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"content": "\u003cp>San Jose sits in Silicon Valley -- one of the wealthiest regions in the country -- yet homelessness is a persistent problem. Take a look around some of the biggest streets in East San Jose and you’ll notice what are essentially modern nomadic villages. On Lucretia Avenue, right across from Yerba Buena High School, we found numerous people living out of cars and campers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That’s where we spotted Joseph Luprete sweeping the sidewalk in front of his camper. 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He notes the city has identified one potential partner and is working out some issues to have it as a pilot site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike San Francisco, where tent encampments are easily spotted on sidewalks and under freeway overpasses, many of San Jose’s homeless stay out of sight by setting up shelter deep along the city’s 140 miles of trails, creeks and riverbeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the case with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/04/homeless-evicted-from-the-jungle-in-san-jose\">The Jungle\u003c/a>, which was one of the nation’s largest homeless encampments until the city shut it down in 2014. More than 300 people were moved out and the area was fenced off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We returned to the site of The Jungle recently with Leonard Jackson, who says he spent five years living there. The area is now overgrown with weeds. 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The city of San Jose cleared out the part of Coyote Creek that was home to around 300 people.\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS13381_20141204_jungle_jt_016-sfi-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS13381_20141204_jungle_jt_016-sfi.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goods that cannot be hauled away by residents are left at the Jungle in San Jose, California, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2014. The city of San Jose cleared out the part of Coyote Creek that was home to around 300 people. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was tents. It was couches, tarps, stoves, it was motor homes,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson ended up homeless due to drug addiction. 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Police made four arrests. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the city's Convention Center, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Trump-at-campaign-rally-in-San-Jose-calls-for-7960897.php\" target=\"_blank\">Trump dished out\u003c/a> his standard litany of promises to \"make America great again\" and to build an impenetrable barrier at the U.S.-Mexico border. He mixed those familiar pledges with swipes at Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. The crowd, said to be about 4,000, ate it up, chanting \"USA! USA!\" and \"Build the wall! Build the wall!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" size=\"medium\" ids=\"10976519, 10976510,10976517,10976466,10976512,10976511\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But violence erupted as Trump's audience emerged from the hall as some in a crowd of several hundred protesters confronted the Republican's supporters. Some demonstrators threw eggs, some chased and punched departing Trump partisans, and some grabbed and burned Trump signs and hats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the protesters were young, like 26-year-old Janet Brambila, who said she wasn't there participate in the violence. She told KQED's Beth Willon that Trump supporters sicken her because they support his attacks on Mexicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was undocumented for many years. My parents were too,\" Brambila said. \"We all cleaned houses, white peoples’ houses. ... See all this hatred right here -- it's literally white people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters quoted by news organization's expressed dismay at the violence -- some of which appeared to have been committed by demonstrators wearing bandanas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_29971491/san-jose-supporters-line-up-hear-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Merc's description\u003c/a>: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Exactly who was involved in the violence outside and where they were from remains unclear, but numerous members of the crowd were Latinos from East San Jose who said they opposed the violence and condemned Trump for touting racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Jose is populated mostly by immigrants and Donald Trump has inspired hate,\" said Miguel Ayala, 20, from San Jose: \"I'm all about love.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ariana Romero, 21, also from San Jose, said Trump is degrading all hard-working immigrants with his rhetoric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I work hard and have my own place and pay my own bills,\" Romero said, \"and because of this man people look down on me and think I'm just another statistic -- all because of his hate. Why would we want someone like that to run this country?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she came to peacefully protest, \"but just doing dangerous things isn't helping. It makes it look like we are doing it for the hell of it.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Some observers, notably Sovern of KCBS, questioned why police failed to move in earlier to deal with the violence. But San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo praised the city's police force for \"an extremely courageous and professional job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, here's the Associated Press writeup of the Trump event and its aftermath:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Martha Mendoza\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald Trump supporters leaving the presidential candidate's rally in San Jose on Thursday evening were pounced on by protesters, some of whom threw punches and eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A dozen or more people were hit and car windows were broken. Trump hats grabbed from supporters were set on fire on the ground. At least one woman was pelted with an egg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police stood their ground at first but after about 90 minutes moved into the remaining crowd to break it up and make arrests. At least four people were taken into custody, though police didn't release total arrest figures Thursday night. One officer was assaulted, police Sgt. Enrique Garcia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were no immediate reports of injuries and no major property damage, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd, which had numbered over 300 just after the rally, thinned significantly as the night went on, but those who remained near the San Jose Convention Center were rowdy and angry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some banged on the cars of Trump supporters as they left the rally and chased after those on foot to frighten them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police were keeping their distance from the crowd as the scuffles played out, but were able to keep them from getting any closer to the convention center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our police officers have done an extremely courageous and professional job so far,\" San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo told The Associated Press by phone. \"We're all still holding our breath to see the outcome of this dangerous and explosive situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor, a Democrat and Hillary Clinton supporter, criticized Trump for coming to cities and igniting problems that local police departments had to deal with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At some point Donald Trump needs to take responsibility for the irresponsible behavior of his campaign,\" Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump holds a rally Friday at the airport in Redding, at the northern end of the Sacramento Valley and about 200 miles north of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton and Democratic opponent Bernie Sanders will also make campaign stops in the state on Friday in California as they look to Tuesday's California Primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, spoke for about 50 minutes at the rally, sniping at Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and calling her speech on foreign policy earlier in the day \"pathetic\" and \"sad to watch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters before the speech included Adam Rivas, a 22-year-old community college student who was born and raised in San Jose. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But violence erupted as Trump's audience emerged from the hall as some in a crowd of several hundred protesters confronted the Republican's supporters. Some demonstrators threw eggs, some chased and punched departing Trump partisans, and some grabbed and burned Trump signs and hats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the protesters were young, like 26-year-old Janet Brambila, who said she wasn't there participate in the violence. She told KQED's Beth Willon that Trump supporters sicken her because they support his attacks on Mexicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was undocumented for many years. My parents were too,\" Brambila said. \"We all cleaned houses, white peoples’ houses. ... See all this hatred right here -- it's literally white people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters quoted by news organization's expressed dismay at the violence -- some of which appeared to have been committed by demonstrators wearing bandanas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_29971491/san-jose-supporters-line-up-hear-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Merc's description\u003c/a>: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Exactly who was involved in the violence outside and where they were from remains unclear, but numerous members of the crowd were Latinos from East San Jose who said they opposed the violence and condemned Trump for touting racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Jose is populated mostly by immigrants and Donald Trump has inspired hate,\" said Miguel Ayala, 20, from San Jose: \"I'm all about love.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ariana Romero, 21, also from San Jose, said Trump is degrading all hard-working immigrants with his rhetoric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I work hard and have my own place and pay my own bills,\" Romero said, \"and because of this man people look down on me and think I'm just another statistic -- all because of his hate. 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He said Khanna has taken money from right-wing corporate executives who are hostile toward living wage ordinances, labor groups, public pension plans, privatizing Social Security and sending good jobs overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since you seem to be willing to say or do anything to get elected, how can Silicon Valley's middle-class families trust you to act in their best interest and not like the other party?\" asked Honda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna shot back: \"I know you didn't write that question. One of your political consultants wrote that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued: \"You have donors, too, who have given to Republicans, and yes, there are certain donors. But I would just urge people to go to my website. I have come out for scraping the cap and strengthening Social Security benefits. It's a lie that I want to privatize jobs. 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"content": "\u003cp>The good news for South Bay \u003ca href=\"http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/466/201604159012558466/201604159012558466.pdf\">Congressman Mike Honda\u003c/a>: In the first three months of the year, he outraised his Democratic challenger, Ro Khanna, by about $6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the news that's not so great for the longtime incumbent? Overall, \u003ca href=\"http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/760/201604159012536760/201604159012536760.pdf\">Khanna\u003c/a> is still way ahead in total money raised, according to Federal Election Commission filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political analyst Larry Gerston said the money the two Democrats have left to spend -- the cash each has in the bank -- is the most important number to watch in the months ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At least for this quarter, they're keeping pace with each other,\" said Gerston, a political science professor at San Jose State University. \"But what's left out of that equation is how much money they have left to spend. We look at the data, and it looks like Khanna has about two and a half times as much as Honda.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"600\" height=\"367.5\" src=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZCD5_4AwEmFHbQoJocHhEA7GOTvyuprVDAsVttrachU/pubchart?oid=1745000501&format=interactive\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Beckendorf, Honda's campaign manager, said they will have the resources and support to win on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to make sure we're doing what we need to do to get Mike elected,\" Beckendorf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Khanna campaign quickly sent out a press release pointing out that Honda's fundraising is less than the $688,000 he raised in the first quarter of the 2014 race against Khanna. But Federal Election Commission's filings also highlight that Honda narrowed the campaign contribution gap since the last quarterly report of 2015, when Khanna had outraised Honda by a large margin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if the Honda campaign expects labor unions to contribute heavily in the months ahead, as they did in 2014, Beckendorf said the Alameda Labor Council and South Bay Labor Council know where Honda stands on issues affecting working-class families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just as Mike has been there for middle-class families, labor knows Mike will be there for them,\" Beckendorf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the campaign makes it a policy not to disclose how much money will be spent on ads leading up to the June 7 primary. Under California's primary rules, the top two finishers in the June election will advance to the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Honda had to set up \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_29746513/ethics-probe-rep-mike-honda-creates-legal-expense\">a legal defense fund\u003c/a> because he is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee on allegations of mixing campaign and government business and improper favors like fast-tracking visas to top donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerston says Honda's incumbency gives him some advantages and that Khanna will need the extra cash he has to offset Honda's edge in the 17th Congressional District ,which includes all or part of Fremont, Newark, Milpitas, San Jose, Cupertino, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gerston adds that Khanna's in a much stronger position than he was in 2014, when he spent a lot of money before the primary and was left with too little for the November runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He doesn't need to spend money now like he did last time, because last time he was relatively new and unknown,\" Gerston said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna campaign manager Brian Parvizhahi said in 2014 that Khanna had 2 percent name recognition, but now is virtually certain to make it into the November election.t\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We spent too much, too early\" in 2014, Parvizhahi said. \"But now it looks like we will definitely make the top two.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Khanna campaign is already sending out mailers, but Parvizhahi said most of the campaign money will be saved for going into the November general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have also really ramped up our grassroots efforts and are getting more contributions from grassroots donors this election cycle,\" Parvizshahi said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Beckendorf, Honda's campaign manager, said they will have the resources and support to win on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to make sure we're doing what we need to do to get Mike elected,\" Beckendorf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Khanna campaign quickly sent out a press release pointing out that Honda's fundraising is less than the $688,000 he raised in the first quarter of the 2014 race against Khanna. But Federal Election Commission's filings also highlight that Honda narrowed the campaign contribution gap since the last quarterly report of 2015, when Khanna had outraised Honda by a large margin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if the Honda campaign expects labor unions to contribute heavily in the months ahead, as they did in 2014, Beckendorf said the Alameda Labor Council and South Bay Labor Council know where Honda stands on issues affecting working-class families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just as Mike has been there for middle-class families, labor knows Mike will be there for them,\" Beckendorf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the campaign makes it a policy not to disclose how much money will be spent on ads leading up to the June 7 primary. Under California's primary rules, the top two finishers in the June election will advance to the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Honda had to set up \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_29746513/ethics-probe-rep-mike-honda-creates-legal-expense\">a legal defense fund\u003c/a> because he is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee on allegations of mixing campaign and government business and improper favors like fast-tracking visas to top donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerston says Honda's incumbency gives him some advantages and that Khanna will need the extra cash he has to offset Honda's edge in the 17th Congressional District ,which includes all or part of Fremont, Newark, Milpitas, San Jose, Cupertino, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gerston adds that Khanna's in a much stronger position than he was in 2014, when he spent a lot of money before the primary and was left with too little for the November runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He doesn't need to spend money now like he did last time, because last time he was relatively new and unknown,\" Gerston said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna campaign manager Brian Parvizhahi said in 2014 that Khanna had 2 percent name recognition, but now is virtually certain to make it into the November election.t\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We spent too much, too early\" in 2014, Parvizhahi said. \"But now it looks like we will definitely make the top two.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Khanna campaign is already sending out mailers, but Parvizhahi said most of the campaign money will be saved for going into the November general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have also really ramped up our grassroots efforts and are getting more contributions from grassroots donors this election cycle,\" Parvizshahi said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nothing has come easily to Gustavo Bedolla. And when you walk into his hair salon in downtown San Jose, it’s clear he has worked hard to develop “Bedolla” into a thriving business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every patron gets his undivided attention, whether it’s for stripping the blue dye out of an 8-year-old girl’s hair or advising a woman on why it’s best to stop being a serial shampoo consumer. And the man can take a mop of wet hair and make it look like a volcano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The higher the hair, the closer to God,” joked 32-year-old Bedolla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bedolla’s easy laugh belies a life filled with struggle after coming to San Jose from Michoacan, Mexico, when he was 15. He stopped going to school the minute he got here and started working as a cook in a retirement home before moving on to become a home construction worker and a painter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/257480546″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to focus on work. I wanted to go to school, but unfortunately it was work because my family needed the money,” said Bedolla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually he went to San Jose City College to learn English and to beauty school to become a hair stylist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bedolla said his proudest accomplishment will be voting for the first time in this year’s presidential election after becoming a U.S. citizen in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He won’t be \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewhispanic.org/fact-sheets/2016-state-election-fact-sheets/latinos-in-the-2016-election-california/\">one of the more than \u003c/a>2 million Latinos in California who are eligible to vote but don’t bother to register. According to\u003ca href=\"http://www.pewhispanic.org/2016/01/19/millennials-make-up-almost-half-of-latino-eligible-voters-in-2016/\"> Pew Hispanic Research Center, \u003c/a>millennials — those 35 and younger like Bedolla — make up almost half of Latino eligible voters. And Bedolla wants to help stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump, who created an international controversy after calling Mexican immigrants rapists and drug runners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10919875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10919875\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Gustavo Bedolla at work in his San Jose hair salon. He’ll vote for the first time this election, and he wants more Latinos to do the same. \" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla-400x274.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla-1180x808.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla-960x657.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gustavo Bedolla at work in his San Jose hair salon. He’ll vote for the first time this election, and he wants more Latinos to do the same. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bedolla calls Trump’s remarks about Mexican immigrants highly insulting — but also motivating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These Americans [who support him] don’t have any idea what it’s like to struggle and come to this country for a better opportunity,” said Bedolla. “It’s not only emotionally shocking but it’s very hurtful because we leave everything — not that we want to but because we have to. We have nothing there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Bedolla is somewhat frustrated with his 55-year-old father, who won’t be able to vote because he has not become a U.S. citizen. Like many older longtime permanent residents from Mexico, Bedolla’s father is afraid he can’t pass the citizenship test.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Not since Proposition 187 has the Latino population been so directly attacked by a political system, political in this case a candidate.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He doesn’t speak the [English] language, so for him it’s really difficult,” Bedolla said. “You have to memorize 100 questions for the citizenship test but you only get asked 10. He cannot read and write the language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offers English-language exemptions for people who are 50 or older and have lived as a permanent resident in the United States for 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s too late for Bedolla’s father to vote in the 2016 presidential election because of the lengthy process to become a citizen. But around the state there’s a major push by activists and campaigns to mobilize, educate and register the millions of other Latino voters who are citizens but don’t vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not since Proposition 187 has the Latino population been so directly attacked by a political system, political in this case a candidate,” said Rolando Bonilla, a political strategist for Voler Strategic Advisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-politics-of-proposition-187-in-one-chart-20140617-story.html\">Proposition 187 \u003c/a>was a 1994 California ballot measure aimed at preventing undocumented immigrants from using public education, health care and other services. After the election there was a two-year surge in Latino voter registration. But then the registration uptick stalled, said Mike Madrid, a Republican consultant who specializes in Latino voting trends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of that growth is not as significant as we would like, keeping in mind Latinos are the largest ethnic plurality in California but also have the lowest rate of participation of any major ethnic group in the state as well,” said Madrid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Latinos who don’t vote live below the federal poverty line. Bonilla said to motivate them, campaigns need to break through the mind-set that there’s nothing in it for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”EbXAtZUZjiWu03MkIIRegKwkFoA7yhzX”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That thinking of, ‘Look, I’ve got to work, I’ve got the two or three jobs, I don’t necessarily see the direct impact to me. As long as I keep my head down, do the work, I can feed my kids, pay the mortgage, I’m OK,’ ” said Bonilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino voter registration is increasing in California but it’s too early to tell if this year’s presidential campaign will be the tipping point for Latino political activism. Political consultants said campaigns need to focus on local issues — a speed bump on voters’ busy streets or charter schools — that potential Latino voters can connect with because those issues affect their everyday lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last 20 years, most conventional wisdom has been that Latino issues tend to involve immigration reform, farmworkers or driver’s licenses for the undocumented, said Madrid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of Latinos in California are not even undocumented,” said Madrid. “Those are not the issues that cause concern over the dinner table at night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ignoring local issues while acting as if immigration and driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants are the only issues that matter to Latinos amounts to what some in the community call “His-pandering” — pandering to Hispanic voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonilla said campaigns need to do a much better job of walking Latino voters through what’s in it for them if they vote, or they won’t register or vote. Slick mail pieces for the masses, he said, will accomplish nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s totally OK to want to do something for personal benefit,” said Bonilla. “We want to understand what Latino voters want and we still haven’t had that conversation yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who’s considering a run for governor in 2018, believes investments need to be made to increase Latino voting and political involvement. He said it costs money to register and educate voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those citizens need to be targeted to a greater degree,” said Villaraigosa. “What we tend to do during elections is focus on the people who vote all the time. I had a historic election [mayor’s race] and one of the highest turnout rates and it was only 35 percent. That’s pathetic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10919878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10919878\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Gomez-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Longtime Univision 14 anchor Maria Leticia Gomez has a strong connection with viewers after emigrating from Argentina. She encourages viewers to vote and visits high schools promoting registration. \" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Gomez-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Gomez-400x279.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Gomez.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Gomez-1180x822.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Gomez-960x669.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Univision 14 anchor Maria Leticia Gomez has a strong connection with viewers after emigrating from Argentina. She encourages viewers to vote and visits high schools promoting registration. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Spanish-language network \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/us/politics/univision-hispanic-voting.html?_r=0\">Univision\u003c/a> is trying to help by rolling out a nonpartisan social media campaign and traditional public service announcements on how to register.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Leticia Gomez — a longtime news anchor for Univision’s Bay area station KDTV — emigrated from Argentina and said she connects with viewers on the importance of voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Broadcasters in Spanish language are part of the family of the viewers. They consider us part of their family because we have a shared experience,” said Gomez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like all networks, Trump has been a main point of coverage on Univision this election season. Bonilla said that coverage should be effective, coupled with the network driving the idea of registering Latinos to vote “to have a say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, it’s my 84-year-old grandmother watching Univision who is going to make the decision who that next president is going to be or not,” said Bonilla. “And if we forget that and we’re not having those granular conversations and connections with the electorate, that’s often the time candidates get in trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually he went to San Jose City College to learn English and to beauty school to become a hair stylist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bedolla said his proudest accomplishment will be voting for the first time in this year’s presidential election after becoming a U.S. citizen in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He won’t be \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewhispanic.org/fact-sheets/2016-state-election-fact-sheets/latinos-in-the-2016-election-california/\">one of the more than \u003c/a>2 million Latinos in California who are eligible to vote but don’t bother to register. According to\u003ca href=\"http://www.pewhispanic.org/2016/01/19/millennials-make-up-almost-half-of-latino-eligible-voters-in-2016/\"> Pew Hispanic Research Center, \u003c/a>millennials — those 35 and younger like Bedolla — make up almost half of Latino eligible voters. And Bedolla wants to help stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump, who created an international controversy after calling Mexican immigrants rapists and drug runners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10919875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10919875\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Gustavo Bedolla at work in his San Jose hair salon. He’ll vote for the first time this election, and he wants more Latinos to do the same. \" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla-400x274.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla-1180x808.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla-960x657.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gustavo Bedolla at work in his San Jose hair salon. He’ll vote for the first time this election, and he wants more Latinos to do the same. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bedolla calls Trump’s remarks about Mexican immigrants highly insulting — but also motivating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These Americans [who support him] don’t have any idea what it’s like to struggle and come to this country for a better opportunity,” said Bedolla. “It’s not only emotionally shocking but it’s very hurtful because we leave everything — not that we want to but because we have to. We have nothing there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Bedolla is somewhat frustrated with his 55-year-old father, who won’t be able to vote because he has not become a U.S. citizen. Like many older longtime permanent residents from Mexico, Bedolla’s father is afraid he can’t pass the citizenship test.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Not since Proposition 187 has the Latino population been so directly attacked by a political system, political in this case a candidate.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He doesn’t speak the [English] language, so for him it’s really difficult,” Bedolla said. “You have to memorize 100 questions for the citizenship test but you only get asked 10. He cannot read and write the language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offers English-language exemptions for people who are 50 or older and have lived as a permanent resident in the United States for 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s too late for Bedolla’s father to vote in the 2016 presidential election because of the lengthy process to become a citizen. But around the state there’s a major push by activists and campaigns to mobilize, educate and register the millions of other Latino voters who are citizens but don’t vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not since Proposition 187 has the Latino population been so directly attacked by a political system, political in this case a candidate,” said Rolando Bonilla, a political strategist for Voler Strategic Advisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-politics-of-proposition-187-in-one-chart-20140617-story.html\">Proposition 187 \u003c/a>was a 1994 California ballot measure aimed at preventing undocumented immigrants from using public education, health care and other services. After the election there was a two-year surge in Latino voter registration. But then the registration uptick stalled, said Mike Madrid, a Republican consultant who specializes in Latino voting trends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of that growth is not as significant as we would like, keeping in mind Latinos are the largest ethnic plurality in California but also have the lowest rate of participation of any major ethnic group in the state as well,” said Madrid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Latinos who don’t vote live below the federal poverty line. Bonilla said to motivate them, campaigns need to break through the mind-set that there’s nothing in it for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That thinking of, ‘Look, I’ve got to work, I’ve got the two or three jobs, I don’t necessarily see the direct impact to me. As long as I keep my head down, do the work, I can feed my kids, pay the mortgage, I’m OK,’ ” said Bonilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino voter registration is increasing in California but it’s too early to tell if this year’s presidential campaign will be the tipping point for Latino political activism. Political consultants said campaigns need to focus on local issues — a speed bump on voters’ busy streets or charter schools — that potential Latino voters can connect with because those issues affect their everyday lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last 20 years, most conventional wisdom has been that Latino issues tend to involve immigration reform, farmworkers or driver’s licenses for the undocumented, said Madrid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of Latinos in California are not even undocumented,” said Madrid. “Those are not the issues that cause concern over the dinner table at night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ignoring local issues while acting as if immigration and driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants are the only issues that matter to Latinos amounts to what some in the community call “His-pandering” — pandering to Hispanic voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonilla said campaigns need to do a much better job of walking Latino voters through what’s in it for them if they vote, or they won’t register or vote. Slick mail pieces for the masses, he said, will accomplish nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s totally OK to want to do something for personal benefit,” said Bonilla. “We want to understand what Latino voters want and we still haven’t had that conversation yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who’s considering a run for governor in 2018, believes investments need to be made to increase Latino voting and political involvement. He said it costs money to register and educate voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those citizens need to be targeted to a greater degree,” said Villaraigosa. “What we tend to do during elections is focus on the people who vote all the time. I had a historic election [mayor’s race] and one of the highest turnout rates and it was only 35 percent. 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"content": "\u003cp>Democrat\u003ca href=\"http://www.rokhanna.com/\"> Ro Khanna \u003c/a>isn’t only taking on eight-term congressman \u003ca href=\"http://mikehonda.com/\">Mike Honda \u003c/a>for the House seat in the heart of Silicon Valley. He’s roughing up the entire California Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m fearless,” said 39-year-old Khanna, an Indian-American tech attorney from Fremont. “The rules are rigged. There’s a group of people trying to hold onto their power by appointing their friends, who will decide who gets the party’s endorsement. It’s a vestige of the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/250173174″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna admits he’s channeling Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Donald Trump in this year’s wild and unorthodox presidential race. He believes they have tapped into voters who are tired of parties looking out for their own interests instead of working families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the Republican side — although I disagree with him on many issues — there is a populism to Trump’s campaign,” said Khanna. “There’s a lot of anger on both sides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was hours before delegates at the California Democratic Party Convention in San Jose overwhelmingly endorsed Honda on Feb. 27. For the 74-year-old veteran congressman — who is in the throes of a\u003ca href=\"https://ethics.house.gov/\"> serious House Ethics Committee \u003c/a>investigation — this is a rematch of a bitter race Khanna narrowly lost two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honda quickly brushed off Khanna’s accusations that the party rules are rigged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10885476\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10885476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking-800x659.jpg\" alt=\"Congressman Mike Honda (seated, red tie) listens to opponent Ro Khanna call the state Democratic Party endorsement process rigged.\" width=\"800\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking-800x659.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking-400x330.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking-1180x972.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking-960x791.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congressman Mike Honda (seated, red tie) listens to opponent Ro Khanna call the state Democratic Party endorsement process rigged. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Oh come on. For goodness sake,” said Honda, a Japanese-American former schoolteacher. “I’m not the one who paid for memberships to load up on Democratic clubs. … We’ll see how much of an impact his negative campaign, his innuendos and the impressions he’s trying to leave on people work out. I don’t think they will work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But during this campaign Khanna plans to hit Honda hard on the House ethics probe every chance he gets. There are allegations that Honda mixed campaign and government business and gave improper favors, like fast-tracking visas, to top donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think it [the investigation] disqualifies Mike Honda from running. It’s my honest opinion,” said Khanna. “It represents cronyism, it represents giving favors to donors and it’s wrong. And I will speak out about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Honda said there’s an internal House process by which committee members will determine if a House rule was violated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Violating an ethics rule is not breaking a law,” said Honda. “There is not a criminal investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing of the ethics committee’s decision is critical, said Larry Gerston, a political science professor emeritus at San Jose State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the committee acts fairly soon, Honda could probably go a long way with putting it behind him,” said Gerston. “But if the committee acts in a negative way — let’s say in September or October — that could be a factor in this race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Khanna is portraying Honda “as everything wrong with politics” and himself as the ultimate Washington and Democratic Party outsider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I take no PAC [political action committee] money,” said Khanna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he may want to brush up on who is serving in Congress. At the California Democratic Convention in San Jose last weekend, he bumped into Maxine Waters, the veteran Los Angeles congresswoman and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Khanna introduced himself and asked Waters what she’s running for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Re-election in Los Angeles,” said Waters, who was also once investigated for violating House ethics rules in 2010 and later exonerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10885479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10885479\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks-800x578.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Honda talks with supporters from his district after getting the Democratic Party’s endorsement.\" width=\"800\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks-800x578.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks-400x289.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks-1180x852.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks-960x693.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Honda talks with supporters from his district after getting the Democratic Party’s endorsement. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This race is very much a generational contrast between two Democrats who really don’t differ much on the issues, said Gerston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The senior man who has been there, done that, because he has so much experience. The young guy who is perhaps a little bit more brazen, going to break a few things along the way, and isn’t afraid to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna is counting on support from younger voters who might not know or care about Honda’s history. But that might not be an adequate strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic activist Jay Cheng, 27, grew up in Cupertino and said he can count on Honda, who is a reliable vote on many issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For millennial Democrats who have grown up in the district, we know who has been there for us,” said Cheng.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the convention, Khanna’s field director, Michael Ambler, said he had no problem signing up young volunteers from the district with no connection to Honda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of volunteers are in college and are worrying about how they are going to pay off their college loans,” said Ambler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 17th Congressional District — which includes Fremont, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Newark, Milpitas, Santa Clara and North San Jose — is home to tech giants Tesla, Google, Apple, Cisco and others. It also has a large population of voters from India, China, the Philippines, Japan, Vietnam and Pakistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Asian Pacific Islander Caucus at the convention, Khanna said tech companies in the district need to reflect the diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”QTzV4eaXdYx06AhRVYYr8tO0kxkeu9og”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go into the halls of Facebook, Google, Tesla, there are not enough Filipino-Americans, there are not enough African-Americans, there are not enough Latino-Americans,” said Khanna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Honda has a compelling life story many immigrants can relate to. During World War II, he and his family were put in an internment camp with other Americans of Japanese descent. He later became a champion of civil rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After eight terms in the House, Honda is reintroducing himself to voters to remind them where he came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people start to listen to who you are, your history and background, they say, ‘That sounds like me.’ So there’s a connection and it’s really important, and so is authenticity,” said Honda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Aisha Wahab, an Afghan-American voter who works in the district, said there’s one issue that cuts across all ethnic and racial groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A chance to grow, a chance to survive, a chance to thrive. And I think that’s what this race is about. Our future, not our past,” said Wahab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just how much voters get to hear the candidates debate the issues in coming months remains to be seen. The race has become such a slugfest that Democratic San Jose City Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio recently decided to run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s too much mudslinging already,” said Oliverio. “I’ll talk about the issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a sign of how nasty this campaign may be, unsigned hit pieces were distributed at the convention portraying Khanna as a Republican puppet. The Honda campaign denies having any connection to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California’s primary rules, the top two finishers in the June election will advance. That means Khanna and Honda are likely to meet up again in the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was hours before delegates at the California Democratic Party Convention in San Jose overwhelmingly endorsed Honda on Feb. 27. For the 74-year-old veteran congressman — who is in the throes of a\u003ca href=\"https://ethics.house.gov/\"> serious House Ethics Committee \u003c/a>investigation — this is a rematch of a bitter race Khanna narrowly lost two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honda quickly brushed off Khanna’s accusations that the party rules are rigged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10885476\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10885476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking-800x659.jpg\" alt=\"Congressman Mike Honda (seated, red tie) listens to opponent Ro Khanna call the state Democratic Party endorsement process rigged.\" width=\"800\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking-800x659.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking-400x330.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking-1180x972.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking-960x791.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congressman Mike Honda (seated, red tie) listens to opponent Ro Khanna call the state Democratic Party endorsement process rigged. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Oh come on. For goodness sake,” said Honda, a Japanese-American former schoolteacher. “I’m not the one who paid for memberships to load up on Democratic clubs. … We’ll see how much of an impact his negative campaign, his innuendos and the impressions he’s trying to leave on people work out. I don’t think they will work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But during this campaign Khanna plans to hit Honda hard on the House ethics probe every chance he gets. There are allegations that Honda mixed campaign and government business and gave improper favors, like fast-tracking visas, to top donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think it [the investigation] disqualifies Mike Honda from running. It’s my honest opinion,” said Khanna. “It represents cronyism, it represents giving favors to donors and it’s wrong. And I will speak out about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Honda said there’s an internal House process by which committee members will determine if a House rule was violated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Violating an ethics rule is not breaking a law,” said Honda. “There is not a criminal investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing of the ethics committee’s decision is critical, said Larry Gerston, a political science professor emeritus at San Jose State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the committee acts fairly soon, Honda could probably go a long way with putting it behind him,” said Gerston. “But if the committee acts in a negative way — let’s say in September or October — that could be a factor in this race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Khanna is portraying Honda “as everything wrong with politics” and himself as the ultimate Washington and Democratic Party outsider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I take no PAC [political action committee] money,” said Khanna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he may want to brush up on who is serving in Congress. At the California Democratic Convention in San Jose last weekend, he bumped into Maxine Waters, the veteran Los Angeles congresswoman and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Khanna introduced himself and asked Waters what she’s running for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Re-election in Los Angeles,” said Waters, who was also once investigated for violating House ethics rules in 2010 and later exonerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10885479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10885479\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks-800x578.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Honda talks with supporters from his district after getting the Democratic Party’s endorsement.\" width=\"800\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks-800x578.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks-400x289.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks-1180x852.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks-960x693.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Honda talks with supporters from his district after getting the Democratic Party’s endorsement. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This race is very much a generational contrast between two Democrats who really don’t differ much on the issues, said Gerston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The senior man who has been there, done that, because he has so much experience. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Jose is grappling with how to help residents of mobile home parks stave off potential displacement, as owners of the Winchester Ranch Mobile Home Park plan to sell their land to make way for profitable new developments in a sizzling real estate market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the 35,000 San Jose residents living in mobile homes -- the most of any city in the state -- own their houses but rent the land they sit on. These parks are already under a city rent-control ordinance, with annual increases limited to 3-7 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the center of the debate is how city government can safeguard much-needed affordable housing without trampling on the rights of mobile home park landowners who wish to get out of business and sell their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a long and at times contentious meeting Tuesday night, the City Council voted unanimously to affirm the city's commitment to preserving San Jose's 59 mobile home parks for mostly senior and low-income residents. The City Council also voted to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli> Make City Council members decide whether to approve mobile home park zoning conversions, which observers say could bring more transparency and accountability to the process. Before, the city planning commission had that power.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Adopt new guidelines aimed at ensuring that if residents are displaced from mobile home parks, they get a fair shake in relocation money and the sale price of their mobile homes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Direct planning staff to come back with a proposal for extending the city's six-month moratorium on mobile home park zoning conversions to other land uses.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\"This is our city and it is our responsibility to protect what I believe is an asset,\" said City Councilman Ash Kalra after hours of public comment, mostly from dozens of worried mobile home residents. \"As we heard from so many residents, these are people's homes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Current Moratorium Expires Thursday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's actions come as the current moratorium on mobile home park conversions in San Jose is set to expire Thursday. The council implemented that temporary moratorium after residents of the Winchester Ranch Mobile Home Park in west San Jose learned the landowners planned to sell the 16-acre park to PulteGroup, a developer. Plans for new developments include a hotel and high-density residential project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winchester Ranch is within walking distance of the rapidly growing Santana Row, with trendy shops and hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If those plans go through, roughly 140 seniors, including Ruth Greathouse, could lose their current home. Greathouse, 71, urged City Council members to adopt greater tenant protections for mobile park residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mobile home parks are not really parks. They are communities. Each one diverse and separate and real and close,\" said Greathouse, president of the park's homeowners association. \"We cannot destroy those communities in San Jose. We need to protect and preserve them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other mobile home park residents who spoke at the meeting fear that if Winchester Ranch goes, their parks could close as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Please Save Our Homes'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Please save our homes,\" said Sonia Rivera, a mother of two who lives at Mobilehome Manor & R V Park and said she can't afford rental prices elsewhere. If the council doesn't act, she said, \"we are going to be the next homeless living under a bridge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winchester Ranch co-owner Lee Arioto said he cares about residents and is trying to do what's best for his family. He spoke about his plans to offer current residents the chance to live in new apartments on-site, for a comparable rent to what they are paying now for land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the current moratorium hinders his family's ability to purchase mobile homes from at least 10 residents interested in selling ahead of the potential sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don’t want to be in business any longer. We’d like to convert it, take care of our residents ... in a nice, brand-new community,\" said Arioto. \"That means no water heaters break down, no furnaces break down. We are offering that. If that doesn’t work, we are closing the park.\"\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting featured lengthy soul-searching from City Council members, with many recognizing the difficulty in balancing affordable housing and a landowner's rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Councilman Raul Peralez said the council has denied landowners plenty of times \"the right to do something with their property.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do that with our zoning and our planning, and sometimes those owners are extremely frustrated, but we have that ability to vet those (applications) here,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Council members debated whether the city could perhaps reserve mobile home parks solely for that use, limiting landowner options if they wanted to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Johnny Khamis, citing his previous job in the financial sector, disagreed that investors would be lining up to buy mobile home parks with limits on space rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"However, I do think that all of you have a right to make sure that you are not cheated out of anything. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent Sunday morning inside Mar Yosip Assyrian Church of the East in San Jose, sunbeams slant through clouds of incense smoke onto the face of the Rev. Lawrance Namato as he leads his congregation in a liturgy nearly 2,000 years old. The suited men and veiled women in the pews — nearly all of them Assyrian — join in the ancient chants as they pray for peace and resolution to a crisis both historic and modern: the persecution of their brothers and sisters in the Middle East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indigenous to northern Iraq, Assyrians have lived in the region for more than 6,000 years. They converted as a people to Christianity in the first century A.D. and are one of the oldest continuous Christian communities in the world. But in the past century, violence and religious persecution have escalated, forcing most of them to seek safety in other countries. Some 10,000 now reside in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the rise of the self-described Islamic State, they now risk vanishing from their homeland altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is that “the Christians have nowhere to go,” said Namato, whose family fled Kirkuk, Iraq, when he was 14 as former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein rose to power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LUkoEgF8A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the parishioners at Mar Yosip are from Iraq or Iran, although a few are from Syria and other countries in the Middle East. Many in the community still have family in the Middle East: some who have remained by choice, others who are caught in the limbo of refugee camps as they await a chance at a new life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the rise of the Islamic State, Assyrians in the Bay Area have tried multiple avenues to help their relatives in the region. Some have petitioned the State Department to more forcefully defend Christians in the Middle East. Others are urging the United States Agency for International Development to directly fund Assyrian humanitarian aid groups. And others are working to get families approved for asylum in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Before the war the Assyrians [in Syria] had a good life and they were safe. Now, they are targeted by everybody.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But many in the community feel disappointed so far in the U.S. response. And there is a deep worry that this ancient group could disappear completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kind of feel like our life is paralyzed,” said Rochelle Yousefian, president of the Assyrian American Association of San Jose. “The government that we are so proud of living in, in the country of peace, is not taking any actions. It’s not even open to listen to these atrocities. It makes us feel hopeless; it makes us unproductive because we don’t know what to do, we don’t know how to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The history of Assyrian Christians in the Middle East has been punctuated by periods of violent persecution. In 1915, the year Assyrians call the Seyfo — “the year of the sword” — the Ottoman Empire slaughtered as many as 300,000 Assyrians. In 2003, it was estimated that 30,000 Assyrian Christians still lived in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq. But after the Islamic State captured the city in the summer of 2014, none remain — having been either killed or forced to flee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10796850\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10796850\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy.jpg\" alt=\"The Assyrian liturgy -- which has been used by the Assyrian Church of the East for nearly 2,000 years -- is printed in English and the Assyrian language.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Assyrian liturgy -- which has been used by the Assyrian Church of the East for nearly 2,000 years -- is printed in English and the Assyrian language. \u003ccite>(Kaitlyn Landgraf/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a genocide,” said Albert Nissan, a Mar Yosip parishioner who emigrated from Baghdad in 1975 and has family members still living there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who emptied Mosul of its Christians are the same people who bombed Paris,” he added, referring to the November attacks by Islamic extremists that killed 130 people and injured hundreds more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Safety in Syria\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, many Assyrians sought refuge in Syria, which was comparably peaceful at the time. But they were held in U.N. refugee camps “for years,” said Namato, and when civil war broke out in Syria five years ago, some were trapped again by the violence they had hoped to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conditions for Assyrians in Syrian refugee camps are “horrible,” said Poline Maiel, a parishioner of Mar Yosip. Girls risk being kidnapped and Christians are frequently targets of violence, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever we think about [Syrian President Bashar al-] Assad, before the war the Assyrians [in Syria] had a good life and they were safe. Now, they are targeted by everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, the Islamic State captured around 230 Assyrian Christians in Syria and held them for a ransom of around $14 million. That month, Assyrian bishops in the United States called on Secretary of State John Kerry to take “concrete steps to help the remaining Assyrian Christians in the region to protect themselves.” The Islamic State released some of the sick and elderly prisoners, but continues to hold around 150 Assyrian Christian hostages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, three of the hostages were executed. One of the victims was the first cousin of a parishioner at Mar Yosip, and other family members are still being held for ransom by the Islamic State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asylum at Last\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2014, Shamiran left her village outside Mosul with her three teenage children on temporary visitor visas to attend a family wedding and visit her parents in the Bay Area, who are parishioners at Mar Yosip. But when ISIS overtook Mosul that summer, her husband, who had remained in Iraq, told her not to return because of the security risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unable to return to Iraq, “Shamiran” — who didn’t want her real name used because of security concerns — and her children applied for asylum in the United States. In June, nearly a year after their arrival, they were granted asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10796862\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10796862 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion.jpg\" alt=\"Iraqi Assyrian Christians attend a ceremony at Saint Youhanna church in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on September 18, 2015.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1238\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-768x495.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-1440x929.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-1180x761.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-960x619.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iraqi Assyrian Christians attend a ceremony at Saint Youhanna church in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on Sept. 18, 2015. \u003ccite>(SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In broken English, Shamiran described the experience of Christians in Mosul who were forced to flee the city and have their houses marked as being inhabited by Christians. “There were many Christian families in Mosul,” she said. “They left everything in Mosul and they went. [ISIS] put Arabic letter “Nun” [on our houses]. It means Christian — “Nazarene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shamiran’s husband’s request for asylum has also been approved, but he’s still waiting for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to certify his identity and complete a background check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having been in the United States for a year and a half now, Shamiran has found a job working at a grocery store, and her three children are earning A’s in Bay Area high schools. But she yearns for the day when she can be reunited with her husband. “My husband is safe now, thank God. I need for him to come here to live in peace with us to be a family again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Waiting for Visas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the few Assyrian Christians left in the Middle East, the threat of attacks by the Islamic State makes each day more perilous. But migrating to the West has become increasingly difficult, as waves of refugees from the Middle East and North Africa pour into Europe. In the United States, fears of terrorism have prompted debates about how many — if any — refugees the United States should admit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Namato agrees that refugees to the United States should be screened carefully to prevent terrorists from being admitted to the country. “But they have to differentiate between who’s doing the killing and who’s being persecuted,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10796864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10796864\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo.jpg\" alt=\"California Rep. Anna Eshoo, the only Assyrian member of Congress.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1264\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-768x506.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-1440x948.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-1180x777.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-960x632.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Rep. Anna Eshoo, the only Assyrian member of Congress. \u003ccite>(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. Anna Eshoo, the only Assyrian member of Congress, serves California’s 18th Congressional District, covering parts of San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. Eshoo, a Democrat whose parents are Assyrian Christians who fled persecution in the Middle East, voted in November against a House Republican bill to pause the admittance of Syrian refugees into the United States. Despite its passage by a wide majority that included many Democratic votes, Eshoo voted against the measure because it amounted to a “bureaucratic blockade for all refugee applicants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Eshoo, who is the co-chair of the Religious Minorities in the Middle East Caucus, called on President Barack Obama to do more to help Middle Eastern religious minorities like Assyrians by prioritizing additional security support for vulnerable populations, especially the ancient Christian community. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the parishioners at Mar Yosip are from Iraq or Iran, although a few are from Syria and other countries in the Middle East. Many in the community still have family in the Middle East: some who have remained by choice, others who are caught in the limbo of refugee camps as they await a chance at a new life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the rise of the Islamic State, Assyrians in the Bay Area have tried multiple avenues to help their relatives in the region. Some have petitioned the State Department to more forcefully defend Christians in the Middle East. Others are urging the United States Agency for International Development to directly fund Assyrian humanitarian aid groups. And others are working to get families approved for asylum in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Before the war the Assyrians [in Syria] had a good life and they were safe. Now, they are targeted by everybody.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But many in the community feel disappointed so far in the U.S. response. And there is a deep worry that this ancient group could disappear completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kind of feel like our life is paralyzed,” said Rochelle Yousefian, president of the Assyrian American Association of San Jose. “The government that we are so proud of living in, in the country of peace, is not taking any actions. It’s not even open to listen to these atrocities. It makes us feel hopeless; it makes us unproductive because we don’t know what to do, we don’t know how to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The history of Assyrian Christians in the Middle East has been punctuated by periods of violent persecution. In 1915, the year Assyrians call the Seyfo — “the year of the sword” — the Ottoman Empire slaughtered as many as 300,000 Assyrians. In 2003, it was estimated that 30,000 Assyrian Christians still lived in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq. But after the Islamic State captured the city in the summer of 2014, none remain — having been either killed or forced to flee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10796850\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10796850\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy.jpg\" alt=\"The Assyrian liturgy -- which has been used by the Assyrian Church of the East for nearly 2,000 years -- is printed in English and the Assyrian language.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Assyrian liturgy -- which has been used by the Assyrian Church of the East for nearly 2,000 years -- is printed in English and the Assyrian language. \u003ccite>(Kaitlyn Landgraf/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a genocide,” said Albert Nissan, a Mar Yosip parishioner who emigrated from Baghdad in 1975 and has family members still living there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who emptied Mosul of its Christians are the same people who bombed Paris,” he added, referring to the November attacks by Islamic extremists that killed 130 people and injured hundreds more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Safety in Syria\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, many Assyrians sought refuge in Syria, which was comparably peaceful at the time. But they were held in U.N. refugee camps “for years,” said Namato, and when civil war broke out in Syria five years ago, some were trapped again by the violence they had hoped to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conditions for Assyrians in Syrian refugee camps are “horrible,” said Poline Maiel, a parishioner of Mar Yosip. Girls risk being kidnapped and Christians are frequently targets of violence, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever we think about [Syrian President Bashar al-] Assad, before the war the Assyrians [in Syria] had a good life and they were safe. Now, they are targeted by everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, the Islamic State captured around 230 Assyrian Christians in Syria and held them for a ransom of around $14 million. That month, Assyrian bishops in the United States called on Secretary of State John Kerry to take “concrete steps to help the remaining Assyrian Christians in the region to protect themselves.” The Islamic State released some of the sick and elderly prisoners, but continues to hold around 150 Assyrian Christian hostages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, three of the hostages were executed. One of the victims was the first cousin of a parishioner at Mar Yosip, and other family members are still being held for ransom by the Islamic State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asylum at Last\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2014, Shamiran left her village outside Mosul with her three teenage children on temporary visitor visas to attend a family wedding and visit her parents in the Bay Area, who are parishioners at Mar Yosip. But when ISIS overtook Mosul that summer, her husband, who had remained in Iraq, told her not to return because of the security risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unable to return to Iraq, “Shamiran” — who didn’t want her real name used because of security concerns — and her children applied for asylum in the United States. In June, nearly a year after their arrival, they were granted asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10796862\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10796862 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion.jpg\" alt=\"Iraqi Assyrian Christians attend a ceremony at Saint Youhanna church in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on September 18, 2015.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1238\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-768x495.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-1440x929.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-1180x761.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-960x619.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iraqi Assyrian Christians attend a ceremony at Saint Youhanna church in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on Sept. 18, 2015. \u003ccite>(SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In broken English, Shamiran described the experience of Christians in Mosul who were forced to flee the city and have their houses marked as being inhabited by Christians. “There were many Christian families in Mosul,” she said. “They left everything in Mosul and they went. [ISIS] put Arabic letter “Nun” [on our houses]. It means Christian — “Nazarene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shamiran’s husband’s request for asylum has also been approved, but he’s still waiting for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to certify his identity and complete a background check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having been in the United States for a year and a half now, Shamiran has found a job working at a grocery store, and her three children are earning A’s in Bay Area high schools. But she yearns for the day when she can be reunited with her husband. “My husband is safe now, thank God. I need for him to come here to live in peace with us to be a family again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Waiting for Visas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the few Assyrian Christians left in the Middle East, the threat of attacks by the Islamic State makes each day more perilous. But migrating to the West has become increasingly difficult, as waves of refugees from the Middle East and North Africa pour into Europe. In the United States, fears of terrorism have prompted debates about how many — if any — refugees the United States should admit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Namato agrees that refugees to the United States should be screened carefully to prevent terrorists from being admitted to the country. “But they have to differentiate between who’s doing the killing and who’s being persecuted,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10796864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10796864\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo.jpg\" alt=\"California Rep. Anna Eshoo, the only Assyrian member of Congress.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1264\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-768x506.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-1440x948.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-1180x777.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-960x632.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Rep. Anna Eshoo, the only Assyrian member of Congress. \u003ccite>(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. Anna Eshoo, the only Assyrian member of Congress, serves California’s 18th Congressional District, covering parts of San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. Eshoo, a Democrat whose parents are Assyrian Christians who fled persecution in the Middle East, voted in November against a House Republican bill to pause the admittance of Syrian refugees into the United States. Despite its passage by a wide majority that included many Democratic votes, Eshoo voted against the measure because it amounted to a “bureaucratic blockade for all refugee applicants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Eshoo, who is the co-chair of the Religious Minorities in the Middle East Caucus, called on President Barack Obama to do more to help Middle Eastern religious minorities like Assyrians by prioritizing additional security support for vulnerable populations, especially the ancient Christian community. Eshoo has also called on the president to designate an additional 5,000 priority refugee visas for religious minorities from the Middle East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As the winter turns wet and cold, it’s hard not to notice the people living on the streets. Around this time last year, San Jose shut down “The Jungle,” one of the largest homeless encampments in the nation. The forced exit of more than 300 people living along the banks of Coyote Creek garnered international headlines, as well as local coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, The Jungle is fenced off, but thousands of people are still camping out in creekbeds and freeway underpasses all over the city. In the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/nr/Documents/SantaClaraCounty_HomelessReport_2015_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">point-in-time survey\u003c/a> conducted for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Santa Clara County had 6,556 homeless people. That represents a drop of more than 1,000 people from 2014, but it’s still a substantial population. San Jose’s share of that was 4,063.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234020500″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Silicon Valley’s explosive economic growth didn’t create the homeless problem, experts say it made it worse for the homeless — and the working poor, who struggle to pay the cost of rising rents. Many of the working poor are just one job loss or health crisis away from becoming homeless themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Chronically Homeless\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian and Andrea Rodriquez fell into that situation. They used to own a five-bedroom house in San Jose. But a complicated series of job and health setbacks led them from that home to motel rooms, then a car, and then the creeks, including The Jungle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian recalls that day they first wandered into The Jungle. “My wife was clinging to me, but we had nowhere to go,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s 50, she’s 49, and they’ve been homeless for the better part of two years now. These days, you’ll find them camping on the grounds around \u003ca href=\"http://www.graceinsanjose.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grace Baptist Church\u003c/a>. Depending on the weather, up to 20 people camp out on this busy streetcorner in return for signing a promise not to drink or take drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10763488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1920x1282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrea has advanced arthritis. She needs to replace her knees, but even though she has Medi-Cal, she has no place to recuperate from the operations. Brian has Medi-Cal, too. He can’t refrigerate the insulin he takes for diabetes. He’s learned the hard way: If insulin cooks in the South Bay heat, it’s no good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been in the hospital several times,” says Andrea\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge facing Andrea and Brian is not to become “chronically homeless.” Unlike people who dip in and out of homelessness, the chronically homeless are stuck on the streets, in large part because of serious physical and mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address this problem, many California cities with large homeless populations — Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego — have committed to a strategy called “housing first.” The idea is that providing a chronically homeless person a place to live is less expensive for the government in the long run, not to mention a more compassionate approach. Housing first is one of the key concepts in the recently adopted \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/oah/coc/census/Documents/2015%20Homeless%20Count%20press%20release%206-22-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Plan to End Homelessness in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> 2015-2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For that population, it costs anywhere from $60,000 or $70,000 a person \u003cem>not\u003c/em> to be housed,” says Geoff Morgan, president of San Jose-based First Community Housing. “They go to the emergency rooms, sometimes 80 or more times in a year. Or there are police calls. There’s a lot of criminalization of the homeless. People are out on a park bench, and they’re cited for being on a park bench.\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763500 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First Community Housing is one of several nonprofits in California that build and manage housing developments specifically for people who would otherwise be chronically homeless. Two blocks from where Brian and Andrea camp, First Community plans to build Second Street Studios: 134 apartments dedicated to permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless in Santa Clara County. It would be the city’s first housing project totally dedicated to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Permanent” marks a key strategy shift away from emergency shelter beds and transitional housing. “Supportive” also marks a shift. \u003ca href=\"http://www.firsthousing.com/blog/2009/05/08/secondstreet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Second Street Studios\u003c/a> will have nearly 9,000 square feet of ground-floor space for a health clinic and office space for case managers, one for every 20 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more efficient, frankly, for service providers to come in and do what they do. They don’t have to travel to individual homes or to people out on the street,” says Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permanent supportive housing may be relatively new to San Jose — there are roughly 50 such units in the city now — but you can find numerous examples in California’s other big homeless population centers. They include \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdconnections.org/SD/about_2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connections Housing\u003c/a> in San Diego, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lampcommunity.org/housing.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lamp Lodge\u003c/a> in Los Angeles and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcsb.com/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faulding Hotel\u003c/a> in Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763491\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763491 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man's belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray Bramson, who heads the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Homelessness Response Team for San Jose, \u003c/a>says this year San Jose plans to commit more than $40 million to nearly 600 units of interim housing and permanent supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s enough money to get the ball rolling, but not enough money to meet the demand. San Jose is still home to 1,400 chronically homeless people. You’d need 10 Second Street Studios to accommodate that population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What the Neighbors Think\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing-first approach has support from some in the neighborhood. Aurelia Sanchez, president of the Spartan Keyes Association, says she wants the homeless housed. “You’ll get no argument from me there,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She supports the construction of Second Street Studios, especially since First Community Housing promised to install security cameras and provide 24/7 front-desk service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763495 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to the Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities “You know what? Let’s do something about this.”\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to The Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities, ‘You know what? Let’s do something about this.’ ” \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez is concerned, however, that her neighborhood not be overly burdened with services and homes for the homeless. She says other neighborhoods have to share in the solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Loving can sympathize with Sanchez. “Frankly, no city in our county is doing their fair share of supportive housing,” says the executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://destinationhomescc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destination: Home\u003c/a>. “This is a strategy that’s been employed for only four, five years, so it’s just getting underway. We’ve built a lot of affordable housing and it’s still not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s to become of Brian and Andrea Rodriguez? Is an apartment at Second Street Studios in their future? They hope not. The development doesn’t expect to open its doors until 2018, and the couple hopes to be off the streets long before then. Brian still has a valid commercial driver’s license, and he’s actively looking for work. Ideally, he’ll find something before the rains of El Niño hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10762599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10762599\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-800x1035.jpg\" alt=\"A recent study by the San Jose-based non-profit Destination: Home tracked more than 104,000 homeless people to examine their cost to Santa Clara County over six years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-400x518.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-1440x1864.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-1180x1527.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-960x1242.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recent study by the San Jose-based nonprofit Destination: Home tracked more than 104,000 homeless people to examine their cost to Santa Clara County over six years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Destination: Home)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As the winter turns wet and cold, it’s hard not to notice the people living on the streets. Around this time last year, San Jose shut down “The Jungle,” one of the largest homeless encampments in the nation. The forced exit of more than 300 people living along the banks of Coyote Creek garnered international headlines, as well as local coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, The Jungle is fenced off, but thousands of people are still camping out in creekbeds and freeway underpasses all over the city. In the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/nr/Documents/SantaClaraCounty_HomelessReport_2015_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">point-in-time survey\u003c/a> conducted for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Santa Clara County had 6,556 homeless people. That represents a drop of more than 1,000 people from 2014, but it’s still a substantial population. San Jose’s share of that was 4,063.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234020500″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234020500″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Silicon Valley’s explosive economic growth didn’t create the homeless problem, experts say it made it worse for the homeless — and the working poor, who struggle to pay the cost of rising rents. Many of the working poor are just one job loss or health crisis away from becoming homeless themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Chronically Homeless\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian and Andrea Rodriquez fell into that situation. They used to own a five-bedroom house in San Jose. But a complicated series of job and health setbacks led them from that home to motel rooms, then a car, and then the creeks, including The Jungle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian recalls that day they first wandered into The Jungle. “My wife was clinging to me, but we had nowhere to go,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s 50, she’s 49, and they’ve been homeless for the better part of two years now. These days, you’ll find them camping on the grounds around \u003ca href=\"http://www.graceinsanjose.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grace Baptist Church\u003c/a>. Depending on the weather, up to 20 people camp out on this busy streetcorner in return for signing a promise not to drink or take drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10763488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1920x1282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrea has advanced arthritis. She needs to replace her knees, but even though she has Medi-Cal, she has no place to recuperate from the operations. Brian has Medi-Cal, too. He can’t refrigerate the insulin he takes for diabetes. He’s learned the hard way: If insulin cooks in the South Bay heat, it’s no good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been in the hospital several times,” says Andrea\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge facing Andrea and Brian is not to become “chronically homeless.” Unlike people who dip in and out of homelessness, the chronically homeless are stuck on the streets, in large part because of serious physical and mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address this problem, many California cities with large homeless populations — Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego — have committed to a strategy called “housing first.” The idea is that providing a chronically homeless person a place to live is less expensive for the government in the long run, not to mention a more compassionate approach. Housing first is one of the key concepts in the recently adopted \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/oah/coc/census/Documents/2015%20Homeless%20Count%20press%20release%206-22-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Plan to End Homelessness in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> 2015-2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For that population, it costs anywhere from $60,000 or $70,000 a person \u003cem>not\u003c/em> to be housed,” says Geoff Morgan, president of San Jose-based First Community Housing. “They go to the emergency rooms, sometimes 80 or more times in a year. Or there are police calls. There’s a lot of criminalization of the homeless. People are out on a park bench, and they’re cited for being on a park bench.\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763500 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First Community Housing is one of several nonprofits in California that build and manage housing developments specifically for people who would otherwise be chronically homeless. Two blocks from where Brian and Andrea camp, First Community plans to build Second Street Studios: 134 apartments dedicated to permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless in Santa Clara County. It would be the city’s first housing project totally dedicated to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Permanent” marks a key strategy shift away from emergency shelter beds and transitional housing. “Supportive” also marks a shift. \u003ca href=\"http://www.firsthousing.com/blog/2009/05/08/secondstreet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Second Street Studios\u003c/a> will have nearly 9,000 square feet of ground-floor space for a health clinic and office space for case managers, one for every 20 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more efficient, frankly, for service providers to come in and do what they do. They don’t have to travel to individual homes or to people out on the street,” says Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permanent supportive housing may be relatively new to San Jose — there are roughly 50 such units in the city now — but you can find numerous examples in California’s other big homeless population centers. They include \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdconnections.org/SD/about_2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connections Housing\u003c/a> in San Diego, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lampcommunity.org/housing.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lamp Lodge\u003c/a> in Los Angeles and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcsb.com/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faulding Hotel\u003c/a> in Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763491\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763491 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man's belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray Bramson, who heads the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Homelessness Response Team for San Jose, \u003c/a>says this year San Jose plans to commit more than $40 million to nearly 600 units of interim housing and permanent supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s enough money to get the ball rolling, but not enough money to meet the demand. San Jose is still home to 1,400 chronically homeless people. You’d need 10 Second Street Studios to accommodate that population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What the Neighbors Think\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing-first approach has support from some in the neighborhood. Aurelia Sanchez, president of the Spartan Keyes Association, says she wants the homeless housed. “You’ll get no argument from me there,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She supports the construction of Second Street Studios, especially since First Community Housing promised to install security cameras and provide 24/7 front-desk service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763495 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to the Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities “You know what? Let’s do something about this.”\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to The Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities, ‘You know what? 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"content": "\u003cp>It's an after-school ritual for Abigayle de la Rosa to stop at La Original Paleteria y Neveria (The Original Ice Cream Shop) and get a scoop of Mexican ice cream in her bustling San Jose neighborhood, called Calle Willow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since it opened on Willow Street a year ago, the shop has become her version of \"31 Flavors.\" The surrounding area resembles parts of Mexico City, with storefront signs written in Spanish, merchants selling fresh flowers, jewelry, sidewalk tacos and pictures of the Virgencita de Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico. The neighborhood is wedged between downtown's glistening office buildings and Willow Glen, one of the most affluent areas in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De la Rosa is only 10 years old, but she's fully aware that on Sunday her neighborhood will be one of many on full display when six miles of city streets will be closed to cars but open to people to walk, bicycle, skateboard or travel by any nonmotorized mode of transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the inaugural \u003ca href=\"http://vivacallesj.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Viva CalleSJ\u003c/a> open streets event, a festival stretching from downtown San Jose to Little Saigon to East San Jose that aims to encourage residents to explore parts of the city they know little about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10712086\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10712086\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-400x263.jpg\" alt=\"Map of the VivaCalleSJ route for Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-1440x945.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-1920x1260.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-1180x775.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-960x630.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of the VivaCalleSJ route for Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. \u003ccite>(VivaCalleSJ/city of San Jose )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I think this bike ride will bring a lot more people here,\" says De la Rosa. \"There's a lot of cool things to see and the ice cream is delicious.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Viva calle!\" is a Spanish phrase that translates to \"long live the streets!\" Organizers say the event is a test run for future street events. Can sprawling San Jose, where Teslas and hybrid cars are king, get people out of their car -- and comfort zones -- to explore the city?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Solis, recreation superintendent of San Jose's Department of Parks, Recreation & Neighborhood Services, thinks so. He says a major goal of Viva CalleSJ is to make a giant city known for its distinctive neighborhoods and diverse cultures a little more accessible. He's expecting 30,000 people to turn out in a city that is 180 square miles and has a population of 1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are going to be traversing a number of communities, social-economic lines and cultural lines, and our hope is to unify the city through open streets,\" says Solis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elder Palles says he plans to be there. He lives in the nearby town of Milpitas and believes once people get to know the flavor of the downtown neighborhoods they will return. He comes to Calle Willow to pick up his daughter from school most days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel at home here,\"he says. \"I live in Milpitas and all you see are the neighbors with closed doors. Look over here, how everyone is walking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Jose, the \u003ca href=\"http://bikesiliconvalley.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition\u003c/a> and Knight Foundation are the main sponsors, providing the funding for Viva CalleSJ. So far the cost is $300,000 to pay for everything from police to shutting down the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Viva CalleSJ is similar to open streets events like Sunday Streets in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sundaystreetssf.com/what-is-sunday-streets-2/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SundayStreetsBerkeley\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley\u003c/a> and Oakland's \u003ca href=\"http://oaklavia.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Oaklavia\u003c/a>. But maybe the closest parallel is to a bigger city well to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year ago, San Jose officials traveled to Los Angeles to look at how that city launched an open streets event in 2010 it calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.ciclavia.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CicLAvia\u003c/a>. CicLAvia was inspired by events in Bogota, Columbia and Mexico City. L.A. has been ramping up the number of rides each year, attracting between 50,000 and 100,000 riders, and designing different routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romel Pascual, CicLAvia executive director, says there are similarities between the two cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Jose is a smaller version of Los Angeles,\" he says. \"(W)e are made up of distinct neighborhoods that aren't just defined by different cultures but blended like it is in San Jose.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pascual says studies show the event has been successful in drawing people from all over Los Angeles and increasing business along the route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"About 75 percent of all the ZIP codes in Los Angeles were represented along the route,\" he says. \"The amazing thing is the jump in businesses along the routes from 25 to 60 percent. These are mostly service-oriented businesses like restaurants and coffee shops.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local San Jose residents want that kind of success in neighborhoods such as central San Jose's Little Saigon, where many Vietnamese immigrants settled after the Vietnam War ended in 1975. Cecille Nguyen, who was born in San Jose and whose parents were immigrants, has been helping promote Viva CalleSJ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10712357\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10712357\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Part of the Viva CalleSJ route leading into Little Saigon.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the Viva CalleSJ route leading into Little Saigon. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Vietnamese people are very much passionate about their food and culinary skills but I think it's a bit neglected sometimes that the Vietnamese are known for their friendliness and willingness to help and serve,\" she says. \"I think that is something that will surprise everyone. No matter what service you're looking for here, you're going to find someone who can help you out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlos Velazquez, outreach manager for the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, stressed the importance of overcoming the isolation of neighborhoods. The Calle Willow neighborhood, for example, while close to downtown and Willow Glen, is separated by roadway bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valazquez, who's trying to drum up more business sponsors for future events, says when he worked in Chicago he observed how neighborhoods divided by bridges or railroad tracks suffered a disconnect between people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm really hoping to get people young and old,\" he says. \"This isn't a bike race. We want \u003cem>abuelitas\u003c/em> (grandmothers) being led in their wheelchairs by their granddaughters. We want to see people walking and skateboarding. We want everyone to feel comfortable using the streets and see that this is theirs and something they can do.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He lives in the nearby town of Milpitas and believes once people get to know the flavor of the downtown neighborhoods they will return. He comes to Calle Willow to pick up his daughter from school most days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel at home here,\"he says. \"I live in Milpitas and all you see are the neighbors with closed doors. Look over here, how everyone is walking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Jose, the \u003ca href=\"http://bikesiliconvalley.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition\u003c/a> and Knight Foundation are the main sponsors, providing the funding for Viva CalleSJ. So far the cost is $300,000 to pay for everything from police to shutting down the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Viva CalleSJ is similar to open streets events like Sunday Streets in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sundaystreetssf.com/what-is-sunday-streets-2/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SundayStreetsBerkeley\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley\u003c/a> and Oakland's \u003ca href=\"http://oaklavia.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Oaklavia\u003c/a>. But maybe the closest parallel is to a bigger city well to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year ago, San Jose officials traveled to Los Angeles to look at how that city launched an open streets event in 2010 it calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.ciclavia.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CicLAvia\u003c/a>. CicLAvia was inspired by events in Bogota, Columbia and Mexico City. 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These are mostly service-oriented businesses like restaurants and coffee shops.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local San Jose residents want that kind of success in neighborhoods such as central San Jose's Little Saigon, where many Vietnamese immigrants settled after the Vietnam War ended in 1975. Cecille Nguyen, who was born in San Jose and whose parents were immigrants, has been helping promote Viva CalleSJ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10712357\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10712357\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Part of the Viva CalleSJ route leading into Little Saigon.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the Viva CalleSJ route leading into Little Saigon. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Vietnamese people are very much passionate about their food and culinary skills but I think it's a bit neglected sometimes that the Vietnamese are known for their friendliness and willingness to help and serve,\" she says. \"I think that is something that will surprise everyone. 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