “irrelevant” to the current work of Informed Parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Melissa Michelson, a political science professor at Menlo College, said she sees a similar playbook at work in the current debates playing out over LGBTQ+ issues in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The culture wars are all about finding that new thing that divides and tries to, you know, to pull away from the opposition’s coalition. And so maybe 10, 15 years ago, it was marriage equality,” said Michelson, who studies LGBTQ+ politics and transgender rights. “And now the focus has turned to what’s going on in schools, what’s going on in school libraries, what’s going on in school curriculums.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelson said school board elections present a unique opportunity for small groups of well-organized activists. The races are often low-information contests, and candidates don’t run as a member of a political party, leaving voters without a partisan cue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also a strategic move in a blue state like California, where anti-LGBTQ+ legislation is unlikely to succeed at the state level. 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Cooper was censured last month by his board colleagues for appearing on a flier promoting his presence at an event organized by Informed Parents. The group was \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/kqed-newscast-f7e7b8f6-de8e-4fa1-b10d-7c41d2c291df\">forced to apologize to San José councilmember Bien Doan\u003c/a> for featuring his image on the same flier without his knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions were already high leading into Tuesday’s council meeting. The resolution had initially called for the explicit condemnation of Informed Parents and accused the group of harassing families in their attempts to distribute opt-out literature. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Long before it was pumping out semiconductors and tech billionaires, t\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoMVzhb0r5A\">Santa Clara Valley \u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was the largest fruit-producing region in the country. Until the 1960s, what was then known as “The Valley of Heart’s Delight” was full of orchards growing peaches, plums, nectarines, cherries and many other varieties of fruit. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most farms have been paved for housing developments and tech campuses. But you can still visit one of the last working orchards in San José, a tiny farm just a short drive from the campuses of many Silicon Valley giants. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nestled between Highway 85 and housing development, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cosentinofamilyfarm.com/#theFarm\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">J&P Cosentino Family Farm\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> still grows fruit and veggies on 2 acres and features a year-round farm stand and regular on-farm tours.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11964907\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231018-CONSENTINO-FARMS-01-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial photo of a patch of green trees in the middle of a residential neighborhood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231018-CONSENTINO-FARMS-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231018-CONSENTINO-FARMS-01-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231018-CONSENTINO-FARMS-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231018-CONSENTINO-FARMS-01-KQED-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231018-CONSENTINO-FARMS-01-KQED-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231018-CONSENTINO-FARMS-01-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of J&P Cosentino Farms, showing its 2 acres of remaining farmland, surrounded by a housing development and Highway 85. The farm spanned 10 acres when it first opened in 1945. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Brighton Denevan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Occasionally, first-timers here would say, ‘This is a funny place for a farm,’” chuckled owner Phil Cosentino. “I’d say, ‘Oh, this is a funny place for homes.’ Because, years ago, there were no homes here, it was all farms … as far as the eye could see in any direction. This is the way the valley was. All orchards.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Phil Cosentino, owner, J&P Cosentino Family Farm\"]‘… years ago, there were no homes here, it was all farms … as far as the eye could see in any direction. This is the way the valley was. All orchards.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cosentino and his family have worked this orchard since 1945, when his dad, Dominic, first bought the land. Back then, the Cosentinos owned a full 10 acres in San José. But, that all changed when the freeway was built.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“In 1984, they took the land and called it \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/enrd/condemnation/land-acquisition-section/history-federal-use-eminent-domain\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eminent domain\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> … and then, we were left with the 2 acres,” said Jason Cosentino, Phil’s grandson. He’s a former chef for Google who’s come back to run the farm, creating the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cosentinofamilyfarm.com/farm-kitchen/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cosentino Farm Kitchen\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> food line of jams and sauces. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We are making a commitment to this day that this is our last 2 acres,” the younger Cosentino said. “We’re sticking our foot down and it’s not going anywhere.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[ad fullwidth] \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jason said what helped this 80-year-old orchard survive and thrive was that his grandfather Phil decided to use those last 2 acres to plant double the number of trees. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jason Cosentino, founder, Cosentino Farm Kitchen\"]‘We are making a commitment to this day that this is our last 2 acres. We’re sticking our foot down and it’s not going anywhere.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, more than 600 trees are bearing 90-plus varieties of fruit, including\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> apricots, plums, prunes, nectarines, apples, figs and persimmons. Plus, grapevines, berry bushes and so much more. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year, the Cosentino family began offering tours, allowing visitors to walk through the orchard and pick the fruit right off the trees while enjoying free samples and learning about the farm’s history. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“There are only five trees that are original from my great grandfather, that he planted in the early 1950s,” Jason told a crowd of nearly 100 visitors on a recent tour. He gestured to the canopy of a large, papershell almond tree.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the one-hour walking and tasting tour, Jason also gave tips on correctly picking the fruit off the trees. (Here’s a tip: You’re supposed to pull figs away from the tree by tugging in the opposite direction of where the stem is coming out.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11964913\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-CosentinoFarm-018-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-CosentinoFarm-018-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-CosentinoFarm-018-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-CosentinoFarm-018-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-CosentinoFarm-018-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-CosentinoFarm-018-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-CosentinoFarm-018-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phil Cosentino sits with his grandson Jason Cosentino while holding freshly picked grapes at J&P Cosentino Family Farm in San Jose on Oct. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“So inspiring, just to see a local farm,” said visitor Diana Jonathans of Campbell, who drove for the tour. “All the family members here. To hear the wisdom of the original O.G., Mr. Cosentino, was super touching.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Christy Sgarloto, resident, San José\"]‘I never knew this was all back here. I would always come to their fruit stand … but I had no idea that it was this big.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tour has also attracted neighbors curious about the trees behind the farm stand they’ve been stopping by for years. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I never knew this was all back here,” said Christy Sgarloto, who lives a few blocks away and would often stop by to purchase stone fruit for her peach crisps. “I would always come to their fruit stand … but I had no idea that it was this big.” [aside postID=news_11963136 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68075_230818-HetSayRestaurant-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her husband, Steve Sgarlato, knew the Cosentino name from the family-run supermarkets in San José, Santa Clara and Silvercreek until they decided to focus on the farm back in 2011. He had no idea that the farm was so lush. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Never been in here … and it’s just amazing,” Steve Sgarlato said. “I wish there were more places like this.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The year-round orchard and farm stand sits right off Highway 85 on Carter Avenue in San José. It’s a trip your taste buds will be glad you made. 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